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Agriculture, Economics, Policy

266 – Supply and demand: The wool crisis

5 May, 201425 January, 2024 by David Pannell6 Min Reading

The wool crisis of 1990-91 was a spectacular case of economic mismanagement, where an industry inflicted massive costs on itself (and others) through acts of

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Climate change, Economics, Natural resource management, Policy, Politics

265 – Fossil fuel subsidies

21 April, 201420 April, 2014 by David Pannell3 Min Reading

Amidst all the discussions about carbon taxes and emissions trading schemes for mitigating climate change, we hear very little about fossil fuel subsidies. You’d be

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Music

264 – Capitol Records’ shameful handling of The Beatles

14 April, 201428 October, 2025 by David Pannell7 Min Reading

This year is the 50th anniversary of the Beatles first success in the US, and there is a lot of celebrating and reminiscing going on.

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Economics, Environment, Latest, Natural resource management, Policy

263 – The EQ Index

7 April, 20147 April, 2014 by David Pannell6 Min Reading

Here is an idea: an index measuring the quality of the process used to evaluate environmental projects? It would provide a simple summary of the

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Environment, Natural resource management, Policy

262 – Environmental triage

17 March, 201418 March, 2014 by David Pannell5 Min Reading

Environmental triage is an important but sometimes-controversial concept in environmental management. Triage is routinely used in medical emergency situations to determine who out of a

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Agriculture, Economics, Environment, Natural resource management, Water

261 – Agricultural water pollution

27 January, 20141 March, 2021 by David Pannell4 Min Reading

Agriculture is a major source of pollution in many rivers, lakes and coastal waters. The problems are nutrients, mainly nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), and

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