Lin Crase

Prof Lin Crase

Dean, School of Accounting and Finance

School of Accounting and Finance

College of Business and Law

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

Professor Lin Crase is Professor of Economics and Dean of Programs within Uni SA Business. As Dean of Programs, he is responsible for managing undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Property, Real Estate and Financial Planning. He joined UniSA in February 2016 as Head of School of Commerce. Prior to commencing at UniSA, Lin was Professor and Director of the Centre for Water Policy and Management at La Trobe University.
Lin's research has focused on applied economics, often in the context of water and agriculture. He has analysed water markets, water pricing and numerous applications of water policy and water infrastructure. Whilst his expertise includes the Murray-Darling Basin and urban water in Australia, he has also worked on projects in south Asia, south-east Asia, Japan and Europe. Lin has published over 100 journal articles, numerous book chapters, four books and a range of other papers and opinion pieces. He has also attracted over $7 million in research support.
Currently, Lin is part of the research team at the Centre for Markets Values and Inclusion. He is also part of the economics team working within the CRC SAAFE that looks at managing antimicrobial resistance in partnership with industry.

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2025 Parry, K., Cooper, B., Bjornlund, H., Crase, L., Moyo, M., & Dube, T. (2025). Institutions influencing plot access and intergenerational land transfer: policy insights from a smallholder irrigation scheme in Zimbabwe. Journal of Rural Studies, 114, 1-13.
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2025 Lountain, S., Cooper, B., & Crase, L. (2025). Measuring empowerment in South Asia: empirical insights from the development of a women's empowerment and labour (WEaL) scale. Journal of Development Studies, online(12), 1-21.
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2025 Begum, I. A., Alam, M. J., Sarma, P. K., Cooper, B., Crase, L., & Sayem, S. M. (2025). Nexus among agricultural extension services, women's empowerment and farm income in Bangladesh. NJAS: Impact in Agricultural and Life Sciences, 97(1, article no. 2534480), 1-15.
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2025 Sarma, P. K., Alam, M. J., Begum, I. A., Ethen, D. Z., Yeasmin, F., Crase, L., & Mckenzie, A. M. (2025). Measuring the determinants of women's empowerment in agricultural index in Bangladesh: application of the structural equation modeling approach. Frontiers In Sustainable Food Systems, 9(1547804), 1-14.
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2024 Lountain, S., Cooper, B., Crase, L., Burton, M., & Rigby, D. (2024). Insights into preferences for irrigation pumps in West Bengal: an application of best-worst-scaling. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 68(2), 349-365.
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2024 Tingey Holyoak, J., Cooper, B., Crase, L., & Pisaniello, J. (2024). Business strategies to counter climate change risks to long lived production assets. Journal of Cleaner Production, 459(142553), 1-23.
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2024 Tingey Holyoak, J., Cooper, B., Crase, L., & Pisaniello, J. (2024). A framework for supporting climate-exposed asset decision-making in agriculture. Land Use Policy, 137(106989), 1-11.
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2024 Cooper, B., Burton, M., Crase, L., & Rigby, D. (2024). Managing and prioritizing investments in urban waterways: Empirical insights Into the preferences of the public and experts. Water Resources Research, 60(6, article no. e2022WR033737), 1-21.
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2024 Crase, L., Cooper, B., Burton, M., Baumgartner, L. J., & Ning, N. (2024). Adaptive management: are important environmental concepts understood and valued by the public?. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 31(3), 362-377.
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2024 Alam, M. J., Sarma, P. K., Begum, I. A., Crase, L., Tama, R. A. Z., & Kader, M. A. (2024). Impact of agricultural extension services on rice productivity and profitability in Bangladesh. Outlook On Agriculture, 53(4), 376-389.
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2024 Alam, M. J., Sarma, P. K., Begum, I. A., Connor, J., Crase, L., Sayem, S. M., & McKenzie, A. M. (2024). Agricultural extension service, technology adoption, and production risk nexus: Evidence from Bangladesh. Heliyon, 10(14), 14 pages.
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2023 Lountain, S., Cooper, B., Crase, L., & Burton, M. (2023). Is policy convergence required to improve women's empowerment in agriculture? Evidence from West Bengal. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 40(2), 213-233.
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2023 Drew, M., & Crase, L. (2023). 'More crop per drop' and water use efficiency in the National Water Policy of Pakistan. Agricultural Water Management, 288(108491), 9 pages.
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2023 Cooper, B., Crase, L., & Burton, M. (2023). Households' willingness to pay for water for the environment in an urban setting. Journal of Environmental Management, 348(119263), 1-12.
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2023 Cooper, B., Burton, M., & Crase, L. (2023). Exploring customer heterogeneity with a scale‐extended latent class choice model: experimental evidence drawn from urban water users. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 67(2), 176-197.
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2023 Cooper, B., Crase, L., Burton, M., Rigby, D., Alam, M. J., & Kishore, A. (2023). Policy preferences of experts seeking to raise and stabilise farm incomes in the Eastern Gangetic Plains. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 67(3), 323-345.
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2023 Cooper, B., Crase, L., Burton, M., & Pham, H. D. (2023). Survey data on preferences and attitudes towards participatory irrigation management in India and Pakistan. Scientific Data, 10(1), 1-7.
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2023 Cooper, B., Crase, L., & Burton, M. (2023). Measuring and managing ecological and amenity outcomes in urban waterways. Landscape and Urban Planning, 236(104777), 1-13.
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2022 Cooper, B., Donner, E., Crase, L., Robertson, H., Carter, D., Short, M., . . . Fielding, K. (2022). Maintaining a social license to operate for wastewater-based monitoring: the case of managing infectious disease and the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Environmental Management, 320(115819), 1-10.
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2021 Peterson, D. C., & Crase, L. (2021). Disaster, disruption, recovery and resilience: lessons from and for agricultural and resource-based industries. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 65(4), 767-775.
