Economic Value of Ecosystem Services underpinning the Gwydir Valley Cotton Industry

dc.contributor.author	Reid, Nick
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-31T02:50:56Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-31T02:50:56Z
dc.date.issued	2003-06-30
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.insidecotton.com/xmlui/handle/1/2501
dc.description.abstract	The cotton industry in the Gwydir Valley, like most forms of agriculture, is reliant on a range of 'free' ecosystem, services such as clean irrigation water, breakdown of chemicals in soils and water storages, natural control of, pests by beneficial fauna, and spray drift containment by adjacent vegetation. These services have hitherto been, unpriced, but growers and the community incur substantial costs when such services are lost through ignorance or, mismanagement. This project aimed to determine the economic value of some of the ecosystem services, underpinning the cotton industry, and investigate the interaction between best-management practices and, performance of these ecological services
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dc.subject	NRM
dc.subject	Biodiversity
dc.title	Economic Value of Ecosystem Services underpinning the Gwydir Valley Cotton Industry
dc.subject.crdc	4b
CRDC.KeywordsUnrestricted	gwydir catchment, cotton crc, spray drift containment, australian cotton crc, exemplar ecosystem, farm-scale model, bio-economic models, appraising ecosystem, iqqm catchment, gwydir cmb, iqqm model, iqqm catchment water, nsw dlwc, simulation outputs, cotton crc conferences, gwydir catchment management, gwydir valley, best-management, catchment scale