Previous posts
Here is a chronological list of past Pannell Discussions available at this site.
- 426. Music “Option Value”
- 425. World population beyond 2100
- 424. Risk aversion versus loss aversion, part 2
- 423. Risk aversion versus loss aversion, part 1
- 422. Risky farm decision making as a social process
- 421. Risk versus uncertainty
- 420. Systematic decision making under risk
- 419. Risk premium
- 418. Hedging to reduce crop price risk
- 417. Twenty years of Pannell Discussions
- 416. Neglecting the risks of a project
- 415. Learning about the riskiness of a new farming practice
- 414. Intuitive versus analytical thinking about risk
- 413. Diversification to reduce risk
- 412. Risk aversion and fertiliser decisions
- 411. Benefit-Cost Analysis decision criteria
- 410. Strategic decisions, tactical decisions and risk
- 409. Farmers’ risk preferences
- 408. Farmers’ risk perceptions
- 407. Memorising Pi
- 406. Risk means probability distributions
- 405. Risk in Australian grain farming
- 404. Vegetation on urban roadside verges
- 403. A History of AARES
- 402. Webinar on adoption of new practices in agriculture
- 401. Doing a literature review
- 400. The Journal of Beatles Studies
- 399. Behavioural economics + production economics = impact
- 398. Live drawing during seminar
- 397. Responding to journal reviews
- 396. Landing at Sydney Airport (video)
- 395. Should parks be less green?
- 394. Creating an environmental market
- 393. Markets, trust and religion
- 392. Environmental markets don’t emerge spontaneously
- 391. Resources for PhD students: information your supervisors may not tell you
- 390. Excel tips
- 389. Word tips for PhDs (and others)
- 388. Reviewing journal articles
- 387. Citing references well
- 386. Transformative change versus incremental change
- 385. Restructured Benefit: Cost Analysis course
- 384. Biodiversity offset prices and biodiversity values
- 383. Submission to carbon credit inquiry
- 382. BCA challenges: Who benefits? Who pays?
- 381. Why are fertiliser prices currently so high?
- 380. The public’s valuation of threatened species protection
- 379. BCA challenges: Excess burden of taxation
- 378. Farmers’ adoption of new practices and technologies – video
- 377. Grain growers adapting to climate change in the WA wheatbelt
- 376. BCA challenges: jobs
- 375. Do urban parks have to be watered?
- 374. Soil carbon webinar and written Q&A
- 373. BCA challenges: representing behaviour
- 372. The fairness of additionality rules
- 371. Challenges in making soil-carbon sequestration a worthwhile policy
- 370. My writing process
- 369. BCA criticisms 5: “money isn’t everything”
- 368. Serious weaknesses in the Emissions Reduction Fund
- 367. BCA challenges: over-optimism
- 366. Environmental accounting: is it worthwhile?
- 365. Investment decision-support framework for water-sensitive urban design
- 364. BCA criticisms 4: “not fair”
- 363. The Beatles: Get Back
- 362. BCA criticisms 3: “discounting is bad”
- 361. Golf limericks
- 360. Potential farmer responses to extreme prices for nitrogen fertiliser
- 359. Ken Wallace obituary
- 358. High-quality Benefit: Cost Analysis template, for free
- 357. BCA criticisms 2: “too much uncertainty”
- 356. Letter to Minister for Emissions Reduction
- 355. Wellbeing
- 354. BCA criticisms 1: “any result you want”
- 353. Virtual issues of AJARE on climate change
- 352. Comparing projects of different lifespans in BCA
- 351. Adoption and Behaviour Change in Agricultural Policy
- 350. Professional development opportunities
- 349. Adoption pathways analysis
- 348. Soil carbon is a highly flawed climate policy, Part 3
- 347. Soil carbon is a highly flawed climate policy, Part 2
- Decision criteria for Benefit-Cost Analysis – A world of confusion
- 346. Soil carbon is a highly flawed climate policy, Part 1
- 345. Personal freedom versus the public good
- 344. Applied Benefit: Cost Analysis course
- 343. Making video lectures part 2
- 342. PhD scholarships available
- 341. Connecting research with policy
- 340. COVID-19 and environmental economics
- 339. Assuming that farmers maximise profit
- 338. Modelling COVID-19
- 337. Developing-country farmers: how are they different?
