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The energy costs of the Ecotourism Summit in Quebec
(Channel View Publications, 2002)
The Ecotourism Summit, one of the main events of the International Year of
Ecotourism 2002, was said by the World Tourism Organisation to have been a 'huge success', with delegates from 133 different countries. However, ...
Hey! What's your footprint?
(Lincoln University. Environment Society and Design Division, 2008-11)
Ecological footprint calculators are an effective communication and educational tool to measure
the impact of humanity on our planet (Barrett et al., 2004). This project’s aim was to design and
then trial a footprint tool ...
Managing energy use in tourism businesses - survey results
(Lincoln University. Environment Society and Design Division, 2008-08)
In partnership with the Tourism Industry Association an online survey was sent via email to all members recorded in the TIA database. As part of a three-year project on Tourism & Oil, the responses of tourism businesses ...
Effects of cow urine and its constituents on soil microbial populations and nitrous oxide emissions
(Lincoln University, 2009)
New Zealand’s 5.3 million strong dairy herd returns approximately 106 million litres of urine to pasture soils daily. The urea in that urine is rapidly hydrolysed to ammonium (NH₄⁺), which is then nitrified, with denitrification ...
Public policy and private incentives for livestock disease control
(Lincoln University. Commerce Division, 1997-11)
The widely recognized externalities associated with livestock disease control have prompted countries throughout the world to invest in centralized control schemes designed to lower disease prevalence. As disease levels ...
An optimal control model for pest management under bait-shyness
(Lincoln University. Commerce Division, 1996-12)
This paper presents a dynamic bioeconomic model of vertebrate pest management which
incorporates a behavioural trait in the target population known as toxin or bait avoidance. Pests who exhibit such avoidance after exposure ...
A comparison of Caucasian and white clovers in temperate pastures
(Lincoln University, 2004)
A series of three main experiments aimed to define the place of Caucasian clover (Trifolium ambiguum M. Bieb) with respect to white clover (T. repens L.) in temperate New Zealand pastures. Experiment 1 used sheep liveweight ...
Quantification of phytosanitary barriers to trade
(Lincoln University. Commerce Division., 1998-09)
The Sanitary Phytosanitary Code (SPS) is an effort to reduce the technical barriers to trade created by phytosanitary regulations, or trade barriers related to plant and animal health. A key feature of SPS is risk assessment ...
Modelling germination and early seedling growth of radiata pine
(Lincoln University, 2008)
Background: This study seeks to model aspects of the regeneration of radiata pine (Pinus radiata D.Don) seedlings under a range of environmental conditions. This study investigated whether “hybrid” mechanistic models, ...
Stories from a forest soil
(Indigenous Forest Section of the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association, 2008-08)
Early in the European colonisation of New Zealand, settlers were attracted to the colony by promises of a land abounding in fertile soils. A similar subterfuge was used to encourage the wave of settlers pushing west in the ...