2005 Conference, August 26-27, 2005, Nelson, New Zealand

Nationwide mail surveys implemented in November 2004 report New Zealand residents‟ willingness to pay for improvement in ecosystem services and support for organic farmin [...]

Current New Zealand resource management legislation requires local government actively recognise and take into account Māori values in resource management planning. This [...]

R&D spending in New Zealand is a mixture of private and public investment undertaken to improve productive activity and efficiency. Investment is split fairly equally [...]

Stated preference approaches are widely used in non-market valuation. However, their potential uses extend far beyond valuation. In particular they can be used to assess [...]

We used the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about t [...]

The understanding of how allocation decisions can maximise the economic returns to the community from water for irrigation has received little attention, but is a signifi [...]

The objective of this research is to undertake an ex ante economic analysis of basic scientific research that aims to identify the gene(s) that control apomictic reproduc [...]