- 336. Free time at home? Do this free course!
- 335. Behavioural economics and adoption of agricultural innovations
- 334. Making video lectures
- 333. Reducing bushfire risks
- 332. Farmer behaviour and agricultural policy
- 331. Conservation opportunities on uncontested lands
- 330. Adoption of agricultural innovations Special Issue
- 329. Best albums of the 2010s
- 328. Weitzman discounting
- 327. Heterogeneity of farmers
- 326. 60-second videos about our research
- 325. Ranking projects based on cost-effectiveness
- 324. NPV versus BCR part 3
- 323. NPV versus BCR part 2
- 322. NPV versus BCR part 1
- 321. Communicating economics to policy makers
- 320. Fixed costs and input rates
- 319. Reducing water pollution from agricultural fertilizers
- 318. Measuring impacts from environmental research
- 317. The worth of wildlife
- 316. Resources for agri-environmental schemes
- 315. Shark conservation and demand for tourism in the Maldives
- 314. ADOPT goes online
- 313. Joining the dots versus growing the blobs
- 312. The economics of nitrogen in agriculture
- 311. 162 Beatles’ Albums Ranked
- 310. Additionality can be tricky to assess
- 309. Why do fishers in Chile put up with poachers?
- 308. Vote yes for marriage equality
- 307. John Kerin’s memoirs
- 306. Economics of green infrastructure in cities: some essentials
- 305. Feeling virtuous: what’s it worth?
- 304. Predicting behaviour change by farmers
- 303. Postdoctoral Research Fellow position available
- 302. India impressions
- 301. Inequality in the USA
- 300. MOOC feedback
- 299 – Are higher house prices a benefit or a problem?
- 298 – Potential value from restoring urban drains
- 297 – You can own a critically endangered species
- 296 – Endangered species stamps
- 295 – What is a threatened species worth?
- 294 – Slovakia
- 293 – Beatles tourism
- 292 – Walking the Thames Path
- 291 – The Swinford Toll Bridge
- 290 – Advice for successful agri-environmental policy
- 289 – Interpreting evidence through an ideological lens
- 288 – Bowie albums ranked
- 287 – Farmers like trees
- 286 – Marine reserves and tourism benefits
- 285 – The collapse of North Atlantic Cod
- 284 – The world food price crisis of 2007
- 283 – Whose environmental values matter?
- 282 – MOOC reflections
- 281 – Ranking Environmental Projects Revisited
- 280 – Lomborg at UWA
- 279 – Garbage in, garbage out?
- 278 – Global wealth inequality
- 277 – Perfection isn’t best
- 276 – MOOC
- 275 – Grammar tip: hyphens
- 274 – Tokenistic policies
- 273 – Behaviour change comes in pairs
- 272 – Additionality
- 271 – 10 years of blogging
- 270 – Violence and economics 2
- 269 – Violence and economics 1
- 268 – Conservation agriculture in developing countries
- 267 – Budget 2014 and the environment
- 266 – Supply and demand: The wool crisis
- 265 – Fossil fuel subsidies
- 264 – Capitol Records’ shameful handling of The Beatles
- 263 – The EQ Index
- 262 – Environmental triage
- 261 – Agricultural water pollution
- 260 – Marginal values and average values (of sharks)
- 259 – Increasing environmental benefits
- 258 – How many environmental targets are SMART?
