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Agricultural Biodiversity and Biotechnology in Economic Development
Av Joseph Cooper, Leslie Lipper m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
2253 kr
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The topics addressed in this book are of vital importance to the survival of humankind. Agricultural biodiversity, encompassing genetic diversity as well as human knowledge, is the base upon which agricultural production has been built, and protecting this resource is critical to ensuring the …
Policy Reforms and Agriculture Development in Central Asia
Av Sandjar Djalalov, Suresh Chandra Babu
Inbunden, 2006
2253 kr
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Achieving sustainable agricultural development is at the forefront of the poverty reduction objective of the Central Asian republics - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Since independence, the countries of the Central Asian region have undergone a series of …
Frontiers in Water Resource Economics
Av Renan-Ulrich Goetz, Dolors Berga
Inbunden, 2005
1643 kr
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Most of the books published previously in the field of water resource eco nomics focus on particular aspects of water economics such as institutions, pricing or water markets, but none of them have given particular attention to methodological questions. However, the applied methodology within …
Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology
Economics and Policy
Av Richard E. Just, Julian M. Alston m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2188 kr
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REGULATING AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: ECONOMICS AND POLICY Chapter 1 REGULATING AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Richard E. Just,* David Zilberman/ and Julian M. Alston * University of Maryland, * University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Davis Abstract: …
Payment for Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes
Economic Policies and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries
Av Leslie Lipper, Takumi Sakuyama m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
2253 kr
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In recent years, development policy has responded to an increasing concern about natural resource degradation by setting up innovative payment for environmental services (PES) programs in developing countries. PES programs use market and institutional incentives in order to meet both environmental …
Economics of Sustainable Development
The Case of India
Av Surender Kumar, Shunsuke Managi
Inbunden, 2009
1643 kr
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This book highlights methodological approaches for the economics of sustainable development and brings together recent empirical work done in India, especially by Dr. Surender Kumar and Dr. Shunsuke Managi. Various chapters in this book use Indian data to show the very wide applicability of …
Management of Shared Groundwater Resources
The Israeli-Palestinian Case with an International Perspective
Av Eran Feitelson, Marwan Haddad
Inbunden, 2001
2188 kr
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Most of the world's freshwater resources in the liquid state (that is, not in glaciers and polar caps) are underground. As the population grows and demand for water rises, reliance on groundwater increases. In many cases the groundwater underlies boundaries, or is part of a hydraulic system that …
Knowledge Generation and Technical Change
Institutional Innovation in Agriculture
Av Steven Wolf, David Zilberman
Inbunden, 2001
1098 kr
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Knowledge generation and transfer mechanisms are being transformed in important and controversial ways. Investment in research and development has increased in response to recognition that scientific productivity is tightly connected to economic dynamism. Patent protection has been expanded in …
Agricultural Globalization Trade and the Environment
Av Charles B. Moss, Gordon C. Rausser m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
2188 kr
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The chapters collected here explore a number of different issues, including the operation of the tariff-rate quotas established under the Uruguay Round Agreement, the implications of sanitary and phytosanitary restrictions on trade, and the growing controversy over genetically modified organisms. …
Diplomacy on the Jordan
International Conflict and Negotiated Resolution
Inbunden, 2001
2188 kr
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The Jordan River waters are essential for the development and well being of the people of its basin. Plans for the development of its water resources were considered since the beginning of the 20th century, and have long been central to dispute between riparian nations. This volume reviews the …
Economics of Water Demands
Inbunden, 2002
1098 kr
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Freshwater resources are growing increasingly scarce and conflicts over potable water are becoming more common. In order to deal with these problems and to allocate water, managers and water resource planners must have information regarding the nature of competing water demands. This is a …
Comprehensive Assessment of the Role of Risk in U.S. Agriculture
Av Richard E. Just, Rulon D. Pope
Inbunden, 2001
2188 kr
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After all the research on agricultural risk to date, the treatment of risk in agricultural research is far from harmonious. Many competing risk models have been proposed. Some new methodologies are largely untested. Some of the leading empirical methodologies in agricultural economic research are …
Economics of Water Resources The Contributions of Dan Yaron
Av Ariel Dinar, David Zilberman
Inbunden, 2002
1098 kr
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Colleagues and friends of Dan Yaron submitted the following tributes. While each submission comes from an individual who knew Dan in a very different way, they all remark on his immeasurable contributions to the field of agricultural eco nomics, his unique approach, which combines his training and …
Economic, Environmental, and Health Tradeoffs in Agriculture: Pesticides and the Sustainability of Andean Potato Production
Av C. Crissman, J.M. Antle m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
2188 kr
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Today the goal of designing highly productive, sustainable agricultural production systems is at the forefront of agricultural research agendas around the world. This text argues the key to designing sustainable agricultural production technologies is in understanding their economic, environmental, …
Economics of Water Resources: From Regulation to Privatization
Av Nicolas Spulber, Asghar Sabbaghi
Inbunden, 1998
1643 kr
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The appearance of this Second Edition has been encouraged by the favorable reception of the first. This has offered us the opportunity to update the materials and to expand the exposition ofour central theses concerning (1) the integration of water quantity-quality issues and the treatment of water …
