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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)....

1995

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...

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...

1993

Louviere, Jordan J., Williams, Michael, Boxall, Peter C., McLeod, Kristine, Adamowicz, Wiktor

Although participation in recreational hunting has been declining in Alberta throughout the mid 1980s and early 1990s, participation in moose hunting appears to have remained stable until about 1990 (Figure 1). The reasons for this comparative stability and the recent decline in participation are...

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...

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%...