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This communication presents a framework to analyse the resilience of irrigated farms in Morrocco. It first presents a … conceptual framework to analyse resilience at the farm level. The framework is then applied to a sample of farmers which were … and plan actions needed to enhance their resilience, others would only call for State intervention or even consider …
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Be it snow, volcanic ash or strikes, crisis events impose high costs on the air transport system and society. Airlines have progressively learned to mitigate the irregular operations arising from such events through procedures such as Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) for traffic flow and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820409
This communication presents a framework to analyse the resilience of irrigated farms in Morrocco. It first presents a … conceptual framework to analyse resilience at the farm level. The framework is then applied to a sample of farmers which were … and plan actions needed to enhance their resilience, others would only call for State intervention or even consider …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820648
As an answer to a need expressed by the UN General Assembly an Economic Vulnerability Index (EVI) has been defined by the Committee for Development Policy. The present paper, which refers to this index, first examines how a structural economic vulnerability index can be designed, in particular...
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Be it snow, volcanic ash or strikes, crisis events impose high costs on the air transportation system and society. Airlines have progressively learned to mitigate the irregular operations arising from such events through procedures such as Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898727
Work is focused on a gas company that wishes to develop a better understanding of its safety culture and identify potential enhancement opportunities. The hypothesis that emerged from an exploratory phase of work suggests that the corporate restructuring initiated four years ago, which has...
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This paper examines the effects of tourism on labor employment, capital accumulation and resident welfare for a small … open economy with unemployment. A tourism boom improves the terms of trade, increases labor employment, but lowers capital … capital intensive, the fall in capital would not be so severe and the expansion of tourism improves welfare. However, when the …
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Esta ponencia tiene como objetivo presentar y debatir algunos de los resultados alcanzados como parte de mi Trabajo Final de Master en Desarrollo y Cooperación Internacional (Universitat de Lleida). El trabajo tiene como punto de partida el caso particular del Archipiélago de Las Perlas...
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related to the tourism industry. Two arguments support this choice. On the one hand, as stated by Maskell et al. (2005 … the tourism industry. Indeed, the tourism industry is structured by dispersed activities in nature, time and space that … need to be combined and assembled dynamically. On the other hand, the tourism industry has been one of the most innovative …
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There is currently an increase in the media attention given to yachting harbour management. Some of these harbours have existed since the 1960s and yet, it is only recently that problems have arisen between public and private partners. This paper presents the case of leisure harbours and designs...
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