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fatality rates by showing the riskiest industries to be mining; agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; construction …
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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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The incremental costs of corrective measures to lessen the environmental impacts of the hydroelectric system are expected to increase and difficult questions to arise about the costs, effectiveness, and justification of alternative measures and their systemwide implications. The BPA anticipate...
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A growing number of major corporations and industry organizations now overtly advocate the general concept of corporate social and environmental responsibility, commonly emphasising the ‘business case’ for such behaviour on the basis that it is ‘good for business’. Many now report to...
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Rock lobsters have a number of attributes that suggest potential for aquaculture, such as high market demand and … normally have survived. Costs for aquaculture operations were similar for each option although increasingly favoured reseeding …
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This thesis contains five chapters dealing with different aspects of the social relations of aquaculture development in … significance of different forms of aquaculture development. Chapter 1 compares the impacts associated with projects intended to … promote pro-poor forms of fish culture with the impacts of commercial forms of aquaculture originating in the private sector …
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formulate farm certification standards that promote ‘‘responsible’’ culture practices. As a preface to its ‘‘tilapia aquaculture …
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