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| Duke, Joshua M.; Ilvento, Thomas W.. |
| Public preferences for the nonmarket services of permanently preserved agricultural land are measured and compared using conjoint analysis. The results from a survey of 199 Delawareans suggest environmental and nonmarket-agricultural services are the most important preserved-land attributes. Results also suggest that open space associated with wetlands on farms is neither an amenity nor a disamenity. On the margin, preserved parcels with agricultural and environmental attributes provide net benefits, which may exceed $1,000,000 for a 1,000-acre parcel. Preserved forestland provides benefits per acre that are statistically equivalent to cropland, though forestland may be less expensive to preserve. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31268 |
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| Ilvento, Thomas W.. |
| Cooperative extension has prided itself on being the outreach of the land grant university. However, with changes in the structure of the population, the economy, and agriculture in particular, extension has had to change as well. Increasingly, extension service providers are reminded that they cannot be all things to all people. There is also increasing competition from other campus units that feel they have an outreach mission. As traditional base funding sources decline, decisions must be made regarding the role and function of extension within the university system. This paper explores these issues using historical data, reports, and six case studies. The case studies provide insights into the ways different extension services have collaborated... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession. |
| Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31573 |
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| Ilvento, Thomas W.; Loveridge, Scott. |
| This study used a telephone survey of coordinators of local Business Retention and Expansion Programs (BR&E). The focus of the of the study was to survey BR&E coordinators who conducted programs in the last five years to better understand the factors that lead the community and the coordinator to undertake a BR&E program. We used state program leaders to identify coordinators in six participating states: Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and West Virginia. The states represented programs that had a similar approach to BR&E in terms of a community approach which used volunteers by design. A total of 94 Coordinators were identified, and 80 responded to the survey during the summer and fall of 1998 (85% response rate). Of... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15819 |
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| Duke, Joshua M.; MacKenzie, John; Ilvento, Thomas W.. |
| Can Delaware's agriculture coexist (and prosper) in the face of competing land uses over the next twenty years? We believe that maintaining Delaware's agriculture as a viable land-use alternative depends on the success in addressing three critical challenges. First, will residential, commercial, and industrial land uses be forced to bear the full costs that their land-use decisions visit on Delaware agriculture? Alternatively, will agriculture be fully compensated for its contribution to Delaware's economy and quality of life? An associated, second challenge, is whether state, county, and local governments will institute incentive-based policies to achieve socially desirable land-use outcomes? It is particularly important that there exist policies to... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15820 |
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| Aull-Hyde, Rhonda L.; Ilvento, Thomas W.. |
| The average adult can concentrate for only about eight to ten minutes during an hour-long lecture. Thus, students' ability to absorb information may be seriously impeded if we college professors talk nonstop. One alternative to the traditional "chalk and talk" instructional method is problem-based learning (PBL) - an instructional approach using real world problems as a format for students to acquire critical thinking, problem solving and group interaction skills. We describe how we transformed a two-course sequence in research methods into a problem-based-learning format. Student-reported benefits of the PBL approach include the need for higher-order thinking, improved group interaction skills, relevance of course material to real world situations, higher... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15832 |
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