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Currently, different dimensions of mitigation strategies have been investigated in policy analysis. However, ambitious … mitigation action aiming at reducing future climate change will not prevent much climate change before mid-century. Short … recognition of the need to simultaneously implement adaptation and mitigation. However, the optimal combination between adaptation …
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. The results suggest the importance of pre-disaster mitigation and adaptation activities as well as the effectiveness of … success is characterized as increased revenues when compared to pre-disaster levels. Adaptation is characterized as post …
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can be leveraged by wildfire risk mitigation actions done to both private properties and public lands adjacent to WUI … areas. Private mitigation actions include creating a defensible space zone and use of fire resistant construction materials … public actions can be targeted to high priority areas within the community. Private and public provisions to reduce risk can …
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This work was published in the Review of Agricultural Economics. See Wachenheim, C.J. 2009. Final Exam Scores in Introductory Economics Courses: Effect of Course Delivery Method and Proctoring. Review of Agricultural Economics 31(3), pp. 640-652.
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The objective of this study is to test the widely‐held belief that the effect of education has a positive impact on … marginal effect of education on technology adoption is significantly larger for large farms for both GM crops and precision … farming and it is unexpectedly negative for GM crops at all levels of farm size. These results suggest that formal education …
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the traditional economic model for ordered data. Results indicate that higher education and an individual's perceived diet … include incorporating valid health education into the formal education system. …
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World grains prices dramatically increased between 2007 and 2008, but rice prices especially surged. Utilizing the much larger spike in rice prices than in wheat, this article compares the response of Indian households consuming rice as the staple grain to households consuming wheat. Households...
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to local charities and a Community Entrepreneurship Education fund that has been established to assist future students … Enterprise has generated more than $3,000 for the Entrepreneurship Education fund. Total donations to charities exceeded $27 …
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education, particularly higher education. It is vital that college graduates can question assumptions, synthesize information …
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