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Environmental policy-making in New Zealand, 1978-2013
This article examines the ways in which key environmental policies have been made in the past, and reflects on the present state of play with respect to these policies. The article draws on my experience with the Environmental Defence Society (EDS) since 1978 and the reflections are personal ones. The issues covered are: government agencies; climate change; oceans; freshwater; and resource management law. The objective of this discussion is to see if the past illuminates the present in any useful way.
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Gary Taylor is the chairman of the Environmental Defence Society, with which he has been involved since the late 1970s. He is an environmental policy analyst and has had extensive governance experience as a director of public sector entities in Auckland
The 2001 National Agricultural, Food, and Public Policy Preference Survey: The South Dakota Perspective
Farmers and ranchers in 27 states were surveyed during the spring of 2001. The survey contains questions about farm income and risk management, conservation and environmental policies, trade, food labeling, the changing structure of agriculture, producer demographics, and a series of optional questions. In South Dakota, 1500 producers received surveys and 325 returned completed forms. This document compares the responses of South Dakota producers with those in the North Central region, and the nation.Farms, South Dakota, risk management, conservation, environmental, agricultural policy
Lehmer's conjecture for Hermitian matrices over the Eisenstein and Gaussian integers
We solve Lehmer's problem for a class of polynomials arising from Hermitian
matrices over the Eisenstein and Gaussian integers, that is, we show that all
such polynomials have Mahler measure at least Lehmer's number \tau_0 =
1.17628...
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