- 257 – Be smart, use SMART goals
- 256 – Attitudes to monetising environmental values
- 255 – Science communication: The Matrix
- 254 – Ranking environmental projects 20: Summary
- 253 – Ranking environmental projects 19: Mistakes to avoid
- 252 – Ranking environmental projects 18: Simplifications
- 251 – Ranking environmental projects 17: Uncertainty
- 250 – Ranking environmental projects 16: Other cost issues
- 249 – Ranking environmental projects 15: Maintenance costs
- 248 – Ranking environmental projects 14: Private costs
- 247 – Ranking environmental projects 13: In-kind costs
- 246 – Ranking environmental projects 12: Cash costs
- 245 – Ranking environmental projects 11: Scoring variables
- 244 – Ranking environmental projects 10: Private benefits
- 243 – Ranking environmental projects 9: Multiple benefits
- 242 – Ranking environmental projects 8: Time
- 241 – Ranking environmental projects 7: Project risks
- 240 – Ranking environmental projects 6: Adoption and compliance
- 239 – Ranking environmental projects 5: Estimating and measuring values
- 238 – Ranking environmental projects 4: Environmental condition and values
- 237 – Ranking environmental projects 3: With vs without
- 236 – Ranking environmental projects 2: Divide by costs
- 235 – Ranking environmental projects 1
- 234 – The benefits of environmental research
- 233 – Journal refereeing
- 232 – Agricultural extension in 10 years
- 231 – Selecting environmental projects: prioritizing really matters
- 230 – Future climate change and wheat yields in Western Australia
- 229 – Past climate change and wheat yields in Western Australia
- 228 – Majority opinion
- 227 – ‘Disadoption’ after a project ends
- 226 – Modelling versus science
- 225 – It was 50 years ago today
- 224 – Torturing ourselves over discounting
- 223 – Leadership
- 222 – Technology versus labour in agriculture
- 221 – Valuing environmental intangibles, part 4: The upshot
- 220 – Valuing environmental intangibles, part 3: The cons
- 219 – Valuing environmental intangibles, part 2: The pro’s
- 218 – Valuing environmental intangibles, part 1: The options
- 217 – Artificial scarcity
- 216 – Diminishing marginal benefits of economics
- 215 – However
- 214 – The perils of asking people
- 213 – The environmental planning fallacy
- 212 – Wildlife corridors: the next big thing?
- 211 – Water policy book
- 210 – Under-estimating the costs of environmental protection
- 209 – The economics of the music industry
- 208 – Ecological thresholds, uncertainty and decision making
- 207 – Are sharks more valuable dead or alive?
- 206 – Award for Pannell Discussions
- 205 – Chinese television
- 204 – Describing changes in percentages
- 203 – Predicting adoption of new farming practices
- 202 – The cost of umbrellas
- 201 – Reasoning with probabilities
- 200 – Blog
- 199 – Three Gorges Dam
- 198 – Chinese air pollution
- 197 – The Danish fat tax
- 196 – The web vs journals
- 195 – Publishing persistence
- 194 – “With respect, …”
- 193 – Transaction costs workshop
- 192 – Transaction costs
- 191 – Crowding out
- 190 – Helping Canada with environmental decisions
- 189 – Donna Brennan commemoration
- 188 – When is a carbon tax not a carbon tax?
- 187 – Public attitudes to climate policy
- 186 – Submissions to government
- 185 – Problems with environmental project prioritisation
- 184 – The optimal scale of environmental projects
- 183 – Diminishing marginal benefits of environmental projects
- 182 – Increasing marginal costs of environmental projects
- 181 – Answering questions after presenting a seminar or conference paper
- 180 – New book: Changing Land Management
- 179 – Discounted milk prices
- 178 – Betting on wheat prices
- 177 – Split infinitives
- 176 – The Murray-Darling Basin Plan
- 175 – Environmental valuation: policy challenges
- 174 – Assessment of the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality
- 173 – Indirect influences of policy on environmental outcomes
- 172 – Peak oil
- 171 – Lifestyle landholders
- 170 – Social capital
- 169 – If I were a government minister …
- 168 – Telling farmers how to adapt to climate change
- 167 – Broad versus targeted environmental investment
- 166 – Best albums of the past decade
- 165 – ClimateGate part 3: Reactions and implications
- 164 – ClimateGate part 2: What is revealed?