Conflict and Cooperation on Trans-Boundary Water Resources
Av Richard E. Just, Sinaia Netanyahu
Inbunden, 1998
1692 kr
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This book demonstrates what the discipline of economics has to offer as support for analyzing cooperation on management of trans-boundary water resources. It also considers what the discipline of economics has to acquire to become a more effective contributor to trans-boundary water resource …
Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile
Inbunden, 1998
1098 kr
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In 1981 Chile's military government dictated a new Water Code that radically changed the country's previous water rights system by strengthening private property rights, favoring market incentives, and reducing state regulation. Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in …
Markets for Water
Potential and Performance
Av K. William Easter, M.W. Rosegrant m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1643 kr
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Markets for Water: Potential and Performance dispels many of the myths surrounding water markets and gives readers a comprehensive picture of the way that markets have developed in different parts of the world. It is possible, for example, for a water market to fail, and for the transaction costs …
Farmers, Gene Banks and Crop Breeding:
Economic Analyses of Diversity in Wheat, Maize, and Rice
Av Kluwer Academic Publishers, Melinda Smale
Inbunden, 1998
1098 kr
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This volume responds to concerns about the loss of valuable genetic resources and crop vulnerability arising from widespread cultivation of genetically uniform varieties. It assembles a series of applied studies focusing on the fundamental economic issues related to genetic diversity in crop …
Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture
Av Frank Casey, Andrew Schmitz m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
1643 kr
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This text identifies and structures flexible economic incentives for the achievement of environmental goals in agriculture. It provides a conceptual framework and presents case studies that analyze how flexible incentives can address environmental problems that are caused by agricultural …
Theory, Modeling and Experience in the Management of Nonpoint-Source Pollution
Av Clifford S. Russell, Jason F. Shogren
Inbunden, 1993
2253 kr
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Nonpoint-source pollution (NPSP) poses a special challenge to society's ability to manage its collective environmental good - especially surface and groundwater quality. Since there is no `point', such as an outfall pipe, from which the pollution is being discharged and can be measured, pollution …
Drought Assessment, Management, and Planning: Theory and Case Studies
Theory and Case Studies
Inbunden, 1993
1643 kr
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Dedicated to furthering scientific understanding of drought assessment and management and the policy issues associated with drought preparedness worldwide, this work is divided into two parts. Part One emphasizes theoretical aspects of drought assessment, management, and preparedness; it also …
Economics of Agricultural Crop Insurance: Theory and Evidence
Av Darrell L. Hueth, William H. Furtan
Inbunden, 1994
2188 kr
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Government subsidized crop insurance has been used by a number of developed countries as a mechanism to reduce farm income instability by reducing yield risks. This book provides an in-depth analysis and evaluation of government provided crop insurance in developed countries. The book is organized …
Coevolutionary Economics: The Economy, Society and the Environment
Av John Gowdy
Inbunden, 1994
1692 kr
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The subject of this volume is the human economy and its co-evolutionary relationship with the natural world. This relationship is examined in three broad types of societies; hunter-gatherers, agriculturalists, and modern market economies. A growing body of scientific evidence has made it clear that …
Privatization of Agriculture in New Market Economies: Lessons from Bulgaria
Av Andrew Schmitz, Kirby Moulton m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
2188 kr
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The idea for this book began in Sofia, Bulgaria in September, 1992 when we met to plot a course for our University Affiliations project which had been recently funded by the U.S. Infonnation Agency. We believed that worldng on the book would provide valuable learning experiences for all the …
Impact of Pesticides on Farmer Health and the Rice Environment
Av Prabhu L. Pingali, Pierre A. Roger
Inbunden, 1995
2253 kr
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This work covers the various aspects of the use of pesticides, their behaviour, degradation, and impacts in wetland ricefields, and presents the results of surveys conducted in the Philippines and Thailand. It includes both bibliographic reviews and selected aspects of the experimental results of a …
Public Economics and the Environment in an Imperfect World
Av Lans Bovenberg, Sijbren Cnossen
Inbunden, 1995
1207 kr
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Growing populations and economies have increased the public's awareness that the world's environmental resources are finite. The issues of global warming and the depletion of the ozone layer have given universal significance to what were once local and regional pollution problems. What is evident …
Modeling Environmental Policy
Av Wade E. Martin, Lisa A. McDonald
Inbunden, 1997
1643 kr
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This study demonstrates a link between physical models of the environment and policy analysis in support of policy making. Each chapter addresses an environmental policy issue using a quantitative modelling approach. Three general areas of environmental policy are addressed: non-point source …
Decentralization and Coordination of Water Resource Management
Av Douglas D. Parker, Yacov Tsur
Inbunden, 1997
1643 kr
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Centralized, top-down management of water resources through regulations has created unnecessary economic burdens upon users. More flexible decentralized controls through the use of economic incentives have gained acceptance over the past decade. The theme of this book is the increasing efforts …
Water Development and Poverty Reduction
Av I.H. Olcay Ünver, Rajiv K. Gupta m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1098 kr
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Despite recent improvements in water management, approximately 1.4 billion people lack adequate water and about three billion people lack adequate sanitation services. It is commonly acknowledged that these and other water problems affect the poor adversely in terms of their livelihoods, their …
