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Beyond Economic Efficiency in Biodiversity Conservation

Gatzweiler, Franz W.; Volkmann, Jorg - Department für Agrarökonomie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin - 2007

This paper aims at explaining the importance of the democracy stance as compared to the efficiency stance in order to deal with complexity in biodiversity conservation. While the efficiency stance refers to the realm of relatively simple systems, individual rationality, and instrumental values,...

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To Share or Not to Share? (Non-) Violence, Scarcity and Resource Access in Somali Region, Ethiopia

Bogale, Ayalneh; Korf, Benedikt - Department für Agrarökonomie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin - 2005

It is often argued that environmental scarcity was a trigger and source of violent conflict, in particular in African countries. At the root of such arguments is a simple environmental determinism, which understands scarcity as undermining co-operative relationships between competing resource...

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SHIFTING GOVERNANCE IN SLOVENSKY RAJ NATIONAL PARK

Chobotova, Veronika; Kluvankova-Oravska, Tatiana - Department für Agrarökonomie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin - 2006

This paper explores the role of social capital and governance in rural development within Slovensky Raj National Park … influences on cooperation. Current decision making in the Park is still affected by post socialist relations. In particular … failure of institutional design. These were found as barriers for the National Park to be viewed by various actors as an asset …

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Explaining Changes of Property Rights among Afar Pastoralists, Ethiopia

Hundie, Bekele - Department für Agrarökonomie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin - 2006

This study aims at explaining property right changes in selected areas of Afar region in Ethiopia. Based on primary and secondary data, explanations are given on the existing types of land use arrangements and how the traditional communal rights of pastoralists have been changing. Both communal...

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The Effect of Farm Labor Organization on IPM Adoption. Empirical Evidence from Thailand

Beckmann, Volker; Irawan, Evi; Wesseler, Justus - Department für Agrarökonomie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin - 2009

This paper examines the effect of labor organization on integrated pest management (IPM), using cross section data collected from a participatory farming system survey of 157 durian growers in Chanthaburi, Thailand, in 2005. In contrast to many studies of IPM adoption, this work uses the form of...

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Zur Reduzierung niederschlagsbedingter Produktionsrisiken mit Wetterderivaten

Musshoff, Oliver; Odening, Martin; Xu, Wei - Department für Agrarökonomie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin - 2005

precipitation model. Moreover, a decorrelation analysis is proposed to analyse the spatial basis risk that is inherent to rainfall …

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Health Services and Disease Profile of Hyderabad City. A Pilot Study

Prasad, Sheela; Ramachandraiah, C. - Department für Agrarökonomie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin - 2007

The objective of this study was to primarily get an overview of the availability health services and disease patterns in Hyderabad. Some broad picture has emerged as an outcome of this study but it needs to be again mentioned that this is only an incomplete picture as a lot of health data is not...

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Achieving sustainable food security and poverty reduction through consumer cooperatives in Hyderabad

Helmerich, Juliana; Moid, Ma; Hanisch, Markus; Wulf, Bernd - Department für Agrarökonomie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin - 2007

The Old Town of Hyderabad is characterized by a great number of low-income households, poor infrastructure and limited access to basic amenities, subsequently resulting in high crime rates. In this very traditional and religious society, the majority of the women in the Bastis of the old town...

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Operationalisierungsprobleme Einer Vergleichenden Institutionenanalyse Zur Gewasserunterhaltung

Monsees, Jan - Department für Agrarökonomie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin - 2005

When applying New Institutional Economics (NIE) to empirical studies one is confronted with typical problems of operationalization. To illustrate some of these problems, this paper utilizes a comparative institutional analysis of the German Water and Soil Associations and alternative governance...

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Institutions of Sustainability and Multifunctional Landscapes: Lessons from the Case of the Algarve

Thiel, Andreas - Department für Agrarökonomie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin - 2006

The paper uses function analysis to complement the analytical framework Institutions of Sustainability and to apply it for the analysis of the role of institutions for the multifunctionality of landscapes. This combination of conceptual tools is evaluated through their application to the case of...

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