Working Papers (Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology)

1995

Boxall, Peter C., Yen, Steven T., Adamowicz, Wiktor

Funding for the protection of the environment has traditionally come from general tax revenues. Fish and wildlife habitat enhancement and endangered species protection are prominent examples of this phenomenon. In the past few years, however, several aspects of this situation have changed. First,...

2003

Boxall, Peter C., Miller, Jamie, Unterschultz, Jim

A simulation model of a ranch based in Southern Alberta was developed to evaluate the on-ranch economics of adopting different grazing management strategies to improve riparian health in rangeland. Under low cost scenarios, there are positive economic incentives to adopt strategies to maintain...

2012

Perger, Orsolya, Boxall, Peter C., Packman, Katherine

Conservation auctions (CA) are typically employed to increase the provision of Ecological Goods and Services (EG&S) for achieving environmental goals. This paper examines the ability of a CA to meet an environmental target. Previous research on this topic used the number of contracts as a target...

1998

Unterschultz, Jim, Jeffrey, Scott, Aitkin, Darren

The purpose of this study is to examine acreage, yields, and average farm prices for different cereal crops in the Western Prairie Region of Canada and to summarize trends. The crop groups considered in this study are all wheat (including durum, spring and winter wheat), oats, barley, all rye,...

1996

Jelen, Paul, Unterschultz, Jim, Kim, Renee B., Veeman, Michele M.

This paper evaluates the five-star and four-star hotel sector component of the Korean beef market from the perspective of Canadian beef exporters. The study provides background information on this emerging market and identifies the attitudes of beef purchasers in the hotel sector to the beef...

1996

Veeman, Michele M., Kim, Renee B., Unterschultz, Jim

Under the WTO agreement, Korea is slated to liberalize its beef market by the year 2000. Decreasing government regulation and rapid economic growth promise significant growth in the Korean beef industry for foreign beef suppliers. As these opportunities develop, the competitive climate in this...

2016-01-01

Abdelhakim, Tidjani Assad, Allard, Justis, Cherlet, Erin, Cichowska, Carla, Langat, Sandra, Lee, Janelle, Milner, Leon, Park, Na-Yeong, Pederson-Macnab, Michaela, Renner, Ashlyn, Stewart, Joshua, Stromberg, Dana, Way, Nikki, Davidson, Debra J.

This report represents the culmination of the final capstone team research project conducted by the undergraduate students of the University of Alberta’s Environmental and Conservation Sciences Program, Human Dimensions Majors, and Environmental Studies major. The research project was supervised...

2003

Adamowicz, Wiktor, Naidoo, Robin

The benefits of nature-based tourism to biodiversity conservation are often presumed but rarely quantified. The relative value placed on attributes of nature parks is unknown, as is the contribution of biodiversity to tourists' willingness to visit a particular protected area. We surveyed...

1993

Luckert, Martin K., Haley, David

In Canada, where most forest lands are publicly owned, forest management responsibilities are delegated to the private sector through licensing arrangements which grant limited usurfructuary rights. In order to ensure that public silvicultural goals are met on licensed public lands, various...

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...