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Efficiency and Technology Gap in European Apple Production—A Metafrontier Model for Germany, Italy, and Poland

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
wiley   +1 more source

Urbanization Sans Development? [PDF]

open access: yes
From a theoretical standpoint, the question has to be asked whether or not the census should retain its present definition of urban areas. There is a need for a more meaningful integration of the structural, institutional and demographic criteria, if the
Gultiano, Socorro A., Flieger, Wilhelm
core   +1 more source

Renewable Energy Adoption and Its Economic Impact in Saudi Arabia: A Panel Data Approach

open access: yesSAGE Open
This study examines the impact of renewable energy (RE) capacity, RE investment, and RE share on GDP growth, renewable energy employment, and subsidy reduction in Saudi Arabia over the period 2015 to 2023. The study applies the Autoregressive Distributed
Mohamed Ali Ali
doaj   +1 more source

[Re]Urban practice, towards a European research agenda for urbanism: Nature as reference, human as critical, process as fundamental

open access: yes, 2021
Addressing climate change is fundamental and requires learning how to design cities with environmental risks and opportunities. It is the responsibility the people all have as citizens, and the deadline is fast-approaching. However, urbanism has a clear responsibility in this deepening inequality and should be one of the pillars of any policy aiming to
Allegri, Alessia   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Urban China : Toward Efficient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Urbanization

open access: yes, 2014
In the last 30 years, China’s record economic growth lifted half a billion people out of poverty, with rapid urbanization providing abundant labor, cheap land, and good infrastructure.
Development Research Center of the State Council, the People’s Republic of China   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

Re-Dividing and Coding of Urbanization Kirkuk City

open access: yesTikrit Journal of Engineering Sciences, 2013
 Presented in this paper is a public service data base for Kirkuk city. The data base is based on dividing the town into a number of main districts and coding the zones and neighborhoods in each of the main distracted.
Najat K. Omar
doaj  

Reflections on the Reurbanism Paradigm: Re-Weaving the Urban Fabric for Urban Regeneration and Renewal [PDF]

open access: yesQuaestiones Geographicae, 2018
Abstract Within the realm of contemporary urban design theory and practice, a number of authors have conceptualised the trends and processes of city development and planning into a series of urbanisms. This discussion essay examines the overall tenets of the ‘ReUrbanism paradigm’, a paradigm that has long been present in city planning ...
Haas, Tigran, Locke, Ryan
openaire   +3 more sources

Ecotopías militantes=Militant ecotopias

open access: yes, 2023
La edición de este número de Re-visiones es parte del resultado del proyecto de I+D+i “Humanidades energéticas: Energía e imaginarios socioculturales entre la revolución industrial y la crisis ecosocial” (PID2020-113272RA-I00, HUMENERGE), financiado/a ...
Ramírez-Blanco, Julia   +1 more
core  

The Geography of Success: A Spatial Analysis of Export Intensity in the Italian Wine Industry

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the paradox of how Italy's fragmented, SME‐dominated wine industry achieves global export success. Moving beyond purely firm‐centric explanations, we test whether export intensity is spatially dependent, clustering geographically in regional ecosystems.
Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, Jonas Di Vita
wiley   +1 more source

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