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Risk Perceptions, Social Interactions and the Influence of Information on Social Attitudes to Agricultural Biotechnology
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Adamowicz, Wiktor, Hu, Wuyang, Veeman, Michele M.
We assess Canadians' risk perceptions for genetically modified (GM) food and probe influences of socio-economic, demographic and other factors impinging on these perceptions. An internet-administered questionnaire with two stated choice split-sample experiments that approximate market choices of...
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1994
Luckert, Martin K., Alavalapati, Janaki R.R., Adamowicz, Wiktor
The short-run dynamic impacts of macroeconomic variables on the Canadian pulp industry and the interactions among pulp sector variables are investigated using the vector autoregression (VAR) approach. In contrast to the findings of earlier studies, our results show that an increase in the value...
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The Demand for Food Safety: An Empirical Analysis of Preferences for Pesticide and Hormone Regulation by Alberta Consumers
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Veeman, Michele M., Kuperis, Peter, Hrudey, Steve, Adamowicz, Wiktor
The safety of food is a continuing concern for consumers. A Consumer's Association of Canada survey found that 25% of consumers \"worry a lot\" about food safety. When asked about specific food safety issues, 42% indicated pesticides as a major source of concern. Pollution, preservatives and...
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The Effect of Choice Environment and Task Demands on Consumer Behavior: Discriminating Between Contribution and Confusion
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Swait, Joffre, Adamowicz, Wiktor
Choices, whether they are made in actual markets (revealed preferences or RP) or in surveys (stated preference of SP), provide information about the preferences of individuals. These choices also contain what researchers interpret as \"noise\" or unexplained variation; a variety of techniques...
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Tradeoffs Between Forestry Resource and Conservation Values Under Alternate Forest Policy Regimes: A Spatial Analysis of the Western Canadian Boreal Plains
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Cumming, Steve, Jagodzinski, Robert, Weber, Marian, Schmiegelow, Fiona, Adamowicz, Wiktor, Hauer, Grant
An important element of resource management and conservation is an understanding of the tradeoffs between marketed products such as timber and measures of environmental quality such as biodiversity. In this paper, we develop an integrated economic -- ecological spatial optimization model. The...
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1996
Luckert, Martin K., Dosman, Donna, Adamowicz, Wiktor, Laplante, B.
Solid waste management is becoming less a matter of personal household initiative and more an institutionalized system of legislation and programs. In order to decrease the amount of waste that is produced, discarded, and disposed of (landfilled or incinerated), governments, non-profit...