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Agricultural Producers’ Costs of Adoption of Wetland Restoration Beneficial Management Practice: Estimation and Spatial Transferability
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This thesis estimated agricultural producers’ costs of adopting a wetland restoration beneficial management practice (BMP) in the Western Canadian Prairie region using two alternative cost discovery methods. It then explored the spatial transferability of the cost estimates obtained for the two...
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Fall 2013
Conservation auctions are a policy tool designed to provide incentives for the implementation of beneficial management practices (BMPs) more efficiently than traditional policies. Few practical auctions have been performed in Canada and there is limited understanding of how producers would react...
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Fall 2010
Reverse auctions for ecological goods and services are an alternative to current agri-environmental government programs to provide incentives for farmers. This thesis reports on a testbed of laboratory auction experiments to assess efficiency and cost effectiveness of different design treatments....