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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
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Chaos on the Commons: Considering the Implications of Nonequilibrium Theory for Common Property Research
Morgan, Betty - 1995
"The rapidly emerging 'new science' of nonequilibrium systems theory may offer common property researchers and scholars …. Deriving from the dynamical holism of quantum physics, nonequilibrium theory engages the spontaneity, chaos, interrelatedness … paper explores the aspects of nonequilibrium theory which may be instructive in an expanded vision of common property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468365
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Linking Resilience Theory and Diffusion of Innovations Theory to Understand the Potential for Perennials in the U.S. Corn Belt
Atwell, Ryan C.; Schulte, Lisa A.; Westphal, Lynne M. - 2009
systems for years to come. Both resilience theory and the diffusion of innovations theory investigate how change is brought …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468318
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The Economic Impacts of Pollinator Declines: An Approach to Assessing the Consequences
Kevan, Peter G.; Phillips, Truman P. - 2001
pollination systems in many areas of agriculture are threatened by the inadequacy or lack of sustainable managed, indigenous, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468368
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Conflicts and Value Trade-Offs in the Management of Common Property: Insights from Land Use Studies in the Australian Sugar Industry
Mallawaarachchi, Thilak - 2001
"Traditionally, benefits of common property arrangements arose from complementarity in resource use, which permitted multiple uses for several users. Today, common property resources (CPRs) represent quasi-public goods, featuring increasing rivalry in consumption. As the domain of uses widens...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468381
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Assessing the Impact of Integrated Natural Resource Management: Challenges and Experiences
Gottret, Maria Veronica; White, Douglas C. - 2002
"Assessing the impact of integrated natural resource management (INRM) research poses a challenge to scientists. The complexity of INRM interventions requires a more holistic approach to impact assessment, beyond the plot and farm levels and beyond traditional analysis of economic returns....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468433
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Adoption and Impacts of Zero Tillage as a Resource Conserving Technology in the Irrigated Plains of South Asia
Erenstein, Olaf; Farooq, Umar; Malik, R. K.; Sharif, … - 2007
"The recent stagnation of productivity growth in the irrigated areas of the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia has led to a quest for resource-conserving technologies that can save water, reduce production costs and improve production. The present synthesis of two detailed country studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468459
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Modellgestützte Risikoanalysen einer Biogasanlageninvestition als Grundlage einer ganzheitlichen Risikobetrachtung und des strategischen Risikomanagements
Christian Riessen - 2010
Um Rückschlüsse über eine sinnvolle Integration einer Biogasanlage in das strategische Gesamtkonzept eines landwirtschaftlichen Betriebes ziehen zu können, werden Interdependenzen der Investitionsinputs mittels Sensitivitätsanalyse bewertet. Darauf aufbauend werden die Investitionserfolge...
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