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Domestic UK retrofit challenge: Barriers, incentives and current performance leading into the green deal [PDF]

, 2012
Copyright @ 2012 Elsevier - The official published version can be accessed from the link below.This paper reviews the thermal performance of the existing UK housing stock, the main fabric efficiency incentive schemes and the barriers to obtaining deep ...
Dowson, M, Harrison, DJ, Poole, A, Susman, G   +3 more
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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

Cost-optimal energy performance measures in a new daycare building in cold climate

International Journal of Sustainable Energy, 2019
New municipal service buildings must be energy effective, and cost-optimality is one of the criteria for selecting the suitable energy performance improvement measures.
Paula Sankelo, Juha Jokisalo, Jonathan Nyman, Juha Vinha, Kai Sirén   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of the Methodology to Obtain Several Key Indicators Performance (KIP), by Energy Retrofitting of the Actual Building to the District Heating Fuelled by Biomass, Focusing on nZEB Goal: Case of Study

Energies, 2018
In order to achieve the objectives of the European 20/20/20 strategy, and to obtain a greater energy efficiency, integration of renewable energies and the reduction of carbon emissions, a District Heating (DH) system has been designed by the University ...
Rosaura Castrillón Mendoza, Javier M. Rey Hernández, Eloy Velasco Gómez, Julio F. San José Alonso, Francisco J. Rey Martínez   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Real Estate Capital Flows and Transitional Economies [PDF]

Foreign real estate capital was a major source of financing domestic property market office construction in Central Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Colin Lizieri, Steven Laposa
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Tax Policy and Farm Organization

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) introduced substantial changes to the tax code, affecting farms' organizational incentives. This study examines farms' responses to the TCJA along extensive and intensive margins, focusing on organizational and labor expense adjustments.
Tia M. McDonald, Katherine Lacy
wiley   +1 more source

Digital robotic systems for non-destructive reinforced concrete structures testing [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
Monitoring the structures technical condition is the most important task aimed at increasing the reliability and safety of buildings and structures. The robotic digital systems use can significantly increase the visual survey efficiency and reduce the ...
Telichenko Valeriy, Rimshin Vladimir, Ketsko Ekaterina   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Policy additionality for UK emissions trading projects: a report for the Department of Trade & Industry [PDF]

, 2002
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Smith, Adrian, Sorrell, Steven
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The perceived barriers to the inclusion of rainwater harvesting systems by UK house building companies [PDF]

, 2010
This work investigates the barriers that exist to deter the implementation of rainwater harvesting into new UK housing. A postal questionnaire was sent to a selection of large, medium and small house-builders distributed across the UK.
Alan Fewkes, Berndtsson J., David Parsons, Edwards B., Goodhew S., Griggs J. C., Heggen R. J., Herrington P., Horton B., Leggett D. J., Leggett D. J., Pieter De Wilde, Read C., Smerdon T., Steve Goodhew, Suzenet G., Sweett C., Townsend A. R.   +17 more
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Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source