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This article outlines work in progress on a study of technological choice in the context of North-South development. Its main purpose is to describe the methodology being developed in the pilot phase of the study. This is of interest because it links together a number of analytic...
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Kyoto Protocol. We show that the Protocol?s mechanisms fall under a "weak" approach of sustainability which hardly calls …
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This paper examines the role played by biodiversity goals in the design of agricultural policies. A bio-economic model is developed with a dynamic and multi-scale perspective. It couples biodiversity dynamics, farming land-uses selected at the micro level and public policies at the macro level...
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-economic scenarios. The GCM runs were those undertaken for the IPCC fourth assessment report. They show consistent strong warming over … scenarios, and is exacerbated by climate change, especially through global-scale, market-related mechanisms. Policies to …
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. Finally, adopting scenarios of public debt sustainability for the period 2013-2020, we find out that the debt can be … develop a debt sustainability model and carry out an empirical investigation based on a system of four equations for the …
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scenarios based on their sustainability. Analyzing farms-type heterogeneity in each scenario, it is also possible to determine … of alternative methods for the calculation of composite indicators in order to measure global sustainability of the … indicators previously calculated for different policy scenarios at farm level. The results establish a hierarchy of the policy …
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scenarios on the basis of the level of sustainability achieved. Furthermore, analyzing the heterogeneity of different farms … indicators to measure global sustainability of the agricultural sector. This comparison is implemented empirically on the … previously calculated for different farm-types and policy scenarios. The results allow to establish a hierarchy of the policy …
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' definition of sustainability. …
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modeling, cooperative use of institutional and outside substantive expertise, and sustained cooperation with model …
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