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personal benefits, including an expected increase in personal well-being. These motivations, together with how they unfold into …
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interest and the perceived barriers to organic adoption among pragmatic conventional producers in Texas, compared to organic …
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understand barriers and opportunities for sustainable food systems in the region where their emergence has been limited …. Producers and buyers identified barriers previously noted regarding mismatches of available quantities and prices. Producers …
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Major businesses around the world have been trying to reduce the total cost and wastes across their supply chain to remain competitive in the expanding global market. Hence, a collection of reliable tools and techniques are vital for decreasing costs and wastes and for providing effective...
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ecological footprint of households—there are sets of factors at work that override attitudes, opinions and intentions as … much public policy. However, the persistence of well ingrained habits and practices among individuals and households and …
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and describes some of the barriers Swedish small farms encounter when they consider business model innovation. A … researchers, farmers discussed business model innovation, including the exogenous and endogenous barriers to such innovation. The … paper concludes many barriers exist when farmers consider innovation of agricultural business models. Some barriers are …
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There is a broad consensus in literature that private households are significant contributors to the total amount of … prevention activities. This requires deeper insights into people’s motivations to discard still edible food and knowledge about … potential barriers to reduce wasting. This paper reports on results of an online survey among two European research centers in …
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A chosen case study house forms the basis of this paper, which is a pilot energy-efficient social housing project, completed by one of the largest housing developers in the UK. The main aim of this study is to inform the redesign of flexible energy-efficient housing units. The housing, designed...
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Identifying the most relevant environment related indicators and how to make them available to decision-makers are … fundamentally, in this chapter we question how industrial ecologists appropriate the notion of environment. On the basis of … environment in such contexts, and constitutes a call to develop anthropocentric approaches to defining environmental indications …
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Genetically modified (GM) herbicide-tolerant (HT) crops have been largely adopted where they have been authorized. Nevertheless, they are fiercely criticized by some, notably because of the herbicide use associated with them. However, how much herbicide is applied to GMHT crops compared to...
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