sterner t 2003 policy instruments for environmental and natural resource management

... the hypotheses to be tested, and the experimental approach that will be used to test the hypotheses and to identify, investigate, and ultimately overcome the constraints to sustainability. Proposals ... program is to succeed. The implicit involvement of students and other training activities should contribute to strengthening institutional capacities in the host country. It is expected that the SANREM ... and management techniques involving pests and their hosts, parasites, predators, and antagonists; cultural and biological pest controls; and other factors that determine the ultimate impact of pests. Integrated...

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... benefit coincides with the largest divergence between total benefit (TB) and total cost (TC ). If total benefit is on top at that point, this is the quantity that maximizes the net benefit. Figure ... find total cost and total benefit the furthest apart. In the context of a firm, the difference between total benefit (revenue) and total cost is profit, which is maximized at Q*, where total ... lesser needs to be satisfied with subsequent kills. Total Cost and Benefit Q* Total Cost Total Bene t Quantity of Whales Harvested Cost per Unit Marginal Cost Marginal Bene t Quantity of Whales...

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... brackets is the total larval settlement into patch i, assumed dependent on total space not occupied by existing adults, and the last two terms are natural and fishing mortality rates, respectively. ... argues that closing all but one patch is optimal. They attribute this result to a feature of their metapopulation structure, namely the fact that there is a non-convexity in the larval production ... interesting article by Lightwood and Goldman (2002). These authors find the optimal treament path under the assumption that the medical authorities operate without an explicit budget constraint....

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... distinct trends—valuing resources as instruments, the creation and reinforcement of a science that allowed resources to be managed as instruments, and institutional infrastructure that channeled ... Likewise, implementation theory refers to top-down and bottom-up forces that can inuence policy. Institutional theory recognizes the nested eect that constitutive, collective, and operational rulemaking ... Institutional Characteristics: Implementing Innovation in Land Protection 70 CHAPTER 4 Intermittent Alignment of Institutional Characteristics: Implementing Innovation in Watershed Management...

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... relative restriction on the amount of pollution per unit output creates an "output-subsidy effect" that affects factor prices in a different way than the traditional output and substitution ... entry and exit. Any plant that exits is immediately replaced by a new plant that enters, so that the total size of the industry is fixed. In the data, the vast majority of the electric utilities ... presents the moments from the data, and the last column presents the simulated moments using the estimated parameters. Though the estimated parameters are matched to the adjustment fraction moments...

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... poverty, speaks to community frustration and anger, but more importantly, to community strength and determination to reclaim what has been taken away. What they both say is that managing natural resources ... asked questions about the theory and change principles and how they relate to the initiative. The idea is not to «discover» the right approach but rather to create an interactive space that enables ... the other hand ICT’s can: • offer opportunities for two-way and horizontal communication, • support bottom-up articulation of development needs, • support, create and strengthen interactive and...

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... projects. It is critical that tek research reect community goals and priorities, and that tek reports reect the way that information is transmitted with- in the community. tek should not be translated, ... document the tek held in the community. Putting Words into Action Over the course of the Forests for the Future project we have attempted to connect local knowledge of the environment and the historical ... potential to contribute to more effective and sustain- able approaches to forest management in particular and natural resource management in general. A central strength (and weakness) to tek...

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... believed then and continue to believe that better management results from the understanding of how plants interact wit h each other and their environment and management to create and maintain weed populations. We ... human activities. Abiotic factors that affect weed occurrence are soil type, soil pH, soil moisture, light quantity and quality, precipi- tation pattern, and variation in air, soil, and water temperatures. ... Competitors. These are plants that have evolved characteristics that maximize the capture of environmental resources in productive but relatively undis- turbed conditions. These plants have extensive...

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... paper 14 Near East and North Africa The major environmental threats in the Near East and North Africa are drought, desertification and soil/land degradation.These threats are,to a great extent,also the cause and ... committees, water-point committees, community development groups and the like – that actively par- ticipate in project activities. The NAFP has repeatedly demonstrated the effectiveness of an integrated ... group planning,design and implementation.They also contribute to the initial costs of the work and make a commitment to operate and maintain the newly created assets. In Yemen ,resource conservation is the key to...

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... upregulated upon stimulation of the T cells and attenuates the response (top). The newly proposed model puts together new insights into CTLA-4 functions (bottom). (1) During suboptimal T cell activation, ... suggesting that the gene transcription of activated T cells, rather than the regulation of proteins, is altered by CTLA-4. It is not yet clear whether CTLA-4 interferes with CD28 costimulation ... the formation of a lattice-like structure on the cell surface. This pattern formation cannot occur by the interaction of CD86 with CTLA-4. Activation of CTLA-4 by binding to its ligands leads to...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... protect life and property and to allow people to enjoy the freedom and opportunity to cooperate and trade with one another. In this way government creates the economic environment that permits ... sentences together and take out some of the little words one uses when talking infor- mally. If my attempt to convert these lectures into a book has succeeded, it is only due to the fact that, with every sentence, ... thoughts important for today and the future, that they should be made available to the public. Since my husband had never revised the transcripts of his lectures for book publication, that task...

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