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Bildungspolitik und Systemtransformation in Zentraleuropa
Slodowicz, Jan - 2005
Es wird untersucht, auf welche Weise die Länder Litauen, Polen und Ungarn ihre Bildungssysteme vor dem Hintergrund der …The main subject is the examination of the different strategies employed by Lithuania, Poland and Hungary during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471622
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442826
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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
"The recent stagnation of productivity growth in the irrigated areas of the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia has led to a quest for resource-conserving technologies that can save water, reduce production costs and improve production. The present synthesis of two detailed country studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468459
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Could the Irish Miracle Be Repeated in Hungary?
Acs, Zoltan J.; O'Gorman, Colm; Szerb, Laszlo; … - 2007
significant differences in entrepreneurial activity between Ireland and Hungary in both the type of people starting businesses and … Ireland and Hungary (Reynolds, et al 2005). We expect that countries will benefit from FDI spillovers when there is a strong … between Ireland and Hungary in terms of (i) levels of opportunity-based entrepreneurial activity, (ii) the entrepreneurial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438045