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- 26Adamowicz, Wiktor
- 17Unterschultz, Jim
- 14Veeman, Michele M.
- 9Jeffrey, Scott
- 8Boxall, Peter C.
- 8Luckert, Martin K.
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2018-01-01
Raghu, Prabhakaran T., Swallow, Brent M., Manaloor, Varghese, Kalaiselvan, N.N., Mahana, Rajakishor, Arunraj, R., Gurumoorthy, Venkatesan, Tigga, Seema, Misra, Chaudhury Shripati, Siddick, S. Abubacker, Nambi, V. Arivudai, Oliver, E. D. Israel, Gopi, Girigan, Ndlovu, Patrick
The Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition in Agrobiodiversity Hotspots (APM) project, jointly designed and implemented by the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and the Faculty of Agriculture, Life, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Alberta (U of A), aims to address the...
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2018-01-01
This study introduces a two-period sequential choice model, which is tested in controlled laboratory experiments. Players have a one time opportunity to invest positive relative profits to lower marginal cost and gain competitive advantage. Theory predicts one sub-game perfect Nash equilibrium in...
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Analysis of the Potential for Expansion of Renewable Electricity in the Province of Alberta
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Abdelhakim, Tidjani Assad, Allard, Justis, Cherlet, Erin, Cichowska, Carla, Langat, Sandra, Lee, Janelle, Milner, Leon, Park, Na-Yeong, Pederson-Macnab, Michaela, Renner, Ashlyn, Stewart, Joshua, Stromberg, Dana, Way, Nikki, Davidson, Debra J.
This report represents the culmination of the final capstone team research project conducted by the undergraduate students of the University of Alberta’s Environmental and Conservation Sciences Program, Human Dimensions Majors, and Environmental Studies major. The research project was supervised...
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Industrial agriculture and community outcomes: A preliminary study of Goldschmidt’s hypothesis in rural Canada
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In the 1970s, Goldschmidt found that industrialization of swine production in Iowa resulted in declining social and economic returns to neighbouring farming communities. This finding is confirmed by several more recent studies in the United States, indicating that regions dominated by family...
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2012
Perger, Orsolya, Boxall, Peter C., Packman, Katherine
Conservation auctions (CA) are typically employed to increase the provision of Ecological Goods and Services (EG&S) for achieving environmental goals. This paper examines the ability of a CA to meet an environmental target. Previous research on this topic used the number of contracts as a target...
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Economic Analysis of Vegetative Buffer Zone Beneficial Management Practices (BMPs) for a Mixed Farm Operation in the Lower Little Bow Watershed
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Jeffrey, Scott, Yang, Jun, Unterschultz, Jim, Koeckhoven, Steve
Vegetative buffers, if established around riparian areas, represent a type of beneficial management practice (BMP) that provide ecological goods and services in the form of improved water quality, improve wildlife/waterfowl habitat, etc. Establishing these buffers result in reduced area for...
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Estimating Price Rigidity in Vertically Differentiated Food Product Categories with Private Labels
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Anders, Sven, Bocionek, Milena
Due to the rapid development of private labels and their segmentation into quality levels the question arises how they have an effect on price rigidity. There is also much discussion about the impact of private label development on wholesale prices. Based on the roughly availability of...
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2011
Haluza-DeLay, Randolph, Parkins, John R.
A new urgency is emerging around nuclear power development and this urgency is accentuated by the post-tsunami events at the Fukushima Daiiche nuclear power plant in Japan. This urgency extends beyond the dramatic events in Japan, however, to many other regions of the world and situations where...
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Integrating Routine, Variety Seeking and Compensatory Choice in a Utility Maximizing Framework
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Adamowicz, Wiktor, Swait, Joffre
Given the large number of choices that consumers make each day it seems likely that they will generally adopt decision strategies that minimize cognitive effort, particularly with low price products such as most items found in a supermarket. One such strategy may be to simply choose what has been...