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Consumer driven corporate environmentalism: fact or fiction?
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010)
Over the last three decades, environmental concerns have moved from being a fringe issue to becoming a major socio-economic issue. While the role of factors such as regulatory and societal pressures, in driving organizations ...
Public perceptions of New Zealand's environment: 2006
(EOS Ecology, 2006)
The fourth biennial survey of people’s perceptions of the state of the New Zealand environment was undertaken in February - March 2006. The survey is based on the Pressure-State-Response (PSR) model of state of the environment ...
An evaluation of self-governance in the New Zealand Bluff oyster fishery - The indicator system approach
(Elsevier, 2014-01)
The use of self-governance as a fisheries management tool is increasing in New Zealand and elsewhere. Researchers argue that in theory self-governance can lead to improved outcomes, but evaluating actual benefits is difficult ...
Nonmarket valuation of water quality: Addressing spatially heterogeneous preferences using GIS and a random parameter logit model
(Elsevier on behalf of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE), 2012-03)
The spatial distribution of agri-environmental policy benefits has important implications for the efficient allocation of management effort. The practical convenience of relying on sample mean values of individual benefits ...
Socioeconomic impacts of public forest policies on heterogeneous agricultural households
(Springer Verlag on behalf of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2012-09)
Nepal has a long history of returning public forests to local people as part of its community forestry programme. In principle the community forestry programme is designed to address both environmental quality and poverty ...
New Zealand fresh water management and agricultural impacts
Outline• The legislation, policy and institutionalcontexts under which water is managed;• Evidence to show that institutions arefailing in the tasks defined by thislegislation:- biophysical sciences and policy- national ...
Economic analyses to aid nature conservation decision making
(Cambridge University Press, 2005-07)
Nature conservation can often be costly and the resources available are often less than are required. Resource allocations and expenditures for nature conservation have an opportunity cost in terms of foregone projects, ...
Public perceptions of New Zealand's environment: 2004
(EOS Ecology, 2004)
The third biennial survey of people’s perceptions of the state of the New Zealand environment was undertaken in February - March 2004. The survey was based on the Pressure-State-Response (PSR) model
of state of the environment ...
Perceptions of the state of New Zealand's environment: findings from the first biennial survey undertaken in 2000
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, 2001)
The main aims of the research are to measure, analyse and monitor changes in New
Zealanders' perceptions, attitudes and preferences towards a range of environmental issues, ultimately contributing to improved state of the ...
Ecosystem services review of water storage projects in Canterbury: the Opihi River case
(Lincoln University. Faculty of Commerce and Faculty of Environment, Society and Design, 2011)
There is an ever‐increasing demand for freshwater that is being used for the purposes of irrigation and land use intensification in Canterbury. But the impact of this demand has lead to unacceptable minimum river flows. ...