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L’agriculture est aujourd’hui confrontée à des enjeux environnementaux majeurs. Une nouvelle forme de comptabilité, celle environnementale, semble permettre d’obtenir l’information nécessaire pour la gestion de l’environnement. Cependant, il n’existe pas encore de méthodologies...
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farmers’ livelihoods due to natural resource degradation. This study provides empirical evidence on these crucial issues and … the degree of farmers’ engagement in commercial maize production and the determin ants of their land allocation decision … generates the lion’s share of farmers’ cash income. The poorest farmers are particularly sp ecialized in commercial maize …
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Présente une vue précise et systémique de l'apport des technologies de l'information dans l'entreprise et dans la société.
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This paper investigates the cost of biomass co-firing in European coal power stations. We propose a tractable and original method, that enables us to get expressions of biomass and CO2 breakeven points for co-firing in different types of coal plants. We call them carbon switching price and...
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The long-term incentive for the development of breeders is well known: better use of natural uranium in order to extend the potential of nuclear energy by a factor of 50 with given uranium resources, and in fact by a much larger factor, since also uranium resources from low-grade ores can be...
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In this article we present an introduction to various Filtering algorithms and some of their applications to the world of Quantitative Finance. We shall first mention the fundamental case of Gaussian noises where we obtain the well-known Kalman Filter. Because of common nonlinearities, we will...
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This article uses graph theory to provide novel evidence regarding market integration, a favorable condition for systemic risk to appear in. Relying on daily futures returns covering a 12-year period, we examine cross- and intermarket linkages, both within the commodity complex and between...
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The role of the United States in international negotiations, including Kyoto, has always been central as an economic and a political power and also as a polluter. In the absence so far of federal regulation, different states were very dynamic. Since the election of President Obama, energy and...
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Since the end of the eighties, the European electric sector has been progressively liberalised. This phenomenon has given a growing part to the financial markets in the valuation and the control of the firm's activities. With the privatisation, the management's efficiency has become the main...
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