Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) are U.S. state mandates that utilities produce some of their electricity using renewable energy sources in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. While advocates highlight the potential long-term benefits of RPS, critics argue that RPS will increase...

Using a spatial hedonic growth model, this paper empirically examines the relative roles of natural amenities and urban agglomeration economies as determinants of U.S. regional growth patterns from 2000 to 2010. Natural amenities and urban agglomeration are measured using the USDA Economic...

Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher salaries for comparison across U.S. states. Teacher salaries are adjusted for state differences in teacher characteristics, cost of living, household amenity attractiveness and...

According to the requirements of "going out" strategy of Jilin Tobacco Industry Co. Ltd., in order to further expand the Changbaishan series brand in the market of North Korea, this paper elaborates the product development and maintenance ideas and measures for three cigarette companies in North...

In this paper discounted and average Markov decision processes with finite state space and countable action set (semi-infinite MDP for short) are discussed. Without ordinary continuity and compactness conditions, for discounted semi-infinite MDP we have shown that by exploiting the results on...

Increased population pressure and political decisions have led to more intensive agricultural practices in China. As in other regions of the world, these practices can damage natural capital We use the Kalman filter and Chinese panel data to estimate an index of environmental productivity...

In this paper discounted and average Markov decision processes with finite state space and countable action set (semi-infinite MDP for short) are discussed. Without ordinary continuity and compactness conditions, for discounted semi-infinite MDP we have shown that by exploiting the results on...

To rationally allocate farmland resources, and scientifically make farming industrial planning, we take Yizheng City in Jiangsu Province as the research object, and select 13 indicators. Based on Farmland Resources Management Information System in Yizheng City, we establish AHP model, and...

Severe situation faced by China's agri-ecological security is elaborated. It is believed that cultivation of farmers' citizenship is the key to solving this problem, because it is favorable to consolidating farmers' independent and equal ideas, enhancing farmers' cooperative community idea,...