- 163 – ClimateGate part 1: Background
- 162 – CSIRO and the Clive Spash controversy
- 161 – Climate policy: an alternative approach
- 160 – Tokenistic climate policy
- 159 – The cost of inaccurate data
- 158 – Using the wrong metric to prioritise projects is very costly
- 157 – Is the community an environmental “asset”?
- 156 – Eureka!
- 155 – Another Symposium on “Understanding Practice Change by Rural Landholders”
- 154 – “Asset-based” environmental management
- 153 – Best Management Practices (BMPs)
- 152 – “Understanding practice change” videos and podcasts
- 151 – Additionality in environmental programs
- 150 – Why don’t environmental managers use decision theory?
- 149 – Cost sharing for environmental works
- 148 – The Economics of Environmental Payments
- 147 – PowerPoint tips
- 146 – Charles Darwin: Surprising Truths, part 4
- 145 – Charles Darwin: Surprising Truths, part 3
- 144 – Charles Darwin: Surprising Truths, part 2
- 143 – Charles Darwin: Surprising Truths, part 1
- 142 – The “Caring for our Country” Business Plan
- 141 – Thinking strategically about practice change
- 140 – Renewable energy in a carbon market
- 139 – Free-rider problems: milk in the office fridge
- 138 – Practice change by farmers: National symposium
- 137 – Engaging with researchers: tips for policy makers
- 136 – Engaging with policy: tips for researchers
- 135 – Differences between the worlds of research and policy
- 134 – Why is it hard for research to influence policy?
- 133 – Environmental budgets: two distinct questions
- 132 – The mainstream media
- 131 – Triage in environmental management
- 130 – Mac versus Windows
- 129 – The public: private benefits framework
- 128 – Compensation to carbon emitters
- 127 – Sequestering carbon in agricultural soils
- 126 – Sensitivity analysis with economic models
- 125 – Adoption of conservation practices – paper tops the charts
- 124 – Linking natural resource research to the real world
- 123 – Crisis? What crisis?
- 122 – Effective environmental policy
- 121 – New environment policy “Caring for our Country”
- 120 – The Landcare boom
- 119 – The policy zeitgeist
- 118 – Farmers over-using chemicals
- 117 – Research jobs available
- 116 – Capacities of regional NRM bodies
- 115 – Scale in natural resource management
- 114 – Localised vs dispersed natural-resource assets
- 113 – MIDAS model 25th anniversary
- 112 – Advanced studies in economics and policy for natural resources and the environment
- 111 – Tornado politics and abortion politics
- 110 – Science and policy
- 109 – Long jump world champion 2007
- 108 – Setting policy targets
- 107 – Why don’t farmers use futures markets more?
- 106 – The Great Global Warming Swindle
- 105 – A carbon tax?
- 104 – How would a carbon market work?
- 103 – Influences on technology adoption in different phases
- 102 – A national market for biodiversity?
- 101 – Outsourcing farm management?
- 100 – A jolly good Fellow
- 99 – Environmental policy: Canada vs Australia
- 98 – Agricultural research for the poor
- 97 – Regional environmental management in Australia
- 96 – Economic questions for environmental managers
- 95 – Linking research to policy
- 94 – Environmental stewardship payments
- 93 – Thinking like an economist 24: With and without
- 92 – Future Natural Resource Management policy in Australia
- 91 – Environmental monitoring – why bother?
