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. The immediate challenges for this region's water resource management represent a test case for the long-run challenges … associated with global climate change. With an eye towards this eventuality, this paper describes a variety of water policy …
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This 2009 report provides an economic overview of the Canadian agriculture and agri-food system. It is meant to be a multi-purpose reference document to provide: an introduction to the agriculture and agri-food system; a snapshot of structural changes that are occurring throughout the system in...
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Drawing on the method developed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979), this paper separately analyzes the marginal contributions of both regular input factors and climate factors to mean output and to production risk in Chinese inland aquaculture. Furthermore, the net change in output following a 1°C...
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The onus on landholders in relation to environmental performance is ever increasing. One toolfor achieving environmental improvements is the design and promotion of region-specific‘best management practices’ (BMPs). These are conservation practices aimed at reducingdiffuse source pollution...
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programs because all the return to quota is dependent upon these programs. The uncertainty of future regulatory action results … economic and environmental inefficiencies because of policy uncertainty. The theory on investment under uncertainty argues that … when future returns are uncertain, an opportunity to wait and see has some (quasi) option value. Under uncertainty …
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We used the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two wildfire scenarios. Variables such as age, family size, fire frequency, and house value were...
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long term investment with some uncertainty about outcomes being achieved. It is predominantly a public good investment as …
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uncertainty; that is, when uncertainty cannot be modeled with known probability distributions. Under these circumstances, the … and an aggregate abatement standard in terms of maximizing the range of uncertainty under which the welfare loss from … price-based or quantity-based control is more robust to unstructured uncertainty. Hence, not only does the relative slopes …
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Production costs for fresh Atlantic groundfish and scallop processing are examined using direct observation, linear regression analysis, and cost accounting. Assuming that management chooses a production technique where marginal costs are constant over a wide range of production due to...
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