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. This report will address these issues, with an emphasis on pre-disaster planning and mitigation alternatives. It will also …Today's insurance industry strongly emphasizes developing cost-effective hazard mitigation programs, increasing and …
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Today's insurance industry strongly emphasizes developing cost-effective hazard mitigation programs, increasing and …, catastrophe response, loss control, and risk management. This report will address the above issues, with an emphasis on pre-disaster … planning and mitigation alternatives. It will also discuss how energy efficiency and renewable technologies can contribute to …
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This paper summarizes studies of carbon (C) mitigation potential and costs of about 40 forestry options in seven … developing countries. Each study uses the same methodological approach - Comprehensive Mitigation Assessment Process (COMAP) - to … estimate the above parameters between 2000 and 2030. The approach requires the projection of baseline and mitigation land …
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This thesis consists of three chapters, each of which focuses on different aspects of economic inequality.First, we investigate the differences in wage inequality between the United States and continental European countries (CEU). Wage inequality has been significantly higher in the US compared...
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The extent of openness to international trade may alter incentives differentially by gender for labor force participation, particularly in economies in which gender differentials in human capital investments such as schooling are large and in which norms about gender behaviors are strong. This...
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leaders creating and defining markets, and possibly even the business models, and the policy and technical infrastructure …
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Contributed Paper presented at the International Conference on Agriculture Of Ouagadougou (BURKINA FASO), December 4-6, 2010.
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New trends in global economy require greater capacity of the agricultural workforce. In order improve agricultural productivity it is needed to increase the level of human capital of the agrarian population. Human capital is accumulatedknowledge, created in the long term process of human...
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Social Network Capital and Academic Careers: The Case of a College of AgricultureABSTRACT The relationship between economic performance and various forms of capital anchors a significant portion of mainstream economic theory and applied economics. Human, physical and financial capital represent...
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This paper estimates returns to education for a sample of farm operators in NorthernIreland. The analysis examines the relationship between education and on-farm andoff-farm labour incomes. Human capital earnings functions are estimated to identifythe marginal return to education measured as...
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