Clem Tisdell
Biographic Data
| ID | 165393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clem Tisdell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clem |
| FAMILY NAME | Tisdell |
| SIGNATURE | TISDELL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4370-4692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 85 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 85 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
How does childcare by grandparents affect the health of children in China
Following China's economic reforms, working parents in China have become increasingly dependent on grandparents to help care for their children. This paper examines the effect of this care on the health of children
How has India’s economic growth and development affected its gender inequality
The basic characteristics are outlined of the UN’s Gender Inequality Index (GII) and its Gender Development Index (GDI). Their trends in relation to India’s real Gross National Income (GNI) per capita indicate a decline in its gender inequality with its economic growth. However, these trends give a distorted and incomplete picture of changes in Indian gender inequality. Several assumptions underlying GII and GDI are questioned in the Indian conte…
Biochar's cost constraints are overcome in small‐scale farming on tropical soils in lower‐income countries
Biochar has been lauded for its potential to mitigate climate change, increase crop yields, and reverse land degradation in tropical agricultural systems. Despite its benefits, confusion persists about whether the use of biochar is financially feasible as a soil ameliorant. A comprehensive review of previous studies of biochar's financial feasibility was performed (33 relevant publications). Financial performance appraisal (US$ Mg −1 biochar) and…
Small-Scale Nuclear Energy
Ensuring an ongoing supply of power in a low carbon economy is one of the major national and international challenges that almost every country faces. Investments in alternative and renewable energy technologies have risen steadily over the last decade, particularly since the ratification of the 2030 Paris Agreement. Although reasonable progress has been made as a result of this, even the most developed renewable energy technologies, for example,…
Adoption of alternate wetting and drying (AWD) irrigation as a water-saving technology in Bangladesh: Economic and environmental considerations
Poverty and its reduction in a Chinese border region: Is social capital important
China is trying to reduce the high levels of poverty in its border regions, dominated by ethnic minorities. To do so, it is giving particular attention to increasing physical and human capital but not social capital. This article investigates the extent to which social capital (and other variables) are associated with the absence of poverty in such regions. To this end, data were collected from a sample of households in the Kirghiz Prefecture of …
Socioeconomic Development and Changing Reasons for Using Desert Kites to Kill Gazelles
Possible reasons for using kites to kill gazelles are comprehensively reviewed in this article. Even though they are now well inventoried and documented, desert kites are still not well understood, as exemplified by the recurrent controversies about their function and dating. According to the dominant view, kites were hunting structures used to drive and to mass kill large herds of wild ungulates, particularly gazelles. Although kites were intens…
The Economic Rise and Fall of the Silesian Únĕtice Cultural Population: A Case of Ecologically Unsustainable Development
International audience
The Ability in Antiquity of Some Agrarian Societies to Avoid the Malthusian Trap and Develop
This article presents a simple economic theory (and associated evidence) to explain how some early agriculturally based preindustrial societies developed despite most of their population being subject to Malthusian dynamics. Their development depended on a dominant class limiting its membership and extracting an economic surplus which it could use (among other things) to accumulate capital and advance knowledge thereby adding to this surplus. The…
The sustainability and desirability of the traditional economies of Australian Aborigines: Controversial issues
Inequality and Wealth Creation in Ancient History: Malthus’ Theory Reconsidered
The main purpose of this paper is to propose the hypothesis that inequality was essential for the sustainability and 'development' of early agriculturally based societies that developed in Prehistory and Ancient History. This was so for varied reasons: there was a need for some members of societies -the dominant class also called the elite -to escape from the Malthusian trap. In most cases, agriculture produced a bigger economic surplus eventuall…
Handbook of Tourism Economics: Analysis, New Applications and Case Studies
The economic impacts of tourism have been estimated and evaluated via a range of different methodologies by researchers and policymakers for many decades.This chapter discusses research found in the tourism literature that has been undertaken using Computable General Equilibrium modelling.Initially, generic tourism booms and busts were modelled with this methodology before other areas of interest such as tourism and trade; tourism and taxation an…
Nature-based Tourism and Conservation: New Economic Insights and Case Studies
Nature-based Tourism and Conservation unearths new or neglected principles relevant to tourism and recreational economics, environmental valuation and economic theory. Its three parts have chapters on nature-based tourism and its relationships to conservation including case studies dealing with the consequences of World Heritage listing of natural sites, Antarctic, subtropical and tropical national park-based tourism and an NGO’s conservation eff…
Biodiversity conservation, loss of natural capital and interest rates
Microeconomic Policy: A New Perspective
