On 9 July 1997 the Treasurer referred the international competitiveness of the Australian black coal industry to the Commission for inquiry and report within 12 months. The Commission is to identify ways of improving the international competitiveness of the Australian black coal industry which...

The need for monitoring countries’ overall performance in Sustainable Development (SD) is widely recognized, but the methods for aggregating vast amounts of empirical data remain rather crude. This paper examines the so-called ‘benefit-of-the-doubt’ weighting method as a tool for...

This paper studies a target-based procedure to rank lotteries that is normatively and observationally equivalent to the expected utility model. In view of this equivalence, the traditional utility-based language for decision making may be substituted with an alternative target-based language....

The aim of this paper is the realization of a Benchmark analysis about the relative position of the Valencian Innovation System. This comparison has been threefold comparing the Spanish, Mediterranean and European regions. In order to undertake this analysis, on the one hand, for the Spanish...

Planté depuis de nombreux siècles à Java, le teck y a été particulièrement développé au XIXe siècle. Les 200 000 ha de plantations de teck constituent la plus vaste plantation de cette essence au monde. Cette ressource est néanmoins surexploitée, et des Ong mettent en question sa...

Teak was first planted centuries ago in Java and the industry reached its peak in the 19th century. Java's teak plantations, the most extensive in the world, cover some 200 000 hectares, but they are being overexploited and NGOs are questioning their management by the state. Teak has become...