This report presents results of research designed to investigate variations in willingness to pay (WTP) estimates … scale and scope effects. A choice-modelling (CM) analysis was used to elicit household WTP for improvements in environmental … quality attributes in the Namoi catchment. The approach was developed so that value estimates could be more accurately …

catchment and farm level planning. Local residents, as well as distant rural and distant urban communities, were surveyed in … respondents’ attitudes about, and preferences for, potential natural resource management (NRM) improvements. In total, 3 …,997 responses were collected from seven different locations in NSW. Fourteen split samples were established to allow for testing of …

study of the use and non-use values of historic heritage places. The methodology developed in this project will provide a … template for subsequent empirical applications to generate data of use in the formulation of heritage policies and programs …. The initial stages in reaching this larger objective have involved determining how historic heritage places are to be …

Demand management has been of interest in dry climates such as Australia, Spain and the Western United States for … reductions are almost universally employed by water managers in times of supply constraint, voluntary measures are generally … dismissed in the economics literature as ineffective. We argue that the robust positive correlation between dam levels and …

Integrated catchment policies are widely used to manage natural resources in Australian catchments. Integration of … assessments of the environmental and economic trade-offs of changes in catchment management, fully integrated models are needed …. The model incorporates hydrological, ecological and economic models for the George catchment in Tasmania. Choice …

Waste policy in Australia has a strong focus on kerbside recycling. This has a range of costs and benefits to the … community, including non-market benefits. However, in Australia, there has been little investigation of household willingness to … in Brisbane, Australia for kerbside waste collection services including kerbside recycling. It was found that households …

The Booroolong frog project in the Namoi Catchment represents an environmental investment to protect the species and … around 10.7 kilometres of its habitat in the catchment. The project’s benefit-cost ratio (BCR) of 8.6 indicates that the … therefore result in a significant return on investment upon project completion in 10 years time. The benefits are estimated …

An elicitation format prevalently applied in discrete choice experiments (DCEs) offers each respondent a sequence of … reported in this paper uses a split sample approach. This approach was based on field surveys using a single binary elicitation … answered repeated choice questions. However, we did not find any indications for strategic behaviour in respondents caused by …

linear programming technique is also shown to be suitable for problems in resource management, including applications to …