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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “""Buy Local""”.
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"Buy Local" Consumer Behavior and Wood Products: A Case Study
… the United States are increasingly interested in buying locally grown/produced (LG/P) agricultural products (Connor et al. 2009).<strong> </strong>In comparison, consumer interest<strong> </strong>in buying local wood products is not evident. In the same way that the LG/P agriculture phenomenon …
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Consumer attitudes toward and preferences for local foods in Northern Ireland: Experimental and survey evidence
… consumer attitudes toward and preferences for local foods in Northern Ireland. The thesis innovates by exploring the consistency of choices in stated and revealed preferences and the possibility to nudge behaviour through persuasive communication in the context of local foods. Evidence is based …
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The broadcast marketplace : Designing a more efficient local marketplace for goods and services
… an initial post expressing their intention to buy or sell an object, but all offers on this post are private. These offers can be seen as expressions of other participants' intentions to buy or sell the same item. What if these offers were as public as the initial post? Would this decrease …
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Buying Local: An Inquiry Into the Ethical Dimensions of Place in Consumer Decisions
This thesis assesses the Buy Local Movement from a Christian perspective and argues that supporting a global market through personal buying choices has a greater potential to promote human flourishing for image bearers across the globe than restricting one’s buying completely to local sources. In …
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Gentrification in JP/Rox : seeking a collaborative local process for a regional problem
… urban planning's contemporary commitment to local decision-making power and a regional problem such as the housing market. In order to obviate the collective action problem of diffused benefits and concentrated costs created by this local/regional dichotomy while maintaining a commitment to …
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Forest cover change and its effects on the dependent local communities in Masese local forest reserve Sesheke district
… and non-wood forest products to the dependent local communities. This study investigated forest cover change and its effects on the livelihoods of dependent local communities in MLFR. The objectives of the study were to establish the occurrence of forest cover change in MLFR; to determine the …
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Forest cover change and its effects on the dependent local communities in Masese local forest reserve Sesheke district
… and non-wood forest products to the dependent local communities. This study investigated forest cover change and its effects on the livelihoods of dependent local communities in MLFR. The objectives of the study were to establish the occurrence of forest cover change in MLFR; to determine the …
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The resale of local authority dwellings in rural England: a case study of South Northamptonshire
… this research focuses upon the former local authority sector of the rural housing market in order to explore the key connections between housing market restructuring, migration and rural social change. A realist approach is developed to explore the relationship between households moving …
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Evaluating Social Housing Sustainability Policies in the Context of Local Government: A Public Value Perspective
… homeownership predominantly under the Right-to-Buy. This research highlights that several government projects have failed in the past to deliver satisfying outcomes for the public; thus, their value to social housing tenants and public value has been largely neglected. The main aim of this …
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An Exploratory Study Of Socially Responsibleprocurement Activitiesin The Expenditure Of Public Fundsat The State And Local Level
… annual expenditures of federal, state and local governments, in concert with universities and school districts represents incredible purchasing power and requires great prowess in its expenditure. Over the course of centuries, procurement has been used as a policy tool to improve society. …
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Blockchain based Framework for Secure and Decentralized Energy Trading - Transforming Local Energy Markets for Sustainable Communities
… provides an opportunity for the setup of a local energy market (LEM) where individual households with distributed energy resources (DERs) can produce, store, and trade energy. Peer-to-peer(P2P) and decentralized energy trading (ET) can be implemented between the participants within or across …
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Can B2G portals be used effectively to stimulate business in SMEs?: A case analysis of the 2Cities Business To Government portal
… ad hoc means. One purchasing possibility is to buy from and sell to other businesses within a similar geographic area. The benefits of buying and selling locally may not occur to SMEs. They seek, like other consumers, to get value for money, fast and efficient service, and a reasonable level of …
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A study of the development of sectional titles in South Africa since the promulgation of the Act in 1971
… the l?st few years, much has been said in the local newspapers about Sectional Titles and most of what has been said was enough to scare most people from buying homes under Sectional Title. Admittedly Sectional Titles is a new innovation to the property market of South Africa because it is …
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Multi-Country Event Study Methods
… is the best statistic but must be applied to buy-and-hold abnormal returns for correct specification. Market-adjusted and market-model methods with local market indexes, without conversion to a common currency, work well. The results are robust to limiting the samples to situations expected to …
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Reducing Disparities in the Adult Criminal Justice System: Creating a Model for Denver County
… thesis makes recommendations in three areas for local work on this issue: to ensure the buy-in and commitment of local government leadership to addressing the problem, ideally in a community-wide effort that includes entities and practices outside of the criminal justice system, to employ the …
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Identifying the main indicators to consider when choosing the most profitable property for short-term rental
… those factors to determine the “best buy” in this potentially lucrative market. Feng (2010) mentioned that in order to analyse a property's liquidity in the short-term rent market one should first know how much rentable traffic to expect. He further mentioned that high tourism levels …
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Value versus glamour investing : a South African case
Evidence from international and local studies indicates that the value investment style consistently earns returns above those of the growth investment style. The same principle seems to apply, in an international context, when using the glamour investment style, which is a sub-style of growth, as …
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Waste farm: a productive landscape for integrated waste management
… waste pickers working in conjunction with buy-back centres and recyclers to form an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable solution that diverts volumes of recyclable waste from landfills. These informal waste pickers contribute to filling in a gap within the formal …
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Moving Boxes Closer to Home: The Role of SYSCO Corporation in Food System Localization
Increasing demand for local food by foodservice establishments creates new opportunities and challenges for the local food movement. While there is considerable potential for local suppliers to sell more product volume closer to home, the business needs of foodservice establishments may not be …
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Moving Boxes Closer to Home: The Role of SYSCO Corporation in Food System Localization
Increasing demand for local food by foodservice establishments creates new opportunities and challenges for the local food movement. While there is considerable potential for local suppliers to sell more product volume closer to home, the business needs of foodservice establishments may not be …
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