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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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Economics, Environment, Latest, Natural resource management, Policy

256 – Attitudes to monetising environmental values

12 November, 201312 November, 2013 by David Pannell4 Min Reading

Putting dollar values on intangible environmental outcomes is probably the most controversial aspect of environmental economics. Is that why this information is not used more

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Communication, Environment

255 – Science communication: The Matrix

16 September, 201313 September, 2013 by David Pannell1 Min Reading

Here is a wonderful example of how to communicate a fairly dry scientific concept in a way that is clear, engaging and entertaining. It’s a

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