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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe +2 more
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The relationship between well-being and wildfire [PDF]
, 2006 In this study, the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, was used to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two hypothetical wildfire scenarios ...
Kaval, Pamela
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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Driving Factors and Future Trends of Wildfires in Alberta, Canada
FireDepartures from historical wildfire regimes due to climate change have significant implications for the structure and composition of forests, as well as for fire management and operations in the Alberta region of Canada.
Maowei Bai +6 more
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Dead Fuel Moisture Content Reanalysis Dataset for California (2000–2020)
FireThis study presents a novel reanalysis dataset of dead fuel moisture content (DFMC) across California from 2000 to 2020 at a 2 km resolution. Utilizing a data assimilation system that integrates a simplified time-lag fuel moisture model with 10-h fuel ...
Angel Farguell +4 more
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Progress in Disaster Science, 2023 Wildfires can significantly impact regional and global climate, human health, and ecosystems, making it necessary to model their behavior and predict their outcomes.
Ke Shi, Yoshiya Touge, Yanhong Dou
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American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background The impact of presumptive coverage policies for work‐related mental health disorders has not been extensively studied to date. Using data from the Association of Workers’ Compensation Boards of Canada (AWCBC), our objectives were to describe the evolution of compensated mental health conditions, and to explore the association ...
Quentin Durand‐Moreau +3 more
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An Optimization of UAV-Based Remote Monitoring for Improving Wildfire Response in Power Systems
IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, 2023 Wildfires lead to colossal losses on territory, local, state and federal levels, affecting critical infrastructure, the economy, decarbonization goals, social sustainability and more.
Amarachi Umunnakwe, Katherine Davis
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
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Investigating the relationship between stakeholder opinion about wildfire management and landscape context using GIS [PDF]
, 2006 Colorado residents living in the wildland urban interface (WUI) were asked about their perception of wildfire risk and their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for three fire management procedures: fuel reduction by thinning, fire suppression and prescribed fires.
Kaval, Pamela +2 more
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