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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt +6 more
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Influence of Contextual Factors on Soundscape in Urban Open Spaces
Applied Sciences, 2018 The acoustic environment in urban open spaces has played a key role for users. This study analyzed the different effects of contextual factors, including shop openness, season, and commercial function, on the soundscape in two typical commercial ...
Xiaolong Zhao +3 more
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The rural landscape of neopalatial Kythera: A GIS perspective [PDF]
, 2002 Intensive archaeological survey on the island of Kythera (Greece) has revealed, in unprecedented detail, a landscape of dispersed rural settlements dating to the mid-2nd millennium BC. This paper deploys a series of GIS and spatial analysis techniques to
Bevan, A
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen +5 more
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The modern architecture culture of Harbin based on memes
Heritage ScienceCultural memes, which have the same heritability and variability as particulate biological genes, provide culture units that can be shared and transmitted across different periods, allowing cultural computing to be performed in a fine-grained manner ...
Jun Cai, Jianfei Dong, Yuan Zhou
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The Rural Settlements in Czechoslovakia
Geografie, 1977 The population and housing census 1970 enabled, inter alia, the first exact analysis of the pattern of the rural settlements in Czechoslovakia. (Until 1970, only data relating to communities were available; the communities are, however, solely administrative units involving sometimes even more territorially independent settlements.) According to the ...
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New marketing strategies in the development of regions, cities and settlements (villages) [PDF]
Regional- and settlement marketing (in the following: RSM) is a relatively young but dynamically developing branch of the science and practice of marketing.
Vinarne Bellasz, Zsuzsa
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Food insecurity and unemployment among immigrants in the United States
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Immigrants can be more vulnerable to economic downturns and, during periods of economic hardship, more likely to experience food insecurity compared to natives. This study examines the differential effect of the unemployment rate on the probability of being food insecure among diverse groups of immigrant households relative to natives in the ...
Siwen Zhou +3 more
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Measures of Spatial and Demographic Disparities in Access to Urban Green Space in Harbin, China
Complexity, 2020 Access to urban green space (UGS) is associated with the enhancement of health and disparities in access generate issues of spatial equity and socioenvironmental justice.
Qian Xie, Ming Lu
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REGULATING URBANISATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA THROUGH CLUSTER SETTLEMENTS: LESSONS FOR URBAN MANGERS IN ETHIOPIA [PDF]
Against the backdrop that urbanization in sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries, including Ethiopia, has occurred without the attendant growth and development spillovers; and that the inherent benefits of urbanization are threatened by the fast pace of ...
Davidson Sunday Ashemi ALACI
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