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impacts of riparian buffers by combining geographic information system, bio economic modelling and experimental data. The …
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A programming model is used to assess the welfare effects of regional and practice specifications contained in New York State's Draft Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) proposal. Net social benefits are nearly 75% lower than options that explicitly account for opportunity costs of...
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Up to 25 percent of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are caused by deforestation, and Indonesia is the third largest greenhouse gas emitter worldwide due to land use change and deforestation. On the island of Sulawesi in the vicinity of the Lore Lindu National Park (LLNP), many...
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impacts of riparian buffers by combining geographic information system, bio economic modelling and experimental data. The …
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for modelling land and other resources such as water, labour and capital in this model, as well as markets for exchanging … resources and commodities. A second part considers options for modelling agent heterogeneity, especially risk preferences of …
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for modelling land and other resources such as water, labour and capital in this model, as well as markets for exchanging … resources and commodities. A second part considers options for modelling agent heterogeneity, especially risk preferences of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008802947
Technology creates changes in agriculture that all segments of the agricultural community need to consider to anticipate the resulting impacts. Objectives of the research were to project the size and number of farming operations in eastern Washington and to examine the implications for farm size...
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This paper presents an irrigation farm management tool, SALMOD (Salinity And Leaching Model for Optimal irrigation Development), that calculates the profit maximizing crop enterprise composition and irrigation management options for farm specific soil type, drainage status and irrigation system...
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This paper analyzes the effects of using product costs derived from an LP-model for managing the salesmen's efforts at a sawmill company. The salesmen are not controlled by sales quota, as is usual, but assessed by the accounting profit they generate. The analysis is realized by a computer...
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A matrix growth model suitable for analysis of uneven-aged forest management is developed based on recursive equations represented on matrix form. The equations consist of transition probabilities forming part of application of Markov chain theory, which describe growth between diameter classes,...
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