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Over the past decades, different drought indices have been suggested in the literature. This study tackles the problem of how to characterize droughts by defining a framework and proposing a generalized family of drought indices that is flexible ...
Christoph C. Raible +2 more
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The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau plays an essential role in national to regional ecological security, biodiversity conservation, and sustaining livelihood. An array of natural resource management, environmental conservation, and ecological restoration projects ...
Ting Ma +4 more
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Complex Modelling of Regional Tourism Systems
This study aimed to examine the prospects of various modelling tools in building complex models of regional tourism systems. It surveyed the international experience in forecasting tourist demands and modelling the tourism industry.
Aleksei Gintciak +3 more
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North and South: A Regional Model of the UK [PDF]
AbstractWe set up a two-region model to study the policy challenge of bringing the North’s income up to the level of the South in the UK. The model focuses on labour costs as the driver of output gains through the international competitiveness channel; and on tax/regulative costs to entrepreneurs as the driver of productivity growth.
Patrick Minford, Yue Gai, David Meenagh
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Regional Climate Change Competitiveness—Modelling Approach
The article deals with the competitiveness of regions in the face of climate change. The aim was to present the concept of measuring the Regional Climate Change Competitiveness Index.
Agnieszka Karman +2 more
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Semiparametric Bayesian Time-Space Analysis of Unemployment Duration [PDF]
In this paper, we analyze unemployment duration in Germany with official data from the German Federal Employment Office for the years 1980-1995. Conventional hazard rate models for leaving unemployment cannot cope with simultaneous and flexible fitting ...
Bender, S. +3 more
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A Hyperbolic Bid Stack Approach to Electricity Price Modelling
Modelling the energy price in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) requires features that are not well reflected in existing models.
Krisztina Katona +2 more
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Modelling fire occurrence at regional scale. Does vegetation phenology matter? [PDF]
Through its influence on biomass production, climate controls fuel availability affecting at the same time fuel moisture and flammability, which are the main determinants for fire ignition and propagation.
Bajocco, Sofia +2 more
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REGIONAL THEORY AND REGIONAL MODELS
The ideas outlined in this paper are tentative and only partially developed. They have arisen very much as a response to the deficiencies in existing regional models. Whether this particular structure can lead to added order and power in such models remains to be demonstrated.
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Models of Regional Modernization of the Donbass Region
The article deals with the methodical approach to the assessment of a level of development of post-industrial and neoindustrial models of economic modernization in regional aspect on the basis of various indicators. The proposed approach is approved with use of the statistical materials characterizing the state of economy in the regions of Donbass. The
Konstantin Viktorovich Pavlov +3 more
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