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Industrial Restructuring and Urban Change in the Pittsburgh Region: Developmental, Ecological, and Socioeconomic Trade-offs
Haller, William - 2005
"This article traces the steel industry's restructuring during the 1980s and its consequences for older industrial regions tied historically to steel production. These regions contained large working class communities that declined because of deindustrialization and restructuring. This article...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468440
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442826
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Short and long-run returns to agricultural R&D in South Africa, or will the real rate of return please stand up.
Schimmelpfennig, D.; Thirtle, C.; Van Zyl, J.; Arnade, C.; … - 2000
agriculture, for 1947-1997, and illustrates some potential pitfalls in rate of return to research (ROR) calculations. The lag …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429487
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Quantifying the Economic Development Impacts of Wind Power in Six Rural Montana Counties Using NREL's JEDI Model; Period of Performance: December 1, 2003--May 31, 2004
Costanti, M. - 2008
stakeholders include the agriculture community, wind developers, renewable energy advocates, government officials, and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435428
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Job and Economic Development Impact (JEDI) Model: A User-Friendly Tool to Calculate Economic Impacts from Wind Projects; Preprint
Sinclair, K.; Milligan, M.; Goldberg, M. - 2008
Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Bill Section 9006 grants and loans to stimulate wind development. This paper describes the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437043
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A magyar agrárökonómia kiemelkedő alakjának halálára: Varga Gyula (1938–2020)
Palánkai, Tibor - 2021
Varga Gyula halálával a magyar agrárgazdaság kiemelkedő ismerőjét, szakértőjét vesztettük el – magam pedig egy igaz barátot is. Négy éven át egyetemi csoporttársak, egyúttal kollégiumi szobatársak voltunk. Barátságunkat erősítette közös családi hátterünk: falusi...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012506695
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A gyümölcsültetvények hatékonysági elemzése = Efficiency analysis of fruit plantations
Horváth, Diána; Regős, Gábor; Molnár, Dániel - 2021
A tanulmány a 2017-re vonatkozó, 2018. évi magyarországi gyümölcsültetvény-összeírás adatait elemzi. Célja az ültetvények fő jellemzőinek ismertetése mellett annak vizsgálata, hogy milyen homogén ültetvénycsoportok képezhetők e jellemzők alapján, illetve mely tényezők...
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Influence of foreign direct investment and exchange rate on fisheries in Nigeria
Obekpa, Hephzibah Onyeje; Frimpong, Ebenezer; Ayuba, Ali - 2020
influence of FDI on agriculture and exchange rates on the output of the fisheries subsector using time series data that spans … in the fisheries subsector. FDI to agriculture and exchange rate movements were both found to affect the fisheries … subsector positively in the long run, whereas only FDI to agriculture was found to exert a positive influence in the short run …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588245