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Climate change, Economics, Policy, Politics

188 – When is a carbon tax not a carbon tax?

5 June, 201120 October, 2011 by David Pannell7 Min Reading

The proposed carbon pricing policy in Australia is now routinely referred to as a carbon tax by both government and opposition. This is odd, because

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Climate change, Policy, Politics, Social issues

187 – Public attitudes to climate policy

30 May, 201120 October, 2011 by David Pannell7 Min Reading

There was a poll on climate change and climate policy conducted by Newspoll for The Australian newspaper over 29 April to 1 May 2011. I

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Communication, Natural resource management, Policy, Politics

186 – Submissions to government

23 May, 201125 August, 2012 by David Pannell5 Min Reading

There are many opportunities for Australians to attempt to influence government through making submissions to government inquiries and reviews. Relatively few people go to the

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Economics, Environment, Natural resource management, Policy

185 – Problems with environmental project prioritisation

5 May, 201122 December, 2011 by David Pannell5 Min Reading

Over the years of working on land and water conservation issues, I’ve become familiar with the decision-making processes used in a number of organisations to

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Economics, Environment

184 – The optimal scale of environmental projects

11 April, 201126 December, 2011 by David Pannell4 Min Reading

In the last two Pannell Discussions, I’ve talked about the relationship between the scale of environmental projects and their costs (PD182) and benefits (PD183). This

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Economics, Environment

183 – Diminishing marginal benefits of environmental projects

28 March, 201126 December, 2011 by David Pannell6 Min Reading

Environmental managers face the question of how large in scale to make their environmental projects. An important consideration is whether the projects would face diminishing

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