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Drivers Impacting the Adoption of Sustainable Agricultural Management Practices and Production Systems of the Northeast and Southeast United States.
Sassenrath, G.F.; Halloran, J.M.; Archer, D.; Raper, R.L.; … - 2010
Agricultural production responds to social, political, economic, environmental, and technological drivers that influence producers' decisions and shape the individual systems through modification of management practices, crop and livestock mix, and marketing strategy. We use an interview and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429521
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Modeling, testing and economic analysis of a wind-electric battery charging station
Gevorgian, V.; Corbus, D.A.; Drouilhet, S.; Holz, R.; … - 2008
Battery charging systems are very important in many developing countries where rural families cannot afford a solar-battery home system or other electricity options, but they can afford to own a battery (in some cases more than one battery) and can pay for it to be charged on a regular basis....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436128
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The Ahuachapan geothermal field, El Salvador: Exploitation model, performance predictions, economic analysis
Ripperda, M.; Bodvarsson, G.S.; Lippmann, M.J.; … - 2007
The Earth Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) is conducting a reservoir evaluation study of the Ahuachapan geothermal field in El Salvador. This work is being performed in cooperation with the Comision Ejecutiva Hidroelectrica del Rio Lempa (CEL) and the Los Alamos National...
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Technology capital: the price of admission to the growth club.
Evenson, Robert E.; Fuglie, Keith O. - 2010
We assess long-run patterns of global agricultural productivity growth between 1970 and 2005 and examine the relationship between investments in technology capital and productivity. To measure agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) we employ a Solow-type growth accounting method to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429506
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Effect of policy-based bioenergy demand on southern timber markets: A case study of North Carolina.
Abt, Robert C.; Abt, Karen L.; Cubbage, Frederick W.; … - 2010
Key factors driving renewable energy demand are state and federal policies requiring the use of renewable feedstocks to produce energy (renewable portfolio standards) and liquid fuels (renewable fuel standards). However, over the next decade, the infrastructure for renewable energy supplies is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429463
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Effect of market structure on international coal trade
Kolstad, C.D.; Abbey, D.S. - 2009
This paper is concerned with the determinants of international steam-coal trade. Most work in projecting coal trade has …-equilibrium models. Unfortunately, the competitive model of trade does not appear to account for observed and anticipated trade flows …. This is consistent with findings in the commodity trade literature that, although markets may behave in a rational economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437106
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The adoption of the Eurepgap Standard by Mango Exporters in Piura, Peru
Kleinwechter, Ulrich; Grethe, Harald - 2006
The significance of standards in international agricultural trade is continuously rising. Due to their complexity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442499
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Wage Share, Globalization, and Crisis: The Case of the Manufacturing Industry in Korea, Mexico, and Turkey
Onaran, Özlem - 2007
are measured by the effects of international trade and FDI intensity of the economy. On the other hand, the process of …, in particular international trade depends on industrial policy structure. Increased export intensity leads to a decline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467894
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Global economic integration, technology diffusion and climate change
Michael Hübler - 2010
This thesis is a collection of research papers examining global economic integration, technology diffusion and climate change and their interactions and policy implications. Chapter 1 theoretically analyzes the effect of changes in regional production costs on the inter-regional allocation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009428975
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Factors affecting the adoption and practice of knowledge management in the life insurance industry in Taiwan
Huang, Li-Su - 2007
In the trend of globalization and coordination of banks, insurance and security companies, Taiwan life insurance industry has been facing tremendous competitive pressure. As a result of the shift from focusing on tangible resources to intangible resources, enterprises are seeking for gaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435012