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Climate change, Irrigation and Pests: Examining Heliothis in the Murray Darling Basin

Adamson, David - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2010

Helicoverpa spp. (heliothis) are a major insect pest of cotton, grains and horticulture in the Murray‐ Darling Basin. Climate change is likely to make conditions more favourable for heliothis. This could cause regional comparative advantages in irrigation systems to change as management costs...

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Sustainable Development and Human Resource Capital

Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2000

sustainable development were given virtually no in-depth attention but it is important to address this matter, as is done here. …

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The Development of Samoa: An Analysis of Trends, Issues and Policies

Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2000

Samoa is one of the five least developed Pacific island nations according to the classification of the United Nations. This article reviews the situation of Samoa in relation to its development generally but paying particular attention to: public and private finance; social issues such as...

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Villagers and the Use and Conservation of Indian Forests: The Role of Joint Forest Management

Tisdell, Clement A.; Roy, Kartik C.; Ghose, Ananda - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2001

Provides a brief account of the development of the Joint Forest Management Scheme in India, especially in West Bengal, the state where joint forest management has been most widely adopted and which provided the genesis of the scheme that was adopted as part of India’s Forest Policy 1988. The...

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Summaries of Survey Responses of Household Heads in Three Forest Villages in the Midnapore District of West Bengal, India: Use of Forest Resources by Villagers, Forest Sustainabili...

Tisdell, Clement A.; Roy, Kartik C.; Ghose, Ananda - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2001

In 2000, household heads of three villages located in or near forests in the south of West Bengal, India, were interviewed using a structured questionnaire1. The questionnaire is attached as an Appendix to this paper. The questions asked were designed to provide information about the extent of...

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Developing Community-Based Forestry in the Uplands of Yunnan: Dicatates of Environment and Socio Economics

Ren, Zhuge; Tisdell, Clem - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 1996

This paper stresses the importance of community-based forestry for the conservation of natural resources and alleviation of poverty in upland Yunnan. In contrast with state-managed forests, which account for the bulk of forested land in many countries, including China, community-based forestry...

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The Practicalities of Emissions Trading

Gans, Joshua; Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2007

price-based policies the need to limit emissions. Uncertainties remain but with both major parties proposing to develop an … emissions trading regime, it is timely to highlight some important practical issues that will face them on that path. In writing … is, in large part, due to the actions of humans on the planet. The policy prescription is to limit net emissions although …

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Accommodating Indigenous Cultural Heritage Values in Resource Assessment: Cape York Peninsula and the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

Venn, Tyron; Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2005

In this paper we consider the problem of accommodating indigenous cultural heritage values in resource assessment and valuation. We suggest a need for price-based approaches to valuation to be replaced by or complemented with quantitative constraints, reflecting the requirement that rights...

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Willingness to pay and willingness to accept for changes in native vegetation cover

Concu, Giovanni B - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2007

In this paper we experiment with an original format of a Choice Modelling questionnaire developed to capture preferences from respondents with different property right frame of references. The format includes both WTP and WTA choice alternatives for native vegetation management. It is well...

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Risk, Uncertainty and the Guide to the Draft Basin Plan

Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2010

For much of the 20th century, the expansion of irrigated agriculture in the Murray Darling Basin, was treated as a self-evidently desirable objective, to be pursued without excessive regard to questions of economic costs and benefits. Irrigation seemed to offer a ‘droughtproofing’ solution...

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