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Young parents’ personal and social information contexts for child feeding practices

O’Brien, Heather; Greyson, Devon; Chabot, Cathy; … - In: Journal of Documentation 74 (2018) 3, pp. 608-623

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to utilize McKenzie’s two-dimensional model of information practices to situate child feeding practices as complex, socially situated information practices. Further, the authors examined a host of contextual factors (financial, physical, and social) that...

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Bad Eggs, Learning-by-doing, and the Choice of Technology

Hart, Rob - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 42 (2009) 4, pp. 429-450

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The stability likelihood of an international climate agreement

Dellink, Rob; Finus, Michael; Olieman, Niels - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 39 (2008) 4, pp. 357-377

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Optimal intensity targets for greenhouse gas emissions trading under uncertainty

Jotzo, Frank; Pezzey, John - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 38 (2007) 2, pp. 259-284

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Optimal Management of Multiple Renewable Resource Stocks: An Application to Minke Whales

Horan, Richard; Shortle, James - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 13 (1999) 4, pp. 435-458

Most bioeconomic models of efficient renewable resource management are constructed for a single harvesting ground. A bioeconomic model is developed in this paper to study the optimal management of renewable resources that are found in spatially distinct harvesting grounds. The model is applied...

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Nonpoint Source Pollution Control under Incomplete and Costly Information

Farzin, Y.; Kaplan, Jonathan - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 28 (2004) 4, pp. 489-506

We analyze the efficient management of nonpoint source pollution (NPS) under a limited pollution control budget and incomplete information. We focus on the tradeoff between data collection and pollution abatement efforts by incorporating information acquisition into a NPS pollution control...

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Policy Adoption Rules and Global Warming

Xepapadeas, Anastasios - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 11 (1998) 3, pp. 635-646

Although there is widespread agreement about the dangers of global warming and the resulting need to cut down emissions, there does not seem to be general agreement about the exact form the policy should take or the timing of its adoption. Failure to adopt and implement policies against global...

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An Essay on the Origins of Entrepreneurial Opportunity

Plummer, Lawrence; Haynie, J.; Godesiabois, Joy - In: Small Business Economics 28 (2007) 4, pp. 363-379

In this article, we apply a process of logical inference to draw conclusions about the origins of entrepreneurial opportunity from existing conversations in the field of strategic management. We equate the execution of a competitive strategy – as described in the strategic management...

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Timing rules for major transportation investments

Chu, Xuehao; Polzin, Steven - In: Transportation 27 (2000) 2, pp. 201-219

The timing decision for major transportation investments – when to build – typically is made without an objective approach for considering the economic value of implementation at different times. This paper uses a model of benefit-cost analysis and derives rules for timing major...

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Uncertainty in traffic forecasts: literature review and new results for The Netherlands

Jong, Gerard; Daly, Andrew; Pieters, Marits; Miller, Stephen - In: Transportation 34 (2007) 4, pp. 375-395

forecasts for a few scenarios), but also quantify the uncertainty in the traffic forecasts in the form of a confidence interval … or related measures. Both uncertainty that results from using uncertain inputs (e.g. on income) and uncertainty in the … quantifying uncertainty in traffic forecasts in The Netherlands. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007 …

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