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Property rights of landholders in non-captive wildlife and prospects for conservation

Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2003

In order to reduce the rate of human-induced biodiversity loss of wild species, it has become increasingly important to stem this loss on private and tribal lands and to find effective policies to do this. Some writers believe that granting landholders commercial property rights in wildlife...

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Safety and Socio-Economic Issues Raised by Modern Biotechnology

Xue, Dayuan; Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 1999

Modern new biotechnology has the potential to provide major economic and other benefits, but at the same time it poses potential hazards for human health, the environment, the ‘natural’ biological order and can have adverse socio-economic consequences. The application of such technology...

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Sustainable Agriculture

Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2005

This paper provides an overview of concepts of sustainable agriculture and possible methods of attaining sustainability of agricultural yields and production. Reasons are given as to why modern industrialised agriculture might be less sustainable in terms of yields than traditional agriculture....

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Economics, Ecology and the Development and Use of GMOs: General Considerations and Biosafety Issues

Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2008

in their ecological effectiveness forever. The economics of developing and marketing of GMOs is given particular … attention. When their development is left to private enterprise, it is found that the economics of developing and marketing GMOs … favours large enterprises as primary suppliers. In marketing, there are also preferences for sales of GMOs to larger …

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Agricultural Sustainability and the Introduction of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2009

In order to cater for the predicted growth in global population and aspirations for increased living standards, the world needs to increase substantially its level of agricultural production and sustain agriculture’s increased productivity. New technologies may enable this to occur but they...

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Conservation, Protected Areas and the Global Economic System: How Debt, Trade, Exchange Rates, Inflation and Macroeconomic Policy Affect Biological Diversity

Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 1994

The global economic system is characterised by international specialisation in production, massive amounts of production and trade in goods and services and the presence of international flows of finance, capital and technology. The system is bound together by the use of money and markets which...

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Information and Wildlife Valuation: Experiments and Policy

Tisdell, Clement A.; Wilson, Clevo - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2004

An experiment involving 204 residents of Brisbane, Australia is outlined and the results are reported and analysed. Two consecutive surveys of the respondents provide data about their stated knowledge of 23 wildlife species present in tropical Australia, many of which exclusively occur there. In...

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Bioeconomic Analysis of Aquaculture's Impact on Wild Stocks and Biodiversity

Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2002

Anderson theorizes that development of the aquaculture of a species of fish (also captured in an open-access fishery) favours the conservation of its wild stocks, if competitive market conditions prevail. However, this theory is shown to be subject to significant limitations. While this is less...

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Sustainability: The Economic Bottom Line

Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2000

Points out that sustainability as such does not provide a clearcut guide to policy. First one has to decide what is to be sustained. If this is agreed, it must be in an operational from. However, difficulties may still emerge since opinions may differ about how to achieve. This is illustrated by...

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Birds - Their importance to visitors to an Australian Rainforest

Tisdell, Clement A.; Wilson, Clevo - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2004

Lamington National Park in Queensland, Australia is noted for its rainforest and is part of Australia’s fourteen World Heritage listed properties but no systematic study has been done of the importance of birds to its visitors. This study rectifies this situation. It is based on data from...

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