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"Integrating Optimization and Strategic Conservation to Achieve Higher Efficiencies in Land Protection" [PDF]
Strategic land conservation seeks to select the highest quality lands given limited financial resources. Traditionally conservation officials implement strategic conservation by creating prioritization maps that attempt to identify the lands of highest ...
Kent D. Messer +2 more
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Large acquisition of rights on forest lands for tropical timber concessions and commercial wood plantations [PDF]
, 2011 The recent attention given to the growing large-scale acquisition or leasing of public and private lands by commercial investors fails to pay attention to the extensive practice of and current trends in the leasing of industrial-scale forest concessions ...
Barney, Keith +9 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines producer participation choices considering a variety of potential benefits linked to state‐sponsored marketing programs, using a real choice dataset of farmers in Missouri. Multinomial logit models are employed to predict determinants of farmer enrollment in three tiers of the Missouri Grown local food marketing program ...
Lan Tran, Ye Su, Laura McCann
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ALLOCATION PROBLEMS OF PUBLIC LANDS IN THE WEST [PDF]
Increasing interest in the federally owned lands by individuals and groups representing a broad cross section of society has intensified public land management problems.
Wyckoff, J.B.
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#Palladium of the People: A Kantian Right to Internet Access [PDF]
, 2017 Lack of high-speed internet access remains a problem in the United States, particularly in rural areas, Tribal lands, and the U.S. territories. High-speed internet should be considered a basic right because it connects people to social media, the new ...
Buckman, Christopher
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels +4 more
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The Fishery as a Watery Commons: Lessons from the Experiences of Other Public Policy Areas for U.S. Fisheries Policy [PDF]
Open access, combined with modern technologies of fishing, has created serious problems of overfishing and threatens the sustainability of many U.S. fisheries.
White, Lawrence J.
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
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Resolving Range Conflict in Nevada? The Potential for Compensation via Monetary Payouts and Grazing Alternatives [PDF]
In response to environmental pressure, public land agencies in Nevada have reduced animal unit months (AUMs) of grazing on public lands. This has resulted in economic losses to ranchers, increased conflict between ranchers and the public land agencies ...
G. Cornelis van Kooten, Thomas Hobby
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Dual Regulation, Collaborative Management or Layered Federalism: Can Cooperative Federalism Models From Other Laws Save Our Public Lands? [PDF]
, 1996 Few would assert that the current governance model for managing the nation\u27s public lands, which grants exclusive authority to the federal government, has protected the natural resource values of those lands or provided a framework for the harmonious ...
Babcock, Hope M.
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