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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Resource abundance"”.
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Three Essays on Economic Growth and Natural Resources
… of papers examining the relationship between resource intensity and economic growth in the Appalachian region of the United States. The first chapter develops a homogenous sample of counties within the Appalachian region and uses that sample to investigate how coal resources impact long-run …
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Mineral wealth versus resource curse - the stage is set
The debate regarding the impact of resource wealth being a curse rather than a benefit has been a subject of debate since the 1950’s. Only since Sachs and Warner, (1995) the ground-breaking study which confirmed a negative relationship between resource abundance and economic growth for a selected …
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Foraging Ecology of Parrotfishes in the Greater Caribbean: Impacts of Specialization and Dietary Preferences on Marine Benthic Communities
… the responses of parrotfishes across a range of resource abundance will help scientists and managers better predict the impacts that these herbivores have on benthic communities as both herbivores and corallivores.</p> <p>In Chapter 1, we examined how six different species of coral reef …
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Fishing patterns around the Cape Peninsula National Park : implications for a fisheries monitoring program
… to detect biologically significant shifts in resource abundance in the Marine Protected Areas and to provide data that are relevant to stock assessment models. Personnel and cost implications of the monitoring program will be estimated.
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Three Essays on the Economics of Discrimination and Conflict
… of economic inequality, ethnic diversity, and resource abundance as key determinants of conflict. I then consider reasons for the increasing ethnicization of conflict in unequal societies. Lastly, I consider the role of visceral factors in the construction of violence. I organize the often …
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Military spending, economic growth and endogeneity a panel analysis 1988-2010
… levels of income, conflict experience, natural resource abundance, openness and aid. Following the stratification process, a set of instrumental variables are taken for military spending. Using 2SLS and a dynamic Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) method, the sample is regressed to identify for …
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Neo Salt Road: A Story of Salt
… as safer and cleaner alternatives, due to resource abundance and non-combustibility. In conclusion it argues the appeal of salt as a cultural and technological substance, able to replace nuclear energy production with large scale salt battery technology.
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Simple exports also matter : knowledge creation and growth in natural resource abundant countries
… is a great deal of pessimism towards natural resource oriented development in modern developmental literature but little is made of the countries which thrive in the face of resource abundance. This paper models the nature of innovation in resource abundant countries and sets about testing for …
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The effects of structured variation in nectar standing crop on currency choice and optimal foraging by bumble bees
… commonly exploit patchy habitats in which resource abundance can vary within and among patches. Studies measuring resource variation tend to consider only single sources of variation, so the extent of structured resource variation and how it impacts foraging animals are unclear. A survey of …
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The Effect of Area on Resource Competition among Migrant Birds at a Stopover Site
Few studies have focused on the habitat and resource requirements of migratory landbirds along migration routes. Habitat fragmentation may exacerbate the costs of migration by reducing food availability and/or increasing competition at crowded stopover sites. I predicted that smaller forest …
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An evaluation of tourism development as diversification strategy in the United Arab Emirates
… to understand the historical perspective of resource abundance and oil curse theories and rentiers, city state and economic diversification concepts. Qualitative research methodology in the form of a case study was employed to obtain an in-depth analysis and evaluation of the performance and …
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The conservation ecology of the European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus) in a complex heathland-plantation landscape.
… on the ease of prey capture rather than prey abundance. Dissection of nightjar faecal pellets demonstrated that moths and beetles were key components of the diet and that variation in diet during the breeding season may be due to changes in resource abundance and varying chick requirements. …
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Sustainability and economic policy analysis
… which generation owns the stock of a natural resource on the distribution of intergenerational welfare. An increase in the share of the resource stock that is owned by the first generation, reduces welfare of later generations. If the first generation owns the full resource stock, intermediate …
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Consumption and Commodities: The Political Economy of Canada’s Growth Model
… structural-institutional characteristics – resource abundance, geography, federalism, majoritarianism – and global economic forces such as commodity prices, financialization, and liberalization. Canada’s GM shares similarities with other Anglo economies, including the United States and …
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Multi-faceted analyses of plant-pollinator interactions: From ecological communities to individual foraging decisions
… consistently lagged behind shifts in floral resource abundance, which was mostly caused by a large capacity for remembering past experiences. Overall, this research highlights how different factors such as floral resource community composition and individual foraging behavior can influence …
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Charge Storage Mechanism of Redox Polymers for Energy Storage
… storage applications due to their high capacity, resource abundance, and environmental friendliness. While most studies focused on electrochemical performance, their redox mechanisms are not well-studied, especially for n-type polymers. The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the …
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The political economy of oil in Nigeria: How oil's impact on rent distribution has contributed to Nigeria's sub-optimal economic performance
… is widely believed to be a result of the natural resource curse. The natural resource curse is a phenomenon attributed to the inverse relationship between economic growth rates and the natural resource abundance of countries, and several notions have been put forward as to the mechanism through …
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Essays in the Gulf Cooperation Council economies and market dynamics
Countries rich in natural resources may be deemed to have an economic advantage with regards to their economic growth. However, this has been questioned as such countries have been found to underperform those that are significantly disadvantaged in terms of such resources, leading to what has been …
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Drivers of plant and arthropod diversity and community structure in a grassland ecosystem
… species availability mediated effects of soil resources/competition over time. These results suggest that limits to diversity act at both local and regional scales, and shift in their degree of influence over gradients of successional time and habitat productivity. The diversity of basal …
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Dealing with plenty: Brazil in the era of surplus oil
… with oil, such as its pollutant qualities and abundance in politically unstable countries, its versatile nature and features as a fuel discourage a switch to alternative energies, a very arduous endeavor under present technological constraints. Next, opposing views regarding the dominance of …
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