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2021 Baumgartner, L. J., Barlow, C., Mallen Cooper, M., Boys, C., Marsden, T., Thorncraft, G., . . . Cooper, B. (2021). Achieving fish passage outcomes at irrigation infrastructure; a case study from the Lower Mekong Basin. Developments in Aquaculture and Fisheries Science, 6(2), 113-124.
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2021 Crase, L. (2021). Lessons in policy incoherence: a review of recent water policies, water planning and drought policy in Australia. Economic Papers, 40(4), 313-330.
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2021 Khosroshahi, S., Crase, L., Cooper, B., & Burton, M. (2021). Matching customers' preferences for tariff reform with managers' appetite for change: the case of volumetric-only tariffs in Australia. The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 65(2), 449-471.
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2020 Crase, L., Khosroshahi, S., & Cooper, B. (2020). Hydrology, topography and demography matter: why care needs to be exercised when assessing water prices and regulation and the extent to which they conform with best practice. Utilities Policy, 62(100999), 1-7.
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2020 Hone, S., Crase, L., Burton, M., Copper, B., Gandhi, V. P., Ashfaq, M., . . . Ahmad, B. (2020). Farmer cooperation in participatory irrigation in South Asia: insights from game theory. Water, 12(5, article no. 1329), 1-15.
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2020 Burton, M., Cooper, B., & Crase, L. (2020). Analysing irrigation farmers' preferences for local governance using a discrete choice experiment in India and Pakistan. Water, 12(6, article no. 1821), 1-19.
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2020 Crase, L. (2020). Editorial - Using Applied economics to study participatory irrigation institutions and their Impact in South Asia. Water, 12(6), 1-7.
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2020 Crase, L., Connor, J., Michaels, S., & Cooper, B. (2020). Australian water policy reform: lessons learned and potential transferability. Climate Policy, 20(5), 641-651.
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2019 Cooper, B., Crase, L., & Baumgartner, L. J. (2019). Estimating benefits and costs: a case of fish passages in Lao PDR and the development of the Lower Mekong Fishway Support Tool. Marine and freshwater research, 70(9), 1284-1294.
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2019 Crase, L., Cooper, B., & Burton, M. (2019). From sharing the burden of scarcity to markets: Ill-fittingwater property rights and the pressure of economic transition in South Asia. Water, 11(6), 1-12.
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2019 Cooper, B., Scheufele, G., & Crase, L. (2019). Grappling with collecting data on household preferences in emerging economies: what role for discrete choice experiments?. Agricultural Science, 30/31(2/1), 102-111.
2019 Cooper, B., Burton, M., & Crase, L. (2019). Willingness to pay to avoid water restrictions in Australia under a changing climate. Environmental and resource economics, 72(3), 823-847.
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2019 Hung, P. D., Crase, L., Burton, M., & Cooper, B. (2019). Strategies for integrating farmers into modern vegetable supply chains in Vietnam: farmer attitudes and willingness to accept. The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 63(2), 265-281.
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2018 Cooper, B., Crase, L., & Rose, J. M. (2018). Cost reflective pricing: empirical insights into irrigators' preferences for water tariffs. Australian journal of agricultural and resource economics, 62(2), 256-278.
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2018 Cooper, B., Burton, M., & Crase, L. (2018). Valuing improvements in urban water security: evidence of heterogeneity derived from a latent class. Applied economics, 50(31), 3364-3375.
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2018 Crase, L., Cooper, B., Dollery, B., & Marques, R. (2018). One person's drain is another's water supply: why property rights, scope, measurement and hydrology matter when it comes to Integrated Water Resources Management. Ecological economics, 147, 436-441.
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2017 Crase, L. (2017). When scarcity ends, policy reform loses steam: comments on Australian water reform and political backsliding. Water economics and policy, 3(3, article no. 1771005), 1-8.
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2017 Cooper, B., Crase, L., & Maybery, D. (2017). Pushing the governance boundaries: making transparent the role of water utilities in managing urban waterways. Water resources management, 31(8), 2429-2446.
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2017 Cooper, B., Crase, L., & Maybery, D. (2017). Incorporating amenity and ecological values of urban water into planning frameworks: evidence from Melbourne, Australia. Australasian journal of environmental management, 24(1), 64-80.
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2017 Crase, L., & Cooper, B. (2017). The political economy of drought: legacy and lessons from Australia's millennium drought. Economic papers, 36(3), 289-299.
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2017 Wheeler, S., Loch, A., Crase, L., Young, M., & Grafton, R. (2017). Developing a water market readiness assessment framework. Journal of Hydrology, 552, 807-820.
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2017 Crase, L. (2017). Drought special edition: introductory comments. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 61(3), 341-343.
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2016 Toan, T. D., O'Keefe, S., & Crase, L. (2016). Farmer heterogeneity and water pricing reform: a case study from Vietnam. International journal of water resources development, 32(6), 961-977.
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2016 Cooper, B., & Crase, L. (2016). Governing water service provision: lessons from Australia. Utilities policy, 43(A), 42-47.
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2015 Crase, L., & Cooper, B. (2015). Politics, socio-economics and water allocations: a note on the limits of Integrated Water Resources Management. Australasian journal of environmental management, 22(4), 388-399.
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2014 Cooper, B., Crase, L., & Pawsey, N. (2014). Best practice pricing principles and the politics of water pricing. Agricultural water management, 145, 92-97.
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2014 Dollery, B., Kortt, M. A., & Crase, L. (2014). Community Council cooperation: the Lake Macquarie City Council co-governance delegation model. International journal of public administration, 37(11), 747-755.
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2014 Crase, L., Pawsey, N., & Cooper, B. (2014). The closure of Melbourne's north-south pipeline: a case of hydraulic autarky. Economic papers: a journal of applied economics and policy, 33(2), 115-122.
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2013 Crase, L., & Merton, E. (2013). Correcting misconceptions about links between water planning and food security in the Murray-Darling basin. Economic papers: a journal of applied economics and policy, 32(3), 298-307.
