Given rapid changes in large-scale human and biophysical processes—carbon emissions, population increase and migrations, overharvesting and pollution leading to loss of species—scientists are worried that many of the social-ecological systems existing today may collapse by the end of the 21st century. Is this an exaggerated worry? The thesis I will present is that the negative prognosis will in...

Given the myriad of policy instruments aimed at enhancing water quantity conservation available to municipalities, what drives them opt for a market-based instrument (MBI)? MBIs can be effective and efficient enhance conservation, but there is little known about why municipalities utilize them. This study hypothesizes that three contextual elements influence municipality's use an MBI: natural, ...

ABSTRACT This research aimed to compare BRIS stock performance before and after the merger. The method was comparative quantitative that is by comparing data used determine differences in variables from two different groups or same variable time periods. population sample for this study are monthly reports of Price Book Value, Earning per Share, Return on Equity, Debt Equity Ratio, Ratio period...

Investments to rehabilitate irrigation infrastructure aim enhance climate resilience and improve farmers' livelihoods in the face of hydrological risks. Studies seeking assess impacts from investments primarily focus on yield income-related poverty measures. This approach provides an incomplete picture distributional implications investments, such as impact rehabilitated subjective well-being f...