El inicio de la interacción entre el hombre y la naturaleza y viceversa, en la Comunidad Primitiva, al igual que la definición del fuego como el primer logro de supervivencia, constituye, sin lugar a dudas, la primera forma de agresión a la naturaleza, que se intensifica por ser la tala de...

El inicio de la interacción entre el hombre y la naturaleza y viceversa, en la Comunidad Primitiva, al igual que la definición del fuego como el primer logro de supervivencia, constituye, sin lugar a dudas, la primera forma de agresión a la naturaleza, que se intensifica por ser la tala de...

Farmers are likely to be motivated by alternative goals besides profit maximization. Goal structure is highly influential in farmer enterprise selection decisions. This paper addresses the roles of goal structure, location, financial situation, and socio-demographic variables and their influence...

Studying the sustainable use of ecosystem services under uncertainty requires the consideration of the stochastic dynamics of the system under study, risk and time preferences, risk management strategies and normative views pertaining to sustainability. To gather this information for an...

During the twentieth century, Brazil developed its beef industry, acquiring in the last decade great importance in the international market. This article considers four exotic factors that contributed to its moving from importer of beef to the largest exporter: the raising of cattle of Iberian...

We propose a new three-step model-selection framework for size distributions in empirical data. It generalizes a recent frequentist plausibility-of-fit analysis (Step 1) and combines it with a relative ranking based on the Bayesian Akaike Information Criterion (Step 2). We enhance these...

Commercial cattle farming in Namibia, a prime example of livestock farming in semi-arid rangelands, is subject to a variety of risks, predominant among which is precipitation risk. At the same time it suffers from rangeland degradation that is at least partly due to inadequate management. We...

We study the determinants and interactions of sustainability and risk management with a cross-sectional dataset on commercial cattle farming in semi-arid rangelands in Namibia. Cattle farmers in Namibia act within a coupled ecological-economic system that is subject to extensive degradation and...