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	Provedor de dados AgEcon (2) Autor Arovuori, Kyösti (1) Behrens, Doris A. (1) Hyll, Walter (1) Stark, Oded (1) Palavra-chave Policy choice (2) Agri-environmental policies (1) Agricultural and Food Policy (1) D31 (1) D63 (1) Environmental Economics and Policy (1) Farmers (1) Polarization (1) Public Economics (1) Social dismay (1) The potential for social unrest (1) Total relative deprivation (1) Mais... Tipo do documento Conference Paper or Presentation (1) Working or Discussion Paper (1) Ano 2011 (1) 2009 (1) País United States (2) Idioma Inglês (2)		Ordenar por:  Relevância Autor Título Ano Registros recuperados: 2 Primeira ... 1 ... Última Gauging the potential for social unrest AgEcon Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter; Behrens, Doris A.. It stands to reason that social unrest does not erupt out of the blue. Although there are a great many reasons why social dismay might descend into social disorder, only few yardsticks or indices can plausibly be used to gauge the potential for social unrest (PSU). If policy makers want to undertake public action to prevent social dismay escalating into social disruption, they obviously need to draw on practical sensors. This paper assesses critically the adequacy of two such measures, the polarization (P) index, and the total relative deprivation (TRD) index. The paper proposes a tentative guide to selecting between these two measures. A review of three stylized scenarios suggests that, where income redistributions reduce the number of distinct income... Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper Palavras-chave: Social dismay; The potential for social unrest; Polarization; Total relative deprivation; Policy choice; Public Economics; D31; D63. Ano: 2009 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53721 Explaining Finnish Farmers' Policy Responses with Environmental Attitudes AgEcon Arovuori, Kyösti. In general, farmers are often found to be resistant to environmentally targeted agricultural policies. On the other hand, a part of farmers are clearly self-motivated to undertake farm practices that are beneficial to the environment and resource conservation. What motivates these farmers to participate? How much of this participation can be explained with attitudes, and where these attitudes arise from? In this paper, we analyze the effect of farmers‟ attitudes towards environmental policies and related issues on their farm level policy choice. The policy response analyzed is farmers‟ choice to implement voluntary contract-based special measures in the current agri-environmental support scheme. Our results show that farmers fall into different groups in... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Farmers; Agri-environmental policies; Policy choice; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy. Ano: 2011 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114216 Registros recuperados: 2 Primeira ... 1 ... Última

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