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2013 Crase, L., Pawsey, N., & O'Keefe, S. (2013). A note on contradictions in Australian water policy. Economic papers: a journal of applied economics and policy, 32(3), 353-359.
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2013 Pawsey, N., & Crase, L. (2013). The mystique of water pricing and accounting. Economic papers: a journal of applied economics and policy, 32(3), 328-339.
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2013 Crase, L., O'Keefe, S., & Dollery, B. (2013). Talk is cheap, or is it? The cost of consulting about uncertain reallocation of water in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Ecological Economics, 88, 206-213.
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2012 Crase, L., O'Keefe, S., & Dollery, B. (2012). Presumptions of linearity and faith in the power of centralised decision-making: two challenges to the efficient management of environmental water in Australia. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 56(3), 426-437.
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2012 Crase, L. (2012). The Murray-Darling basin plan: an adaptive response to ongoing challenges. Economic papers: a journal of applied economics and policy, 31(3), 318-326.
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2012 Crase, L. (2012). How holistic should economic measurement be? A cautionary note on valuing ecosystem services as part of the Murray-Darling basin plan. Economic papers: a journal of applied economics and policy, 31(2), 182-191.
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2012 Crase, L., & O'Keefe, S. (2012). Water-sensitive urban design and water economics: getting the local questions right. Public Policy, 7(1), 97-106.
2012 Crase, L., O'Keefe, S., & Kinoshita, Y. (2012). Enhancing agrienvironmental outcomes: Market-based approaches to water in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin. Water resources research, 48(W09536), 1-7.
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2012 Cooper, B., Rose, J., & Crase, L. (2012). Does anybody like water restrictions? Some observations in Australian urban communities. Australian journal of agricultural and resource economics, 56(1), 61-81.
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2011 Nguyen, P., & Crase, L. (2011). Vietnam's state-owned enterprise reform: an empirical assessment in the international multimodal transport sector from the Williamson's TCE perspective. Asian Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 23(3), 411-422.
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2011 Crase, L. (2011). The fallout to the guide to the proposed basin plan. Australian journal of public administration, 70(1), 84-93.
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2011 Dollery, B., Grant, B., & Crase, L. (2011). Love thy neighbour: a social capital approach to local government partnerships. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 70(2), 156-166.
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2011 Cooper, B., Burton, M., & Crase, L. (2011). Urban water restrictions: attitudes and avoidance. Water resources research, 47(12, article no. W12527), 1-13.
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2011 Crase, L., Dollery, B., & O'Keefe, S. (2011). Managing environmental water: lessons in crafting efficient governance arrangements. Economic papers: a journal of applied economics and policy, 30(2), 122-134.
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2011 Crase, L., O'Keefe, S., & Dollery, B. (2011). Some observations about the reactionary rhetoric circumscribing the guide to the Murray-Darling basin plan. Economic papers: a journal of applied economics and policy, 30(2), 195-207.
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2011 Crase, L., O'Keefe, S., & Dollery, B. (2011). Nuances of regional growth and its public policy implications: some comments on the flaws in the Grattan Institute's Investing in Regions; Making a Difference report. Economic papers: a journal of applied economics and policy, 30(4), 481-489.
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2011 Crase, L., & Gawne, B. (2011). Coase-coloured glasses and rights bundling: why the initial specification of water rights in volumetric terms matters. Economic papers: a journal of applied economics and policy, 30(2), 135-146.
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2010 Leroux, A., & Crase, L. (2010). Advancing water trade: a preliminary investigation of urban-irrigation options contracts in the Ovens Basin, Victoria, Australia. Economic papers: a journal of applied economics and policy, 29(3), 251-266.
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2010 Crase, L. (2010). A cautionary note on the use of socio-economic analyses in water planning. Economic papers: a journal of applied economics and policy, 29(1), 41-47.
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2010 Dollery, B., & Crase, L. (2010). Industry structure issues in the water and wastewater sectors in Australia: a comment on Abbott and Cohen. Economic papers: a journal of applied economics and policy, 29(3), 365-367.
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2010 Dollery, B., Grant, B., & Crase, L. (2010). Not what they seem: an analysis of strategic service delivery partnerships in local government. Australasian Canadian Studies, 28(2), 59-74.
2010 Byrnes, J., Crase, L., Dollery, B., & Villano, R. (2010). The relative economic efficiency of urban water utilities in regional New South Wales and Victoria. Resource and Energy Economics, 32(3), 439-455.
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2010 Gawne, B., Crase, L., & Watson, A. S. (2010). Can a collaborative focus on solutions improve our capacity to achieve sustainable water management?. Marine and Freshwater Research, 61(7), 814-820.
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2009 Maybery, D. J., Reupert, A. E., Patrick, K., Goodyear, M., & Crase, L. (2009). Prevalence of parental mental illness in Australian families. Psychiatric Bulletin, 33(1), 22-26.
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2009 Dollery, B., Crase, L., & O'Keefe, S. (2009). Improving efficiency in Australian local government: structural reform as a catalyst for effective reform. Geographical Research, 47(3), 269-279.
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2009 Crase, L. R., O'Keefe, S. M., & Dollery, B. E. (2009). The fluctuating political appeal of water engineering in Australia. Water Alternatives, 2(3), 440-447.
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2009 Wallis, J., Dollery, B., & Crase, L. (2009). Political economy and organizational leadership: a hope-based theory. Review of political economy, 21(1), 123-143.
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2009 Grant, B., Dollery, B., & Crase, L. (2009). The implications of the Lyons Report into local government in England for structural reform in Australian local government. International Journal of Public Administration, 32(10), 852-867.
