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Frontiers in Sustainable CitiesIn the state of Oregon and across the United States, municipal governments have traditionally granted utilities the right to use the public right-of-way through negotiated franchise agreements which set contractual conditions of use for 10 or more years.
Christy Anderson Brekken +2 more
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Agricultural and Food Economics, 2020 In this article, we demonstrated the dynamic impact of a bumper harvest and drought shocks on the maize market and on the trade regime in Ethiopia. Regional market integration of Ethiopia’s white maize market with the South Sudan and Kenyan maize markets
Mesay Yami, Ferdi Meyer, Rashid Hassan
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Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava +2 more
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Could the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism promote climate mitigation? An economy-wide analysis
Advances in Climate Change ResearchDue to concerns about carbon leakage and sectoral competitiveness, the European Union (EU) proposed implementing the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM).
Kun Zhang +5 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of geographical indication (GI) certification on the export performance of Turkish agri‐food products by analyzing both trade volume and unit value dynamics. Drawing on monthly data from 2000 to 2024 across 22 GI‐certified products, the research employs product‐level regressions, fixed‐effects panel models ...
Ihlas Sovbetov, Muge Burcu Ozdemir
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Energy transition in the South East Europe: The case of the Romanian power system
Energy Reports, 2020 With the exception of Albania, the countries of South-Eastern Europe (SEE) have high shares of electricity generation from an ageing fleet of coal-fired power units with quite low efficiencies. Energy planning-related decision-making regarding whether to
Nikolaos E. Koltsaklis +3 more
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Environmental, Economic and Policy Aspects of Biofuels
Foundations and Trends® in Microeconomics, 2008 This review provides a timely summary of the current understanding of the various impacts and contributes positively to the policy debate. We have several key conclusions:(1) Biofuels are diverse and evolving; (2) Greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits vary significantly across various types of biofuels and are dependent on market conditions and policy ...
Deepak Rajagopal, David Zilberman
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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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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 +3 more
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Policy Monitor—Green Buildings: Economics and Policies
, 2016 This article presents an overview of green building economics and policies through a survey of theoretical and empirical evidence concerning green building practices. We define green building policy as policies that affect the entire life of the building,
Flowers, Mallory E. +5 more
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