This volume celebrates the life and career of Gordon Rausser, pioneer and leader in natural resource economics, while critically overviewing the emerging literature in the field. As the chair of the Agriculture and Resource Economics department at...Lasīt vairāk
This volume celebrates the life and career of Gordon C. Rausser, pioneer and leader in natural resource economics, while critically overviewing the emerging literature in the field. As the chair of the Agriculture and Resource Economics department...Lasīt vairāk
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO license.The book uses an economic lens to identify the main features of climate-smart agriculture (CSA), its likely impact, and the challenges associated with its implementation. Dr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Aug-2016, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., ISBN-13: 9781493955176)
Interest in biofuels began with oil shocks in the 1970s, but the more rapid development and consumption of biofuel industry in recent years has been primarily driven by mandates, subsidies, climate change concerns, emissions targets and energy secur...Lasīt vairāk
David Zilberman, Joachim Otte, David Roland-Holst, Dirk Pfeiffer
Sērija : Natural Resource Management and Policy
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Dec-2011, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., ISBN-13: 9781441970763)
This book provides an overview of the state of animal agriculture and present methodologies and proposals to develop policies that result in sustainable and profitable animal production that will protect human and environmental health, enhance liveli...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Nov-2012, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., ISBN-13: 9781461368014)
Jan van Schilfgaarde, USDA Agricultural Research Service and National Research Council Committee on Irrigation-Induced Water Quality Problems In 1982, a startling discovery was made. Many waterbirds in Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge were dying or...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Oct-2012, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., ISBN-13: 9781461355847)
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 d...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Oct-2012, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., ISBN-13: 9781461352945)
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...Lasīt vairāk
Charles B. Moss, Gordon C. Rausser, Andrew Schmitz, Timothy G. Taylor, David Zilberman
Sērija : Natural Resource Management and Policy
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Oct-2012, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., ISBN-13: 9781461356066)
The relative prosperity in U.S. agriculture that attended the passage of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 was followed by a general decline in U.S. agricultural prices from 1998 to 2000. This trend in declining prices contin...Lasīt vairāk
Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture identifies and structures more flexible economic incentives for the achievement of environmental goals in agriculture. It provides a conceptual fra...Lasīt vairāk
Richard E. Just, Julian M. Alston, David Zilberman
Sērija : Natural Resource Management and Policy
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Feb-2011, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., ISBN-13: 9781441942395)
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, Berke...Lasīt vairāk
Leslie Lipper, Takumi Sakuyama, Randy Stringer, David Zilberman
Sērija : Natural Resource Management and Policy
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Dec-2008, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., ISBN-13: 9780387729695)
f environmental services in agricultural landscapes as they provide a living for many poor in developing countries.--Publishers description. In recent years, development policy has responded to an increasing concern about natural resource de...Lasīt vairāk
Evenson (Yale U., US), Santaniello (U. of Rome, Italy), and Zilberman (U. of California, US) present 21 papers that address some of the major economic and institutional problems that affect the creation and international exchange of agricultural bio...Lasīt vairāk
This collection of 26 papers examines consumer reactions to information about genetically modified foods, regulatory issues, farmer acceptance of biotech products, and changes in industrial organization in the life science and food sector. Topics in...Lasīt vairāk
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 c...Lasīt vairāk
Sixteen contributions, arising from the June, 1998 conference Knowledge Generation and Transfer: Implications for Agriculture in the 21st Century, held at the U. of California, Berkeley campus, are presented by Wolf (natural resources, Cornell U.)...Lasīt vairāk
A growing concern for environmental quality and resource scarcity has led to numerous policy debates regarding resource utilization around the world. This is especially true when it comes to agriculture. This important new textbook in the Oxford Seri...Lasīt vairāk
