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Yang, Li-Ting - 2011

The meetings, incentive travel, conventions, and exhibitions (MICE) industry is comparatively young and diverse. As a …

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Contesting 'ethicality': Ethical trade, gender and sustainable livelihoods for smallholder farmers in Kenya

Kiah Smith - 2011

networks in Kenya. A hybrid conceptual framework is proposed that brings together the concepts of food networks and conventions … desirable livelihood outcomes, interpreted as alternative ‘conventions’ of ethicality. These components are explored through … ethical trade models. Smallholder women in this study draw from a wide variety of ‘conventions’ in order to make meaning out …

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COPING WITH ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Bussell, Stephen L. - 2011

This paper introduces a unified model for organizational change that is designed to help change analysts think through the decision-making process. Most organizational leaders do not manage change effectively because they fail to acquire the minimum amount of information necessary to make a...

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Market impacts of a multiyear mechanical fuel treatment program in the U.S.

Prestemon, Jeffrey P.; Abt, Karen L.; Huggett, Robert J. - 2008

We describe a two-stage model of global log and chip markets that evaluates the spatial and temporal economic effects of government-subsidized fire-related mechanical fuel treatment programs in the U.S. West and South. The first stage is a goal program that allocates subsidies according to fire...

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How adoption rates, timing, and ceilings affect the value of ENSO-based climate forecasts.

Rubas, Debra J.; Mjelde, James W.; Love, H. Alan; … - 2008

An international wheat trade model incorporating climate variability is used to simulate different scenarios when wheat producers in the USA, Canada, and Australia adopt El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-based climate forecasts for use in production decisions. Adoption timing and rates are...

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A Dual Monte Carlo Approach to Estimate Model Uncertainty and its Application to the Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model.

Wei, Haiyan; Nearing, Mark A.; Stone, Jeffry J.; … - 2008

Natural resources models serve as important tools to support decision making by predicting environmental indicators. All model predictions have uncertainty associated with them. Model predictive uncertainty, often expressed as the confidence interval around a model prediction value, may serve as...

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Economics and climate applications: exploring the frontier.

Rubas, Debra J.; Hill, Harvey S.J.; Mjelde, James W. - 2006

The economics of information is a broad field covering all aspects of information including decision making. We briefly describe 4 methods used to model the decision-making process. This is not an exhaustive list of the methods used to value information, nor are differences between the methods...

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How much do farmers value their independence.

Key, N. - 2005

A farmer's decision to contract or produce independently depends on the distribution of income and the nonpecuniary attributes associated with both business arrangements. The benefits to growers from contracting (such as risk reduction) may be overestimated if the nonpecuniary benefits enjoyed...

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Drivers Impacting the Adoption of Sustainable Agricultural Management Practices and Production Systems of the Northeast and Southeast United States.

Sassenrath, G.F.; Halloran, J.M.; Archer, D.; Raper, R.L.; … - 2010

Agricultural production responds to social, political, economic, environmental, and technological drivers that influence producers' decisions and shape the individual systems through modification of management practices, crop and livestock mix, and marketing strategy. We use an interview and...

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Supply Response to Countercyclical Payments and Base Acre Updating under Uncertainty: An Experimental Study.

McIntosh, Christopher R.; Shogren, Jason F.; Dohlman, Erik - 2007

We design an experiment to simulate how people make agricultural production decisions under three policy scenarios, each incorporating direct payments (DPs): (a) price uncertainty without countercyclical payments (CCPs); (b) price uncertainty with CCPs; and (c) price uncertainty, CCPs, and...

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