Here is a chronological list of past Pannell Discussions available at this site.

• 427. Reviews of research on agricultural adoption
• 426. Music “Option Value”
• 425. World population beyond 2100
• 424. Risk aversion versus loss aversion, part 2
• 423. Risk aversion versus loss aversion, part 1
• 422. Risky farm decision making as a social process
• 421. Risk versus uncertainty
• 420. Systematic decision making under risk
• 419. Risk premium
• 418. Hedging to reduce crop price risk
• 417. Twenty years of Pannell Discussions
• 416. Neglecting the risks of a project
• 415. Learning about the riskiness of a new farming practice
• 414. Intuitive versus analytical thinking about risk
• 413. Diversification to reduce risk
• 412. Risk aversion and fertiliser decisions
• 411. Benefit-Cost Analysis decision criteria
• 410. Strategic decisions, tactical decisions and risk
• 409. Farmers’ risk preferences
• 408. Farmers’ risk perceptions
• 407. Memorising Pi
• 406. Risk means probability distributions
• 405. Risk in Australian grain farming
• 404. Vegetation on urban roadside verges
• 403. A History of AARES
• 402. Webinar on adoption of new practices in agriculture
• 401. Doing a literature review
• 400. The Journal of Beatles Studies
• 399. Behavioural economics + production economics = impact
• 398. Live drawing during seminar
• 397. Responding to journal reviews
• 396. Landing at Sydney Airport (video)
• 395. Should parks be less green?
• 394. Creating an environmental market
• 393. Markets, trust and religion
• 392. Environmental markets don’t emerge spontaneously
• 391. Resources for PhD students: information your supervisors may not tell you
• 390. Excel tips
• 389. Word tips for PhDs (and others)
• 388. Reviewing journal articles
• 387. Citing references well
• 386. Transformative change versus incremental change
• 385. Restructured Benefit: Cost Analysis course
• 384. Biodiversity offset prices and biodiversity values
• 383. Submission to carbon credit inquiry
• 382. BCA challenges: Who benefits? Who pays?
• 381. Why are fertiliser prices currently so high?
• 380. The public’s valuation of threatened species protection
• 379. BCA challenges: Excess burden of taxation
• 378. Farmers’ adoption of new practices and technologies – video
• 377. Grain growers adapting to climate change in the WA wheatbelt
• 376. BCA challenges: jobs
• 375. Do urban parks have to be watered?
• 374. Soil carbon webinar and written Q&A
• 373. BCA challenges: representing behaviour
• 372. The fairness of additionality rules
• 371. Challenges in making soil-carbon sequestration a worthwhile policy
• 370. My writing process
• 369. BCA criticisms 5: “money isn’t everything”
• 368. Serious weaknesses in the Emissions Reduction Fund
• 367. BCA challenges: over-optimism
• 366. Environmental accounting: is it worthwhile?
• 365. Investment decision-support framework for water-sensitive urban design
• 364. BCA criticisms 4: “not fair”
• 363. The Beatles: Get Back
• 362. BCA criticisms 3: “discounting is bad”
• 361. Golf limericks
• 360. Potential farmer responses to extreme prices for nitrogen fertiliser
• 359. Ken Wallace obituary
• 358. High-quality Benefit: Cost Analysis template, for free
• 357. BCA criticisms 2: “too much uncertainty”
• 356. Letter to Minister for Emissions Reduction
• 355. Wellbeing
• 354. BCA criticisms 1: “any result you want”
• 353. Virtual issues of AJARE on climate change
• 352. Comparing projects of different lifespans in BCA
• 351. Adoption and Behaviour Change in Agricultural Policy
• 350. Professional development opportunities
• 349. Adoption pathways analysis
• 348. Soil carbon is a highly flawed climate policy, Part 3
• 347. Soil carbon is a highly flawed climate policy, Part 2
• Decision criteria for Benefit-Cost Analysis – A world of confusion
• 346. Soil carbon is a highly flawed climate policy, Part 1
• 345. Personal freedom versus the public good
• 344. Applied Benefit: Cost Analysis course
• 343. Making video lectures part 2
• 342. PhD scholarships available
• 341. Connecting research with policy
• 340. COVID-19 and environmental economics
• 339. Assuming that farmers maximise profit
• 338. Modelling COVID-19
• 337. Developing-country farmers: how are they different?
