Agri-food supply chains (ASC) are an important application domain for Operational
Research/Management Science. In particular, the use of agent-based simulation (ABS) has …

Retail firms now offer same‐day delivery via hybrid fleets that augment a privately owned
delivery fleet with crowdsourced assets. As research on crowdsourced delivery continues to …

The New Zealand government seeks to dramatically increase the value of agricultural
exports while concurrently protecting the natural environment. Thus, farmers are expected to …

The telecoupling framework is an integrated concept that emphasises socioeconomic and
environmental interactions between distant places. Viewed through the lens of the …

Human behaviour is commonly optimised in economic models of adaptation to climate
change. These models assume that people work to maximise profit, subject to financial and …

Formal institutions impact on the dynamics of land use change through their objectives,
actions and decision-making processes in response to socio-economic or environmental …

Abstract In New Zealand, local governments are tasked with both sustainably managing
natural resources and supporting adoption of practices and technologies for environmental …

ABSTRACT A scenario-based questionnaire is a survey method that aims to identify the
respondents' decision rules using their responses to a series of scenarios. It is rarely used in …

Empirical studies of farm outcomes that rely on survey data often find important roles for
education and gender. However, relatively few studies consider either field of study or …

CONTEXT The complexity of farming and rural communities poses challenges to research
and extension initiatives seeking industry-wide change. The effectiveness of these initiatives …