Livestock Improvement Corporation is presently undertaking a major review of genetic and production evaluations it provides to the New Zealand dairy industry. The Animal Evaluation Review is investigating the use of a ...

The GATT agreement has been a major factor behind the current reforms of the CAP essentially providing an external constraint on policy developments. This has enabled a radical switch from unlimited support based upon ...

The role of owner-provided services in fee-based recreation access is evaluated for the case of waterfowl hunting. An hedonic framework is used to analyze and estimate the implicit price of some waterfowl hunting lease ...

Concept testing is a research tool used to assess the market viability of a new product idea prior to incurring the development expense of actually fabricating a product. This paper examines the current literature on concept ...

A very large proportion of New Zealand's land area is reserved for conservation and recreation purposes. The Department of Conservation claims responsibility for the management of thirty percent of New Zealand land. Entry ...

In New Zealand, nature-based tourism has existed for a long time (imagine the early visitors to Tongariro National Park and Whakarewarewa). Our nature tourism market is affected by the significant increase world-wide in ...

Is there a conflict? Ask around and nobody knows. In no other time of New Zealand's history is the paucity of information so highlighted as at the present. The need for such information is predominantly to satisfy the ...

This paper discusses changes in dietary patterns and proposes some reasons for these, including food safety and environmental reasons. Implications of these changes are discussed from both a national and international ...

This paper is an attempt to make a contribution to current debates about the reform of higher education by using the work of Ronald Coase on 'the nature of the firm' as a framework for considering alternative institutional ...