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ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross +2 more
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What is Product-Service Systems (PSS)? A Review on PSS Researches and Relevant Policies [PDF]
In order to achieve sustainable society, it is necessary to transform industrial structure to the one that does not reduce the Earth's resources. Under this circumstance, a business model of "not selling goods, but selling services" has been expected as ...
Yasuhide Nakagami, Yasuhiro Kanda
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Vistas of the Post — Industrial City
Waterfront development has become a sign for the post-industrial city. Cases such as Baltimore’s Harbor District, London Docklands, Cardiff Bay, and Barcelona’s Port Vell represent the transformation of districts of industrial decline into areas of newprosperity, as redundant industrial buildings are re-coded as sites of culture.
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ABSTRACT Vending is an important sector in the daily lives of many people, and coffee is the most frequently consumed product in the European market. Like many other sectors, vending is responding to the challenge of sustainable development by taking various actions, such as offering increasingly ecologically sound coffee while maintaining/improving ...
Alberto Bertossi +2 more
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Corporate Response to a New Environment [PDF]
The problem of minimizing a quadratic criterion for a linear system with control constraint is considered. It is shown how the solution can be generated numerically. A DC motor and a double integrator are used as examples.
Wishard, Wm. Van Dusen
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis
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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ВИЗУАЛЬНОЕ ВОСПРИЯТИЕ В СОВРЕМЕННОМ ОБЩЕСТВЕ ИЛИ КУДА ДВИЖЕТСЯ ГАЛАКТИКА ГУТТЕНБЕРГА?
Целью статьи является исследование трансформаций способа восприятия информации в современном западном обществе. По мере развития человеческой цивилизации, возникновения письменности, а позже и печатного станка, человеческое восприятие мира изменялось от ...
Yuri Romanovich Wolfson +1 more
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Down-to-earth economy: the discursive contribution of sustainable consumption and production debate [PDF]
Sustainable consumption and production (SCP) is a topical concept as national SCP programmes have been drafted by several countries around Europe. This discourse analysis, based on interviews with Finnish SCP committee members, suggests that sustainable ...
Berg, Annukka
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The Aerospace Industry in Post-Industrial Development
The article raises the issue of the relevance of the development of international cooperation in the aerospace industry, taking into account the trends of post-industrial society, the development of artificial intelligence, and the transformation of the world society.
Natalia M. Hrushchynska +3 more
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Does Participating in Agricultural Global Value Chains Promote Agricultural Growth?
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between GVC participation and agricultural value‐added growth in 43 countries over the period 1995–2022. In contrast to prior literature, we disaggregate the agricultural sector into four sub‐sectors namely crop cultivation, animal production, forestry and fishing.
Taner Turan +2 more
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