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. Facilitating infrastructure is lacking, and price information is unavailable. Management area boundaries reflect land ownership and …
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Invasive species are significant threats to biodiversity, natural ecosystems and agriculture leading to large worldwide economic and environmental damage. Spread and control of invasive species are stochastic processes with important spatial dimensions. Most economic studies of invasive species...
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land value and private benefits generated by environmental assets on the property. Using variable marginal opportunity … land owners of native vegetation and variable opportunity costs. …
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In face of climate change and other environmental challenges, inclusion of perennial forage shrubs in Australian agricultural systems has the potential to deliver multiple benefits: increased whole-farm profitability and improved natural resource management. The profitability of shrubs was...
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landscape with diverse land uses and vegetation types. Optimal reconstruction design is affected by opportunity costs due to the …
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Groundwater extraction can have varied and diffuse effects. Negative external effects may include costs imposed on other groundwater users and on surrounding ecosystems. Environmental damages are commonly not reflected in market transactions. Groundwater transfers have the potential to cause...
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Changing land-ownership patterns transform many rural landscapes from agricultural to multifunctional, which may have … significant implications for land management and conservation policy. This paper presents a hedonic pricing model that quantifies … benefits from increasing the area of native vegetation on their land. Findings from this study will be used to support …
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Perth, Western Australia (pop. 1.6m) derives 60% of its public water supply from the Gnangara groundwater system (GGS). Horticulture, domestic self-supply, and municipal parks are other major consumers of GGS groundwater. The system supports important wetlands and groundwater-dependent...
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Wildfires can cause significant damage to ecosystems, life and property, and wildfire events that do not involve people and property are becoming rare. With the expansion of the rural–urban interface in Western Australia and elsewhere, objectives of life and property protection become more...
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landholders, or to compensate landholders for losses resulting from land-use changes. It appears that environmental funders often …
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