This thoroughly accessible textbook shows students how microeconomic theory can be used and applied to major issues of public policy. In this way, it will improve their understanding of both microeconomic theory and policy and also develop their ability to critically assess them. Clem Tisdell and Keith Hartley have expanded upon their previous successful work on microeconomics. As a result, this new book is considerably updated with substantial c…
Endangerment and likeability of wildlife species: How important are they for payments proposed for conservation
Perceived Impacts of Ecotourism on Environmental Learning and Conservation: Turtle Watching as a Case Study
Association of public support for survival of wildlife species with their likeability
We surveyed 204 individuals from the general public in Brisbane, Australia, to ascertain the extent to which they liked or disliked 24 species of wildlife (belonging to three classes: mammals, birds and reptiles) present in tropical Australia. We calculated likeability indices for each species. We also asked respondents if they favored the survival of each of these species, and were able to calculate the percentage of respondents favoring surviva…
China’s reformed science and technology system: An overview and assessment1
Science and technology (S&T) systems are interconnected with economic systems. After China began to make its economic system more market‐oriented in 1979, reforms to its S&T system became urgent. China’s major breakthrough in reforming its S&T system occurred in 1985. This paper provides data on China’s changing S&T sector, outlines the processes of its reform and China’s changing sources of funding for R&D. China’s evolving technology market is …
The net benefit of saving the Asian elephant: A policy and contingent valuation study
Conservation and Economic Benefits of Wildlife-Based Marine Tourism: Sea Turtles and Whales as Case Studies
Tourism development can have positive and/or negative impacts on wildlife. However, if wildlife tourism is developed in accordance with appropriate guidelines, such activity can be sustainable and can aid the conservation of species. Based on two case studies in Queensland, Australia, this article outlines the various economic and conservation benefits that can arise from wildlife-based tourism. Some of the benefits are direct, such as tangible e…
Socioeconomic causes of loss of animal genetic diversity: Analysis and assessment
Economic globalisation, liberalisation and Bangladesh: Poverty, labour norms and the environment
Remitting Behaviour of Nepalese Rural-to-Urban Migrants: Implications for Theory and Policy
This article uses data for Nepal to test contemporary hypotheses about the remitting behaviour and associated motives of rural-to-urban migrants and to consider the likely impact of such remittances on rural development. Possibilities for inheritance, degree of family attachment, likelihood of eventual return to place of origin and family investment in the education of the migrants are found to be significant influences on levels of remittances b…
Global Trade in GM Food and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Consequences for China
Sustainable development: Differing perspectives of ecologists and economists, and relevance to LDCs
Peripheral tourism
Age-related Lifecycles
Sea turtles as a non-consumptive tourism resource especially in Australia
Association of public support for survival of wildlife species with their likeability
We surveyed 204 individuals from the general public in Brisbane, Australia, to ascertain the extent to which they liked or disliked 24 species of wildlife (belonging to three classes: mammals, birds and reptiles) present in tropical Australia. We calculated likeability indices for each species. We also asked respondents if they favored the survival of each of these species, and were able to calculate the percentage of respondents favoring surviva…
A critical note on UNDP's gender inequality indices
This paper analyses the different indices applied for the measurement of human development as constructed by the United Nations Development Program. Of special interest is the Gender Development Index (GDI), introduced in the 1995 Human Development Report and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM). In light of the male bias in the Indian socio-economic context, the application of the GDI and GEM acquires special significance. A critical appraisal o…
Foreign tourism as an element in PR China's economic development strategy
Tourism and the economic development of the Maldives
Rural-urban migration and poverty in South Asia
Analyses the process of rural-urban migration of landless rural families in South Asia using field data from Dattabad slum in Calcutta and from Notuk village in Midnapur District, West Bengal, India, and from Ekdala and South Rampur villages in Bangladesh. Results reveal that diminishing access to non-market goods and lack of employment of females caused a significant fall in family income which forced these rural families to migrate to Dattabad …
Poverty in the Pacific Islands
Examines the socio‐economic situation of the least developed Pacific Island nations (Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tuvalu and Kiribati) and the type of economics development advice which they have been given in recent years. Suggests that this advice was based on neo‐classical models and was insensitive to the institutional and cultural backgrounds of these countries. Argues that because of the insensitivity, proposed policies may be doomed an…
The Developmental Implications of Migration From and Between Small Island Nations
Smallness is no insurance against the problems of overpopulation. Small island nations may face a dichotomy based upon size. They are too small for modernization to generate the domestic markets which would provide the work opportunities which are needed to support economic development. Yet increases in their populations may not alleviate that problem; rather the rising populations may tax food and other resources thus making the nations even mor…
