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Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Risks’ as a justification for, and a challenge to, European territorial co-operation

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Spatial Development, 2007
Under the new ‘European territorial Co-operation’ objective of the EU’s cohesion policy the programmes for the funding period 2007-2013 refer to ‘natural’, ’environmental’ or ‘flood’ risks.
Ulrich Graute, Stephan Schöps
doaj  

Immersive and non immersive 3D virtual city: decision support tool for urban sustainability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Sustainable urban planning decisions must not only consider the physical structure of the urban development but the economic, social and environmental factors.
Blackwood, David J.   +3 more
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Private Security and Public Space: New Approaches to the Theory and Practice of Gated Communities

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Spatial Development, 2006
This article reviews a range of arguments and some of the evidence on the emergence of gated communities or as they will be described in this article gated residential developments (GRDs).
Bill Smith Bowers, Tony Manzi
doaj  

Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Limits of Polycentrism at the City-regional Scale: The case of Luxembourg

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Spatial Development, 2014
Over the last fifteen years, promoters of the European spatial planning policy have presented polycentrism as the most promising strategy for answering the challenge of a more even spatial development.
Antoine Decoville, Olivier Klein
doaj  

Poverty Among Social and Economic Groups In India in the Nineteen Nineties. [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines the levels and changes in poverty indicators of the rural and urban population in India disaggregated by social and economic groups.
K. Sundaram, Suresh D. Tendulkar
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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

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