THE AARES CONFERENCE TRADITION

WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU TO THE AARES 2022 ONLINE CONFERENCE!

AARES 2022 will be the 66th Annual Conference of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. The Society has run a conference every year since the first conference in Sydney in February 1957.

Since then, the Society has grown enormously and evolved in various ways, and these changes are reflected in our annual conferences. In 1996 we added “and Resource” to our name to reflect the growing interest in Economics of natural resources and the environment among our members. Then in 2018 we changed our name from “Australian” to “Australasian”, reflecting both the important role of the New Zealand branch in our Society, and also the strong and growing contributions of Asian agricultural and resource economists in the Society, and the links that our Australian and New Zealand members have into Asia.

The conference has a tradition of innovating and experimenting with new approaches. Examples include the addition of mini-symposia during the conference, policy sessions, the three-minute thesis competition, the women-in-economics event, and a range of travel awards that support our younger members to travel to international conferences, and bring younger members of our international partners to our conference. We will continue most of these features at the AARES 2022 conference, with the exception of international travel awards given our online format.

To ask a question to the Local Organising Committee, contact the AARES office at office@aares.org.au.

AARES 2022