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Hemp Cultivation and Crop Diversification: Implications for Ecosystem Services in Kentucky
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the ecosystem benefits of expanding hemp cultivation by assessing its impact on crop diversity. Using scenario‐based simulations and fixed‐effect panel regressions with county‐level data in Kentucky, we find that increased hemp acreage tends to enhance crop diversity, improving water quality and bird diversity.
Yunsun Park +4 more
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Scenarios and enhanced, strategies, Case study The Hague Region, the Netherlands
, 2011 In the PLUREL Analysis report on The Hague Region (Aalbers et al 2009), the region is described with respect to history, landuse, planning context, actors and their strategies regarding developments in the urban fringe.
Kiers, M.A. +3 more
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, 2020 Mega-urban development in Monsoon Asia has a relatively similar pattern, which leads to the formation of Mega-Urban Region (MUR). Such urban development potentially threatens sustainability as it vastly expands to encroaching rural areas.
Anoraga Jatayu +2 more
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Chinese Trade Competition and Rural Mexican Migration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 reshaped global trade, reducing U.S. demand for Mexican manufactured goods and weakening Mexico's manufacturing employment. This study estimates how this trade‐induced decline affected migration and employment decisions among rural Mexicans.
Zachariah Rutledge, Joaquin Mayorga
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Urban, regional and natural history
New ContreeIn seeking to explain and not merely describe local history, it is necessary to look at the reasons for settlement in any region. This involves viewing regions as part of a larger system – local history must be explored in relation to processes operating on the urban, regional and national levels.
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Urbanization, Commuting and Regional Labor Markets
, 2018 Deutschland ist durch seine regionale Struktur - mit vielen Zentren intensiver wirtschaftlicher Aktivität - besonders interessant für Analysen zu räumlichen Mechanismen von Städten und zu Wechselwirkungen zwischen Regionen. Mit steigender Bevölkerungszahl in den Städten dient das Pendeln zwischen Wohn- und Arbeitsort als räumlicher ...
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Urban clustering and residential concentration pattern assessment in a GIS environment. Application to the Region of Thessaly, Greece. [PDF]
The main aim of this paper is the definition of a methodological framework for the determination, analysis and cross-evaluation of urban clusters which are formulated within wider study areas, such as administrative regions.
Yorgos Photis, Stelios Tsompanolgou
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
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Evaluation of Two Satellite Surface Solar Radiation Products in the Urban Region in Beijing, China
Remote SensingSurface solar radiation, as a primary energy source, plays a pivotal role in governing land–atmosphere interactions, thereby influencing radiative, hydrological, and land surface dynamics.
Lin Xu, Yuna Mao
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, 2008 In the rapidly growing knowledge economy, the talent and creativity of those around us will be increasingly decisive in shaping economic opportunity. Creativity can be described as the ability to produce new and original ideas and things. In other words, it is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain or transforms an existing domain ...
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