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possibility of a new growth industry for Hawai`i. However, two types of challenges must be overcome before this potential could be … result in an industry whose profitability is short lived once the technology is reproduced in other lower cost areas. "The … industry. The challenge is to strike the delicate balance between favoring local enterprises rooted in cultural traditions …
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context of modern agriculture, with well defined property rights, agricultural contracts must balance costs and benefits …
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This paper presents econometric evidence of the effects of economic incentives and institutions on national aggregate private agricultural R&D investments. A model is proposed and fitted to annual data for seven European Union countries, 1984-1995. We find strong impacts of both incentives and...
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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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This publication provides detailed documentation of the load forecast scenarios and assumptions used in preparing BPA's 1991 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study (the Study). This is one of two technical appendices to the Study; the other appendix details the utility-specific loads and...
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Protection (ICRP) by considering American rather than European and Japanese industry groups, by treating the relative importance … fatality rates by showing the riskiest industries to be mining; agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; construction …. However, the rankings re altered considerably at the regulatory dose level of 5.0 Rem/yr. At that level, the nuclear industry …
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agricultural producers and the spatial distribution of production persist amid industry change. These changes coincided with …. This study advances an institutional explanation of industry formation across locations within the U.S. Differences in … industry constitution at the local level produce different impacts of and responses to global markets, reflected by economic …
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Industrial symbiosis is an eco-innovative system concept that is based on a circular economy and industrial ecology ideas. This process comprises the movement of materials, energy, and skills across enterprises located within eco-industrial parks, and strives to provide economic, environmental,...
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Most markets have evolved as buyers and sellers constantly search for ways to create value, however this has not occurred naturally in all areas of the economy – markets are missing for some goods, including the environment. In such cases, transaction costs linked to property rights, asymmetric...
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In this article, intraseasonal fishing is modeled as a differential game between fishers in a total allowable catch (TAC)–regulated fishery with and without individual fishing quotas (IFQs). Heterogeneous harvest values are included by incorporating time-specific harvest costs and a...
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