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I am grateful for the assistance of Dr Cris Brack and Dr John Ogden during the preparation of this paper. This paper was prepared as part of a PhD research project supported by the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Accounting. I also acknowledge the valuable input provided by Dr John Banks and the anonymous reviewers.

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