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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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APRIMORAMENTO HUMANO: UM NOVO TEMA DA AGENDA FILOSÓFICA
Princípios, 2015 Since before we can remember, humanity aims toovercome its biological limitations; such a goal has certainly playeda key role in the advent of technique.
Marco Antonio Azevedo
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BIOMORAL ENHANCEMENT. DEFINIZIONI E PROBLEMI APERTI [PDF]
S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2014 This paper focuses on the important disputation about biomoral enhancement, the new frontier of human enhancement international debate. In the first part, it analyses the main issues of Unfit for the future, the 2012 book of Savulescu and Persson,
Lo Sapio, Luca
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Sport values, personal values and antisocial behavior in sport
Asian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2023 A core aspect of morality concerns behavior towards others. To better understand this issue, we investigated the values-behavior relationship. In a cross-sectional study design, 165 team sport athletes rated the importance of Lee's sport values and ...
Christopher Ring +3 more
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli +2 more
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Human enhancement and morality: Some theoretical doubts [PDF]
Sociološki PregledThe author tackles the critical ethical ideas accompanying the idea that man can be "morally enhanced" by influencing the "moral brain". Analyzing the primary approach of contemporary neuroethicists, the author notes that the idea of improvement mainly ...
Cekić Nenad N.
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Happiness Issue – Moral Aspects of its Biochemical Enhancement
Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2021 The search for happiness is something that constitutes human existence from its beginning, and even though people have achieved unimaginable progress in science and technologies, they still have not found the secret of being happy. Transhumanist authors,
Zlatica Plašienková, Martin Farbák
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Neurofeedback-Based Moral Enhancement and Traditional Moral Education
Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2018 Scientific progress in recent neurofeedback research may bring about a new type of moral neuroenhancement, namely, neurofeedback-based moral enhancement; however, this has yet to be examined thoroughly.
Koji Tachibana
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Moral enhancement and pro-social behaviour [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2011 Moral enhancement is a topic that has sparked much current interest in the world of bioethics. The possibility of making people ‘better,’ not just in the conventional enhancement sense of improving health and other desirable (and desired) qualities and capacities, but by making them somehow more moral, more decent, altogether better people, has ...
Chan, Sarah, Harris, John
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether information about production methods and social norms can increase consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) a price premium for food produced using climate‐friendly farming methods. A randomized survey experiment was conducted with 1568 respondents across Denmark, Lithuania, and Spain, who were assigned to one of four ...
Kassa Tarekegn Erekalo +5 more
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