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2009 Dollery, B., Leong, W. H., & Crase, L. (2009). Virtual local government in practice: the case of town councils in Singapore. Canadian Journal of Regional Science, 31(2), 289-304.
2009 Crase, L., & O'Keefe, S. (2009). The paradox of national water savings: a critique of 'water for the future'. Agenda, 16(1), 45-60.
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2009 O'Keefe, S., Crase, L., & Paul, W. (2009). Equity considerations in urban water pricing. Public Policy, 4(2), 123-132.
2009 Byrnes, J., Crase, L., Dollery, B., & Villano, R. (2009). An analysis of the relative efficiency of wastewater utilities in non-metropolitan New South Wales and Victoria. The Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 15(2), 153-169.
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2009 Dollery, B., O'Keefe, S., & Crase, L. (2009). State oversight models for Australian local government. Economic papers: a journal of applied economics and policy, 28(4), 279-290.
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2009 Crase, L., & O'Keefe, S. (2009). Accounting for hydrology in water trade: a cautionary note. Public Policy, 4(1), 71-82.
2008 Crase, L., O'Keefe, S., & Dollery, B. (2008). Can urban water markets work? some concerns. Agenda, 15(3), 73-82.
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2008 Byrnes, J., Dollery, B., Crase, L., & Simmons, P. (2008). Resolving the infrastructure funding crisis in Australian local government: a bond market issue approach based on local council income. Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 14(2), 115-131.
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2008 Crase, L., O'Keefe, S., & Dollery, B. (2008). Urban water pricing: practical perspectives and customer preferences. Economic papers: a journal of applied economics and policy, 27(2), 194-206.
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2008 Dollery, B., Byrnes, J., & Crase, L. (2008). Structural reform in Australian local government. Australian Journal of Political Science, 43(2), 333-339.
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2008 Cooper, B., & Crase, L. (2008). Waste water preferences in rural towns across north-east Victoria: a choice modelling approach. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 15(1), 41-50.
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2008 Crase, L., & Gillespie, R. (2008). The impact of water quality and water level on the recreation values of Lake Hume. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 15(1), 21-29.
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2008 Nguyen, P. T. T., Crase, L., & Durden, G. R. (2008). Organizational logistics processes: a literature review and an exploratory investigation of international multimodal transport in Vietnam. Asia Pacific Management Review, 13(1), 403-418.
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2008 Dollery, B., Byrnes, J., & Crase, L. (2008). The mirage of municipal self-sufficiency: a taxonomic approach to local government sustainability in Australia. Public Policy, 3(1), 51-66.
2008 Dollery, B., Byrnes, J., & Crase, L. (2008). Australian local government amalgamation: a conceptual analysis of population size and scale economies in municipal service provision. Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 14(2), 167-175.
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2008 Crase, L., Dollery, B., & Byrnes, J. (2008). An intersectoral comparison of Australian water reforms. Water Policy, 10(1), 43-56.
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2008 Byrnes, J., Crase, L., & Dollery, B. (2008). Water options contracts to facilitate intersectoral trade. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 112, 83-92.
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2007 Dollery, B., Wallis, J., & Crase, L. (2007). ABOUT TURN: POLICY REVERSALS AND THE QUEENSLAND LOCAL GOVERNMENT REFORM COMMISSION. Economic Papers, 26(4), 360-371.
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2007 Dollery, B., Byrnes, J., & Crase, L. (2007). Is Bigger Better? Local Government Amalgamation and the South Australian Rising to the Challenge Inquiry. Economic Analysis and Policy, 37(1), 1-14.
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2007 O'Keefe, S., Crase, L., & Dollery, B. (2007). Does the reality of workplace training match the theory? An analysis of public sector employees' training decisions. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRAINING RESEARCH, 5(2), 41-54.
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2007 Dollery, B., Byrnes, J., & Crase, L. (2007). THE INFRASTRUCTURE CRISIS IN AUSTRALIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT: A PROPOSED FEDERAL ASSET FUND SOLUTION. AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF REGIONAL STUDIES, 13(1), 3-19.
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2007 Dollery, B., Byrnes, J., & Crase, L. (2007). TOO TOUGH A NUT TO CRACK: DETERMINING FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY IN AUSTRALIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT. AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF REGIONAL STUDIES, 13(2), 110-132.
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2007 Crase, L., O'Keefe, S., & Burston, J. (2007). Inclining Block Tariffs for Urban Water. AGENDA-A JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND REFORM, 14(1), 69-80.
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2006 Dollery, B., Moppett, W., & Crase, L. (2006). Spontaneous structural reform in Australian local government: The case of the Gilgandra Co-operative model in New South Wales. Australian Geographer, 37(3), 395-409.
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2006 Dollery, B., Crase, L., & Byrnes, J. (2006). Local government failure: Why does Australian local government experience permanent financial austerity?. Australian Journal of Political Science, 41(3), 339-353.
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2006 Crase, L., & Dollery, B. (2006). Water rights: A comparison of the impacts of urban and irrigation reforms in Australia. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 50(3), 451-462.
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2006 Byrnes, J., Crase, L., & Dollery, B. (2006). Regulation versus pricing in urban water policy: The case of the Australian National Water Initiative. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 50(3), 437-449.
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2006 Dollery, B., & Crase, L. (2006). Optimal approaches to structural reform in regional and rural local governance: The Australian experience. Local Government Studies, 32(4), 447-464.
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2006 Dollery, B., Murray, D., & Crase, L. (2006). Knaves or knights, pawns or queens?: An evaluation of Australian higher education reform policy. Journal of Educational Administration, 44(1), 86-97.
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2006 Ananda, J., Crase, L., & Pagan, P. G. (2006). A preliminary assessment of water institutions in India: An institutional design perspective. Review of Policy Research, 23(4), 927-953.