Trends and projections for Bangladeshi food production
Adoption of alternate wetting and drying (AWD) irrigation as a water-saving technology in Bangladesh: Economic and environmental considerations
Tourism Development in India and Bangladesh: General Issues, Illustrated by Ecotourism in the Sunderbans
Growth in the volume of foreign tourists to India and South Asia generally has been much slower than in East Asia and some of the reasons for this are suggested. Excessive government regulation of tourism in India and Bangladesh appears to have played a role in this sluggish growth. To what extent structural reforms will lead to changes in the tourism industry in both of these countries has yet to be seen. Development of ecotourism in the Sunderb…
Labor absorption and agricultural development: Bangladesh's experience and predicament
Rural Poverty and its Measurement: A Comparative Study of Villages in Nusa Penida, Bali
This paper compares the incidence of poverty in three neighbouring rural villages in Bali, two of which have experienced the innovation of seaweed-growing and have become market dependent, while the third remains a traditional cassava-com dependent village. Several alternative measures are used to compare the incidence of poverty in the villages, and these measures are discussed critically. All of them rate the incidence of poverty in the cassava…
How has India’s economic growth and development affected its gender inequality
The basic characteristics are outlined of the UN’s Gender Inequality Index (GII) and its Gender Development Index (GDI). Their trends in relation to India’s real Gross National Income (GNI) per capita indicate a decline in its gender inequality with its economic growth. However, these trends give a distorted and incomplete picture of changes in Indian gender inequality. Several assumptions underlying GII and GDI are questioned in the Indian conte…
The Ability in Antiquity of Some Agrarian Societies to Avoid the Malthusian Trap and Develop
This article presents a simple economic theory (and associated evidence) to explain how some early agriculturally based preindustrial societies developed despite most of their population being subject to Malthusian dynamics. Their development depended on a dominant class limiting its membership and extracting an economic surplus which it could use (among other things) to accumulate capital and advance knowledge thereby adding to this surplus. The…
Global Trade in GM Food and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Consequences for China
Brunei's quest for sustainable development: Diversification and other strategies
Like many Middle East economies, Brunei is an oil‐rich rentier economy with a high degree of dependence on guest workers, concentration of employment of Bruneians in the public sector and with a high degree of specialization in extractive production. Because its hydrocarbon reserves are diminishing, it faces the problem of how to sustain its income. The potential for it to do this by investing its rental income abroad and by diversifying its econ…
Project appraisal, the environment and sustainability for small islands
Key Australian export prospects to Northeast Asia: Primary commodities, tourism and education as perceived by the Garnaut report
The Educational System of Zimbabwe Compared with those of Selected African and Advanced Countries: Costs, efficiency and other characteristics
(1989). The Educational System of Zimbabwe Compared with those of Selected African and Advanced Countries: costs, efficiency and other characteristics. Comparative Education: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 57-76
The trade in wild pig meat: Australia and Japan
Socioeconomic developments in Japan since World War Two have influenced the supply of wild pig meat (inoshishi niku) from Japanese domestic sources. Trends in the supply of meat from wild boar as well as the development of the farming of wild boar in Japan are discussed. The special nature of trading in wild pig meat in Japan is outlined. Australian exports of wild pig meat to Japan depend upon developments within Japan and the relevant links are…
The Theory of Optimal City-Sizes: Elementary Speculations about Analysis and Policy
The Theory of Price Uncertainty, Production, and Profit
Microeconomics: The Theory of Economic Allocation
Journal Article Microeconomics: The Theory of Economic Allocation Get access Microeconomics: the theory of economic allocation. By C. A. Tisdell (Sydney: John Wiley & Sons Australasia Pty Ltd., 1972. Pp. viii + 417. £6.05 hardback, £4.40 paperback.) M. A. Crew M. A. Crew Paisley College of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 83, Issue 332, 1 December 1973, Pages 1345–134…
The Theory of Optimal City-Sizes: Elementary Speculations about Analysis and Policy
Sheltered Workshops, Economic Policies and the Employment of the Handicapped
Economic aspects of schemes for employing the handicapped such as employment subsidies, quotas and designated employment are discussed in the first section. Given the existence of minimum wages and fixed conditions of employment, sheltered workshops and designated employment are seen as feasible and relatively efficient means for employing the handicapped. But, as illustrated from a survey of sheltered workshops in Newcastle, the costs of shelter…
Conserving living resources in third world countries: Economic and social issues
The author examines socio‐economic factors as elements in conservation problems and policies in the Third World, taking into account population growth and income aspirations in LDCs, expansion of the market system, introduction of new technology, discounting of the future and difficulties of policy enforcement. The case of the Dugong or Sea Cow (Dugong dugon) is used as an illustration. On the policy side, matters such as the role of national sel…
