We examine the potential for climate change to impact fertility via adaptations in human behaviour. We start by discussing a wide range of economic channels through which climate change might impact fertility, including sectoral reallocation, the gender wage gap, longevity, and child mortality....

This research presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity had maximized long-run reproductive success in the human population. Using a reconstructed genealogy for nearly half a million individuals in Quebec during the 1608-1800 period, we find that while a high fecundity was associated...

"Debates continue to rage over the merits or flaws of public land and whether or not it should be privatized--or at least, radically reconfigured in some way. In Defense of Public Lands offers a comprehensive refutation of the market-oriented arguments. Steven Davis passionately advocates that...

This paper applies a mathematical model for dealing with staffing levels in organisations. The model in the present study is the deterministic reneging queuing model (M/M/c–D) where customers lose patience after a deterministic time and leave the queue without being served. Inter–arrival...

This paper argues that public land management in local urban jurisdictions (city and county) and the political behaviors and dynamics embedded within are not necessarily just a miniaturized version of federal land management. Rather, there are intrinsic differences in the structure and nature of...

The effect of staffing levels on organisation performance is examined through applying the M/M/c-D reneging queuing model. The paper presents a review of organisation staffing and outlines experiments used to validate the theory. Staffing levels are examined from an output or production...

The present paper presents a theoretical approach to measure the relationship between staffing levels and organisation performance. Results from the approach are used to find the optimum staffing level that maximises the profit of the firm. This study assumes that incoming work to a firm follows...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is the increase the flexibility of robots used for handling of 3D (food) objects handling by the development and evaluation of a novel 3D Bernoulli gripper. Design/methodology/approach – A new gripper technology have been designed and evaluated. A...