• 336. Free time at home? Do this free course!
• 335. Behavioural economics and adoption of agricultural innovations
• 334. Making video lectures
• 333. Reducing bushfire risks
• 332. Farmer behaviour and agricultural policy
• 331. Conservation opportunities on uncontested lands
• 330. Adoption of agricultural innovations Special Issue
• 329. Best albums of the 2010s
• 328. Weitzman discounting
• 327. Heterogeneity of farmers
• 326. 60-second videos about our research
• 325. Ranking projects based on cost-effectiveness
• 324. NPV versus BCR part 3
• 323. NPV versus BCR part 2
• 322. NPV versus BCR part 1
• 321. Communicating economics to policy makers
• 320. Fixed costs and input rates
• 319. Reducing water pollution from agricultural fertilizers
• 318. Measuring impacts from environmental research
• 317. The worth of wildlife
• 316. Resources for agri-environmental schemes
• 315. Shark conservation and demand for tourism in the Maldives
• 314. ADOPT goes online
• 313. Joining the dots versus growing the blobs
• 312. The economics of nitrogen in agriculture
• 311. 162 Beatles’ Albums Ranked
• 310. Additionality can be tricky to assess
• 309. Why do fishers in Chile put up with poachers?
• 308. Vote yes for marriage equality
• 307. John Kerin’s memoirs
• 306. Economics of green infrastructure in cities: some essentials
• 305. Feeling virtuous: what’s it worth?
• 304. Predicting behaviour change by farmers
• 303. Postdoctoral Research Fellow position available
• 302. India impressions
• 301. Inequality in the USA
• 300. MOOC feedback
• 299 – Are higher house prices a benefit or a problem?
• 298 – Potential value from restoring urban drains
• 297 – You can own a critically endangered species
• 296 – Endangered species stamps
• 295 – What is a threatened species worth?
• 294 – Slovakia
• 293 – Beatles tourism
• 292 – Walking the Thames Path
• 291 – The Swinford Toll Bridge
• 290 – Advice for successful agri-environmental policy
• 289 – Interpreting evidence through an ideological lens
• 288 – Bowie albums ranked
• 287 – Farmers like trees
• 286 – Marine reserves and tourism benefits
• 285 – The collapse of North Atlantic Cod
• 284 – The world food price crisis of 2007
• 283 – Whose environmental values matter?
• 282 – MOOC reflections
• 281 – Ranking Environmental Projects Revisited
• 280 – Lomborg at UWA
• 279 – Garbage in, garbage out?
• 278 – Global wealth inequality
• 277 – Perfection isn’t best
• 276 – MOOC
• 275 – Grammar tip: hyphens
• 274 – Tokenistic policies
• 273 – Behaviour change comes in pairs
• 272 – Additionality
• 271 – 10 years of blogging
• 270 – Violence and economics 2
• 269 – Violence and economics 1
• 268 – Conservation agriculture in developing countries
• 267 – Budget 2014 and the environment
• 266 – Supply and demand: The wool crisis
• 265 – Fossil fuel subsidies
• 264 – Capitol Records’ shameful handling of The Beatles
• 263 – The EQ Index
• 262 – Environmental triage
• 261 – Agricultural water pollution
• 260 – Marginal values and average values (of sharks)
• 259 – Increasing environmental benefits
• 258 – How many environmental targets are SMART?
