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Social and Ethical Considerations of Nuclear Power Development

Parkins, John R.; Haluza-DeLay, Randolph - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2011

A new urgency is emerging around nuclear power development and this urgency is accentuated by the post-tsunami events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. This urgency extends beyond these dramatic events in Japan, however, to many other regions of the world and situations...

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Results from the Farm Behaviour Component of the Integrated Economic-Hydrologic Model for the Watershed Evaluation of Beneficial Management Practices Program

Boxall, Peter C.; Weber, Marian; Perger, Orsolya; … - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2008

and environmental performance of BMPs for water quality at the watershed scale. Water draining from South Tobacco Creek … eventually enters to Lake Winnipeg which is degraded from the cumulative effects of nutrient loading, particularly phosphorous …. This suggests that if water quality benefits (e.g. phosphorous reduction) can be quantified through modeling by BMP and by …

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Tradeoffs Between Forestry Resource and Conservation Values Under Alternate Forest Policy Regimes: A Spatial Analysis of the Western Canadian Boreal Plains

Hauer, Grant; Cumming, Steve; Schmiegelow, Fiona; … - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2007

An important element of resource management and conservation is an understanding of the tradeoffs between marketed products such as timber and measures of environmental quality such as biodiversity. In this paper, we develop an integrated economic – ecological spatial optimization model. The...

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Conserving Water in Irrigated Agriculture: The Economics and Valuation of Water Rights

Veeman, Terrence S.; Veeman, Michele M.; Adamowicz, … - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 1997

Calgary or Lethbridge), and by the availability of irrigation water. In the hedonic model, the coefficient values of the …The effective management of water resources in Alberta is crucial to sustainable agriculture, industrial development …, and environmental management. The historical water allocation mechanism, administrative apportionment, has been viewed in …

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Stated Preference Approaches for Measuring Passive Use Values: Choice Experiments versus Contingent Valuation

Adamowicz, Wiktor L.; Boxall, Peter C.; Williams, Michael; … - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 1995

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Sociology's Potential to Improve Forest Management and Inform Forest Policy

Beckley, Thomas M.; Korber, Dianne - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 1995

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Local People and Forest Resources in Zimbabwe

Matose, F.; Gill, Dhara S.; Just, Lesley - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 1997

The Mafungautsi Forest Area (MFA) is the site of land and resource use conflicts involving people living in adjacent communal areas. This study used qualitative case study information and questionnaire survey data to explore and describe how displaced people and other communities living adjacent...

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"Then It's Clear Who Owns the Trees": Evaluating Privatization in the Social Forest in a Zimbabwean Resettlement Area

Goebel, Allison - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 1997

The value that associates private property regimes with better management of arable land played a consistent role in colonial policy and practice in "African" areas of Southern/Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). In the woodlands, however, common property management systems characterized African areas. This...

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THE ECONOMICS OF RIPARIAN MANAGEMENT: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Watson, David O.; Miller, Jamie; Boxall, Peter C.; … - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2000

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A Net Present Value Model of Natural Gas Exploitation in Northern Alberta: An Analysis of Land Values in Woodland Caribou Ranges

Hauer, Grant; Adamowicz, Wiktor L.; Jagodzinski, Robert - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2010

This report was prepared for the purpose of providing background documentation of inputs to be used in mathematical programming models and papers, which are being prepared for our research project: Ecological and economic tradeoff analysis of conservation strategies for woodland caribou. The...

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