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- 1Adamowicz, Vic (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
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Fall 2017
Since European settlement of the Canadian Prairies there has been substantial loss of wetlands. This loss occurs in large part due to drainage by private agricultural operators seeking to boost the productivity of their land. Policy makers now seek not only to conserve wetlands and prevent...
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Fall 2021
Best Management Practices (BMPs) are commonly promoted as a way for agricultural producers to adapt to and mitigate environmental risks on agricultural land. Agri-environmental policies are an integral component towards encouraging producers to adopt these practices, mostly through the use of...
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Spring 2017
Outdoor recreation is an important and yet often undervalued land use. Measurement of the economic value of outdoor recreation, assessment of the impacts of land uses on these values, and incorporation of this information into land use decisions can be useful in assessing land use tradeoffs. This...
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Exploring Preferences for Poplar Biotechnology and Integrated Choice Latent Variable Models
DownloadFall 2015
This thesis is divided in two papers, each focusing on a distinct issue. In the first paper (Chapter 2), public preferences for poplar biotechnology are examined in western Canada. Using a sample of the public from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, respondents were asked to...
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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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Inferred Valuation as a Tool to Alleviate Social Desirability Bias: Testing the Systematic Influence of Individual-Specific Factors
DownloadSpring 2019
Zambrano Orellana, Roxana Patricia
Social desirability bias (SDB) is a problem often found in the elicitation of preferences for goods of moral concern, where individuals tend to behave in a way that makes them 'look good' complying with social norms. Inferred valuation has been proposed to overcome this problem in stated...
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Fall 2018
Prairie potholes are drained for the purposes of agricultural production and land development. However, restoring these drained basins is a hard sell. Three reverse auctions involving restoration identified low uptake of wetland restoration contracts by private landowners. This study explores the...
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Social variables in wetland restoration: the role of values, beliefs, and norms in conservation behaviour
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The Canadian Prairie Provinces are home to an extensive area of North America’s wetlands. However, since settlement these important ecosystems have been continuously drained to make way for farmland, urban construction, and other human development. The development of new wetland management...
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The Demonstration and Capture of an Ecosystem Service Value: Three Different Methodological Approaches
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Water management can generate valuable ecosystem services but can be costly to implement. This dissertation examines this issue using irrigation water storage infrastructure which has provided desirable services to residential properties in the Town of Chestermere in Alberta, Canada. Based on...
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Spring 2022
This project sought to determine the effect of grazing management decisions on operation wealth; specifically, to determine both the wealth maximizing system for producers and to determine the impact on producers who adopt more intensive management systems. Adoption of four grazing management...