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Determinants of farmers’ preference for adaptation strategies to climate change: evidence from north shoa zone of Amhara region Ethiopia
Mulatu Debalke, Negash - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Studies on climate change adaptation recognize the importance of agro-ecology based research for designing context-specific policies and programs to climate change. This study, therefore, applied a case-study approach to examine farmers’ preference for climate change adaptation strategies and...
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Experience of technological and natural disasters and their impact on the perceived risk of nuclear accidents after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan 2011: A cross-country an...
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
experience of such disasters affects the perception of the risk of nuclear accidents. Estimation results show that the perceived … risk of a nuclear accident is positively associated with experiencing technological disasters but not with that of natural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652029
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Experience of technological and natural disasters and their impact on the perceived risk of nuclear accidents after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan 2011: A cross-country an...
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
experience of such disasters affects the perception of the risk of nuclear accidents. Estimation results show that the perceived … risk of a nuclear accident is positively associated with experiencing technological disasters but not with that of natural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132730
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Managing unknown risks: the future of global reinsurance
Chichilnisky, Graciela; Heal, Geoffrey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
It has been said that insurance is the last of the financial services to accept radical change (Denney [1995-1996]). Yet there has been a fundamental shift in the geographic location and in the organization of the reinsurance industry in the last six years (Chichilnisky [19966]). Global...
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The economics of global environmental risk
Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
into the future. It proposes sound principles of risk management that make sense in today's society generally, going beyond … them, it deals with different aspects of the theory of risk-bearing. I explain current responses to global change, focusing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619688
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A Radical Shift in Managing Risks: Practical Applications of Complexity Theory
Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
Complexity theory is designed to bring order out of a rough-and- tumble world, something close to every insurance professional's or actuary's heart. Whether applied in the laboratory or as part of a mathematical model, it can do wonderful things . But in the real world it's just what its name...
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Reduction of disaster vulnerability through Indigenous knowledge
Pathan, Pervez.A; Khan, A. Razzaq; Razzaq, S; Jariko, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
risk. To measure local knowledge and wisdom of the community statistically new model has developed through primary data …
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Research on Aquaculture in China
Zhou, Ang; Wang, Dong; Wang, Di - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper analyzes the state and conditions of aquaculture in South China Sea both from technological and economic … comparison on the cost between aquaculture sector and traditional agricultural sector, we conclude that China has a big potential … in aquaculture and the government should impulse this industry by necessary policy instrument. …
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Market differences in wild and farmed marine fish in the Spanish seafood market
Rodriguez, Gonzalo; Bande, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
It has long been generally accepted that substitution between wild and farmed fish exists when they are of the same species. While this is true for some species and markets, the relation does not hold for all of them. In fact, using cointegration methodology, this paper proves that farmed and...
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Gap Analysis of Stakeholders’ Perception in Tourism Industry
Chavan, Rajashri Ramesh; Bhola, Sarang Shankar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The paper mainly focused to determine the stakeholder profile and establish the perception gap between tourist and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258701