The scarcity of water due to climate change is endangering worldwide the production, quality, and economic viability growing wine grapes. One main mitigation measures be adopted in viticulture sector will an adequate irrigation strategy. Irrigation involves increasing demand for water, a natural limited resource with availability problems foreseeable future. Therefore, development precision sys...

This article investigates the impact of terrorist attacks on global capital markets. We find economic consequences of terrorist attacks spillover through trading partners. When a bigger economy (measured by GDP) is targeted, the spillover is specifically prominent for economically smaller trading partners. Such partners see a -2.5% reduction in national stock indices. Odds for smaller trading p...

Trait-by-trait and multiple trait bioeconomic modeling were used to derive farm-specific economic weights (EW) for a wide range of traits under different production and economic circumstances to define breeding objectives for Holstein dairy cattle in Iran. Production parameters and economic data were gathered on 10 dairy farms from March 2008 to February 2010. The EW (economic values multiplied...

to test the effect of culling herd life from the breeding goal function, 4 different selection indices were established as: index 1: using milk production (milk), fat percentage of milk (fat%) and rear udder height (ruh); index 2: using milk , fat% and fore teat placement (ftp), index 3: using milk, fat% and fore udder attachment (fua); and index 4: using milk, fat%, ruh, ftp and fua) under two...

The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation This paper introduces two composite indices of globalisation. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate the level of globalisation and show how globalisation has developed over time for different countries. The indices are composed of ...

Regional sustainability encourages a re-examination of development programs in the context of environmental, social and economic policies and practices. However, sustainability remains a broadly defined concept that has been applied to mean everything from environmental protection, social cohesion, economic growth, neighborhood design, alternative energy, and green building design. To guide sus...

In this paper we investigate the driving factors associated with the Paris apartment market. We explore a database of nearly 230 000 transactions for residential properties in the Paris area over the 1973 – 2001 period. We develop a factorial model that may capture the systematic link between residential prices and a set of predefined economic variables or a linear combination of these economic...

The agricultural sector in Poland is of considerable social and economic importance for the nation. Climate variability and change are of primary relevance to this largely climate-dependent sector. Changes in seven temperature-related agroclimatic indices (lengths of the growing season and of the frost-free season, days of occurrence of the last spring frost and of the first autumn frost; and a...