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The widespread use of pesticides in agriculture provides a particularly complex pattern of multidimensionalnegative … study recently conducted in the North of Italy aimed at estimatingthe value of reducing the multiple impacts of pesticide …
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Pesticide use in agriculture poses several risks to both human health and non-target agro-ecosystems. Due to lack of … information on the monetary value of reducing pesticide risks, it is difficult to perform an economic analysis that addresses … social efficiency of policy and draws conclusions about the appropriate degree of regulation.The aim of the current paper is …
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This paper offers an overview of assessment methods for physicalplanning, with a particular focus on the agricultural sector. Anattempt is made to link multi-criteria analysis to meta-analysis byapplying rough set theory as a framework for comparative study. Anempirical application on the...
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In the search for effective pesticide risk management tools, the design of pesticide risk indicators is nowadays … recently developed pesticide risk indices and test their potential for management purposes. A pilot approach is proposed, which … explores pesticide worst-case hazard scenarios at different space-time scales by means of a set of 5 ecotoxicological risk …
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, infrastructure, agriculture, recreation and nature conservation. The formulation of alternative development scenarios is dominated by … land use and land cover options that are consistent with the stimulation of agriculture, nature or recreation. Two …
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This paper addresses the timing of a location's historical transition from rural to urban activity. We test whether urbanization occurs sooner in places with higher agricultural potential and comparatively lower transport costs, using worldwide data that divide the earth's surface at half-degree...
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