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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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Economics, Natural resource management

260 – Marginal values and average values (of sharks)

20 January, 201418 January, 2025 by David Pannell8 Min Reading

The distinction between marginal and average values is a key point in economics. Last year I was one of a team of researchers who got

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Climate change, Economics, Environment, Latest, Natural resource management, Policy, Politics, Research

259 – Increasing environmental benefits

2 December, 20133 December, 2013 by David Pannell5 Min Reading

It is obvious that the budgets of our public environmental programs are small relative to the cost of fixing all of our environmental problems. If

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Environment, Latest, Natural resource management, Policy

258 – How many environmental targets are SMART?

25 November, 201325 November, 2013 by David Pannell3 Min Reading

In PD257 I talked about why it is important for environmental managers to set SMART targets for the projects they develop – SMART meaning Specific,

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Environment, Natural resource management, Policy

257 – Be smart, use SMART goals

18 November, 201322 November, 2013 by David Pannell6 Min Reading

SMART goals are widely referred to in writings about planning. The SMART acronym provides a checklist of characteristics that goals or targets should have; they

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