This research report documents the likely economic impacts (on regional income and employment) of a change in Mackenzie Basin land use from farming to forestry.

Markets for New Zealand's sheepmeat products, particularly for lamb, are dynamic and changing. In this study, markets for lamb which have been growing in the recent past and which might reasonably be expected to continue ...

We present the first assessment of willingness to pay (WTP) for water supply change to be conducted in the largest city in the developing world; Mexico City. Two large sample contingent valuation surveys are conducted to ...

The contingent valuation method for estimating willingness to pay for public goods typically adopts a single referendum question format which is statistically inefficient. As an alternative, Cooper, Hanemann and Signorello ...

We review the literature regarding the aggregation of benefit value estimates for non-market goods. Two case studies are presented through which we develop an approach to aggregation which applies the spatial analytic ...

The New Zealand agricultural sector has over most of its history been seen as the backbone of the New Zealand economy and has also been the subject of a varying range of influences caused by the implementation of various ...

Although the history of the Milk Board is documented in this report from its conception as the Central Milk Council in 1944 until its dissolution in 1988, there has been no attempt at a definitive historical narrative. The ...

The survival of the Barbados economy is largely dependent on the foreign exchange received from the export of sugar; therefore, it is important that the sugar industry operate in an efficient and productive manner. Economic ...

This report presents findings from Objective 2 of the FRST funded research programme titled: Enhancing the Spatial Dimensions of Tourism Yield. The overall aim of the programme is to examine tourism yield from a demand ...

Notable structural changes have taken place in the world sheepmeat market over the 1960-80 period. Imports into the major consuming countries of the EEC are declining as a result of changing tastes, higher import barriers ...