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Aquatic ecosystems are vulnerable to threats from human activity. Urban stream ecosystems are especially vulnerable to urbanisation of surrounding land use, and interest continues to grow in improving the health of urban streams. We study 30 sites along two highly urbanised streams in Brisbane,...
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Mining and fishing are both extractive industries, although one resource is renewable and the other is not. Miners and fishers pursue financial objectives, although their objectives may differ. In both industries financial performance is influenced by productivity and prices. Finally, in both...
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We consider productivity measurement based on radial DEA models with multiple constant inputs. We show that in this case the Malmquist and the Hicks- Moorsteen productivity indices coincide and are multiplicatively complete, the choice of orientation for the measurement of productivity change...
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In this study we consider the linkage between productivity change and profit change. We develop an analytical framework in which profit change between one period and the next is decomposed into three sources: (i) a productivity change effect (which includes a technical change effect and an...
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