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2005 Pagan, P., & Crase, L. (2005). Property right effects on the adaptive management of Australian water. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 12(2), 77-88.
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2005 Hillman, T., Crase, L., Furze, B., Ananda, J., & Maybery, D. (2005). Multidisciplinary approaches to natural resource management. Hydrobiologia, 552(1), 99-108.
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2005 Crase, L., Dollery, B., & Wallis, J. (2005). Community consultation in public policy: The case of the Murray-Darling basin of Australia. Australian Journal of Political Science, 40(2), 221-237.
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2005 Maybery, D., Crase, L., & Gullifer, C. (2005). Categorising farming values as economic, conservation and lifestyle. Journal of Economic Psychology, 26(1), 59-72.
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2004 Dollery, B., & Crase, L. (2004). A critical note on 'eco-civic regionalisation' as the basis for local government boundaries in Australia. Australian Geographer, 35(3), 289-300.
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2004 Crase, L., Pagan, P., & Dollery, B. (2004). Water markets as a vehicle for reforming water resource allocation in the Murray-Darling Basin of Australia. Water Resources Research, 40(8), W08-S510.
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2004 Crase, L. (2004). Handbook of water economics principles and practices. AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS, 48(2), 371-373.
2004 Dollery, B., & Crase, L. (2004). Is bigger local government better? An evaluation of the case for australian municipal amalgamation programs. Urban Policy and Research, 22(3), 265-275.
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2004 Crase, L., & Maybery, D. (2004). Personality and landholders' management of remnant bush and revegetation in the murray catchment. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 11(1), 21-33.
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2003 Dollery, B., & Crase, L. (2003). Rhetorical patterns in the Australian debate over war with Iraq. Prometheus Critical Studies in Innovation, 21(3), 355-363.
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2003 Crase, L., Dollery, B., & Lockwood, M. (2003). Watering down property rights for the sake of the environment: A consideration of the environmental benefits of attenuated water rights in NSW. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 10(1), 25-34.
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2001 Crase, L. (2001). Institutions, transaction costs and environmental policy: Institutional reform for water resources. AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS, 45(2), 309-311.
2000 Crase, L., O'Reilly, L., & Dollery, B. (2000). Water markets as a vehicle for water reform: The case of New South Wales. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 44(2), 299-321.
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2000 Crase, L., & Jackson, J. (2000). Assessing the effects of information asymmetry in tourism destinations. Tourism Economics, 6(4), 321-334.
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1999 Crase, L., & Dollery, B. (1999). The valuation of market information from livestock selling complexes. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 43(2), 195-208.
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1996 Crase, L. (1996). Reusing sewage water: Evaluating the benefits. Australian Journal of Environmental Management, 3(2), 98-109.
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Year Citation
2025 Jayalath, V., Barthakur, A., Dawson, S., Tingey, J., Crase, L., & Kovanović, V. (2025). Scaling Curriculum Mapping in Higher Education: Evaluating Generative AI’s Role in Curriculum Analytics. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 15877 LNAI, pp. 294-308). Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland.
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2021 Lountain, S., Crase, L., & Cooper, B. (2021). When the genie is out of the bottle: the case of dynamic groundwater markets in West Bengal, India. In S. A. Wheeler (Ed.), Source details - Title: Water Markets: A Global Assessment (pp. 79-90). UK: Edward Elgar.
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2015 Crase, L., O'Keefe, S., Wheeler, S., & Kinoshita, Y. (2015). Water trading in Australia: understanding the role of policy and serendipity. In K. Burnett, R. Howitt, J. Roumasset, & C. Wada (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Water Economics and Institutions (pp. 296-313). London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
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2015 O'Keefe, S., & Crase, L. (2015). Non-government provision of environmental water: a case from the Murray-darling basin. In J. Bennett (Ed.), Source details - Title: Protecting the environment, privately (pp. 113-130). Singapore: World Scientific.
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2015 Crase, L., Pawsey, N., & Cooper, B. (2015). Water pricing in Australia: unbundled politics, accounting, and water pricing. In A. Dinar, V. Pochat, & J. Albiac-Murillo (Eds.), Source details - Title: Water pricing experiences and innovations (Vol. 9, pp. 15-39). Switzerland: Springer.
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2014 Cooper, B., Crase, L., & Pawsey, N. (2014). Water tariffs and farmer adaptation: the case of Goulburn-Murray Water, Victoria, Australia. In J. P. Palutikof (Ed.), Source details - Title: Applied studies in climate adaptation (Vol. 9781118845011, pp. 156-165). US: Wiley-Blackwell.
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2012 Crase, L. (2012). Water markets, property rights and managing environmental water reserves. In J. Quiggin, T. Mallawaarachchi, & S. Chambers (Eds.), Source details - Title: Water Policy Reform: Lessons in Sustainability from the Murray-Darling Basin (pp. 37-49). United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
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2012 O'Keefe, S., & Crase, L. (2012). New institutions in Australian water management: how the environmental water reserve changes the game. In G. Herath (Ed.), Source details - Title: Institutional aspects of water management: evaluating the experience (pp. 149-158). United States: Nova Science Publishers Inc.
2012 Cooper, B., Crase, L., & Pawsey, N. (2012). Best practice pricing principles vs. the politics of water pricing. In H. Bjornlund, C. A. Brebbia, & S. Wheeler (Eds.), Source details - Title: Sustainable irrigation and drainage IV : management, technologies and policies (Vol. 168, pp. 509-520). United Kingdom: WIT Press.
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2012 Crase, L. (2012). Water policy in australia: The impact of change and uncertainty. In A. Dinar, & J. Albiac (Eds.), Policy and Strategic Behaviour in Water Resource Management (pp. 91-108). Routledge.
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2012 O’Keefe, S., & Crase, L. (2012). Lessons for the Tourism and Recreation Sector and Directions for Future Research. In Water Policy Tourism and Recreation Lessons from Australia (pp. 205-212).
