the economics of biodiversity in urbanizing ecosystems

... expanding human enterprises The fate of biodiversity in tropical landscapes largely depends on the future of the remaining undisturbed forest patches and the species that inhabit them and the potential ... advance findings from Terborgh et al by measuring biodiversity changes at different points of time after isolation, thereby gauging the rate of extinction In fact, regional estimates of extinctions ... set of the data I measured time since disturbance as the amount of time that had elapsed between the most recent form of disturbance and the time of study, as indicated by the authors of the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:32

... services, biodiversity and the resilience of cultivated ecosystems Indirect link Indirect link Indirect link Indirect link Indirect link Weak or unclear link system services against the MDGs The extent ... 2007 The problem of biodiversity loss is increasingly urgent in terms of the rate and costs of loss and the risks of crossing “tipping points” Our growing, if still fragmented, understanding is often ... Review of the Economics of Climate Change, they expressed the need to explore a similar project on the economics of the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity The Minister for the Environment in Germany,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20

... services, biodiversity and the resilience of cultivated ecosystems Indirect link Indirect link Indirect link Indirect link Indirect link Weak or unclear link system services against the MDGs The extent ... 2007 The problem of biodiversity loss is increasingly urgent in terms of the rate and costs of loss and the risks of crossing “tipping points” Our growing, if still fragmented, understanding is often ... Review of the Economics of Climate Change, they expressed the need to explore a similar project on the economics of the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity The Minister for the Environment in Germany,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 19:20

... increase in marginal damages, it must also reduce the optimal number of offenses and increase the optimal values of p andf On the other hand, an increase in the other component of the cost of apprehension ... engage in pure monopoly pricing, in general, however, as with other kinds of offenses, there are two costs of eliminating violations There is first of all the cost of discovering violations and of ... theft or fraud industry is "competitive," the sum of the value of the criminals' time input—including the time of "fences" and prospective time in prison—plus the value of capital input, compensation...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20

... which the group enters the profession Assuming that all individuals making up an entry cohort are the same age in year c, the variable a equals the age of the cohort in the current year minus the ... earnings 2.2.1 Construction of Earnings Profiles To describe our formulation of earnings profiles, let w(c, a)denote the annual nominal earnings of individuals who started jobs as assistant professors ... bonds at quarterly intervals of nine, six, and three months before the retirement date In the month of retirement, the resulting value of the diversified portfolio determines the pension accumulation...

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... mutual interest in finding ways of maintaining and restoring biodiversity as part of the designing and deciding upon new economic and security structures The western countries must find ways of reducing ... 1] There are other examples of concentration in agriculture among the input suppliers in particular [10, 16] The seed industry is increasingly in the hands of a few companies capable of carrying ... provided the integrating framework within which to discuss the ideas, tools and infrastructure of the papers presented by those participating in the NATO ARW in Krakow, Poland Ideas gained in planning...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 18:20

... terms on some of the individual loans issued by a sample of banks, including the largest banks in the nation Beginning in 1997, the STBL includes the banks’ risk ratings on their individual loans, ... by the one or more of the inside owners, giving the financial institution recourse against their personal wealth in the event the loan is not repaid In many cases, the personal assets of the insiders ... information of the intermediary with the business, the business owner, or other involved then uses this information contract terms at origination garnered about the initial quality of the small business...

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... living arrangement choice, including the process of institutionalization, conditional on not being institutionalized at the time of the first interview In the longitudinal analysis, we distinguish ... willing to take in their parents.13 The results also suggest that increasing the income of the elderly does not raise their probability of living alone relative to the probability of living with ... involve the preferences and financial status of other family members Two of the authors have already made significant headway broadening the definition of the decision-making unit.’ Their work and the...

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... above) consisting of the freedom of appropriation of GR and of TK on the part of the inventor on one side, while on the other the users in the country in question had to purchase the secondary ... to the invention of the combustion engine, other uses of oil, gas, and mineral resources, and the advancement of fishing technology.27 The codification of the CBD marks the same tendency of defining ... the Law of the Sea: Rethinking the Current Legal Dilemmas” (1981) 18 San Diego Law Review 415 K Baslar, The Concept of the Common Heritage of Mankind in International Law (Martinus Nijhoff, The...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 10:20

... The Economics of Cloud Computing Addressing the Benefits of Infrastructure in the Cloud The federal government is embracing cloud computing as a means of reducing expenditures for information ... estimate the potential absolute savings across the federal government (As part of the Information Technology Infrastructure Line of Business [ITI LoB] initiative, GSA is coordinating a benchmarking ... be many times the original investment in this area.”2 The language in the budget makes three key points: (1) up-front investment will be made in cloud computing, (2) long-term savings are expected,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 05:21

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Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:27

... traceability is used in the mailing and package expediting industries, allowing customers to track their packages from the point of origin to its destination In the airlines industry, tracking systems are ... processors in the US food industry and large retailers chains in the EU are de facto leaders of the supply chain and have a “pilot role in coordinating identity preservation and in the provision of information ... risk in the UK beef supply chain The beef supply chain is represented by a pair wise series of principal-agent relationships Apart from the agents in the initial and terminal node of the chain,...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:17

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Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:21

... abundant in the genomes of bacterial pathogens As expected, the authors confirmed that The Importance of Biological Interactions in the Study of Biodiversity the presence of these prophages was in ... detected in any section of the crypt region Biofilms are the leading cause of contamination of medical devices and in industrial and agricultural settings The initial adhesion and further colonization ... 2006b), increasing at the same time the biodiversity of mosquitoes around the world In the current context of global warming, the expansion of areas suitable for the major disease vectors is becoming...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 08:20

... transparency in terms of their willingness to pay The chapter positions the theory in the context of the online air travel (OTA) industry to showcase its applicability and the power of its theoretical insights ... decrease, and the profits increase in equilibrium The book contributes to the field of economics of information systems by providing a collection of chapters at the forefront of the research in this ... Confederation of Finnish Industry & Employers, Finland Petri Rouvinen, ETLA, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, Finland Chapter VIII Pay Now or Later? The Impact of Temporal Separation of Payments...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2014, 12:36

... levels of local administrators, their choice of curricula, or their effectiveness in resisting the demands of bureaucrats and teacher’s 13 The distinction between direct and indirect effects of school ... Analysis of varying δ subsumes the variance of the µ ’s: Increased variation in school effectiveness is j 29 equivalent, for the purpose of the sorting process, to increased parental valuation of a ... violated, of course, the motivating question of whether parents prefer good principals or good peers is not well posed 10 In view of the vast literature documenting the important role of family...

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