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1995

Phillips, William E., Clark, K., Beck, Jim, Booth, D., Boulter, D.

Information on growth and yield of Canada's forests tends to be anecdotal, site specific, difficult to compile, and unsuitable for general aggregations across species and to provincial and ecological region-wide levels. Yet aggregated information on growth and yield is necessary for estimating...

1995

Boulter, D., Booth, D., Phillips, William E., Clark, K., Beck, Jim

Information on growth and yield of Canada's forests tends to be anecdotal, site specific, difficult to compile, and unsuitable for general aggregations across species and to provincial and ecological region-wide levels. Yet aggregated information on growth and yield is necessary for estimating...

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...

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...

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...

1997

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,...

1994

Adamowicz, Wiktor, Hatton MacDonald, Darla, Luckert, Martin K., Just, Lesley, Murray, Eloise C., Phillips, William E., Beckley, Thomas M.

The purpose of this paper is to present an interdisciplinary model and a process for considering the applicability of non-market valuation techniques to Aboriginal Peoples. These techniques are widely used in non-Aboriginal contexts as methods of providing information about preferences over...

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...

1993

Luckert, Martin K., Phillips, William E., Salkie, Fiona J.

There are approximately 37 million acres (15 million hectares) of productive, non-reserved forest land in Saskatchewan of which 2.6%, or 961 000 acres (389 000 hectares), is privately owned. It is estimated that this private forest land is owned by 15 000 landowners (Forestry Canada, 1988)....

1993

Akabua, Kojo M., Bauer, Leonard, Phillips, William E.

The objective of this study was to analyze the performance of Alberta farmland relative to investment opportunities from financial securities. It is an extension of an earlier study undertaken by Mercier (1988) and Philllips et al. (1989). This study re-examines the period from 1964 to 1985, and...