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- 49Adamowicz, Wiktor
- 34Unterschultz, Jim
- 29Veeman, Michele M.
- 24Boxall, Peter C.
- 23University of Alberta. Dept. of Rural Economy
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1993
Mataya, Charles S., Veeman, Michele M.
The effects of successive currency devaluations, since the 1980s, on Malawi's trade balance are analysed. The major hypothesis tested is that currency devaluation leads to an improvement in trade balance through changes in the real exchange rate. This hypothesis is not supported by the data for...
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Tradeoffs Between Forestry Resource and Conservation Values Under Alternate Forest Policy Regimes: A Spatial Analysis of the Western Canadian Boreal Plains
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Cumming, Steve, Jagodzinski, Robert, Weber, Marian, Schmiegelow, Fiona, Adamowicz, Wiktor, Hauer, Grant
An important element of resource management and conservation is an understanding of the tradeoffs between marketed products such as timber and measures of environmental quality such as biodiversity. In this paper, we develop an integrated economic -- ecological spatial optimization model. The...
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2017-01-01
Goddard, Ellen, Muringai, Violet
Trust and perceptions of fairness in markets have been shown to be important in consumer behavior in different contexts. However, there have not been many studies relating the concept of fairness is supply chains to food purchasing behavior. In this study, we explore the relationships between...
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Understanding Heterogeneous Preferences in Random Utility Models: The Use of Latent Class Analysis
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Boxall, Peter C., Adamowicz, Wiktor
Consumer preferences for goods and services are characterized by heterogeneity. Accounting for this heterogeneity in economic analysis will be useful in estimating unbiased models as well as for forecasting demand by including individual characteristics and proving a broader picture of the...
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1998
Hatton MacDonald, Darla, Weber, Marian
Participatory research is primarily a methodological approach which attempts to formalise the reciprocal interaction between an agency and target communities. Methods such as Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) have gained wide acceptance with rural development agencies as part of the planning...
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2010
Huang, Wenzhao, Yang, Jun, Schram, Craig, Goddard, Ellen
Livestock industries are significantly affected by changes in consumer behaviour. In order to add value to meat and livestock production, many firms and farms are supporting the development of new products -- these products can differ by credence attribute, by degree of processing and by...
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2000
Unterschultz, Jim, Quagrainie, Kwamena K., Jeffrey, Scott
In recent years in Canada, direct support provided by governments to the agricultural sector has been decreasing due to international obligations under the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade/World Trade Organization (GATT/WTO) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Consequently,...
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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...