The Save Meadowbank Campaign has, since 2007, successfully fought Edinburgh Council’s decision to demolish, without community consultations, Meadowbank stadium and sport facilities to fund a city-wide sporting vision. Drawing on sociological literature on stadium protests, 21 interviews with...

This paper uses a vote-counting procedure to estimate the probability density function of the total economic impact as a parabolic function of global warming. There is a wide range of uncertainty about the impact of climate change up to 3°C, and the information becomes progressively more...

This paper brings up an amount of information, data and estimations, most of them originated in academic literature, with the objective of generating a debate on the economic effects of broadband, rather than its technical issues. Our goal is to start a debate that brings out the economic...

Ocean-based industries provide employment for nearly 30 % of the population in the North Coast region of British Columbia. Marine resource dependence has raised concerns about the possible economic impacts of a tanker spill along the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway shipping route, which...

An apparatus methodical study of parameters of new models of complex high technology products, providing cost-efficiency of their production and operation.

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This study evaluated the county-level impact of equine sales and horse racing on business activity in six other industries. In Fayette County, Kentucky, the results suggested that equine activities substantially increase the number of establishments, payroll, and sales in the hospitality,...