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2012 Crase, L., & Gawne, B. (2012). Why Rights Matter. In Water Policy Tourism and Recreation Lessons from Australia (pp. 69-81).
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2012 Crase, L., & Cooper, B. (2012). Water pricing, water restrictions, and tourism water demand. In Water Policy Tourism and Recreation Lessons from Australia (pp. 193-204).
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2012 Crase, L., O’Keefe, S., & Simmons, D. G. (2012). The Policy Landscape and Challenges for Tourism and Recreation in Australia. In Water Policy Tourism and Recreation Lessons from Australia (pp. 3-16).
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2011 Crase, L., & Dollery, B. (2011). The institutional setting. In Water Policy in Australia the Impact of Change and Uncertainty (pp. 74-89).
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2011 Crase, L. (2011). Lessons from Australian water reform. In Water Policy in Australia the Impact of Change and Uncertainty (pp. 248-260).
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2011 Crase, L., & O’keefe, S. (2011). Acknowledging scarcity and achieving reform. In Water Policy in Australia the Impact of Change and Uncertainty (pp. 166-183).
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2011 Crase, L. (2011). An introduction to Australian Water Policy. In Water Policy in Australia the Impact of Change and Uncertainty (pp. 1-16).
DOI Scopus8
2011 Crase, L., & Gawne, B. (2011). Why rights matter. In L. Crase, & S. O'Keefe (Eds.), Source details - Title: Water policy, tourism, and recreation: lessons from Australia (Vol. 9780203128442, pp. 69-81). US: RFF Press.
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2011 O'Keefe, S., & Crase, L. (2011). Lessons for the tourism and recreation sector and directions for future research. In L. Crase, & S. O'Keefe (Eds.), Source details - Title: Water policy, tourism, and recreation: lessons from Australia (pp. 205-212). US: RFF Press.
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2011 Crase, L., O'Keefe, S., & Simmons, D. (2011). The policy landscape and challenges for tourism and recreation in Australia. In L. Crase, & S. O'Keefe (Eds.), Source details - Title: Water policy, tourism, and recreation: lessons from Australia (pp. 3-16). US: RFF Press.
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2011 Crase, L., & Cooper, B. (2011). Water pricing, water restrictions, and tourism water demand. In L. Crase, & S. O'Keefe (Eds.), Source details - Title: Water policy, tourism, and recreation: lessons from Australia (pp. 193-204). US: RFF Press.
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2011 Crase, L., & O'Keefe, S. (2011). Governmental discrimination between sectors: the case of Australian water policy. In S. Mann (Ed.), Source details - Title: Sectors matter: exploring mesoeconomics (pp. 239-249). Germany: Springer.
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2010 Crase, L. (2010). Lessons from Australian water reform. In L. Crase (Ed.), Source details - Title: Water policy in Australia : the impact of change and uncertainty (pp. 248-260). United States: RFF Press.
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2010 Crase, L., & O'Keefe, S. (2010). Acknowledging scarcity and achieving reform. In L. Crase (Ed.), Source details - Title: Water policy in Australia : the impact of change and uncertainty (pp. 166-183). United States: RFF Press.
DOI
2010 Crase, L., & Dollery, B. (2010). The institutional setting. In L. Crase (Ed.), Source details - Title: Water policy in Australia: the impact of change and uncertainty (pp. 74-89). United States: RFF Press.
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2010 Crase, L. (2010). An introduction to Australian water policy. In L. Crase (Ed.), Source details - Title: Water policy in Australia: the impact of change and uncertainty (pp. 1-16). United States: RFF Press.
Scopus1
2010 Crase, L., & O'Keefe, S. (2010). The contradiction between modernising irrigation and water buyback. In Source details - Title: Environmental Economics and Investment Assessment III (WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment) (Vol. 131, 1st edition ed., pp. 63-69). United Kingdom: WIT Press.
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2010 Byrnes, J., Crase, L., & Dollery, B. (2010). Water options contracts to facilitate intersectoral trade. In H. Bjornlund (Ed.), INCENTIVES AND INSTRUMENTS FOR SUSTAINABLE IRRIGATION (pp. 123-135). WIT PRESS.
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2009 Gandhi, V., Crase, L., & Roy, A. (2009). Institutional analysis of the performance of water institutions in three major states of India. In L. Crase, & V. Gandhi (Eds.), Source details - Title: Reforming institutions in water resource management: policy and performance for sustainable development (pp. 169-207). United Kingdom: Earthscan.
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2009 Crase, L., & Gandhi, V. (2009). Institutions and irrigation in India - concluding lessons and the way forward. In L. Crase, & V. Gandhi (Eds.), Source details - Title: Reforming institutions in water resource management: policy and performance for sustainable development (pp. 341-355). United Kingdom: Earthscan.
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2009 Pagan, P., Crase, L., & Gandhi, V. (2009). Institutional constraints and organizational dynamics: the case of water trade between the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales. In L. Crase, & V. Gandhi (Eds.), Source details - Title: Reforming institutions in water resource management: policy and performance for sustainable development (pp. 62-80). United Kingdom: Earthscan.
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2009 Crase, L. (2009). Dynamic community preferences: lessons for institutional design and measuring transaction and transformation costs. In L. Crase, & V. Gandhi (Eds.), Source details - Title: Reforming institutions in water resource management: policy and performance for sustainable development (pp. 45-61). United Kingdom: Earthscan.
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2009 Crase, L., & Gandhi, V. (2009). The effectiveness of water institutions. In L. Crase, & V. Gandhi (Eds.), Source details - Title: Reforming institutions in water resource management: policy and performance for sustainable development (pp. 3-19). United Kingdom: Earthscan.
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2009 Ananda, J., Crase, L., & Keeton, W. (2009). The role of information and decision-making capacity in a hierarchical process. In L. Crase, & V. Gandhi (Eds.), Source details - Title: Reforming institutions in water resource management: policy and performance for sustainable development (pp. 300-319). United Kingdom: Earthscan.
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2008 Crase, L., Lamb, P., & Patullock, E. (2008). Exploring the consequences of delayed adoption of electronic commerce by regional SMEs in Australia. In Source details - Title: Small and medium sized enterprises in East Asia : sectoral and regional dimensions (pp. 163-176). Cheltenham: Elgar.

