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407. Memorising Pi

13 March, 20247 May, 2024 by David Pannell3 Min Reading

March 14 is Pi day – a celebration of the famous mathematical constant Pi, 3.1415926535 …  Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to

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406. Risk means probability distributions

11 March, 202430 June, 2025 by David Pannell7 Min Reading

In everyday speech, the word “risk” usually refers to the possibility of something bad happening. In the context of a business, like a farm, a

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405. Risk in Australian grain farming

4 March, 202430 June, 2025 by David Pannell5 Min Reading

Earlier in my career, I did a lot of work on risk in Australian agriculture, particularly for grain and sheep farms. Now I’m part of

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404. Vegetation on urban roadside verges

19 February, 202419 February, 2024 by David Pannell4 Min Reading

In a project led by Claire Doll and Curtis Rollins, we explored the preferences of Perth residents for the vegetation (apart from trees) planted on

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403. A History of AARES

8 February, 202421 April, 2025 by David Pannell1 Min Reading

I’ve been a member of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) since the early 1980s. It’s been really important to me as a

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402. Webinar on adoption of new practices in agriculture

16 October, 202324 October, 2023 by David Pannell1 Min Reading

I was invited to present a webinar on “Why aren’t farmers adopting my …?” How to design projects that change practice. It was hosted by

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  • 437. Environmental offsets 5. Setting the baseline

    Biodiversity offset schemes usually aim to deliver “no net loss” of biodiversity, but no net loss relative to what? What is the baseline? This question

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    In environmental offset schemes, there is often a time lag between when the environmental damage is done and when the offset project delivers its full

  • 435. Environmental offsets 3. Risk of failure

    When designing an environmental offset scheme, it is important to account for the probability that an offset project will fail to deliver its intended benefits.

  • 434. Environmental offsets 2. The currency for measuring impacts and benefits

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  • 430. Polarised public opinion

  • 429. The value of a non-market value

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