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Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich, Tim Ölkers, Vanessa Bonke, Oliver Musshoff   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a planetary semiotics

Cadernos de Campo, 2020
There exists a universal ecology-based stratification of levels of activity and meaning-making in human societies, a stratifying architecture that determines existing levels of social experience, types of sign functions and semantic functions in language,
Per Aage Brandt
doaj   +1 more source

English as an International Language: an Overview [PDF]

, 2012
As indicated in the title, this paper provides a brief overview of English as an International Language (EIL) by elaborating it as a paradigm and discussing concepts that are closely related to it.
Dewi, A. (Anita)
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Embodied cognitive ecosophy: the relationship of mind, body, meaning and ecology [PDF]

, 2017
The concept of embodied cognition has had a major impact in a number of disciplines. The extent of its consequences on general knowledge and epistemology are still being explored.
Aizawa Ken., Bateson Gregory., Charmaz K., Chawda Bejal, Damasio Antonio., Dawson Michael., Deleuze G., Dennett Daniel C., Derek Jones, Descartes Rene., Dunning David., Foucault Michel., Gallagher Shaun., Gibson James J., Guattari Felix., Heidegger Martin., Keller David R., Khun Thomas S., Koskinen Ilpo, Lakoff George, Lakoff George, Latour Bruno., Longhurst Robyn, Malafouris Lambros., Mallgrave Harry Francis., Merleau-Ponty Maurice., Michaels Claire F., Norman Donald A., Pirsig Robert., Russell Bertrand., Shapiro Lawrence A., Wilson Frank R.   +31 more
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Synergies in Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation: Decomposing the Interaction Between Nature Parks and Agri‐Environment Schemes

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang, Christian Ritzel, Antonia Kaiser, Gabriele Mack   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling the emergence of contact languages [PDF]

, 2015
Contact languages are born out of the non-trivial interaction of two (or more) parent languages. Nowadays, the enhanced possibility of mobility and communication allows for a strong mixing of languages and cultures, thus raising the issue of whether ...
Loreto, Vittorio, Mufwene, Salikoko S., Servedio, VITO DOMENICO PIETRO, Tria, Francesca   +3 more
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The Role of Social Food Infrastructure in Addressing SNAP Participation Gaps: Evidence From Linked Administrative and Ground‐Sourced Data

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We link American Community Survey and SNAP records for 185,000 units with ground‐sourced social food infrastructure data from FindFoodIL (Illinois Extension SNAP‐Ed) to examine SNAP participation determinants among eligible units. Bivariate probit models reveal, beyond SNAP offices, quantity of social infrastructure is associated with ...
Michael Lotspeich‐Yadao, Caitlin Kownacki, Jennifer McCaffrey, Craig Wesley Carpenter   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Second Anniversary of the Constitutionalisation of the French Charter for the Environment: Constitutional and Environmental Implications [PDF]

, 2008
The former French president J. Chirac will most likely be remembered for his international standing against the US and domestically, within France, for having initiated a major ‘bill of rights’, the Charter for the Environment, and for its ...
Marrani, David
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Coping With Production Risk: Effects of Sown Plant Diversity on the Attractiveness of Crop Insurance in Grasslands

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou, Sergei Schaub, Martin Quaas, Robert Finger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Documentation for the spatial analysis system (SPAN) for resource use by animals [PDF]

, 1986
Nearest-neighbor analyses have been used with mapped data f or tests of spatial dispersion and association i n plant and animal ecology. This paper full describes a computer software package developed to use Monte Carlo trials instead of chi-squared ...
Lindberg, William J., McElroy, David A.
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