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Non-market Valuation Biases Due to Aboriginal Cultural Characteristics in Northern Saskatchewan: The Values Structures Component
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Phillips, William E., Murray, Eloise C., Adamowicz, Wiktor, Just, Lesley, Hatton MacDonald, Darla, Beckley, Thomas M.
Current non-market valuation techniques have been developed based on assumptions about values held within the Eurocentred culture. Contentions between cultures over natural resources are hypothesized to occur because of differences in held values resulting in different values being assigned to...
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2012
Luckert, Martin K., Armstrong, Glen W., Adamowicz, Wiktor L., Anderson, Jay A.
Previous studies suggest that management intensity zoning systems, such as the triad approach, could allow Canada’s forest industry to maintain or increase timber harvest levels while simultaneously reducing its environmental impact. In most such studies, the zones are exogenously specified. In...
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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)....
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1993
Akabua, Kojo M., Bauer, Leonard, Phillips, William E.
The objective of this study was to analyze the performance of Alberta farmland relative to investment opportunities from financial securities. It is an extension of an earlier study undertaken by Mercier (1988) and Philllips et al. (1989). This study re-examines the period from 1964 to 1985, and...
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1994
Luckert, Martin K., Alavalapati, Janaki R.R., Adamowicz, Wiktor
The short-run dynamic impacts of macroeconomic variables on the Canadian pulp industry and the interactions among pulp sector variables are investigated using the vector autoregression (VAR) approach. In contrast to the findings of earlier studies, our results show that an increase in the value...
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1995
Korber, Dianne, Beckley, Thomas M.
The social context within which forest managers operate today differs dramatically from that which existed fifty, thirty, or even ten years ago. Both government (public) and corporate (private) forest management decisions are coming under increased public scrutiny. A single, dominant forest...
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The Economic Value of Wildlife in Alberta: A Database and Analysis of Benefit and Expenditure Estimates
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Phillips, William E., Adamowicz, Wiktor, Rush, Bonnie C.
The \"Wildlife Valuation Database\" is composed of 53 individual studies, providing 181 wildlife and reacreation benefit estimates. The database can be run on an IBM computer with Microsoft Windows 3.1. The format of the database is in the following form; (a) ID number, (b) focus of study (for...
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Towards an Analytical Framework for Assessing Property Rights to Natural Resources: A Case Study int he Communal Areas of Zimbabwe
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Luckert, Martin K., Kundhlande, G.
A taxonomy for describing porerty rights to natural resources is described and applied in a Zimbabwean case study. The taxonomy allows: tenures to be systematically comapred and contrasted; incentives for natural resource management to be identified; and the evolution of tenure to natural...
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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...
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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%...