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1992
Tymchuk, Wayne, Lee, Gabriel, Veeman, Terry S., Hamal, Krishna, Adamowicz, Wiktor, Armstrong, Glen W., Veeman, Michele M.
Interest in modeling the relationship between the macroeconomy and the agricultural economy has risen steadily since Schuh's 1974 article which illustrated the potential effects of macroeconomic policy shocks on the agricultural sector. A variety of authors has examined the effects of exchange...
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The Effect of Choice Environment and Task Demands on Consumer Behavior: Discriminating Between Contribution and Confusion
Download1996
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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Non-market Valuation Biases Due to Aboriginal Cultural Characteristics in Northern Saskatchewan: The Values Structures Component
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Phillips, William E., Murray, Eloise C., Adamowicz, Wiktor, Just, Lesley, Hatton MacDonald, Darla, Beckley, Thomas M.
Current non-market valuation techniques have been developed based on assumptions about values held within the Eurocentred culture. Contentions between cultures over natural resources are hypothesized to occur because of differences in held values resulting in different values being assigned to...
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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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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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2000
Watson, David, Boxall, Peter C., Miller, Jamie, Unterschultz, Jim
The effects of grazing cattle in many riparian areas have greatly affected the associated landscapes over the past 50 years. The riparian areas of streams and rivers provide numerous ecological services, and it has been demonstrated that cattle grazing can disrupt this zone, negatively affecting...
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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...
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Assessing Impacts of Environmental Change on Aboriginal People: An Economic Examination of Subsistence Resource Use and Value
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Haener, Michael, Boxall, Peter C., Dosman, Donna, Adamowicz, Wiktor, Marois, Juanita
The report describes the research design, data collection and preliminary analysis of an economic assessment on non-timber resource use by Aboriginal People in Northwest Saskatchewan. The project is designed to develop methods of valuing resource use by Aboriginal People so that these values can...
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1998
Hatton MacDonald, Darla, Adamowicz, Wiktor, Luckert, Martin K.
Wood is the primary source of household energy for many African countries. Fuelwood is used for cooking meals, heating homes (as the season requires), making charcoal, etc. Much of the existing literature concerning fuelwood is broad in scope and does not provide insights into the microeconomic...
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Non-Timber Values in Canadian Forests: An Assessment of Uses, Techniques and Data Availability
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In 1989 the Canadian forest industry shipped nearly $50 billion of forest products, generated over $3.5 billion in government revenues, and accounted for $19.5 billion of Canada's trade surplus (Forestry Canada, 1991). The forest provides the products which are used to generate trade surpluses...