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In recent years, renewable energy technologies have been advocated in Fiji on the basis that they improve energy security and serve as a risk-mitigation measure against oil price volatility. Despite this, there have been few attempts to measure the impact of renewable technologies on energy...
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Integrated catchment policies are widely used to manage natural resources in Australian catchments. Decision support tools available to aid integrated catchment management are often limited in their integration of environmental processes with socio-economic systems. Fully integrated models are...
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Integrated catchment policies are widely used to manage natural resources in Australian catchments. Decision support tools available to aid integrated catchment management are often limited in their integration of environmental processes with socio-economic systems. Fully integrated models are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005807492
plausible that uncertainty will rule the day and adaptation to allow efficient decision-making under information asymmetry may …
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. However, the presence of large, sunk investment and the uncertainty of future returns will have an impact on the efficiency of … Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area is used to quantify the effect of sunk investment cost and uncertainty of future returns on the …
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. Traditional cost-benefit analysis under uncertainty has shortcomings when considering high-risk investment, largely due to the … choice of how to discount uncertainty outcomes. A corollary is that traditional cost-benefit analysis does not place a value … way of objectively placing a value on changes in the level of uncertainty that does not depend on an assumption about a …
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; cotton and field crops). The supply of water for irrigation is subject to climatic and policy uncertainty. Variable inflows … issues facing irrigators, greater pressure is being placed on this finite resource. The uncertainty of the water supply …
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Because the analysis of risky choice in agriculture and rural resource management is important but difficult, we argue that there is a need for some agreed principles on how to proceed. This paper is intended as a first step to this end. We start with the proposition that the importance of risk...
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There is potential for over-provision of environmental harms and under-provision of environmental benefits associated with GM crops. As a result, strong public regulation is needed to ensure that full social values are considered. However, one reason for opposition to GM crops is a lack of...
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We argue for greater recognition of the risky nature of most policy decisions. In this context we discuss the gulf between public risk perceptions and attitudes and those of 'experts'. Public views of risk are often inconsistent and seemingly irrational. They nevertheless influence policy...
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