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Fall 2018

Perger, Orsolya E

Improving water quality by inducing agricultural producers to implement Beneficial Management Practices (BMPs) is one of the top environmental concerns in Canada and worldwide. Conservation auctions can be a cost-effective mechanism to achieve this goal. The first two papers in this thesis focus...

Spring 2012

Entem, Alicia R

The federal Species at Risk Act requires economic analyses to be included in species at risk recovery plans. Recovery plans are often completed species by species and their economic analyses fail to employ modern analytical methods. A unique multi-species at risk recovery plan within...

Fall 2022

Stenekes, Sydney

There is growing concern about the sustainability of freshwater ecosystems in northern Canada that are under significant stress from climate change, resource development, and hydroelectric development, among others. Community-based monitoring (CBM) based on traditional ecological knowledge (TEK)...

Fall 2011

Kaczan, David

This thesis is a set of two papers on the design of a ‘payment for ecosystem services’ (PES) program for the reduction of on-farm deforestation in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. The forests of this area are internationally recognized as one of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems;...

Spring 2022

Iskander, Abram

The objective of this project was to consider the feasibility of possible alternatives to the current Agri-Stability program. These alternatives consist of customizable area-based whole-farm program where payments are based on a regional trigger. Problems, associated with designing a simple...

Fall 2014

Nelson, Paul A

Social science researchers have largely overlooked chefs and the role they play in supporting small-scale farmers, even though chefs are often cited as instigating the local food movement. Chefs occupy a unique role in alternative food networks. Their culinary skills and food knowledge position...

Spring 2021

Zentner, Emilie

Cooperation and coordination are challenging to achieve in public goods games. As a result, public goods are often chronically under-provisioned due to free-riding. However, reciprocity has been increasingly associated with cooperative behaviour and may play an important role in driving...

Spring 2019

D'Souza, Amabel, G

Local people living along the Mun River and its tributaries, have a deep connection to this fresh water ecosystem and have longstanding knowledge, practices and norms that are critical to their fishing livelihoods. However due to the rapid development of hydropower in the Mekong Basin, fishing...

Fall 2019

Sarauer, Ashley

The environmental performance of an economic unit is often conditioned on both time (in terms of its history of pollution) and space (in terms of the performance and capital investments for abatement by its neighbors). However, despite large literatures addressing each of these linkages...

Spring 2013

Truong, Thuy Dang

The Random Utility Model has become the dominant empirical model used in environmental valuation and other areas of consumer demand analysis involving the choice of discrete items. This thesis investigates in detail three assumptions of the Random Utility Model. It consists of three studies that...