Year Citation
2023 Tingey Holyoak, J., Cooper, B., Crase, L., & Pisaniello, J. (2023). Climate-proofing accounting standards: Developing a guidebook of options for accountants to improve the accounting for long-lived and climate-exposed assets. Australia: University of South Australia.
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2022 Cooper, B., Crase, L., Regan, C., Wheeler, S., & Simmons, C. T. (2022). High-level assessment of a water rating system for South Australian water sources. Australia: Goyder Institute for Water Research.
2021 Cooper, B., Crase, L., & Kishore, A. (2021). Measuring women's empowerment in India should be given a higher priority. Australia: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
2021 Baumgartner, L., Collier, P., Conallin, J., Ning, N., Robinson, W., Cooper, B., . . . Marsden, T. (2021). Quantifying biophysical and community impacts of improved fish passage in Lao PDR and Myanmar - Final Report. Australia: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR).
2020 Salter, D., Sadeghi, N., Thorncraft, G., Baumgartner, L., Robinson, W., Ning, N., . . . Crase, L. (2020). Diversion weirs and fish passages for small scale irrigation: Lao People's Democratic Republic. Philippines: Asian Development Bank.
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2018 Wheeler, S., Connor, J., Grafton, Q., Crase, L., & Quiggin, J. (2018). Submission to the Productivity Commission's Murray-Darling Basin's five-year assessment issues paper. Australia: Australian Government.
2013 Cooper, B., & Crase, L. (2013). Leading gifted horses to water: The economics of climate adaptation in government-sponsored irrigation in Victoria. Australia: National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility.

