How can economists help to improve animal welfare?
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, economics, incentives, priorities, stakeholders, transparency
2012
Impact of a Subsidized Spay Neuter Clinic on Impoundments and Euthanasia in a Community Shelter and on Service and Complaint Calls to Animal Control
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: animal, animal welfare, animals, castration/economics, castration/veterinary, cats, dogs, euthanasia, female, male, north carolina, population control, residence characteristics
2012
Impact of rapid treatment of sheep lame with footrot on welfare and economics and farmer attitudes to lameness in sheep
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, dichelobacter nodosus, footrot, lameness, sheep, treatment control
2012
Impact of the Economic Recession on Companion Animal Relinquishment, Adoption, and Euthanasia: A Chicago Animal Shelter’s Experience
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: animal, animal welfare, animal/statistics & numerical data, animals, bonding, cats, chicago, dogs, economic recession, euthanasia, housing, human-pet, humans, ownership/economics, rescue work
2012
Interactions between profit and welfare on extensive sheep farms
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, economics, linear programming, profit, service quality modelling, sheep
2012
A method for the economic valuation of animal welfare benefits using a single welfare score
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, benefit valuation, economics, methodology, policy, welfare score
2012
Breeding for behavioural change in farm animals: practical, economic and ethical considerations
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, economics, ethics, genetics, proxy measures, selection index
2010
A Multi-Criteria Decision Framework for Animal Welfare Policy
Publication/Journal: 2010 New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (Inc.) Conference
Keywords: animal welfare policy, conference, farm animals
2010
Animal economics: assessing the motivation of female laboratory rabbits to reach a platform, social contact and food
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: access costs, animal economics, consumer demand, laboratory rabbit, motivation, oryctolagus cuniculus, resource value
2008
Applied animal behaviour science: Past, present and future prospects
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, applied animal behaviour science, david wood-gush, future strategy
2008