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Scenario Analysis of New Zealand’s Sheep Meat and Beef Sector Over The Next 10 To 15 Years

Forsyth, Hamish; Knutson, Russell - 2009

This paper identifies and synthesises strategic opportunities and challenges facing New Zealand’s sheep meat and beef sector over the next 10 to 15 years. A Delphi surveydraws on the sector’s collective knowledge and identifies areas of consensus anddivergence of opinion. Using the results...

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Optimale Vertragsdifferenzierung in der Agrarumweltpolitik

Glebe, Thilo W. - 2006

. The paper demonstrates that both economic efficiency and effectiveness of public expenditures can be increased, if a menu … effectiveness, since the optimal programme minimising government expenses does not simultaneously minimise farmers’ opportunity … in wheat production, illustrates that efficiency and effectiveness gains can be substantial. Furthermore, it is shown …

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Benefit Transfer: Choice Experiment Results

Kerr, Geoffrey N.; Sharp, Basil M.H. - 2004

Benefit transfer entails using estimates of non-market values derived at one site as approximations to benefits at other sites. The method finds favour because it can be applied quickly and cheaply, however the validity of benefit transfer is frequently questioned. Published studies generally...

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Friend or Foe? The Kyoto Protocol and the NZ Greenhouse Industry

Barber, Andrew; Parminter, Irene - 2004

The greenhouse sector has reinvented itself as a technologically advanced and relatively environmentally friendly industry over the past 15 years. However it remains a high energy user. Two recent surveys have highlighted the potential impact on greenhouse grower costs of the proposed emissions...

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The adoption of market-based instruments for resource management: Three case studies

Sinner, Jim; Fenemor, Andrew; Palmer, James - 2005

Market-based instruments (MBIs) for resource management create financial incentives for people and businesses to use resources more efficiently, within a regulatory context designed to ensure that ecological, social and cultural objectives are also met. Three case studies were done to identify...

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Regional Economic Implications of Water Allocation and Reliability

Harris, Simon; Doak, Murray; Ford, Stuart; Bywater, Tony; … - 2005

The understanding of how allocation decisions can maximise the economic returns to the community from water for irrigation has received little attention, but is a significant issue for regional councils, those interested in water allocation policy development, and for irrigated farmers. There is...

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The Relationship Between Wildfire and Welfare

Kaval, Pamela; Loomis, John B. - 2005

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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SOME ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE HUNGARIAN BIOFUEL PROGRAMS

Lakner, Zoltan; Szabo-Burcsi, Dora; Mago, Laszlo - 2010

The use of renewable materials in energy production is gaining in importance all over the world. The production of bioethanol and biodiesel is an important element of the agricultural strategy of numerous countries, even though the economic and environmental impact of these projects is subject...

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Innovation and environmental awareness basedon the example of the Voestalpine Group: THE SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL CORPORATE MANAGEMENT

Merai, Gyorgyi; Szucs, Csaba; Marsalek, Sandor - 2010

One of the main characteristics of market economies is market competition where companies have to deliver and achieve the best possible results amid continuous challenges. It is always worth learning from the best performers. The voestalpine Group is a market leader steel producing company and a...

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Evaluating Agri-Environmental Schemes – The Marginal Costs of Ecosystem Services

Sauer, Johannes; Morrison Paul, Catherine J. - 2011

We provide a new approach for assessing the cost of marginal ecosystem changes and theeffectiveness of agri-environmental schemes. The approach is based on a theoretical andempirical analysis of the bio-economic production interactions between marketed outputs andnon-marketed ecosystem services...

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