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The Price Gap in Agriculture‐Based Greenhouse Gas Offset Markets

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, there is a global effort to reduce greenhouse gas net emissions (GHGNE). For economic well‐being, it is important to identify low‐cost means of net emission offsets. Agriculture and forestry have received considerable attention as a means of supplying emissions offsets, as they contribute nearly 20% of global emissions.
Jingyi W. Liu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing Urban Public Transport Performance Through Econometric Modeling and Dynamic Benchmarking in Greater Cairo

open access: yesFuture Transportation
This paper introduces a detailed approach to boosting the functioning and finances of public transport in Greater Cairo. The research depends on multicriteria analysis, econometric forecasting, mathematical optimization, and comparison with other ...
Nawaf Mohamed Alshabibi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tractors, Canton, Lincoln County [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
4 x 6 photograph, a row of tractors from different eras, some have two wheels in the front and others have one wheelH2010-041 Vanishing Early Scenes Vernell Johnson Coll.
Johnson, Vernell
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What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
wiley   +1 more source

Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
wiley   +1 more source

Electric Tractors in China: Current Situation, Trends, and Potential

open access: yesWorld Electric Vehicle Journal
Tractors are widely used self-propelled power machinery. Electrification is one of the main directions for the green and low-carbon development of tractors.
Hongguang Yang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN THE TAX STRUCTURE ON AGRICULTURAL ASSET REPLACEMENT [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper uses a deterministic asset replacement model to examine the implications of the 1986 Tax Reform Act (TRA) for replacement investment in U.S. agriculture.
Smith, Vincent H.
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Hybrid Tractors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
A poster submitted in ENG 207 taught by Dr. David Prescott for the Fall 2013 semester.Our team performed an in depth research on this topic to identify the existing problems of the diesel fuel tractors.
AlKaabi, Ahmed   +4 more
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
wiley   +1 more source

Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
wiley   +1 more source

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