Environmental and Economic Implications of Alternative EC Policies

Economic Modeling of Farm Production and Conservation Decisions in Response to Alternative Resource and Environmental Policies

Growing concern over resource use and protection of the environment has prompted greater demand for agricultural policy analysis at the local, regional, and national levels. Faced with declining surface-water quality, silting of reservoirs, and contaminated groundwater supplies, the public has demanded greater protection of the environment. With the call for more regulation of agriculture comes...

Altruism and the Economic Values of Environmental and Social Policies

Altruism is a type of non-use value which can have different definitions depending on the type of goods entering the utility function of the altruistic person and her expectations about the contributions of others. The purpose of this paper is to measure the trade-offs between different types of altruistic values originating from social and environmental policies. The environmental policies are...

Economic feasibility of algal biodiesel under alternative public policies

The motivation for this research was to determine the influence of public policies on economic feasibility of producing algal biodiesel in a system that produced all its energy needs internally. To achieve this, a steady-state mass balance/unit operation system was modeled first. Open raceway technology was assumed for the production of algal feedstock, and the residual biomass after oil extrac...

ALTERNATIVE TEACHER EDUCATION Trends and Implications in Policies and Practices

ec adoption and critical success factors of ec in smes in iran

تجارت الکترونیکی شیوه اجرای مسئولیتها، تقابل با مشتریان و امور معمول عملیاتی در شرکتها را تغییر داده است. تجارت الکترونیکی در عمل تنها خرید و فروش کالاها را از طریق ابزار الکترونیک نمی باشد، بلکه تمام فعالیتهای لازم جهت انجام فرایند فروش را نیز در بر میگیرد. در اواخر دهه 1990 بسیاری از شرکتها فعالیتهای خود را به منظور دستیابی به مشتریان جدید و یا ارائه فرصتهای جدید به مشتریان موجود گسترش دادند...