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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
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Linking Resilience Theory and Diffusion of Innovations Theory to Understand the Potential for Perennials in the U.S. Corn Belt
Atwell, Ryan C.; Schulte, Lisa A.; Westphal, Lynne M. - 2009
"In the last 200 yr, more than 80% of the land in the U.S. Corn Belt agro-ecosystem has been converted from natural perennial vegetation to intensive agricultural production of row crops. Despite research showing how re-integration of perennial vegetation, e.g., cover crops, pasture, riparian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468318
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The Economic Impacts of Pollinator Declines: An Approach to Assessing the Consequences
Kevan, Peter G.; Phillips, Truman P. - 2001
pollination systems in many areas of agriculture are threatened by the inadequacy or lack of sustainable managed, indigenous, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468368
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Conflicts and Value Trade-Offs in the Management of Common Property: Insights from Land Use Studies in the Australian Sugar Industry
Mallawaarachchi, Thilak - 2001
"Traditionally, benefits of common property arrangements arose from complementarity in resource use, which permitted multiple uses for several users. Today, common property resources (CPRs) represent quasi-public goods, featuring increasing rivalry in consumption. As the domain of uses widens...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468381
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Assessing the Impact of Integrated Natural Resource Management: Challenges and Experiences
Gottret, Maria Veronica; White, Douglas C. - 2002
"Assessing the impact of integrated natural resource management (INRM) research poses a challenge to scientists. The complexity of INRM interventions requires a more holistic approach to impact assessment, beyond the plot and farm levels and beyond traditional analysis of economic returns....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468433
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Adoption and Impacts of Zero Tillage as a Resource Conserving Technology in the Irrigated Plains of South Asia
Erenstein, Olaf; Farooq, Umar; Malik, R. K.; Sharif, … - 2007
-wheat systems of India’s Haryana State (34.5% of surveyed households) and Pakistan’s Punjab province (19%). The combination of a … widespread acceptance of ZT in Haryana, India. In Punjab, Pakistan, adoption is driven by the significant ZT-induced cost savings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468459
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International Trade Openness and Gender Gaps in Pakistani Labor Force Participation Rates Over 57 Years
Hyder, Asma; Behrman, Jere R - 2011
rates in broad occupational categories in Pakistan. The method used controls for average gender differences in these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438968
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Identifying Asset Poverty Thresholds – New methods with an application to Pakistan and Ethiopia
Naschold, Felix - 2005
is whether such threshold points exist in Pakistan and Ethiopia and, if so, where they are located. Methodologically, the … growth. Moreover, the dynamic asset equilibria are very low. In Pakistan it is below the average asset holdings of the poor … insufficient for rural households in Pakistan and Ethiopia to escape poverty. …
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