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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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"The rapidly emerging 'new science' of nonequilibrium systems theory may offer common property researchers and scholars …. Deriving from the dynamical holism of quantum physics, nonequilibrium theory engages the spontaneity, chaos, interrelatedness … paper explores the aspects of nonequilibrium theory which may be instructive in an expanded vision of common property …
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In 2001, the United States General Accounting Office issued a report entitled “Management Improvements Needed to Further Promote Integrated Pest Management.” This report documents that overall agricultural pesticide usage increased from 1992 to 2000 while the use of the most toxic levels of...
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countries of Viet Nam, Thailand, and Nicaragua have demonstrated that a one-time course is just the first step in a series of …
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andpoverty. In the first essay, to investigate this issue, panel data are used from a randomizedexperiment conducted in Nicaragua …
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-sited, ethnographic research in Nicaragua, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), with four separate fair trade organizations: a …
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, many foreigners are making Nicaragua their new home. Investors are noticing increased opportunities to open up a business … venture whether it is a hotel, restaurant or other small business. As a country with a rather unstable past, Nicaragua is … changing rapidly. Owning a business in Nicaragua is becoming commonplace. How then do these establishments achieve success and …
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implemented a variety of projects from slow sand filters to compressed earth blocks, and the Nicaragua team is in the process of …, the climate of Nicaragua, the availability of photovoltaic system components in-country, the expected loads that the …
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