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Economic and technical criteria for designing future off-shore HVDC grids

Bell, Keith; Cirio, Diego; Denis, Anne-Marie; He, Lina; … - 2010

In the scope of a recently launched European Research Project, a team of experts from public laboratories and TSO is in charge of defining the concepts and methodological approaches to design and analyse the technical and economic feasibility of future HVDC grids. This work aims at identifying,...

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Decade of ITQ Management in Icelandic Fisheries: Consolidation Without Consensus

Eythorsson, Einar - 2000

companies has lately been accelerating. Along with a general liberalisation of the economic policy in Iceland, there seems to be …

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Theory and Practice of ITQ's in Iceland; Privatisation of Common Fisheries Resources

Eythorsson, Einar - 1995

, but now it is possible to study how the system works in real settings. Two countries, New Zealand and Iceland, have … adopted ITQ's as an overall fisheries management system on a national level. In Iceland, fish quotas were made transferable …-regime. In Iceland the demand for quotas is influenced by unemployment and lack of alternative sources of income for fishermen …

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Creating Institutions for Survival Games Against Nature in Premodern Iceland

Eggertsson, Thráinn - 1994

"We are concerned here with the creation of non-market institutions for reducing the cost of risk in poor agrarian societies that operate at low levels of technology without the benefits of insurance, credit and other intertemporal markets. 1 Institutions, the formal and informal rules that...

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Guiding preventative wildland fire mitigation policy and decisions with an economic modeling system.

Stockmann, Keith; Burchfield, James; Calkin, Dave; … - 2010

The protection of private residences from wildland fire produces high levels of cost and safety risk to firefighters, especially with the expanding ex-urban settlement pattern in the wildland urban interface (WUI). Economic information on probable structure losses can help guide efficient...

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A method for mapping fire hazard and risk across multiple scales and its application in fire management.

Keane, Robert E.; Drury, Stacy A.; Karau, Eva C.; … - 2010

This paper presents modeling methods for mapping fire hazard and fire risk using a research model called FIREHARM (FIRE Hazard and Risk Model) that computes common measures of fire behavior, fire danger, and fire effects to spatially portray fire hazard over space. FIREHARM can compute a measure...

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NCEP-ECPC monthly to seasonal US fire danger forecasts.

Roads, J.; Tripp, P.; Juang, H.; Wang, J.; Fujioka, F.; … - 2010

Five National Fire Danger Rating System indices (including the Ignition Component, Energy Release Component, Burning Index, Spread Component, and the Keetch-Byram Drought Index) and the Fosberg Fire Weather Index are used to characterise US fire danger. These fire danger indices and input...

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Considering uncertainty in comparing the burden of illness due to foodborne microbial pathogens.

Powell, M.; Ebel, E.; Schlosser, W. - 2001

The uncertainty attendant to burden-of-illness estimates should be taken into account in comparing the public health impact of different foodborne pathogens. In this paper, decision analysis concepts are applied to the comparisons of pathogen-specific burden-of-illness estimates. In situations...

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Incorporating anthropogenic variables into a species distribution model to map gypsy moth risk.

Lippitt, Christopher D.; Rogan, John; Toledano, James; … - 2008

This paper presents a novel methodology for multi-scale and multi-type spatial data integration in support of insect pest risk/vulnerability assessment in the contiguous United States. Probability of gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar L.) establishment is used as a case study. A neural network...

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Economic Performance of Alternative Tillage Systems in the Northern Corn Belt.

Archer, David W.; Reicosky, Donald C. - 2009

While no-till (NT) cropping systems can provide conservation benefits in the northern Corn Belt, adoption has been low due to concerns about potential yield reductions and economic risk. Strip-tillage (ST) systems have been proposed as an alternative that may provide many of the conservation...

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