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Showing 1 to 20 of 2018 for “"natural resources"”.
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Natural Resources, Conflicts, and Conflict Management
… (both civil and inter-state) related to natural resources and examine how sanctions on natural resource exports affect the intensity of conflicts. However, for the empirical analysis, we consider only the civil conflicts and examine how international sanctions affect the duration of civil …
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Natural resources in a competitive economy.
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics.
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International Trade, the Environment and Natural Resources
… how the exhaustibility of non-renewable resources works, in the third chapter, my coauthor and I analyze dynamically consistent extraction equilibria of non-renewable resource extraction, where firms move sequentially within each period and where both the leader and follower have market …
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Three Essays on Economic Growth and Natural Resources
… and uses that sample to investigate how coal resources impact long-run per capita income growth. The Appalachian Regional Commission's definition of the Appalachian region is the one used most often by researchers, politicians, and the popular press. The uncritical use of this definition of …
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Essays in Climatic Extremes, Agriculture and Natural Resources
The first part of this dissertation attempts to add to our understanding of two aspects of the climate change issue, using tools from two different disciplines: Economics and Hydro-Climatology, for the case of India. The two aspects addressed are :( 1) understanding and summarizing changes in the …
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A Demonstration of Cartographic Modeling for Evaluating Natural Resources
<p>Cartographic modeling was used to evaluate the natural resources of the Angelina National Forest in East Texas. With the aid of the Map Analysis Package, three models were developed to evaluate historic changes, project future trends and to determine the proximity of resource to a specific …
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Undergraduate Research Experience Programs in Natural Resources, 2012-2016
… research program delivery, particularly in natural resources disciplines. Understanding the roles of such mechanisms in providing the broad range of benefits to undergraduate and mentor participants is an area of further exploration. This research describes undergraduate research experience …
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A new basis for the economic theory of natural resources.
… on a consistent and comprehensive theory of natural resources. Examination of current approaches to environmental policies reveals that a range of practical techniques have been developed but their application requires the sound basis of such a systematic theory of natural resources. A review …
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Analysis of the management of federally-owned natural resources, An
Includes bibliographical references (pages 100-106).
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An examination of the value of community in natural resources education
The Warner College of Natural Resources (WCNR) at Colorado State University has purposefully implemented a range of programs which emphasize social factors, such as sense of community, and are designed to increase the likelihood of student success. Typical measures of student success in WCNR (and …
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Decentralised International Cooperation: Enhancing Conservation and Sustainable Management of Transboundary Natural Resources
… authorities, in the governance of transboundary natural resources and spaces. This concept describes a global legal phenomenon that can be observed in different regions of the world wherever decentralised cooperative mechanisms are at work. These mechanisms are context-specific and tailor …
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Recreation Capital: Natural Resources, Amenity Development, and Outdoor Recreation in Bend, Oregon
… examines the production of recreational resources associated with amenity development. I argue that recreational resources are produced along lines similar to the production of timber, water, or mineral resources. Their production depends on the material characteristics of the resource, …
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Political Economy of Natural Resources and Governance in Iran: An Empirical Investigation
… this dissertation, I investigate the role of oil resources and economic and political institutional quality on the economic performance of Iran. To this end, I examine four related themes. First and foremost, I provide a detailed picture of the economic structure of Iran and compare its …
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Natural Resources Development in the Republic of Sakha: Russia's Diamond Producing Region
… Sakha, enormous real and potential windfall from natural resource development amplifies the existing chaos, typical in Russia, caused by the tangle of economic transition, regionalism, ethnic politics, and corruption. The last one hundred years of development and reform in the Republic of Sakha …
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Extracting the economic benefits of natural resources in the Marcellus Shale Region
… to explore the challenge of value capture from natural resources using the case of the Marcellus Shale in West Virginia and Pennsylvania as an exemplar. I examine the mechanisms in place to capture the economic benefits of shale gas extraction in these two states, performing a rough cost benefit …
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Introducing the use of integrated Decision Support System in Natural Resources Planning
The target subject of Natural Resources Planning (NRP) includes various systems and their elements, all of which are centered around the natural resource system. Given this characteristic complexity and a high degree of uncertainty, it is impossible to holistically understand the entire target …
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Investigating Access to Wildlife and Other Natural Resources in the Urbanizing Amazon
… the mechanisms that allow Amazonians to access natural resources along the gradient of urbanization. While Amazonian conservation and development policies have traditionally targeted rural areas, there is a growing need to consider the interconnectedness between urban, peri-urban (i.e. the area …
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Legitimacy and the Use of Natural Resources in Kruger National Park, South Africa
… local residents some level of access to resources in the Park. Despite these interests, providing such access to resources is by no means considered a universally legitimate action. As part of the case study, I conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with local residents, Kruger staff, …
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Legitimacy and the Use of Natural Resources in Kruger National Park, South Africa
… local residents some level of access to resources in the Park. Despite these interests, providing such access to resources is by no means considered a universally legitimate action. As part of the case study, I conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with local residents, Kruger staff, …
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