Search
Skip to Search Results- 101Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, Department of
- 101Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, Department of/Staff Papers (Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology)
- 1Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, Department of/Project Reports (Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology)
- 26Adamowicz, Wiktor
- 17Unterschultz, Jim
- 14Veeman, Michele M.
- 9Jeffrey, Scott
- 8Boxall, Peter C.
- 8Luckert, Martin K.
-
1992
The demand for meat in Canada is examined in a manner similar to previous work by Chen and Veeman, Moschini and Meilke, and Reynolds and Goddard. The current effort differs from previous studies in two important ways. First, beef demand is disaggregated into ground beef and table cut beef. This...
-
1997
Parkins, John R., Gill, Dhara S.
For decades now, there have been grave warnings about the alarming rates of tree and shrub destruction in the tropics. These warnings stressed the disastrous consequences of deforestation and predicted imminent fuelwood deficits across the African continent. However, the reality has been somewhat...
-
Stated Preference Approaches for Measuring Passive Use Values: Choice Experiments versus Contingent Valuation
Download1995
Boxall, Peter C., Williams, Michael, Adamowicz, Wiktor, Louviere, Jordan J.
The measurement of passive use values has become an important element of environmental economics over the past decade. Damage assessment cases in the U.S. and Canada have prompted considerable research activity in this area, yet the topic is quite controversial and debate over the theory and...
-
2005
Hauer, Grant, Boxall, Peter C., Adamowicz, Wiktor
This paper develops a theory of interdependent utility functions in examining congestion in recreation demand equilibria. The notion is examined empirically through the development of congestion forecasting functions which individuals use to sort themselves among a set of recreation sites. These...
-
Reducing Investment Risk in Tractors and Combines with Improved Terminal Asset Value Forecasts
Download1996
Mumey, Glen, Unterschultz, Jim
Secondary asset market data for combines and tractors used to estimate and separate out historical economic depreciation, embodied technological change and time value change. Combines and tractors generally exhibit constant geometric economic depreciation on a year to year basis. Depreciation...
-
1996
Mumey, Glen, Unterschultz, Jim
A farmer planning to use Net Present Value (NPV) analysis on machinery requires estimates of operating benefits over time, an estimate of terminal or salvage values and a risk-adjusted discount rate. Using financial market information and related Root Mean Square Errors on machinery value...
-
Reframing Agricultural Extension Education Services in Industrially Developed Countries: A Canadian Perspective
Download1996
Some of the material discussed in this paper was initially presented to a group of professionals in the Cooperative Extension Unit of the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education. In keeping with the theme of the session 'Extension's Odyssey to the Future' it became necessary to...
-
1996
Unterschultz, Jim, Vincent, Michel, Quagrainie, Kwamena K.
The province of Quebec is one of the major domestic markets for Alberta beef products. In 1994, Alberta accounted for 54.5% of beef imports into Quebec. Other competitors who also supply beef to Quebec include Ontario, the US, and Australia/New Zealand. Australia/New Zealand provide mostly...
-
The Effects of Alternative Agriculture and Fair Trade on the Development of Producer Groups and Their Members: Case Studies from Northern Thailand
Download1998
Adamowicz, Wiktor, Renner, Miriam
This study examines the economic, social and environmental effects of alternative agricultural methods, traded through fair trade mechanisms, on producers in northern Thailand. These effects are compared with those of conventional agriculture and practised on the same farm). The chosen research...
-
2002
Chen, Kevin Z., Yen, Steven T.
The notion that a potato is an inferior good dates back to the mid-nineteenth century when British economist Robert Giffen (and later Paul Samuelson) asserted that potato constituted a Giffen good in historic Ireland (McDonough and Eisenhauer). Potato has become a leading practical example of an...