Project Reports (Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology)
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- 99Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, Department of
- 99Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, Department of/Project Reports (Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology)
- 1Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, Department of/Working Papers (Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology)
- 23Adamowicz, Wiktor
- 17Unterschultz, Jim
- 16Boxall, Peter C.
- 15Veeman, Michele M.
- 14Goddard, Ellen
- 9Novak, Frank
- 28Canada, Alberta
- 21Canada
- 11Consumer behaviour
- 11International trade
- 9Risk management
- 8Canada, Saskatchewan
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1993
Veeman, Michele M., Eales, James, Fulton, Joan
The demand for meat in Canada is examined in a manner similar to that employed in previous work. The current effort differs from previous studies in two important ways. First, beef demand is disaggregated into ground beef and table-cut beef. This is an attempt to allow a more detailed...
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Canadian Wheat Export Prospects in the Asian Noodle Market: Analyzing Japanese and Korean Milling Industries
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Unterschultz, Jim, Kim, Renee B., Veeman, Michele M.
The motivation for this study is the lack of knowledge of millers' preferences for noodle wheat in Asia, where noodle wheat is an expanding market segment. Data for the study are from interviews and questionnaires completed by millers in South Korea and Japan. Two different methodologies were...
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1995
Peng, Yanning, Veeman, Terry S., Fantino, Alberto A.
This report comprises a number of related components focussed on the role of capital and capital formation in production, productivity and competitiveness in Canadian agriculture, concentrating on the Prairie region of Western Canada in the period 1970 to the early 1990s. The report included the...
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Citizen Perspectives on Energy Issues in Canada: A National Survey of Energy Literacy and Energy Citizenship
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Comeau, Louise A., Parkins, John R., Stedman, Richard C., Beckley, Thomas M.
This national survey explores public perspectives on energy issues in Canada with a focus on preferences for energy sources, perceived and actual knowledge of energy systems, trust in energy-related organizations and sources of knowledge about energy issues. The survey also explores willingness...
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Combining Stated and Revealed Preference Data to Construct an Empirical Examination of Intrahousehold Bargaining
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Adamowicz, Wiktor, Dosman, Donna
The behavior of households has traditionally been explained by assuming that a single decision maker maximizes utility over all members of the household subject to a budget constraint. This unitary model of household behavior has been questioned and compared to models that assume that household...
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Community Response to Forestry Transition in Rural Canada: Analysis of Media and Census Data for Six Case Study Communities in New Brunswick and British Columbia
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The forest economy is in transition across Canada. Faced with high dollar values, increasing competition within the global market, high input costs for energy, labour and fibre, and growing expectations for environmental performance, the forest sector is undergoing significant economic...
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2001
Asia is the second largest market for the Canadian agri-food exports after the United States market. The competition in Asia has become more intensive in recent years as the agri-food sector in developed nations such as Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States has increasingly relied on...
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2010
Boxall, Peter C., Packman, Katherine
Currently, the effect of human impact on the environment is becoming increasingly apparent. The encroachment of human activity has inevitably resulted in the loss or impairment of ecological goods and services (EG&S) around the globe as well as in our own backyard. EG&S include features such as...
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1997
Adamowicz, Wiktor, Veeman, Michele M., Baggs, Jennifer, Royer, Sean, Veeman, Terry S., Viney, Bruce
The effective management of water resources in Alberta is crucial to sustainable agriculture, industrial development, and environmental management. The historical water allocation mechanism, administration apportionment, has been viewed in recent years as ineffective and cumbersome. Accordingly,...
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Consumer Attitudes, Willingness to Pay and Revealed Preferences for Different Egg Production Attributes: Analysis of Canadian Egg Consumers
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Boxall, Peter C., Emunu, John Paul, Asselin, Andre, Boyd, Curtis, Goddard, Ellen, Neall, Amanda
The Canadian egg industry has introduced a number of specialty eggs, including Omega-3, organic, free run/range, vitamin enhanced and vegetarian over the past few decades. These eggs are generally sold at prices higher than the 'normal' egg and there has been little analysis of the consumer...