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Behaviour, Environment, Latest, Policy

213 – The environmental planning fallacy

30 April, 20126 May, 2012 by David Pannell6 Min Reading

Psychologists studying the way that people plan projects have found that they are often way too optimistic – they think the project will take less

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Environment, Latest, Natural resource management, Policy

212 – Wildlife corridors: the next big thing?

22 April, 201222 April, 2012 by David Pannell6 Min Reading

There seems to be a lot of interest in wildlife corridors as a strategy for nature conservation at the moment. The push is for very

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Latest, Policy, Water

211 – Water policy book

10 April, 201210 April, 2012 by David Pannell3 Min Reading

I am a contributor to a new book on water policy, just published by Edward Elgar. It is called ‘Water Policy Reform: Lessons in Sustainability

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Economics, Environment, Latest, Natural resource management, Policy

210 – Under-estimating the costs of environmental protection

19 March, 201213 April, 2012 by David Pannell5 Min Reading

The costs of running effective environmental projects can be very high. In Australia I have observed that we often try to get away with running

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Economics, Latest, Music

209 – The economics of the music industry

5 March, 201227 August, 2023 by David Pannell4 Min Reading

In my early 20s I was in a rock band, The Bargains, playing the hotels of Perth. We got to be reasonably successful within the

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Environment, Latest, Natural resource management

208 – Ecological thresholds, uncertainty and decision making

27 February, 20125 March, 2012 by David Pannell4 Min Reading

The concept of thresholds features prominently in ecology and resilience theory. The idea is that if a variable crosses a threshold value, an ecological system

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