• 257 – Be smart, use SMART goals
• 256 – Attitudes to monetising environmental values
• 255 – Science communication: The Matrix
• 254 – Ranking environmental projects 20: Summary
• 253 – Ranking environmental projects 19: Mistakes to avoid
• 252 – Ranking environmental projects 18: Simplifications
• 251 – Ranking environmental projects 17: Uncertainty
• 250 – Ranking environmental projects 16: Other cost issues
• 249 – Ranking environmental projects 15: Maintenance costs
• 248 – Ranking environmental projects 14: Private costs
• 247 – Ranking environmental projects 13: In-kind costs
• 246 – Ranking environmental projects 12: Cash costs
• 245 – Ranking environmental projects 11: Scoring variables
• 244 – Ranking environmental projects 10: Private benefits
• 243 – Ranking environmental projects 9: Multiple benefits
• 242 – Ranking environmental projects 8: Time
• 241 – Ranking environmental projects 7: Project risks
• 240 – Ranking environmental projects 6: Adoption and compliance
• 239 – Ranking environmental projects 5: Estimating and measuring values
• 238 – Ranking environmental projects 4: Environmental condition and values
• 237 – Ranking environmental projects 3: With vs without
• 236 – Ranking environmental projects 2: Divide by costs
• 235 – Ranking environmental projects 1
• 234 – The benefits of environmental research
• 233 – Journal refereeing
• 232 – Agricultural extension in 10 years
• 231 – Selecting environmental projects: prioritizing really matters
• 230 – Future climate change and wheat yields in Western Australia
• 229 – Past climate change and wheat yields in Western Australia
• 228 – Majority opinion
• 227 – ‘Disadoption’ after a project ends
• 226 – Modelling versus science
• 225 – It was 50 years ago today
• 224 – Torturing ourselves over discounting
• 223 – Leadership
• 222 – Technology versus labour in agriculture
• 221 – Valuing environmental intangibles, part 4: The upshot
• 220 – Valuing environmental intangibles, part 3: The cons
• 219 – Valuing environmental intangibles, part 2: The pro’s
• 218 – Valuing environmental intangibles, part 1: The options
• 217 – Artificial scarcity
• 216 – Diminishing marginal benefits of economics
• 215 – However
• 214 – The perils of asking people
• 213 – The environmental planning fallacy
• 212 – Wildlife corridors: the next big thing?
• 211 – Water policy book
• 210 – Under-estimating the costs of environmental protection
• 209 – The economics of the music industry
• 208 – Ecological thresholds, uncertainty and decision making
• 207 – Are sharks more valuable dead or alive?
• 206 – Award for Pannell Discussions
• 205 – Chinese television
• 204 – Describing changes in percentages
• 203 – Predicting adoption of new farming practices
• 202 – The cost of umbrellas
• 201 – Reasoning with probabilities
• 200 – Blog
• 199 – Three Gorges Dam
• 198 – Chinese air pollution
• 197 – The Danish fat tax
• 196 – The web vs journals
• 195 – Publishing persistence
• 194 – “With respect, …”
• 193 – Transaction costs workshop
• 192 – Transaction costs
• 191 – Crowding out
• 190 – Helping Canada with environmental decisions
• 189 – Donna Brennan commemoration
• 188 – When is a carbon tax not a carbon tax?
• 187 – Public attitudes to climate policy
• 186 – Submissions to government
• 185 – Problems with environmental project prioritisation
• 184 – The optimal scale of environmental projects
• 183 – Diminishing marginal benefits of environmental projects
• 182 – Increasing marginal costs of environmental projects
• 181 – Answering questions after presenting a seminar or conference paper
• 180 – New book: Changing Land Management
• 179 – Discounted milk prices
• 178 – Betting on wheat prices
• 177 – Split infinitives
• 176 – The Murray-Darling Basin Plan
• 175 – Environmental valuation: policy challenges
• 174 – Assessment of the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality
• 173 – Indirect influences of policy on environmental outcomes
• 172 – Peak oil
• 171 – Lifestyle landholders
• 170 – Social capital
• 169 – If I were a government minister …
• 168 – Telling farmers how to adapt to climate change
• 167 – Broad versus targeted environmental investment
• 166 – Best albums of the past decade
• 165 – ClimateGate part 3: Reactions and implications
• 164 – ClimateGate part 2: What is revealed?
