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Factors that affect the use of herbicides in Philippine rice farming systems

Beltran, Jesusa C.; Pannell, David J.; Doole, Graeme J.; … - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011

-level factors affecting the adoption and intensity of herbicide use in rice production in the Philippines. Results broadly indicate … apparent differences in the degree to which important explanatory variables affect the intensity and adoption decisions. The … both the adoption and intensity decisions are land ownership, farm area, and the method of crop establishment used. Results …

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Using choice experiments to improve the design of weed decision support tools

Kragt, Marit Ellen; Llewellyn, Rick S. - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2013

The potential for computer-based decision support tools (DSTs) to better inform farm management decisions is well-recognised. However, despite considerable investment in a wide range of tools, the uptake by advisers and farmers remains low. Greater understanding of the demand and the most valued...

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Measuring Groundwater Irrigation Efficiency in Pakistan: A DEA Approach Using the Sub-vector and Slack-based Models

Watto, Muhammad Arif; Mugera, Amin William - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2013

We estimate the efficiency of groundwater use in cotton production in the Punjab province of Pakistan. We use a survey data of 189 cotton producers comprising 98 tube-well owners and 91 water buyers in order to get the differential impact of tube-well ownership on groundwater use efficiency. We...

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Promises and pitfalls in environmentally extended input-output analysis for China: a survey of the literature

Hawkins, Jacob; Ma, Chunbo; Schilizzi, Steven; Zhang, Fan - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2015

As the largest developing economy, China plays a key role in global climate change. Environmentally extended input-output analysis (EE-IOA) is an important and insightful tool seeing widespread use in studying large-scale environmental impacts in China: calculating and analyzing greenhouse gas...

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The awareness and willingness of air travellers to pay for voluntary carbon offsets and their co-benefits

Cheung, Jimmy; Kragt, Marit; Burton, Michael - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2015

Several airlines in Australia have initiated voluntary carbon offset (VCO) programs, called 'Fly Carbon Neutral', to encourage their customers to offset the carbon emissions of their flight. A VCO scheme aims to 'neutralise' emissions from a particular activity, by compensating with carbon...

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Solar Capitalization in Western Australian Property Market

Ma, Chunbo; Polyakov, Maksym; Pandit, Ram - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2015

Using a large sample of property sales data and high-resolution aerial maps, this study provides the first empirical estimate of the price premium of properties with photovoltaic (PV) panels in Australia. We use three model specifications to control for spatial heterogeneity and correlation as...

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A note on the performance measure of conservation auctions

Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe; Schilizzi, Steven - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011

We argue that previous assessments of discriminatory-price conservation auctions may have systematically overestimated their performance relative to uniform-payment schemes due to an inappropriate counterfactual comparison. We demonstrate that the cost curve (and not the bid curve) is the...

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Does tendering conservation contracts with performance payments generate additional benefits?

Schilizzi, Steven; Breustedt, Gunnar; Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011

Policy makers aiming to get private landholders to supply non-marketed environmental services may need to provide efficient economic incentives. Two ideas have been explored to achieve this: linking contract payments to environmental outcomes and submitting the contracts to competitive tender....

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Evaluating conservation auctions with limited information: the policy maker’s predicament

Schilizzi, Steven; Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011

Buying environmental services from private landholders using tendering mechanisms are usually subject to a budget constraint. Auction theory has mostly focused on target-constrained auctions and is less well developed for this type of auction. This paper examines a theoretical model specifically...

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Agricultural land management strategies to reduce phosphorus loads in the Gippsland Lakes, Australia

Roberts, Anna M.; Pannell, David J.; Doole, Graeme J.; … - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2010

. Reliance on voluntary adoption of ‘Current Recommended Practices’ (CRPs) is unlikely to deliver changes in management practices … factors such as the levels of landholder adoption of new practices that are required, and the feasibility of achieving those … adoption levels. Costs, land holder adoption of new practices and socio-political risks appear neglected in the formulation of …

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