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Policy

108 – Setting policy targets

27 August, 200726 December, 2011 by David Pannell3 Min Reading

Targets to be achieved from public investments often seem to be determined by judgment and a fair bit of guesswork. Is there a better way?

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Agriculture, Economics

107 – Why don’t farmers use futures markets more?

30 July, 200726 December, 2011 by David Pannell4 Min Reading

Most of us prefer to avoid risk if we can. Some farmers reduce their risk by “hedging” – that is by locking in the sale

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Climate change

106 – The Great Global Warming Swindle

16 July, 200726 December, 2011 by David Pannell5 Min Reading

On July 12 ABC TV in Australia aired “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. This followed saturation promotion in days leading up to the broadcast, including

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Climate change, Policy

105 – A carbon tax?

9 July, 200726 December, 2011 by David Pannell5 Min Reading

Most of the attention in discussion of climate change policies has been on a carbon market. But what about a carbon tax? Some well-qualified economists

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Climate change, Policy

104 – How would a carbon market work?

2 July, 200726 December, 2011 by David Pannell5 Min Reading

I recently did a radio interview in which the journalist asked a lot of really basic questions about how a market for carbon might operate.

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Behaviour, People

103 – Influences on technology adoption in different phases

25 June, 200726 December, 2011 by David Pannell5 Min Reading

In a recent review of adoption of conservation practices by rural landholder, my co-authors and I broke down the factors that influence adoption into three

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