Year Citation
- Cooper, B., Crase, L., & Burton, M. (n.d.). Urban waterways choice experiment dataset.
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- Crase, L., & Cooper, B. (n.d.). Efficient participatory irrigation institutions to support productive and sustainable agriculture in south Asia (Datasets 1-13).
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- Crase, L., & Cooper, B. (n.d.). Efficient participatory irrigation institutions to support productive and sustainable agriculture in south Asia (Datasets 14-22).
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  • Understanding and enumerating water management options at the margin: a blueprint for achieving optimal outcomes in the CLLMM, Goyder Institute for Water Research, 31/07/2024 - 02/03/2026

  • Water Resilient Rural Communities in South Punjab, Pakistan, Australian Centre for International Agriculture Research, 19/03/2025 - 30/08/2025

  • Climate-proofing accounting standards: Developing a guidebook of options for Accountants for long-lived and climate-exposed assets, CPA Australia, 07/01/2022 - 30/06/2025

  • Adaptation of the South-Eastern drainage system under a changing climate, Goyder Institute for Water Research, 31/10/2022 - 31/05/2025

  • Strategies for land improvement districts in Japan: Lessons from Australia, Iwate University, 11/12/2023 - 29/02/2024

  • VitiVisor: An Information, Prediction and Advisory Platform for Viticulture, Wine Australia Pty Ltd, 01/02/2020 - 30/06/2022

  • Institutions to support intensification, integrated decision making and inclusiveness in agriculture in the East Gangetic Plain, ACIAR-Research and Development Program, 30/06/2018 - 30/09/2021

  • Efficient participatory irrigation to support productive and sustainable agriculture in south Asia, ACIAR-Research and Development Program, 26/08/2016 - 30/06/2021

  • Quantifying biophysical and community impacts of improved fish passage in Lao PDR, ACIAR-Research and Development Program, 01/01/2016 - 31/12/2020

  • Understanding, measuring and managing the benefits of urban waterways, ARC - Linkage Project, 30/09/2016 - 30/09/2019

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Co-Supervisor Modernising economic regulation in the face of rapid technological change and uncertainty - Doctorate Full Time Thushara Dharmawardhana
2024 Principal Supervisor Aligning water resource development policies with First Nations' vision(s) of sustainable water development: the case of Australia's Martuwarra Fitzroy river - Doctorate Full Time Ms Elizabeth Damoah
2022 Co-Supervisor Women's Empowerment in Agriculture in South Asia: Improving Measurement to Raise Welfare - Doctorate Full Time Ms Sophie Lountain
  • Position: Dean, School of Accounting and Finance
  • Email: lin.crase@adelaide.edu.au
  • Alternative Contact: Merien Prga: Administrative Assistant merien.prga@unisa.edu.au Gianna Vapore: Executive Officergianna.vapore@unisa.edu.au

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