A major cause of deforestation in Lao PDR is associated with commercial timber harvesting. While there exists a legal …

This paper presents econometric evidence of the effects of economic incentives and institutions on national aggregate …-1995. We find strong impacts of both incentives and institutions on private agricultural R&D investment, and including …

"We are concerned here with the creation of non-market institutions for reducing the cost of risk in poor agrarian … Institutions, the formal and informal rules that order and constrain human relations, affect three critical aspects of economic … individual and communal income and consumption. Here we examine primarily the role of agrarian institutions in containing risk or …

back on the enterprise sector, as the state can no longer support the institutions necessary for the effective functioning …

of the reason may be related to the interaction between weak institutions and trade. In particular, I construct a model … in which trade opening in societies with weak institutions (in particular autocratic and elite-controlled political …

’s Office of Emergency Response (NA-42). The FRMAC (Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center) is the hub for … allradiological monitoring and the production of data products that interpret those measurements in terms of protective action …

Environmental characterization is necessary to support remediation and monitoring decisions and to construct and …

The Big Sky Partnership, led by Montana State University, is comprised of research institutions, public entities and …-based reporting framework; designing an integrated suite of monitoring, measuring, and verification technologies; and initiating a … critical importance of measurement, monitoring, and verification technologies to support not only carbon trading but other …