L. Emilio Morales, Oscar Cacho, Ed Lefley and Shawn Leu at the 2017 AARES Conference

UNE Business School was well represented at the recent AARES Conference in Brisbane. The annual conference provided an opportunity for academics from the school to present on a range of research topics, including:

• “Development of Indicators of Economic Resilience in Australia’s Regions: An Application to Rural NSW”
  Shawn Leu, Edward Lefley and Derek Baker
• “The Effect of Healthy and Nutritious Perceptions on Consumers’ Willingness-To-Pay Extra for Fish versus Meats in Peru”
  Emilio Morales and Angie Higuchi
• Retail Food Purchase Behaviour in the Presence of New Supermarket Entry
  Derek Baker, Renato Villano, Stuart Mounter, Garry Griffith and Shawn Leu

Dr Simone Valle de Souza in her role as Deputy Director of the UNE Centre for Local Government, acted as a convenor for the mini-symposium on “Climate resilient water sources: Economic efficiency, implementation and public acceptance of recycled water“.
With the sponsorship from Australian WaterSecure Innovations, the mini-symposium presented a discussion on the virtues and complications of recycled water, between an International speaker, Professor Rui Marques from the University of Lisbon and not less renowned economists, Jeff Bennett, from ANU, Lin Crase from UNISA and Pierre Mukheibir from the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS.

More information about the AARES Conference 2017 is available via the website.