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Policies, Natural Resource Governance and Local Development
Massuanganhe, Israel Jacob - Department of Agricultural Economics, Universiteit van … - 2008
economic efficiency (EE), technical efficiency (TE) and allocative efficiency (AE) for the sample were 11.6%, 83.0% and 13 … only determined by technological innovations, but also by the efficiency with which available technologies are used in the … there is much room for improving the efficiency of natural resource management in general. The results based on frontier …
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The role of Water Framework Directive in the development of rural areas
Mioduszewski, Waldemar - In: Rural Areas and Development 4
The Water Framework Directive (WFD), whose basic aim was to create a legal backgroundfor water bodies 'protection, undoubtedly affects all economic sectors. Being a specific and distinctly different water user, agriculture will have the greatest share in the implementation of WFD out of all...
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Equity and Efficiency Tradeoffs in Water: Prospects for Choice Modelling
Cooper, Bethany; Crase, Lin - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010914850
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10 years of transition in Ukraine agriculture: An analysis of productivity and efficiency of enterprises
Lissitsa, Alexej; Odening, Martin; Babycheva, Tamara - 2003
This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agriculturalenterprises during their … efficiency, which is found to be remarkably significant. At the sametime there is a high variation among individual enterprises … performance.The Tobit regression analysis is conducted where the efficiency scores are related tofactors such as farm type, farm …
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REGIONAL ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE IN THE EMSLAND, NORTH GERMANY
Bergmann, Holger; Thomson, Kenneth J. - 2009
The European Union’s Water Framework Directive (WFD) has “the purpose to protect and preserve water resources across the European Union to ensure future sustainable use” but is likely to add to agricultural land losses, e.g. to infrastructure, industrial estates and housing. While the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444839
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Irrigation of farm land under the EU Water Framework Directive
Theuvsen, Ludwig; Battermann, Henning W. - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 11 (2011) 26
With the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the European Union has established a legal framework for the protection of all aquatic ecological systems, including groundwater. This directive may have advantages for the water regime in ecologically sensitive areas but may also bring some economic...
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REGIONAL ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE IN THE EMSLAND, NORTH GERMANY
Bergmann, Holger; Thomson, Kenneth J. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
The European Union’s Water Framework Directive (WFD) has “the purpose to protect and preserve water resources across the European Union to ensure future sustainable use” but is likely to add to agricultural land losses, e.g. to infrastructure, industrial estates and housing. While the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011069565
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DISCUSSANT'S COMMENTS FOR AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING, SELECTED PAPERS SESSION SP-7AA: "LOCATION DECISIONS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH"
Kilkenny, Maureen - 1998
Rural decision makers use taxes and other resources to encourage growth. The session begins with an evaluation of rural employment patterns, then evaluates three economic development policy levers. Moderator: Daniel Rainey, Clemson University.Rural Employment Growth in the "New Economy:" A Test...
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Regional Economic Implications of Water Allocation and Reliability
Harris, Simon; Doak, Murray; Ford, Stuart; Bywater, Tony; … - 2005
The understanding of how allocation decisions can maximise the economic returns to the community from water for irrigation has received little attention, but is a significant issue for regional councils, those interested in water allocation policy development, and for irrigated farmers. There is...
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The Relationship Between Wildfire and Welfare
Kaval, Pamela; Loomis, John B. - 2005
We used the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two wildfire scenarios. Variables such as age, family size, fire frequency, and house value were...
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