This paper reports on research which follows the difficult process of farm families preparing for and subsequently leaving farming. The period of exit covers the millennium drought of 2000-2010 in four case study areas in Victoria, Australia. It is concerned with families still of working age, in order to trace their subsequent employment outcomes. Identifying...

This paper examined the performance and need of health services in the mining communities through a case study of the Moura Township in Queensland, Australia. The study involved a case study approach with a survey method to assess the current performance and the need of health services of the Moura residents. This study found only...

Local Government Councils are reliant on a number of funding sources including State and Federal governments as well as their community constituents to enable them to provide a range of public services. Given these funding sources councils need to have in place a range of strategies and policies capable of providing good governance and appropriately...

To evaluate macroeconomic effect of changes in public facilities, the current study uses the recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. This model considers endogenous technological progress changed by the agricultural land improvement projects and road construction projects.

After East Japan earth quake and flood in Thailand in 2011, firms try to diversify location of their material suppliers, and this probably increases spatial flexibility, i.e. spatial dependence, in economic structure. Considering such economic structural change, to evaluate impacts of future climate change, which is supposed to influence economy in different direction according to...