Overview
Background
Scott grew up on a mixed farming property in western Queensland, has an undergraduate degree in Asian studies and a PhD in agricultural economics.
Scott worked for the Economist Intelligence Unit in Beijing, graduated from the Nanjing-Hopkins Centre for Advanced Chinese and American Studies and is fluent in Chinese. In China he has: collaborated with 20 research and government organisations; conducted fieldwork at country level and below for at least 30 months; and provided technical assistance in trade negotiations.
He has written eight books on China, two of which were translated into Chinese, and he has published in leading China studies journals, includingThe China Journal and China Quarterly. His research in recent years was on China's trade barriers on Australian exports, and China's economic growth model and implications for trade relations. Scott has been invited to deliver talks on China for a wide range of Australian government and non-govenment agencies, including training for DFAT's China Literacy program.
For more information see the website of the China Agricultural Economics Group
At UQ Scott has conducted 25 agricultural development projects in China, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. He led multi-country and multi-stakeholder projects funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), the Partnership for Australia-Indonesia Research (PAIR) and the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations (NFARCR).
He coordinated the courses AGRC7520 "International Agricultural Development in Asia", AGRC7127 "Agricultural and Resource Policy" and ECON3820 "Understanding China"
Scott is currently an Economist at the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) Trade and Global Change program
Availability
- Associate Professor Scott Waldron is:
- Not available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor, Griffith University
- Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, Griffith University
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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China
Economic development and trade. Rural and agricultural development. Sino-Australian trade and relations.
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International agricultural development
Macro developments in demographics, food supply and human development. Micro developments in farm intensification, commercialisation and technological change.
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Global trade
Global economic relations, Sino-Australian trade, agricultural trade rules and regimes.
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Economic development
China especially Western China; Southeast Asia especially Indonesia and East Timor; the Pacific especially Vanuatu
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Ruminant livestock economics
Beef, wool, sheepmeat, cashmere, dairy, forages – in pastoral, livestock-cropping and intensive systems
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Agricultural research methodologies
Agricultural economics, agribusiness, value chain analysis, policy analysis, institutional analysis, farm management
Works
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2003
Other Outputs
Food Safety in Food Security and Food Trade. Case Study: Beef industry in China
Waldron, S. and Brown, C. G. (2003). Food Safety in Food Security and Food Trade. Case Study: Beef industry in China. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.
2003
Conference Publication
State Sector Reform in China: Structural Considerations in Agriculture
Waldron, S. and Brown, C. G. (2003). State Sector Reform in China: Structural Considerations in Agriculture. 15th Annual Conference of the ACESA, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2-3 October. Melbourne (Electronic): RMIT Business Research Development Unit.
2003
Book
Rural Development in China: Insights from the Beef Industry
Waldron, S., Brown, C. G. and Longworth, J. (2003). Rural Development in China: Insights from the Beef Industry. 1st ed. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. doi: 10.4324/9781315199245
2003
Other Outputs
Analysis of Chinese wool prices
Brown, C. G., Waldron, S. A. and Longworth, J. W. (2003). Analysis of Chinese wool prices. CAEG Working Paper series. 01/2003. China Agricultural Economics Group, The University of Queensland.
2002
Journal Article
Food safety and development of the beef industry in China
Brown, Colin G., Longworth, John W. and Waldron, Scott (2002). Food safety and development of the beef industry in China. Food Policy, 27 (3), 269-284. doi: 10.1016/S0306-9192(02)00017-9
2002
Book
Regionalisation and Integration in China: Lessons from the transformation of the beef industry
Brown, Colin G., Longworth, John W. and Waldron, Scott A. (2002). Regionalisation and Integration in China: Lessons from the transformation of the beef industry. 1st ed. London, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315189628
2002
Journal Article
Food Quality Safety and the Development of the Chinese Beef Industry
Brown, C. G., Longworth, J. and Waldron, S. (2002). Food Quality Safety and the Development of the Chinese Beef Industry. Chinese Rural Economy, 209 (5), 33-40.
2001
Book
Beef In China: Agribusiness opportunities and challenges
Longworth, J., Brown, C. G. and Waldron, S. (2001). Beef In China: Agribusiness opportunities and challenges. 1 ed. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press.
2000
Conference Publication
Reconciling industry policy and comparative advantage: The regional distribution of China’s cattle and beef industry
Waldron, Scott and Brown, Colin G. (2000). Reconciling industry policy and comparative advantage: The regional distribution of China’s cattle and beef industry. 44th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, 23 - 25 January 1999. Sydney, Australia: Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
2000
Journal Article
Zhonguo Bannong Banmuqu Roumiage Fozhan de Jiyu Tiaozlan - Zhelimu meng he Chenjde Diqu de Anli Yanjiu (Opportunities and challenges to development of the beef and cattle industry in semi agricultural, semi pastoral regions in China)
Brown, C. G., Waldron, S. and Longworth, J. (2000). Zhonguo Bannong Banmuqu Roumiage Fozhan de Jiyu Tiaozlan - Zhelimu meng he Chenjde Diqu de Anli Yanjiu (Opportunities and challenges to development of the beef and cattle industry in semi agricultural, semi pastoral regions in China). Zhongguo Mongcun Jingi (Chinese Rural Economy), 2000 (9), 44-50.
2000
Book Chapter
The Types of Agricultural Industralisation Development and its Organisational Models in China
Waldron, S. (2000). The Types of Agricultural Industralisation Development and its Organisational Models in China. Economic Aspects of the Beef and Cattle Industry in China. (pp. 181-207) edited by Liu and Yuman. Beijing, China: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Press.
2000
Journal Article
China's Rangeland Law and Implications of the Expansion of the Beef Cattle Industry for Sustainable Development in Pastoral Areas
Brown, C. G., Waldron, S. and Longworth, J. (2000). China's Rangeland Law and Implications of the Expansion of the Beef Cattle Industry for Sustainable Development in Pastoral Areas. Japanese Journal of Rural Economics, 2, 1-13. doi: 10.18480/jjre.2.1
2000
Book Chapter
Rangeland Degradaion, Beef Industry Development and Regional Development in the Pastoral Regions of China
Brown, C. G., Waldron, S. and Longworth, J. (2000). Rangeland Degradaion, Beef Industry Development and Regional Development in the Pastoral Regions of China. Economic aspects of the beef and cattle industry in China. (pp. 35-56) edited by Yuman, Lui. Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Press.
Funding
Current funding
Supervision
Availability
- Associate Professor Scott Waldron is:
- Not available for supervision
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Master Philosophy
An Analysis of Interventions to Improve Cattle Marketing for Smallholders in Vanuatu
Principal Advisor
Completed supervision
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Financing Small-Holder Cattle Fattening in Indonesia: Integrating Demand, Supply and Institutions
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Rob Cramb
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
An Analysis of Factors Influencing the Feasibility of Weather Index Crop Insurance in China: the Case of Huojia County, Henan Province
Associate Advisor
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
Institutional settings, herder livelihoods and rangeland condition in the Gobi Desert
Associate Advisor
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