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Fall 2017
Since European settlement of the Canadian Prairies there has been substantial loss of wetlands. This loss occurs in large part due to drainage by private agricultural operators seeking to boost the productivity of their land. Policy makers now seek not only to conserve wetlands and prevent...
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Aggregate Resource Extraction: Examining Environmental Impacts on Optimal Extraction and Reclamation Strategies
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Aggregate resources are naturally occurring deposits of sand, gravel and crushed stone that are integral components to the construction of everything from roads and sidewalks, to hospitals and schools. Mining these resources can release deleterious sediments, salt and chemicals into watercourses,...
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Fall 2021
Best Management Practices (BMPs) are commonly promoted as a way for agricultural producers to adapt to and mitigate environmental risks on agricultural land. Agri-environmental policies are an integral component towards encouraging producers to adopt these practices, mostly through the use of...
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Spring 2017
Outdoor recreation is an important and yet often undervalued land use. Measurement of the economic value of outdoor recreation, assessment of the impacts of land uses on these values, and incorporation of this information into land use decisions can be useful in assessing land use tradeoffs. This...
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Spring 2021
Cooperation and coordination are challenging to achieve in public goods games. As a result, public goods are often chronically under-provisioned due to free-riding. However, reciprocity has been increasingly associated with cooperative behaviour and may play an important role in driving...
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Exploring Preferences for Poplar Biotechnology and Integrated Choice Latent Variable Models
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This thesis is divided in two papers, each focusing on a distinct issue. In the first paper (Chapter 2), public preferences for poplar biotechnology are examined in western Canada. Using a sample of the public from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, respondents were asked to...
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Spring 2018
Understanding peoples' preferences for resources that are not bought or sold in a market is a challenging and yet often inescapable undertaking for informing decisions regarding many environmental problems. This thesis presents three studies on how people make decisions involving environmental...
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Spring 2013
Heart disease is a large problem in the United States and Canada. The research conducted in this thesis will examine three things. First, what is the average American parent’s WTP for a reduction in their own and child risk of developing heart disease by age 75, and how do these two estimates...
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Fall 2013
Conservation auctions are a policy tool designed to provide incentives for the implementation of beneficial management practices (BMPs) more efficiently than traditional policies. Few practical auctions have been performed in Canada and there is limited understanding of how producers would react...
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Inferred Valuation as a Tool to Alleviate Social Desirability Bias: Testing the Systematic Influence of Individual-Specific Factors
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Zambrano Orellana, Roxana Patricia
Social desirability bias (SDB) is a problem often found in the elicitation of preferences for goods of moral concern, where individuals tend to behave in a way that makes them 'look good' complying with social norms. Inferred valuation has been proposed to overcome this problem in stated...