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  • An evaluation of alternative estimates of demand for and benefits from Oregon salmon sport fishing

    Creator:
    Hsiao, Ching-kai
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    The main objective of this study was to estimate the demand for and net economic benefits from Oregon salmon sport fishing. The travel cost method was used as the primary technique for demand analysis. Several empirical estimates of consumer surplus per trip and per fish were obtained from different estimation...
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    curve H (U ) an equivalent variation in income will be p dfp22 0 1 (area x + z + w) which is the amount

  • An analysis of risk management strategies for southern Alberta feedlots

    Creator:
    Freeze, Brian S.
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    Feedlot finishing of beef cattle in Southern Alberta involves income risk due to the variability of prices of feeders, feed and finished cattle. Several strategies are available to reduce this risk, including hedging of cattle on feed, participation in a Federal- Provincial government and producer established income stabilization program for...
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    Dissertation

  • Distortions to travel cost derived demand curves : water quality and durable goods

    Creator:
    Garifo, Susan E.
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    The travel cost method of deriving demand and value of recreation does not include fixed costs of recreational durable goods purchases or allow for supply restrictions on the number of suitable sites available. The omission of these two real-world situations results in derivation of demand curves which are more inelastic...
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    Dissertation
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    . Adams, William G. Brown, and R. Charles Vars; and my graduate representative, Floyd W. Bodyfelt. I am

  • Strategies for the development of sustainable agriculture in Bangladesh

    Creator:
    Islam, Md. Shahidul
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    The adoption of modem agricultural technologies in Bangladesh increases overall agricultural productivity and income primarily through the increase in cereal crop production. It, however, impedes the productivity of several other minor crops and fishes, widens the distribution of income between the rich and the poor, exploits resources and obstructs the...
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    members, Richard M. Adams, Frank S. Conklin, Stanley F. Miller and Floyd W. Bodyfelt for their valuable