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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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responsibility. We provide an application to US agriculture to demonstrate the approach: we show that conventional measures of …
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To remain viable, agriculture in each location must offer returns that are competitive with those from alternative … study examines spatial relationships in agriculture's profitability over time. Results show temporal and spatial convergence … agriculture, raising policy implications. …
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It is becoming increasingly clear, at least on a theoretical level, that modelers of the potential impacts of climate change must impose that change upon the world as it will be configured sometime in the future rather than confine their attention to considerations of what would happen to the...
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At the end of the driest year on record, California faces water shortages whose impacts will be felt with progressive severity through the summer and fall of 1977. Electric power is not entirely exempt from these impacts and could, if severly affected, compound the direct distresses of the...
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fatality rates by showing the riskiest industries to be mining; agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; construction …
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agriculture markets. After a discussion of some central concepts, they provide an overview of the model, focusing on the …
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Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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