"Foreword" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Tables" -- "1 Overview" -- "Abstract" -- "1.1 Introduction" -- "1.2 The Kurdistan Region" -- "1.2.1 The Kurdistan Regionâ s Political System" -- "1.2.2 The Kurdistan Regionâ s Oil and Gas Sector" -- "1.3 Aims and...

1. Introduction to The Economics of Agriculture and Natural Resources -- 2. Quantitative Sustainability Assessment Applied to Dairy Farms -- 3. A Framework for Economic Resilience Assessment of Agricultural Production Systems -- 4. Empirical Evaluation of Agricultural Sustainability Using...

This volume is a collection of twelve selected empirical studies on the economics of agriculture and natural resources. Twenty-two authors have contributed their research to this volume. Papers of this volume are grouped into three main domains covering: Agricultural Resilience and...

1. Introduction to sustainable agriculture and agribusiness in Iran -- 2. Agricultural Risk Management Through Weather-based Insurance in Iran -- 3. Determining Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR) for Food Industry Companies’ Stocks Portfolios in the Tehran Stock Market -- 4. Assessing Climate...

"The text provides advanced undergraduate, and postgraduate, students with an introduction to the key theoretical perspectives in both media theory and development studies. It also brings these two bodies of theory into dialogue with each other, by examining the ways in which both media and...

Education and development a brief history -- Education as an economic investment -- The right to education -- Education and human development -- Education, gender and development -- Education and/as violence -- Education and sustainable development a new development agenda