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Looking for a Silver Lining: The Possible Positives of Declining Energy Return on Investment (EROI)
Manno, Jack P. - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 11, pp. 2071-2079
Declining energy return on investment (EROI) of a society’s available energy sources can lead to both crisis and … opportunity for positive social change. The implications of declining EROI for human wellbeing are complex and open to … possible implications of declining EROI. Two sets of future scenarios based on environmental and economic trends are described …
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Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Capacity: Are Innovation Brokers the Answer?
Klerkx, Laurens; Hall, Andy; Leeuwis, Cees - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009
This paper examines the role of innovation brokers in stimulating innovation system interaction and innovation capacity building, and illustrates this by taking the case of Dutch agriculture as an example. Subsequently, it reflects upon the potential role of innovation brokers in developing...
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Post Second World War State Agricultural Policies in Bulgaria - Evolution, Implementation, Impacts
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2008
This paper analyzes evolution, implementation and impacts of state agricultural policies in Bulgaria during post Second World War years now. Firstly, it presents agricultural policies development during 1950s and 1960s (post war nationalization, cooperation of peasants, central planning and...
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Evaluating the Financial Position and Performance of a typical Dairy Farm in Bulgaria
Vassilev, Zlatan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The aim of this paper is to explore the potentials of typical middle sized dairy farms (with 22 cows) to absorb the quotas and market shares released by the small scale farms after the EU accession in 2007. The hypothesis is that quota introduction combined with high quality standards for raw...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621436
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Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Capacity: Are Innovation Brokers the Answer?
Klerkx, Laurens; Hall, Andy; Leeuwis, Cees - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
This paper examines the role of innovation brokers in stimulating innovation system interaction and innovation capacity building, and illustrates this by taking the case of Dutch agriculture as an example. Subsequently, it reflects upon the potential role of innovation brokers in developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712303
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La polpa e l’osso: Manlio Rossi-Doria Writings on Agriculture Environment and Natural Resources
Gorgoni, Marcello - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2005) 3
The article is the introduction to the volume edited by the author with the same title on the occasion of the centennial anniversary of Manlio Rossi-Doria. The volume is a collection of selected writings published between 1929 and 1986 divided in four thematic sections: agronomic modernization,...
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System Energy Assessment (SEA), Defining a Standard Measure of EROI for Energy Businesses as Whole Systems
Henshaw, Philip F.; King, Carey; Zarnikau, Jay - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 10, pp. 1908-1943
society (EROI-S), a ratio of total energy delivered to total energy expended. Energy use records for technology and proxy …
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Energy Costs of Energy Savings in Buildings: A Review
Dutil, Yvan; Rousse, Daniel - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 8, pp. 1711-1732
return on investment (<em>EROI</em>) as a yardstick. This choice brings semantic issues because in this paper the <em>EROI … unit, they are not the same object, which brings some ambiguities in the interpretation of <em>EROI</em>. These are cleared … by a refined definition of <em>EROI</em> and an adapted nomenclature. This review studies the research in the energy …
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Bioenergy Villages – A Blueprint for Rural Energy Supply?
König, Andreas; Jenssen, Till - In: Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism I (2010) 1, pp. 4-7
Many European municipalities develop energy supply concepts based on renewable energies to reduce energy related greenhouse gas emissions and stimulate regional and rural economies. Improvement of security of supply using regional energy sources is an additional motivation for renewable energy...
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The 'Green Jobs' Fantasy : Why the Economic and Environmental Reality Can Never Live Up to the Political Promise
Winter, Jennifer; Moore, Michal - 2015
Agriculture is one of the least “green” — that is, the least environmentally friendly — sectors in Canada, based on its energy-use intensity and greenhouse gas emissions intensity. But agriculture is also the “greenest” sector in Canada, according to one measure that calculates the...
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