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Growth of Omnichannel Grocery Retailing and Food Prices
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of the growth of omnichannel grocery retailing on food prices. We first develop a conceptual model of consumer choice and retailer pricing that allows us to evaluate changes in equilibrium prices, quantities, and profits with online channel growth and alternative pricing strategies.
Xiangwen Kong +2 more
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Urban, Planning and Transport ResearchThe Léman Express (LEx) is Europe’s largest cross-border rail network. As the backbone of public transportation that connects Geneva with its French suburbs, the LEx should contribute to increasing sustainable mobility and to achieving the 2050 carbon ...
Frédéric Varone +3 more
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Restructuring of spatial relations of business services in metropolitan regions - a research project [PDF]
The present urban-economic and spatial- functional changes in metropolitan regions are both, the outcome of a restructuring process induced by ICT-technologies in all economic sectors, as well as the consequences of globalisation and the growing ...
Jähnke, Petra
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török +6 more
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Coexistence of Built Areas and Natural Protected Areas Within Metropolitan Regions in China
LandCompared with research on the rapid development of Chinese metropolitan regions, systematic studies on nature conservation in metropolitan regions are lacking. We still lack a deep understanding of the spatial relationship between natural protected areas
Lin Yuan, Siqi Wang, Jingxuan Hou
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Political Institutionalisation and Economic Specialisation in Polycentric Metropolitan Regions – The Case of the East-German ‘Saxony Triangle’ [PDF]
The rising attention of politicians as well as scientists in the EU to the large urban agglomerations as centres of economic growth is accompanied by political efforts to identify and to demarcate such agglomerations under the label ‘metropolitan regions’
Christoph Hornych, Peter Franz
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The Tools of Metropolitan Unity in Turkey: A Holistic and Comparative Elaboration [PDF]
, 2014 Existing studies on Turkey usually fail to conceptualize the evolution of the regulations and efforts made for the administration and planning of the metropolitan regions in the country within a historical and comparative framework incorporating all ...
Beyhan, Burak
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Spatial and temporal hot spots of Aedes albopictus abundance inside and outside a South European metropolitan area [PDF]
, 2016 Aedes albopictus is a tropical invasive species which in the last decades spread worldwide, also colonizing temperate regions of Europe and US, where it has become a public health concern due to its ability to transmit exotic arboviruses, as well as ...
Caputo, Beniamino +8 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Market‐based solutions are increasingly tested to address aflatoxin issues in peanuts in developing countries. Although previous studies have found that Haitian grocery store shoppers are willing to pay a 21% premium for peanut butter with levels of aflatoxin that meet international standards, no information is available for the much larger ...
Phendy Jacques +2 more
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Cybergeo, 2015 We analyze eight dimensions of the spatial structure of metropolitan regions in Europe. Our research is based on recent literature on the quantification of internal configurations of densities.
Florent Le Néchet
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