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Wildland Fire Hazard and Urban Development Pattern: Why California Civil Code 1103 Fails to Protect Households from Wildfires

Xu, Wenchao; Wu, JunJie - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009

Recent years have seen mass casualties and severe property damage caused by wildland fires. With increasing housing development in natural-amenity-rich fire-prone areas, human activities not only exert intense pressures on local ecosystems, but also increase difficulties for wildland fire...

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Economic development lessons from and for North American Indian economies

Anderson, Terry L.; Parker, Dominic P. - In: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 53 (2009) 1

This paper reviews the literature on economic development as it relates to indigenous people in the United States and Canada, and focuses on how institutions affect economic development of reservation and reserve economies. Evidence shows that strong property rights to reservation and reserve...

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Linking indigenous bonding and bridging social capital

O'BRIEN, David; Phillips, John; Patsiorkovsky, Valeri - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 8, pp. 1041-1051

O'Brien D. J., Phillips J. L. and Patsiorkovsky V. V. (2005) Linking indigenous bonding and bridging social capital, Regional Studies 39 , 1041-1051. Reconciling indigenous bonding and bridging social capital remains a difficult issue in economic development and global issues of inequality. A...

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A fixed-effects multilevel analysis of how community family structure affects individual mortality in Norway

Kravdal, Øystein - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009

Using register data for the entire Norwegian population aged 50-89 in 1980-1999, in which there are ¾ million deaths, it is estimated how the proportions who are divorced or never-married in the municipality affect all-cause mortality, net of individual marital status. The data include...

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Social Capital Formation in Rural, Urban and Suburban Communities

Debertin, David L.; Goetz, Stephan J. - Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky - 2013

community. Based on these definitions, a conceptual framework for analyzing and measuring social capital and its indicators is … of three prototype communities–a small rural community, a modern city suburb, and a community located in the core of a … central city are outlined. For each prototype community, social capital formation strategies and indicators suggesting …

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Social Capital and Economic Growth: A New model for Rural Communities

Debertin, David L.; Goetz, Stephan J. - Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky - 2015

This is a new version of a series of color slides on social capital as presented at a conference on rural development presented in Tampa, Florida in 2004, and sponsored by the Southern Rural Development Center.

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Mapping factors associated with a successful shift towards healthier food retail in community-based organisations : A systems approach

Boelsen-Robinson, Tara; Blake, Miranda R.; Brown, Andrew D. - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 101 (2021), pp. 1-13

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Regional marriage patterns and trends in Northern Sudan

Abdelrahman, Abdelrahman Ibrahim - 1989

Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life cycle of individuals; for society at large it represents the creation of a new unit of production, consumption, distribution and exchange of goods and services. In most...

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Facilitating access to rural services in Vietnam: The invisible social capital link

Hoang Dinh, Quoc; Dufhues, Thomas; Buchenrieder, Gertrud - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

social capital. The approach originates from the field of sociology and entails a personal network survey. We define four …

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Social Capital and the Performance of Water User Associations: Evidence from the Republic of Macedonia

Sauer, Johannes; Gorton, Matthew; Peshevski, Mile; … - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 59 (2010) 1

The paper assesses the performance of Water User Associations (WUAs) in the Republic of Macedonia. We assess performance in terms of membership rates, the satisfaction of members with their WUA and payment behaviour. Econometric analysis reveals that membership and satisfaction are positively...

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