Corporate Body
Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (1957 - )
- From
- 1957
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Functions
- Agricultural economics, Agriculture and Learned society
- Alternative Names
- AARES (Abbreviation)
- Australian Agricultural Economics Society (Former name, 1957 - 1996)
- Website
- https://www.aares.org.au
Summary
The Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society was founded in 1957 as the Australian Agricultural Economics Society: the name was changed in 1996. It is Australia's principal society promoting research relevant to Australasia in agricultural, environmental, food, and resource economics and agribusiness. The Society promotes and fosters knowledge exchange and skill development, professional networks, policy-related discussion and analysis, and career development. Activities of the Society include regular conferences, the publication of a journal and newsletter, and the awarding of life memberships and prizes. The Society has branches in all states, as well as New Zealand and North America. Membership is open to academics, public servants, professionals from the agribusiness and resource sectors, and students, across various disciplinary and institutional boundaries.
Details
Awards made by the Society include:
Distinguished Life Membership, awarded occasionally, recognises members of the Society who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of agricultural and resource economics through extraordinary service to the administration and advancement of the Society, or to the achievement of some other great distinction in agricultural and resource economics.
Distinguished Fellowship is awarded annually to Society members who, throughout their career, have made distinguished contributions to the advancement of agricultural and resource economics through research, teaching, extension, administration, business, or public service.
Publications of the Society include:
Australian journal of agricultural economics (ISBN 0004-9395) vol. 1-40 (1958 - 1996
Review of marketing and agricultural economics (ISBN 0034-3409) vol. 57-64 (1989 - 1996) (formerly published by New South Wales Department of Agriculture; amalgamated 1997 with the Australian journal of agricultural economics to become the Australian journal of agricultural and resource economics)
Australian journal of agricultural and resource economics (ISBN) 1364-985X) vol. 41 (1997 - )
Related entries
Published resources
Resource Sections
- Campbell, Keith O., 'History of AARES', Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, n.d.. https://www.aares.org.au/about-AARES/history/. Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 10 October 2024