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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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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...
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2000
Veeman, Michele M., Adamowicz, Wiktor
Public concern regarding food safety has emerged as a major policy issue. Chemicals and biotechnological processes are perceived as risks of food safety despite their contribution to an efficient, low cost agriculture and food industry. Increases in uses of biotechnological processes for foods...
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Consumers' Responses to the Potential Use of Bovine Somatotrophin in Canadian Dairy Production
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Adamowicz, Wiktor, Veeman, Michele M., Kuperis, Peter
The responses of a random sample of consumers to the use of bovine somatotrophin (BST) in milk production were elicited using a stated preference methodology. A multinomial logit model of consumer choice was developed and tested to analyse consumers' choices of milk with varying characteristics...
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Economic Effects of Environmental Quality Change on Recreational Hunting in Northern Saskatchewan
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Boxall, Peter C., Morton, Karen, Adamowicz, Wiktor
This study was undertaken to provide some of the social values for the non-timber component of the Millar Western-NorSask Forest Management License Agreement. This study estimates the changes in the value of a recreational hunting experience as one, or a combination of several, of the following...
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2003
The assessment of progress towards sustainability through the use of indicators has been the focus of many forest management and environmental agencies worldwide. Many countries have developed and report on their own set of \"Criteria and Indicators\" (C&I) and forest certification schemes almost...
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1992
Percy, Mike, Sandhu, Gurmit S., Phillips, William E.
This study develops a model to analyze the changes in the Canadian agricultural production sectors over the period 1926 to 1988. Economic analysis is focused on the estimation of certain parameters including elasticities, scale effects of production and biases in technical change. Aggregate...
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Empirical Approaches to the Valuation of Small Wildlife Resources in Communal Areas in Zimbabwe
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Graham, Laura, Muir-Leresche, Kay, Phillips, William E.
This research was conducted in 1994 under the auspices of the \"Value of Trees\" project. This five year project is funded by the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. It is a joint project between the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, and the University of Zimbabwe,...