... behind the Netherlands, Turkey, and Indonesia, and ahead of Switzerland, Poland and Belgium, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan and Norway In nominal terms (not adjusted for inflation and based on market ... and LAEDC Kyser Center for EconomicResearchEconomic Forecast, February 2012 Outlook for the U.S Economy tight underwriting standards that may be constraining the demand side of the market and ... industry focused and regional analysis, and our Economic Forecast report, produced by the Kyser Center for Economic Research, has been ranked #1 by the Wall Street Journal Economicand Policy Analysis...
... literature and experience concerning BMP in the region and move to analysis of current small farm practices and the current production, health and resource status of household farms, and incentives and ... assessment of BMP status: Standardised surveys and participatory assessment methods will be developed by RIA1 and UWA and used for assessing current aquaculture status, incentives and constraints of farmers ... production, socio -economic and environmental conditions, constraints and interests of household farmers in adopting BMP on their farms Data will be processed and analysed by staff at RIA1 and UWA to...
... yield The research on suitable season, density and fertilizer rate had been done The Savior was research on seasons adaptation, the TAT072672 and TAT062659 were research on density and fertilizer ... productivity andeconomic efficiency of tomato production in Red River delta Results of study are references for students of crop science major and others who are interested in researchand development ... the world and in Vietnam; Status of research on tomato in the world and in Vietnam Origin of Tomato Solanum lycopersicum is from Andean region including Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile...
... construction and transport In the economic field, Springer publishes many journals, such as International EconomicandEconomic Policy, Economic of Planning, Economic Theory, Empirical Economics, ... trade, labor economics, public finance, law and economic, environmental economic, or other related fields This B.E Journal in Economic Analysis and Policy produces specialist economicand business ... study and propose economic regulation and policies, economic mechanism, business environment, economic reform The CIEM also focuses on educating and training management officers, consulting economic...
... conceptualization of the multiplicity and salience of major challenges to development and security, all of which require political and public awareness andeconomic resources for timely and efficient policy treatment ... of risks, costs and benefits of handling these hazards using a multicriteria and systems approach towards the setting of policy priorities and resource sharing In addition to and developing from ... ‘long tail’ and intergenerational modes of climate change impact and thus implies special monetary and/ or insurance funds to cover respective costs and expected damage On the other hand, looking...
... both DRR and CCA (e.g UNISDR Working Group on Climate Change and the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Change Center), suggesting that DRR has much to contribute to CCA policy andresearch (Handmer, ... et al (2003) attribute coping capacity and adaptive capacity as separate dimensions of resilience, Smit and Wandel (2006) lump them together To Smit and Wandel (2006), adaptive capacity is equivalent ... learning and the social sources of adaptability, renewal and transformation; and (3) and understanding ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS of change and uncertainty as inherent in social-ecological systems...
... scholars, and increase collaboration between the young and the seasoned within academic institutions, development and relief organizations and government We see this path, embedded in adaptive and ... P., Pritchard, L and Young, O., 2006 Scale and cross-scale dynamics: governance and ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS information in a multilevel world Ecology and Society, 11(2) Coleman, F C and Williams, ... construction Science and Public Policy, 30(4) 235 Helmer, M and Hilhorst, D J M., 2006 Natural disasters and climate change Disasters, 30(1) – Hogarth, R M and Kunreuther, H C., 1985 Ambiguity and insurance...
... variability in landfalls 3.2 Landfall rates and proportion Table shows for three different periods – 1900 – 2008, 1951–2008 and 1979–2008 – the frequency of annual landfalls in the first and second ... by researchers at Florida State University, seeking to identify relationships of ENSO, NAO and AMO on landfalling storms and damage (e.g Elsner and Jagger, 2006; Jagger et al., 2008) Elsner and ... hurricane season, and in each case predicting landfall numbers to be above average For these three years the number of landfalls was well below the historical mean in 2006 and 2007 and above average...
... Change SAMUEL FANKHAUSER1, *, DAVID KENNEDY2 AND JIM SKEA3 Grantham Research Institute and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A ... States hurricane landfalls and damages 199 Coughlin, K., Bellone, E., Laepple, T., Jewson, S and Nzerem, K., 2009 A relationship between all Atlantic hurricanes and those that make landfall in the ... doi:10.1038/nature04477 Landsea, C W., 2007 Counting Atlantic Tropical Cyclones back to 1900 EOS, 88 197 and 202 Lonfat, M., Boissonnade, A and Muir-Wood, R., 2007 Atlantic Basin, US and Caribbean landfall rates...
... Netherlands ICREA, Barcelona, Spain; Institute of Environmental Science and Technology & Department of Economics andEconomic History, ` Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain; Faculty of Economics ... Climate change and the frequency and severity of natural disasters In addition to socio -economic developments, climate change may increase the intensity and severity of weather extremes and contribute ... in the frequency and severity of natural disasters due to socioeconomic developments and climate change the question arises of how to design policies that limit exposure to and ameliorate impacts...
... namely low economic growth (RC) and high growth (GE) and corresponding changes in the ‘portfolio of properties at risk’ module of Figure were based on a land use model of the Netherlands (Janssen ... of climate and socio -economic change and estimating their influence on risk may be a useful first step in assessing future risk Statistical models can be used to assess how frequencies and severities ... change and socio -economic development on future natural disaster risk (IPCC, 2007) Considerable uncertainty and ambiguity is associated with both the frequency of a disaster occurring and the...
... and Management, 13(4) 307 – 314 Rose, A., 2004b Economic principles, issues, andresearch priorities in hazard loss estimation Modelling Spatial andEconomic Impacts of Disasters, Y Okuyama and ... L M and van den Bergh, J C J M., 2009b Climate change and hailstorm damage: empirical evidence and implications for agriculture and insurance, forthcoming Botzen, W J W., Aerts, J C J H and van ... change, for example, because of soil erosion and landslides resulting from more frequent and severe rains and floods The surface mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet may turn negative at a global...
... Australia, irrigated land is just 0.6 per cent of total agricultural land and the proportion in the Basin is per cent, making up 65 per cent of Australia’s total irrigated agricultural land Furthermore, ... wetlands which perform essential hydrological, biological and chemical functions and which support and maintain the productivity and health of the river systems A number of the Basin wetlands ... (The Australian, September 2008), and ‘Water dries up life on the land – Randall Crozier stands in the barren paddock, frowning at the drought-bleached desert sand’ (The Australian, 13 September...
... Politics and History, 49(1) 61 –74 ¨ ¨ Brandstrom, A and Kuipers, S., 2003 From ‘normal incidents’ to ‘political crises’: understanding the selective politicization of policy failures Government and ... management and climate change was justified by the fact that Minister Penny Wong was the minister for climate change and water The Coorong Wetlands are one of the most important wetlands in Australia ... that is separated from the Southern Ocean by a narrow sand dune peninsula Lakes Alexandrina and Albert form the mouth of the Murray River and are comprised of fresh to saline waters The Coorong’s...
... Environmental Quality Standards (or Ambient Environment Standard), (2) Effluent Standards; and (3) Supporting Standards (testing, sampling standards etc) Most of supporting standards are adapted ... some are set mandatory by MoNRE So far, of 360 environmental standards, one third is made mandatory including parameters of solid waste and wastewater Standards of dust, chemicals and emissions ... terms of economicand environmental state; (2) perceptions and barriers to their improvement of their environmental performance; and (3) their responses to the current environmental standards and...