The International Realpolitik of Science and Technology Policy
Reasons are considered for growing government intervention in scientific and technological progress, justifications for such interference and variations in the objectives sought by developed nations through their science and technology policies. Many governments of developed countries now place high priority on using science and technology policy to maintain and enhance the international competitiveness of their industries. It is hoped thereby to…
Subsistence economies and unsustainable development and trade: Some simple theory
Three possible development patterns for subsistence economies with a restricted range of resources are explored in this paper. The models may be particularly relevant to small island countries, for example in the Pacific Ocean. In the first model, it is shown that neither international trade nor an advanced sector is sustainable in the long run in the type of subsistence economy envisaged. Both international trade and ‘advanced’ sectors eventuall…
Productivity, progress and learning: The case of jute spinning in Bangladesh
Operating capital and productivity patterns in jute weaving in Bangladesh
Biotechnology Developments in Japan: Comments on Saxonhouse's Perspective
The thesis and evidence of Gary Saxonhouse are an antidote to the widespread view that Japan's position in the international economic system is due to its illiberal institutions and practices, collusive arrangements by large business and government, and 'underhand' trade practices. Saxonhouse has stated his views on a number of
International Scientific Co-Operation, Technology Transfer and Aid: Asean Countries, Australia and New Zealand
This paper considers the scope for beneficial scientific co-operation and technology transfer among ASEAN countries, Australia and New Zealand in the light of differences in the development status of these countries, their proximity to one another, their resource endowments and other factors. Australian official science and technology aid in the ASEAN region (which of necessity involves some co-operation between the donor and aid recipients) is c…
Trends and projections for Bangladeshi food production
Sustainable development: Differing perspectives of ecologists and economists, and relevance to LDCs
Impact of new agricultural technology on the instability of foodgrain production and yield
The Developmental Implications of Migration From and Between Small Island Nations
Smallness is no insurance against the problems of overpopulation. Small island nations may face a dichotomy based upon size. They are too small for modernization to generate the domestic markets which would provide the work opportunities which are needed to support economic development. Yet increases in their populations may not alleviate that problem; rather the rising populations may tax food and other resources thus making the nations even mor…
The Use of Input-Output Analysis to Determine the Appropriateness of Technology and Industries: Evidence from Bangladesh
Poverty, resource distribution and security: The impact of new agricultural technology in rural Bangladesh
Recent studies have examined the relationship between agrarian change and rural poverty in LDCs concentrating on either exchange or non‐exchange income. Neither approach employed independently is, however, adequate. Bangladeshi evidence is presented of growing concentration of control of land, of components of new agricultural technology and of ancillary resources. Increasing incidence of landlessness and near landlessness has resulted in greater…
The Educational System of Zimbabwe Compared with those of Selected African and Advanced Countries: Costs, efficiency and other characteristics
(1989). The Educational System of Zimbabwe Compared with those of Selected African and Advanced Countries: costs, efficiency and other characteristics. Comparative Education: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 57-76
Tourism and the economic development of the Maldives
The trade in wild pig meat: Australia and Japan
Socioeconomic developments in Japan since World War Two have influenced the supply of wild pig meat (inoshishi niku) from Japanese domestic sources. Trends in the supply of meat from wild boar as well as the development of the farming of wild boar in Japan are discussed. The special nature of trading in wild pig meat in Japan is outlined. Australian exports of wild pig meat to Japan depend upon developments within Japan and the relevant links are…
International Joint Ventures and Technology Transfer: Some Economic Issues
The paper outlines the benefits and drawbacks to domestic enterprises and to a country of international joint business ventures both at home and abroad. It takes account of such factors as transfer of (and failure to transfer) technology and knowhow, access to markets, cost considerations, provision of capital and foreign exchange and the possibility of continuing dependence on joint-ventures and foreign knowhow. Alternatives to joint ventures, s…
Economics and the debate about preservation of species, crop varieties and genetic diversity
The value of conserving genetic resources
Key Australian export prospects to Northeast Asia: Primary commodities, tourism and education as perceived by the Garnaut report
Foreign Tourism in China, in Australia, and between Australia and China: Some Observations and Comparisons
The Australian tourist experience provides some basis for comparison with China and trends in tourism between Australia and China provide a useful case study of the difficulties which China faces in attracting foreign tourists. These aspects are discussed in this paper which also examines trends in foreign tourism to China from the main international sources and identifies tourism policy problems in China which require attention. -Author
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