An important issue with regard to the overall effectiveness of conservation-tillage practices in reducing the impact of agricultural production on the environment concerns what happens to energy, pesticide and fertilizer use as these practices are more extensively adopted. To gain some insight...

This paper endeavours to study the changes in the distribution of aggregate employment variation among manufacturing industries. Within the structure developed, estimates of the effects of energy on the distribution of employment and on the distribution of changes in employment between various...

The manufacture and distribution of phosphate rock and its associated products are large consumers of energy. As a consequence, a change in the price of energy can have a quite substantial effect on the cost of production. This will affect the price that the product can be sold for. Whether this...