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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...

1994

Williams, Michael, Adamowicz, Wiktor, Swait, Joffre, Boxall, Peter C., Louviere, Jordan J.

Contingent valuation (CV) has been employed by economists for approximately 30 years to value changes in natural resources and environments. Estimating the value of resource improvements or damages is analogous to the problem in marketing research of estimating the demand for new products or...

1995

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...

1995

Salkie, Fiona J., Adamowicz, Wiktor, Luckert, Martin K.

Canadians produced 1 tonne of solid waste per capita in 1988 (CCME 1989). This level of solid waste production places Canada among the largest producers of solid waste per capita in the world. Due to decreasing landfill capacity, and the increasing cost of solid waste disposal in landfills to 50%...

1994

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...

1992

Watson, David, Peters, Tamantha, Adamowicz, Wiktor, Boxall, Peter C.

Recreational fishing is one of the most important recreational activities in Alberta. The report on Sports Fishing in Alberta, 1985, states that over 340,000 angling licences were purchased in the province and the total population of anglers exceeded 430,000. Approximately 5.4 million angler days...

1993

Boxall, Peter C., Phillips, William E., Tanguay, Mark, Adamowicz, Wiktor, White, William

Maintaining the abundance of wildlife and the preservation of endangered species are serious concerns to the people of Saskatchewan. In the 1991 survey \"Importance of Wildlife to Canadians\" over 80% of Saskatchewan respondents stated that these two issues are important. This same survey also...

1993

Adamowicz, Wiktor, Condon, Barbara

Forests supply a diverse combination of market and nonmarket goods creating a complex management problem for the utilization of the forest resource. The values associated with conventional forest products, such as lumber and pulp and paper, pass directly through the market system. On the other...

1995

Adamowicz, Wiktor, Tanguay, Mark, Boxall, Peter C.

The purpose of this study was to identify the values Saskatchewan residents place on their Woodland Caribou conservation programs. Using contingent valuation methods, individual values for maintaining caribou numbers within Millar Western-NorSask Forest Management Licence agreement area were...

1993

Phillips, William E., Morton, Karen, Adamowicz, Wiktor, Boxall, Peter C., White, William

Hunting is an important recreational activity in Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan Environment and Resource Management estimates there were approximately 102 028 big game hunting licenses purchased for the 1992/93 hunting season, with over 95 612 participants. The big game species include Whitetail...