Usable Socio-Economic Science for Rangelands

Prescriptive scientific narratives for communicating usable science.

In this paper I describe how a narrative approach to science communication may help audiences to more fully understand how science is relevant to their own lives and behaviors. The use of prescriptive scientific narrative can help to overcome challenges specific to scientific concepts, especially the need to reconsider long-held beliefs in the face of new empirical findings. Narrative can capti...

Socio-economic database online

The SEDO project develops a platform combining fast access, user freedom, and coherence of the results for presenting complex socio-economic data. As an initial yield, this joint project involving two research actors of Luxembourg, the CEPS/INSTEAD for the content and the CRP-Gabriel Lippman for the technical realization, will deliver on the Net the results of longitudinal surveys about the lif...

* 6 Socio - Economic Status

Education , Socio - Economic Inequality , and Economic Development

Section II presents the empirical results of this study. While the underlying econometric model follows the standard ‘new growth’ literature procedure of regression analysis in a cross-section of countries, it goes beyond the existing studies in drawing on a data set including proxies for technical progress and educational attainment as well as devoting special attention to different levels of ...

Socio-economic Factors Affecting Acceptance of Livestock and Rangelands Insurance (Case Study: Agh Ghala county, Golestan Province, Iran)

Insurance services and financial compensation are regarded for the consequences of events that may happen or not.Farmers and stakeholders can be benefited from the agricultural and natural resources insurance so that they can attain much more stability in resources management, especially through mitigating the effects of potential and imminent risks. The current research was aimed to determine ...