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CLIMATE CHANGE AND PRODUCTION RISK IN CHINESE AQUACULTURE
Holst, Rainer; Yu, Xiaohua - 2010
Drawing on the method developed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979), this paper separately analyzes the marginal contributions of both regular input factors and climate factors to mean output and to production risk in Chinese inland aquaculture. Furthermore, the net change in output following a 1°C...
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The role of grazier motivations and risk attitudes in the adoption of grazing best management practices
Greiner, Romy; Miller, Owen; Patterson, Louisa - 2008
The onus on landholders in relation to environmental performance is ever increasing. One toolfor achieving environmental improvements is the design and promotion of region-specific‘best management practices’ (BMPs). These are conservation practices aimed at reducingdiffuse source pollution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443305
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The Relationship Between Wildfire and Welfare
Kaval, Pamela; Loomis, John B. - 2005
We used the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two wildfire scenarios. Variables such as age, family size, fire frequency, and house value were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443715
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The Structure and Economic Impact of R&D Organisation in New Zealand
Johnson, Robin - 2005
R&D spending in New Zealand is a mixture of private and public investment undertaken to improve productive activity and efficiency. Investment is split fairly equally between private business, government organisations and the universities. It is a long term investment with some uncertainty about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443717
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An Empirical Investigation of the Linkages between Government Payments andFarmland Leasing Arrangements
Qiu, Feng; Goodwin, Barry K.; Gervais, Jean-Philippe - 2009
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/29/10.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444699
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RISK MANAGEMENT THROUGH INSURANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNALITIES FROM AGRICULTURAL INPUT USE: AN ITALIAN CASE STUDY
Capitanio, Fabian - 2008
The biological nature of agricultural production processes induce a higher degree ofuncertainty surrounding the economic performance of farm enterprises. This has contributedto the development and acceptance of forms of public intervention aimed at reducing incomevariability that have no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445763
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EX-ANTE EVALUATION OF AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEMES: COMBINING ELEMENTS OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC DECISION MAKING
Bartolini, Fabio; Gallerani, Vittorio; Viaggi, Davide - 2008
The objective of this paper is to set a complete ex-ante evaluation to support Decision Makers in designingmore efficient and effective agri-environmental contracts, through an integrated modelling of elements ofprivate and public decision making. Ex-ante comparison of policy design options in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446276
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Stepping stones for biological invasion: A bioeconomic model of transferable risk
Warziniack, Travis; Finnoff, David C.; Bossenbroek, Jonathan - 2010
Herein we model the widespread dispersal and management of an invasive species as a weak-link public good. The risk of introduction is driven in part by economic activity, is influenced by policies directed at the risk, and economic activity responds/adapts to the risk. Framed around recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446309
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Cost and benefits of using best management practices to control non-point sources of pollution under environmental and economic uncertainty
Rodriguez, Hector German; Popp, Jennie; Gbur, Edward E.; … - 2011
The economy of northwest Arkansas, including the Lincoln Lake watershed (a sub-watershed of the Illinois River), relies greatly upon livestock and poultry production. The supply of production by-products is increasingly under scrutiny as one of the potential sources of water pollution in the...
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The Increasing Demand for Desalination
Dabbagh, T.A.; Al-Saqabi, A. - 1989
"Desalination techniques have usually been utilised in arid zone countries with high incomes arising mainly from oil … production. Potable water provided to the public by desalination has to be heavily subsidised by the governments concerned. In … providing aid for development, it becomes increasingly evident that there will be a greater demand for desalination by the turn …
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