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| Senaratne, Athula; Scarborough, Helen. |
| Climate change introduces numerous uncertainties over the livelihoods of farming communities that depend heavily on weather and climate. Rain-fed farmers in developing countries are among the most vulnerable communities. However, climate risks are not new to farmers. Coping with ‘natural variability’ of climate has been a constant challenge faced by farmers even though broad sweeping change in climate due to anthropogenic causes is a relatively new prospect. Some argue ‘climate change’ could be significantly different from ‘climatic variability’ known to and experienced by farmers. In spite of this it is widely accepted that understanding farmers’ behavior towards adapting to climatic variability could generate useful insights in facing the risk of climate... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Adaptation; Climatic variability; Village tanks; Climate change; Rain-fed farmer; Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100707 |
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| Scarborough, Helen. |
| Recent modelling of the costs and benefits of climate change has renewed debate surrounding assumptions regarding the social discount rate in analysing the impacts of environmental change. Previous literature segments the social discount rate into being influenced by two key factors; the rate of pure time preference and the elasticity of marginal utility of future consumption. These components of the social discount rate reinforce the linkages between the choice of social discount rate and intergenerational distribution. In an extension of previous work by the author on intergenerational distributional preferences, this paper discusses the relationship between intergenerational equity and the social discount rate. The work has significant policy... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Intergenerational equity; Social discount rate; Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59156 |
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| Versace, V.L.; Scarborough, Helen; Ierodiaconou, D.; O'Toole, K.; Wallis, A.; Stagnitti, F.. |
| Societal expectations from rural lands have traditionally been focussed on the production of food and fibre. Yet the perception of rural areas is changing and they are now seen in many instances to be capable of delivering multiple functions or non-commodity outputs including land conservation and the preservation of biodiversity, contributing to the sustainable management of renewable natural resources and enhancing the socio-economic viability of many areas (OECD, 2001). The overall multifunctionality is constrained or favoured by biophysical and socio-economic drivers. As these types of drivers vary spatially and temporally, so does the functionality of the landscape and heterogeneous patterns emerge. Associated with multiple functions at a single... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100727 |
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| Ha, Arthur; Dyack, Brenda; Stoneham, Gary; Farquharson, Robert J.; Scarborough, Helen; Duke, Charlotte; Wheeler, Sarah Ann; Saunders, Caroline M.; Nicholls, Neville; Essex, Christopher; McKitrick, Ross. |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/118506 |
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| Ezzy, Edward; Scarborough, Helen. |
| Southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus Maccoyii) is a global resource which is critically endangered. The Committee for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT) sets commercial quota levels for member nations, including Australia, each year. However, southern bluefin tuna is also a popular “trophy” fish with recreational anglers and the size of the total recreational catch in Australia is unknown but thought to be significant. This study focuses on the recreational southern bluefin tuna catch at Portland, in southwest Victoria and is based on data collected during the 2010 fishing season. The results indicate that the size of the recreational catch at Portland is significant in terms of the management of the fishery. A travel cost study was undertaken to... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Travel cost method; Recreational fishing; Southern bluefin tuna; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100546 |
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