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2002

Haener, Michael, Boxall, Peter C., Dosman, Donna, Adamowicz, Wiktor, Marois, Juanita

The report describes the research design, data collection and preliminary analysis of an economic assessment on non-timber resource use by Aboriginal People in Northwest Saskatchewan. The project is designed to develop methods of valuing resource use by Aboriginal People so that these values can...

2003

Adamowicz, Wiktor, Naidoo, Robin

The benefits of nature-based tourism to biodiversity conservation are often presumed but rarely quantified. The relative value placed on attributes of nature parks is unknown, as is the contribution of biodiversity to tourists' willingness to visit a particular protected area. We surveyed...

2000

van Bueren, Martin, Swait, Joffre, Adamowicz, Wiktor

Welfare economics is often employed to measure the impact of economic policies or externalities. When demand is characterized by discrete choices, static models of consumer demand are employed for this type of analysis because of the difficulty in estimating dynamic discrete choice models. In...

1999

Adamowicz, Wiktor, Swait, Joffre

Most empirical models of consumer choice assume that the decision-maker assesses all alternatives and information in a perfect information processing sense. The complexity of the choice environment, the ability of the individual to make complex decisions and the effect of choice context on the...

1997

Adamowicz, Wiktor, Swait, Joffre

The psychology, the marketing consumer behavior and, to a much smaller extent, the economics literature have long reported evidence that decision makers utilize different decision strategies depending upon many factors (person-specific, task-specific, etc.). Such observations have generally...

1992

Adamowicz, Wiktor, Williams, Michael, Louviere, Jordan J.

A stated preference model and a revealed preference model for recreational site choice are examined and compared. Both models are based on random utility theory and the data are obtained from the same individuals. The stated preference model is based on the respondent's choice from hypothetical...

2002

Adamowicz, Wiktor, Dosman, Donna

The behavior of households has traditionally been explained by assuming that a single decision maker maximizes utility over all members of the household subject to a budget constraint. This unitary model of household behavior has been questioned and compared to models that assume that household...

1997

Adamowicz, Wiktor, Veeman, Michele M., Baggs, Jennifer, Royer, Sean, Veeman, Terry S., Viney, Bruce

The effective management of water resources in Alberta is crucial to sustainable agriculture, industrial development, and environmental management. The historical water allocation mechanism, administration apportionment, has been viewed in recent years as ineffective and cumbersome. Accordingly,...

2000

Veeman, Michele M., Adamowicz, Wiktor

Public concern regarding food safety has emerged as a major policy issue. Chemicals and biotechnological processes are perceived as risks of food safety despite their contribution to an efficient, low cost agriculture and food industry. Increases in uses of biotechnological processes for foods...

1998

Adamowicz, Wiktor, Veeman, Michele M., Kuperis, Peter

The responses of a random sample of consumers to the use of bovine somatotrophin (BST) in milk production were elicited using a stated preference methodology. A multinomial logit model of consumer choice was developed and tested to analyse consumers' choices of milk with varying characteristics...