present synthesis of two detailed country studies confirmed widespread adoption of zero tillage (ZT) wheat in the rice …

tool for assessment of science programs. We apply the concept to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) carbon cycle …

international water utility sector. Risk management, interms of protecting the public health from pathogenic and chemical hazards … and making explicit approaches to risk managementand decision-making that have formerly been implicit. Here, we review the … risk managementframeworks and risk analysis tools and techniques used within the water sector, consideringtheir application …

development of a methodology for risk-based diagnostics of failures in WDS and its application in a near real-time Decision … risk represented by a set of all potential incidents (e.g., pipe bursts), which might have caused it. The DM’s attitude … towards risk is taken into account during the aggregation process.The implementation of the main constituents of the proposed …

risk preferences. SERF analysis indicates that RTWS is the system most preferred by all producers, regardless of their … level of risk aversion. NTWS is typically the second most preferred system to RTWS. Using historical annual prices for 1997 … distributions, managers with higher levels of risk aversion prefer reduced-tillage wheat-grain sorghum (RTWG) over no-tillage wheat …

applications of risk and stochastic programming models focus on the optimisation of production planning, while literature on the … paper is to analyse the effects of different risk management instruments on the certainty equivalent of case study farms in … three different regions. Specifically, the applied Expected Utility Model analyses on-farm risk management instruments and …

. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in highflooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk relatedbehaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …