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Agriculture, Climate change, Environment, Latest, Policy

356. Letter to Minister for Emissions Reduction

8 November, 20219 November, 2021 by David Pannell4 Min Reading

This is my draft of a letter to the Minister asking a set of questions about soil carbon in the context of the Government’s new

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Environment, Natural resource management, People, Policy

355. Wellbeing

1 November, 202129 October, 2021 by David Pannell5 Min Reading

This post is in memory of Ken Wallace, who died unexpectedly on 13 October 2021. When economists evaluate a project or a policy, the way

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Economics, Policy

354. BCA criticisms 1: “any result you want”

25 October, 202121 September, 2023 by David Pannell7 Min Reading

Over the years, I’ve had a number of conversations with people who made negative comments about Benefit: Cost Analysis (BCA) or certain aspects of it.

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Agriculture, Climate change, Economics, Latest, Policy

353. Virtual issues of AJARE on climate change

19 October, 202119 October, 2021 by David Pannell2 Min Reading

The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AJARE) has introduced a new system of “virtual” issues, pulling together articles on a particular theme from

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Economics, Latest, Policy

352. Comparing projects of different lifespans in BCA

7 October, 202121 September, 2023 by David Pannell6 Min Reading

One of the uses of Benefit: Cost Analysis (BCA) is to compare different projects to see which should be given priority for funding. What if

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Agriculture, Behaviour, Latest, Policy

351. Adoption and Behaviour Change in Agricultural Policy

4 October, 20212 October, 2021 by David Pannell4 Min Reading

An ability to understand and predict adoption of new farming practices is useful for agricultural policy in several ways, including: assessing additionality, selecting policy mechanisms,

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  • 434. Environmental offsets 2. The currency for measuring impacts and benefits

    In an environmental offset scheme, the environmental impacts of a development project and the benefits of an offset project need to be compared quantitatively. To

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    There are many types of graphs that can depict the riskiness of a decision option. Here I present and comment on some of them. My

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    An environmental offset is an environmental project that is undertaken to compensate for environmental damage caused by some economic activity, such as establishing a mine

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