Die Dissertation leistet einen Beitrag zur interdisziplinären Phosphorforschung. Zunächst werden aus aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen die Eckpfeiler des nachhaltigen P-Managements abgeleitet. Sodann werden die für das P-Management relevanten Rechtsakte auf völker-, europa- und...

"At the intersection of the growing national conversation about our food system and the long-running debate about our government's role in society is the complex farm bill. American farm policy, built on a political coalition of related interests with competing and conflicting demands,has proven...

""Report on the Agrarian Law" (1795) and Other Writings is the first modern English translation of perhaps the greatest work of the Spanish Enlightenment, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos's "Informe sobre la Ley Agraria" (1795). A major work of political economy and a beautifully crafted...

We estimate how much United States farms changed enterprise diversification in response to a marked increase in crop insurance coverage brought about by the 1994 Federal Crop Insurance Reform Act, which substantially increased insurance subsidies. The analysis exploits farm-level panel census...

The work is an interactive application that aims to cover all present and institutional changes related to environment and ecology in the agricultural and forestry sector, as they have evolved since the year 1977 until today. The purpose of the work and the creation of the application is to...

This paper draws on the theory of product differentiation in a trade context and uses three case studies to highlight the conditions necessary for a successful geographical-origin branding strategy for farm produce in the United States. In so doing, the U.S. country-of-origin labeling (COOL)...

Land and Loyalty -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Securitization and Institutional Development -- 2. Capitalizing Thailand -- 3. Weapon of a Weak State -- 4. Conserving Smallholder Society -- 5. Combating Specters and Communists -- 6. Old Solutions, New...

Einerseits trägt die Landwirtschaft maßgeblich zur Erhaltung und Verbesserung der Umwelt und der Kulturlandschaft bei. Andererseits ist sie Verursacher von Umweltproblemen. Der Autor untersucht, mit welchen Mitteln der europäische Gesetzgeber diesem ambivalenten Verhältnis Rechnung trägt...

The new institutional economics and Roman legal policy -- The creation of rights in the countryside -- Roman legal policy and private farm Tenancy -- Legal order in the rural economy -- Late antique tax policy and incentives for investment

Ziel der Analyse zu den Rechtsformen landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen war es, Kenntnisse darüber zu gewinnen, welche Rechtsformen sich im Transformationsprozeß herausgebildet haben, welchen Umfang sie einnehmen, durch welche Merkmale sie gekennzeichnet sind und ob die Besteuerung Einfluß auf...