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Environment Art Design in modern Urban construction

open access: yes, 2018
 Environmental Art design has become an important part of modern urban construction . Environment Art design can be changed good city's image and style , provides comfortable living conditions for city dwellers , at the same time , can also reflect the ...
ZHANG, Jian-wei
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Accounting for Substitution: Improving Estimates of GHG Reductions From Cattle‐Based Product Demand Shifts

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Estimates of reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from lower demand for cattle‐based products must account for substitution effects. This study collected data through two surveys—one on ground beef and another on dairy milk—to evaluate substitution effects and potential GHG reductions.
Brandon R. McFadden   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urbanization and Urban Environment change.docx

open access: yes, 2019
This paper discusses the urbanization caused by the process towards a more modern society and the increasing movement of people from villages to cities. Urbanization is a result of economic development that goes into the scope of the village community and demands that they seek a better life due to limited resources to seek welfare in the village. Even
openaire   +1 more source

Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of the urban environment on the energy used for cooling buildings

open access: yes, 2002
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Cities are often warmer than their surroundings, and this can lead to more energy being used to cool buildings.
Watkins, R., Watkins, Richard
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
wiley   +1 more source

Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Large-eddy simulation of the cross-ventilation behavior in an array of low-rise buildings

open access: yes, 2010
The 9th Symposium on the Urban Environment in conjunction with the 29th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Keystone, CO., 2-6 August ...
Cheung, OP, Liu, CH
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Urban environment thermal improvement by the bioclimatic simulation of a populated open urban space in Greece.

open access: yes, 2013
Urban neighbourhoods and open spaces are strongly related to bioclimatic techniques and practices. The procedure of a bioclimatic study is presented by the use of simulation tools.
Zoras, Stamatis
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