A choice experiment method to assess vegetables producers’ preferences for crop insurance [PDF]
Agricultural producers face many risks in their economic activity due to weather conditions, plant or animal diseases, price volatility, policy changes and so on.
Gil, Jose Maria +3 more
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The Strategic Adaptation of Party Organizations to New Information and Communication Technologies : A Study of Catalan and Spanish Parties [PDF]
Aquest document se centra en els casos dels dos principals partits espanyols (PP i PSOE) i catalans (PSC i CDC) en el període immediatament després de les eleccions generals espanyoles de maig de 2008, quan aquests celebraren els seus congressos.
Padró-Solanet Grau, Albert
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Kosovo-Spain Relations and the Dilemmas on the Problem of Non-Recognition
Eleven years after Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence, Spain’s position vis-à-vis Kosovo has not only not varied, but it has become stronger, turning Madrid into the leader of the Kosovo non recognizers club within the EU.
Sarriá Pol Vila, Demjaha Agon
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The incredible and sad story of candid Catalonia and his grunted Spain
The recent Catalanian crisis raises three issues, each of which is dealt with in a section of this intervention. First, the issue of a proper reconstruction of facts, which attributes the responsability to Spanish nationalism no less than Catalonian one.
Mauro Barberis
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Toward sustainable management: 2D modelling of a self-cleaning system to improve geometry in front of the flushing gate [PDF]
This paper aims to show how numerical modelling based on 2D SWE can be used to analyze the cleaning effectiveness of flushing waves in storm tanks.
Choi, Gyewoon +4 more
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The escalating human-driven pressures, such as coastal development, climate change, and overfishing, have led to habitat degradation and declines in marine resource abundance.
Edoardo Zelli +4 more
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Analysis of the effect of clock drifts on frequency regulation and power sharing in inverter-based islanded microgrids [PDF]
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Castilla Fernández, Miguel +5 more
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Education and political behaviour : evidence from the Catalan linguistic reform [PDF]
This paper studies the relationship between schooling and political behaviour in ethnically divided societies. It draws on survey data from Catalonia to investigate how the introduction in 1983 of a bilingual education system affects political ...
Aspachs-Bracons, Oriol +2 more
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Habitat structure and zonation patterns of northwestern Mediterranean shoreline strands
We studied the habitat structure (macrofaunal assemblages and bottom types) and zonation patterns of 29 unvegetated shoreline strands along the 900-km coast of Catalonia (NW Mediterranean Sea).
Simone Mariani +5 more
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The Catalan Premium: Language and Employment in Catalonia [PDF]
In this paper I measure the contribution of knowing Catalan to finding a job in Catalonia. In the early eighties a drastic language policy change (normalització) promoted the learning and use of Catalan in Catalonia and managed to reverse the falling ...
Silvio Rendon
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