• 163 – ClimateGate part 1: Background
• 162 – CSIRO and the Clive Spash controversy
• 161 – Climate policy: an alternative approach
• 160 – Tokenistic climate policy
• 159 – The cost of inaccurate data
• 158 – Using the wrong metric to prioritise projects is very costly
• 157 – Is the community an environmental “asset”?
• 156 – Eureka!
• 155 – Another Symposium on “Understanding Practice Change by Rural Landholders”
• 154 – “Asset-based” environmental management
• 153 – Best Management Practices (BMPs)
• 152 – “Understanding practice change” videos and podcasts
• 151 – Additionality in environmental programs
• 150 – Why don’t environmental managers use decision theory?
• 149 – Cost sharing for environmental works
• 148 – The Economics of Environmental Payments
• 147 – PowerPoint tips
• 146 – Charles Darwin: Surprising Truths, part 4
• 145 – Charles Darwin: Surprising Truths, part 3
• 144 – Charles Darwin: Surprising Truths, part 2
• 143 – Charles Darwin: Surprising Truths, part 1
• 142 – The “Caring for our Country” Business Plan
• 141 – Thinking strategically about practice change
• 140 – Renewable energy in a carbon market
• 139 – Free-rider problems: milk in the office fridge
• 138 – Practice change by farmers: National symposium
• 137 – Engaging with researchers: tips for policy makers
• 136 – Engaging with policy: tips for researchers
• 135 – Differences between the worlds of research and policy
• 134 – Why is it hard for research to influence policy?
• 133 – Environmental budgets: two distinct questions
• 132 – The mainstream media
• 131 – Triage in environmental management
• 130 – Mac versus Windows
• 129 – The public: private benefits framework
• 128 – Compensation to carbon emitters
• 127 – Sequestering carbon in agricultural soils
• 126 – Sensitivity analysis with economic models
• 125 – Adoption of conservation practices – paper tops the charts
• 124 – Linking natural resource research to the real world
• 123 – Crisis? What crisis?
• 122 – Effective environmental policy
• 121 – New environment policy “Caring for our Country”
• 120 – The Landcare boom
• 119 – The policy zeitgeist
• 118 – Farmers over-using chemicals
• 117 – Research jobs available
• 116 – Capacities of regional NRM bodies
• 115 – Scale in natural resource management
• 114 – Localised vs dispersed natural-resource assets
• 113 – MIDAS model 25th anniversary
• 112 – Advanced studies in economics and policy for natural resources and the environment
• 111 – Tornado politics and abortion politics
• 110 – Science and policy
• 109 – Long jump world champion 2007
• 108 – Setting policy targets
• 107 – Why don’t farmers use futures markets more?
• 106 – The Great Global Warming Swindle
• 105 – A carbon tax?
• 104 – How would a carbon market work?
• 103 – Influences on technology adoption in different phases
• 102 – A national market for biodiversity?
• 101 – Outsourcing farm management?
• 100 – A jolly good Fellow
• 99 – Environmental policy: Canada vs Australia
• 98 – Agricultural research for the poor
• 97 – Regional environmental management in Australia
• 96 – Economic questions for environmental managers
• 95 – Linking research to policy
• 94 – Environmental stewardship payments
• 93 – Thinking like an economist 24: With and without
• 92 – Future Natural Resource Management policy in Australia
• 91 – Environmental monitoring – why bother?