- 90 – Skin cancer
- 89 – Farmers as “consumers” of nature conservation
- 88 – Thinking like an economist 24: Flat-earth economics
- 87 – Economics and the future
- 86 – Adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders: implications for research and extension
- 85 – Adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders: implications for policy
- 84 – Estonia and Latvia
- 83 – “Water Resource Policy” workshop
- 82 – Seeking more effective NRM policies
- 81 – The cult of the asterisk
- 80 – Public benefits, private benefits: the final framework
- 79 – Public benefits, private benefits, and technology development
- 78 – Public benefits, private benefits, and negative incentives
- 77 – Comments on Channel 9’s salinity exposé
- 76 – Public benefits, private benefits, and extension
- 75 – Public benefits, private benefits, incentives and lags to adoption
- 74 – Public benefits, private benefits, and incentives for changing land management
- 73 – Public benefits, private benefits, and the choice of policy tool
- 72 – Headaches
- 71 – Thinking like an economist 23: Agonising decisions
- 70 – Thinking like an economist 22: Risky decision making
- 69 – Climate change
- 68 – Seeking multiple outcomes in environmental programs
- 67 – Using communication and education to encourage land-use change in agriculture for environmental benefits
- 66 – Thinking like an economist 21: Using incentives to buy land-use change in agriculture for environmental benefits
- 65 – Thinking like an economist 20: Challenges for policy economists
- 64 – Compliance with Kyoto
- 63 – AANRO.NET
- 62 – SIF3: Salinity Investment Framework III
- 61 – Thinking like an economist 19: Should we have an environmental levy?
- 60 – Agricultural productivity growth
- 59 – Economics history
- 58 – The Hockey Stick again
- 57 – Herbicide resistance: Does prevention pay?
- 56 – Thinking like an economist 18: Constructive roles of economics
- 55 – Targeting perennials to balance profit, water yields and salt loads
- 54 – Ivory towers are safe
- 53 – Thinking like an economist 17: Strengths of economists
- 52 – Thinking like an economist 16: Weaknesses of economists
- 51 – Links between dryland salinity and climate change
- 50 – Parallels between dryland salinity and climate change
- 49 – Cultural differences
- 48 – Thinking like an economist 15: Economics and happiness
- 47 – Thinking like an economist 14: The sunk-cost fallacy
- 46 – Fresh water for Perth 4: post-election wrap up
- 45 – Thinking like an economist 13: What is the cost?
- 44 – Thinking like an economist 12: Hand it over!
- 43 – New knowledge or new technology: which is better?
- 42 – Research meets policy
- 41 – Fresh water for Perth 3: myths and misconceptions
- 40 – Fresh water for Perth 2: the State Opposition’s attempts
- 39 – Fresh water for Perth 1: the State Government’s attempts
- 38 – Personality and the adoption of innovations
- 37 – Adoption of conservation technologies by rural landholders
- 36 – Computer disasters: a cautionary tale
- 35 – Thinking like an economist 11: Externalities and market failure
- 34 – Thinking like an economist 10: Values in the very long term
- 33 – Thinking like an economist 9: Time is money
- 32 -Australia’s position on whaling
- 31 – A Christmas recipe
- 30 – Thinking like an economist 8: Putting a value on the environment
- 29 – Elvis Costello and the Imposters, Kings Park, Perth, Western Australia, 5 December 2004
- 28 – Radio
- 27 – Thinking like an economist 7: Economics and money
- 26 – Dryland salinity in Australia
- 25 – Targeting agricultural extension to high-impact areas
- 24 – Thinking like an economist 6: The value of information
- 23 – Capacity building? The role of communication and education in NRM
- 22 – Thinking like an economist 5: Public goods and public benefits in NRM
- 21 – Thinking like an economist 4: Who should pay for the environment?
- 20 – Thinking like an economist 3: What is your objective?
- 19 – The greatest leap
- 18 – Thinking like an economist 2: Decisions, decisions
- 17 – Thinking like an economist 1: Anticipating and explaining economic behaviour
- 16 – The election and the environment
- 15 – Can you count land values?
- 14 – Basic tips with Microsoft Word
- 13 – Global warming: book reviews
- 12 – W.E. Wood
- 11 – Politics and dryland salinity
- 10 – The White Album
- 9 – Distance
- 8 – Is economics hard hearted?
- 7 – Government inquiries into salinity
- 6 – Climate change and scaremongering
- 5 – Genetically modified organisms
- 4 – Farmers adopting new practices
- 3 – “The cost of …”
- 2 – Sustainability
- 1 – Research journals: reading them and reviewing for them
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