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- 8Anders, Sven (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
- 6Qiu, Feng (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
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- 3Swallow, Brent (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
- 2Luckert, Marty (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
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Fall 2018
Rapid economic and demographic growth is changing the nature of Alberta’s urban and rural landscapes. This has had profound effects on land use, particularly in areas near to Edmonton and Calgary where there is great concern about urban sprawl into surrounding farmlands. In 2012, the Town of...
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Incorporating ‘Nudge’ in Agri-environmental Program Design to Stimulate BMP Adoption: Does It Work?
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Sustainable agriculture refers to an environmentally friendly agriculture sector that ensures safe production for both current and future generations. To address climate change’s impact on Canadian agricultural production and mitigate the harmful environmental effects of agriculture, promoting...
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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...
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Fall 2018
Prairie potholes are drained for the purposes of agricultural production and land development. However, restoring these drained basins is a hard sell. Three reverse auctions involving restoration identified low uptake of wetland restoration contracts by private landowners. This study explores the...
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Price Relationships and Feedstock Supply for a Second-Generation Ethanol Industry in Canada
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There is potential for a second-generation ethanol industry that uses wheat straw as a feedstock to emerge in Western Canada. This thesis presents three analyses that investigate regional and international factors that influence the future success of this industry. The first two analyses...
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Price Transmission in Petroleum Markets and Potential Feedstock Supply for Low-carbon Fuel Production: Implications for Emerging Energy Sources
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Low-carbon fuels are receiving increasing attention from governments worldwide as sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels. But prospects for these emerging industries are uncertain due to several economic barriers. This thesis presents two studies, each investigating a key factor influencing the...
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Social variables in wetland restoration: the role of values, beliefs, and norms in conservation behaviour
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The Canadian Prairie Provinces are home to an extensive area of North America’s wetlands. However, since settlement these important ecosystems have been continuously drained to make way for farmland, urban construction, and other human development. The development of new wetland management...
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Spatial analysis of stated and revealed preference values of farms and parks: a case of Edmonton, Canada
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Rapid city expansion has meant the conversion of large areas of farmland into developed uses. With the increasing social realization of the amenity and non-amenity values of open spaces in urban and peri-urban contexts, this study provides information that policy makers and planners could use as...
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The Demonstration and Capture of an Ecosystem Service Value: Three Different Methodological Approaches
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Water management can generate valuable ecosystem services but can be costly to implement. This dissertation examines this issue using irrigation water storage infrastructure which has provided desirable services to residential properties in the Town of Chestermere in Alberta, Canada. Based on...