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Governance of Bulgarian Farming - Modes, Efficiency, Impact of EU Accession

Bachev, Hrabrin - 2006

This paper employs New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics to analyze Bulgarian agriculture. It evaluates the efficiency of dominant governing forms on the eve of EU accession, and assesses the likely impact of CAP implementation on farming structures. Firstly, assessment is made on...

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Book : CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE IN INTERNATIONAL ENERGY POLICY AND LAW

Arlota, Carolina; Costa, HIrdan Katarina de Medeiros - 2022

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in International Energy Policy and Law: Perspectives on Sustainable Development, Climate Change, and Energy Transition fills a void in the current literature. Updated attempts to approach CCS from an international and comparative perspective are rare, if any....

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Toward a Sustainable Food System

Matson, James; VandenBrook, Jim - 2021

Agriculture uses more land and water than any other human activity, and our consumption demands continue to grow even as our resource base shrinks. A highly industrialized U.S. food system produces lots of food at seemingly low per unit cost. But our current system is taking a heavy toll on...

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Liberating Sustainable Development From Its Non-Historical Shackles

Dernbach, John C.; Schang, Scott E. - 2023

In this Article, we argue that sustainable development is historically a much broader and more societally beneficial concept than it is often understood to be, and that it is often limited, particularly in the United States, by the supposition that it is just about the environment, or about...

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The Precautionary Principle

Guo, Yuhan - 2017

The vast literature surrounding the precautionary principle (PP) in risk management concerns the principle's plausibility and applications, either as an entire concept or in particular formulations. Generally, such scholarship offers either clear support or opposition to the PP as an approach to...

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Option Contracting in the California Water Market

Tomkins, Claire; Weber, Thomas A. - 2014

Temporary water transfers, as achievable under option contracts, capture gains from trade that would go unrealized if only permanent transfers of water rights were possible. This paper develops a bilateral option contracting model for water which includes the possibility of conveyance losses and...

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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013

registration system, coupled with more market-based rules on land ownership and use. …

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Policies for Inclusive Urbanisation in China

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

registration system, coupled with more market-based rules on land ownership and use.<P>Comment favoriser une urbanisation plus …

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How Does Market Access Affect Smallholder Behavior? The Case of Tobacco Marketing in Malawi

Zant, Wouter - 2014

improved market access on production per hectare and the underlying smallholder’s decisions on production and cultivated area …

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Framework for Assessing Efficiency of Farms and Agrarian Organisations

Bachev, Hrabrin - 2012

actions etc. which necessitate a third-party public intervention in market and private sectors. The individual forms of public … structure; assessment of the comparative efficiency of alternative market, contract, internal, and hybrid modes of governance on …. The analysis of socio-economic and natural environment and the transaction costs identifies a multiple cases of 'market …

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