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Economics

8 – Is economics hard hearted?

12 July, 200426 December, 2011 by David Pannell5 Min Reading

I watched a lot of tennis from Wimbledon when it was on a week or two ago. The big story of the tournament was the

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Environment, Natural resource management, Policy, Politics

7 – Government inquiries into salinity

5 July, 200426 December, 2011 by David Pannell4 Min Reading

Last week, another government report on salinity was released. This one was by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Science and Innovation, under the

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Climate change

6 – Climate change and scaremongering

28 June, 200426 December, 2011 by David Pannell3 Min Reading

Climate change is in the news again, thanks to the new movie “The Day After Tomorrow”. It seems that the consensus is that the movie

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Communication, Natural resource management, People

5 – Genetically modified organisms

21 June, 200426 December, 2011 by David Pannell5 Min Reading

Fear of the unknown can be a powerful force. I didn’t quite appreciate how powerful until I listened to an interesting experiment on national radio.

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Behaviour

4 – Farmers adopting new practices

14 June, 200426 December, 2011 by David Pannell4 Min Reading

It was very windy in Albany one day last week. We went out for a walk and got sand blasted skin and dust in the

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Economics

3 – “The cost of …”

7 June, 200426 December, 2011 by David Pannell3 Min Reading

Some people seem to think that a good use of economists is to estimate “the cost of” things. Particularly in the realm of environmental impacts

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