• 90 – Skin cancer
• 89 – Farmers as “consumers” of nature conservation
• 88 – Thinking like an economist 24: Flat-earth economics
• 87 – Economics and the future
• 86 – Adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders: implications for research and extension
• 85 – Adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders: implications for policy
• 84 – Estonia and Latvia
• 83 – “Water Resource Policy” workshop
• 82 – Seeking more effective NRM policies
• 81 – The cult of the asterisk
• 80 – Public benefits, private benefits: the final framework
• 79 – Public benefits, private benefits, and technology development
• 78 – Public benefits, private benefits, and negative incentives
• 77 – Comments on Channel 9’s salinity exposé
• 76 – Public benefits, private benefits, and extension
• 75 – Public benefits, private benefits, incentives and lags to adoption
• 74 – Public benefits, private benefits, and incentives for changing land management
• 73 – Public benefits, private benefits, and the choice of policy tool
• 72 – Headaches
• 71 – Thinking like an economist 23: Agonising decisions
• 70 – Thinking like an economist 22: Risky decision making
• 69 – Climate change
• 68 – Seeking multiple outcomes in environmental programs
• 67 – Using communication and education to encourage land-use change in agriculture for environmental benefits
• 66 – Thinking like an economist 21: Using incentives to buy land-use change in agriculture for environmental benefits
• 65 – Thinking like an economist 20: Challenges for policy economists
• 64 – Compliance with Kyoto
• 63 – AANRO.NET
• 62 – SIF3: Salinity Investment Framework III
• 61 – Thinking like an economist 19: Should we have an environmental levy?
• 60 – Agricultural productivity growth
• 59 – Economics history
• 58 – The Hockey Stick again
• 57 – Herbicide resistance: Does prevention pay?
• 56 – Thinking like an economist 18: Constructive roles of economics
• 55 – Targeting perennials to balance profit, water yields and salt loads
• 54 – Ivory towers are safe
• 53 – Thinking like an economist 17: Strengths of economists
• 52 – Thinking like an economist 16: Weaknesses of economists
• 51 – Links between dryland salinity and climate change
• 50 – Parallels between dryland salinity and climate change
• 49 – Cultural differences
• 48 – Thinking like an economist 15: Economics and happiness
• 47 – Thinking like an economist 14: The sunk-cost fallacy
• 46 – Fresh water for Perth 4: post-election wrap up
• 45 – Thinking like an economist 13: What is the cost?
• 44 – Thinking like an economist 12: Hand it over!
• 43 – New knowledge or new technology: which is better?
• 42 – Research meets policy
• 41 – Fresh water for Perth 3: myths and misconceptions
• 40 – Fresh water for Perth 2: the State Opposition’s attempts
• 39 – Fresh water for Perth 1: the State Government’s attempts
• 38 – Personality and the adoption of innovations
• 37 – Adoption of conservation technologies by rural landholders
• 36 – Computer disasters: a cautionary tale
• 35 – Thinking like an economist 11: Externalities and market failure
• 34 – Thinking like an economist 10: Values in the very long term
• 33 – Thinking like an economist 9: Time is money
• 32 -Australia’s position on whaling
• 31 – A Christmas recipe
• 30 – Thinking like an economist 8: Putting a value on the environment
• 29 – Elvis Costello and the Imposters, Kings Park, Perth, Western Australia, 5 December 2004
• 28 – Radio
• 27 – Thinking like an economist 7: Economics and money
• 26 – Dryland salinity in Australia
• 25 – Targeting agricultural extension to high-impact areas
• 24 – Thinking like an economist 6: The value of information
• 23 – Capacity building? The role of communication and education in NRM
• 22 – Thinking like an economist 5: Public goods and public benefits in NRM
• 21 – Thinking like an economist 4: Who should pay for the environment?
• 20 – Thinking like an economist 3: What is your objective?
• 19 – The greatest leap
• 18 – Thinking like an economist 2: Decisions, decisions
• 17 – Thinking like an economist 1: Anticipating and explaining economic behaviour
• 16 – The election and the environment
• 15 – Can you count land values?
• 14 – Basic tips with Microsoft Word
• 13 – Global warming: book reviews
• 12 – W.E. Wood
• 11 – Politics and dryland salinity
• 10 – The White Album
• 9 – Distance
• 8 – Is economics hard hearted?
• 7 – Government inquiries into salinity
• 6 – Climate change and scaremongering
• 5 – Genetically modified organisms
• 4 – Farmers adopting new practices
• 3 – “The cost of …”
• 2 – Sustainability
• 1 – Research journals: reading them and reviewing for them