Michael Burton's research while affiliated with University of Western Australia and other places

... As an organic part of the ecosystem, wild animals are an essential link to maintaining the energy flow and material cycle in this environment, and they play an important regulatory role in the virtuous cycle of the ecosystem [1][2][3]. With the development of economy and society, the contradiction between the unreasonable demand of humans for wild animals and total wildlife resources has become progressively prominent [4,5]. ...

... Thirdly, we contribute to the empirical literature by checking the robustness of the obtained results concerning technical efficiency scores and the impact of subsidies across competing panel data stochastic frontier models. As pointed out by Oumer et al. (2022), this is rare in studies of the agricultural production sector. To date, apart from Oumer et al. (2022), the other following works that should be mentioned in this strand of literature are Abdulai and Tietje (2007), Kumbhakar, Lien, and Hardaker (2014), and Pisulewski and Marzec (2019). ...

... Other regulatory tools include harvest slot limits (Ahrens et al., 2020;Gwinn et al., 2015), periodic spatial/temporal closures (Chagaris et al., 2019), harvest tags (Jackson et al., 2016;Johnston et al., 2007), quotas or limited access Radomski, 2003). Although all these regulatory tools may positively and negatively contribute to the management goals (Ayllón et al., 2018;Maggs et al., 2016), there is consensus that the efficacy of each is highly context dependent (Navarro et al., 2022). Holder et al. (2020) presented 11 questions needing exploration regarding regulatory actions. ...

... A large number of studies have employed MRA in the agricultural sector. For example, Bravo-Ureta et al. (20007), Ogundari andBrummer (2011), Ogundari (2014) and Ho et al. (2021) used MRA to synthesize literature on the technical efficiency of agriculture. Recently, Ogundari andBolranwa (2018, 2019) used MRA to provide insights into agricultural extension services' impact. ...

... Many scholars have also taken different measures for the improvement of saline-alkali land. For example, they installed hidden pipes to drain water (Ayars et al., 2006;Feng et al., 2017) or used gypsum as a soil conditioner to improve the soil Sheikh et al., 2022). However, studies have shown that planting saline-alkali-tolerant plants has the advantages of low investment, wide application and strong sustainability. ...

... Yet management strategies adopted to conserve species can be highly contentious (e.g. Wallach et al., 2018;Gregory et al., 2021;Zander et al., 2021) such that the value placed on protecting a species by some people could be expected to be partly a function of the means employed to effect its conservation. ...

... American sea lions (Otaria flavescens, Otariidae), Humboldt penguins (Spheniscus humboldti, Spheniscidae), Guanay cormorants (Phalacrocorax bougainvillii, Phalacrocoracidae), and Peruvian boobies (Sula variegate, Sulidae) -and piscivorous fishes are in more direct competition with both local small-scale fishing and industrial fleets (Bertrand et al., 2012;Davis et al., 2021). We translated these viewpoints into management objectives and PMs summarized in Table 1. ...

... In addition, these studies develop an optimal plan and layout of measures by constructing and analyzing a multi-objective optimization model that includes benefits and costs in a particular area (Mao et al. 2017;Li et al. 2018;Gao et al. 2020;Hou et al. 2020;She et al. 2021). Also, researchers analyze the sustainability of operation and maintenance after completing the measures and evaluating the economic, ecological, and social benefits of measures by applying the value transfer approach (Ossa-Moreno et al. 2016), willingness to pay (WTP) (Ding et al. 2019;Wang et al. 2020a;Iftekhar et al. 2021), hedonic value method (Shen et al. 2021), emergency ecological model (Zhou et al. 2021), and other methods. These researchers analyze the net present value of costs and benefits of different combinations by building models that quantify the economic, private, and social benefits in different regions (Johnson and Geisendorf 2019). ...

... In recent work by Khosroshahi et al. (2019) the capacity of managers to place the same weight on service items as customers was tested. Overall, she found some alignment but major discrepancies were also evident. ...

... In Assam, all collected fees are expected to be passed to the state while in Bihar 70% is kept locally. In Sindh, 60% of collected fees are passed to government and in Punjab, the collections are halved between local and provincial authorities 7 . ...