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| Sharpe, Bill; International Futures Forum, The Boathouse, Silversands, Aberdour, Fife, UK; bill@billsharpe.eu; Hodgson, Anthony; International Futures Forum, The Boathouse, Silversands, Aberdour, Fife, UK; Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK ; tony@decisionintegrity.co.uk; Leicester, Graham; International Futures Forum, The Boathouse, Silversands, Aberdour, Fife, UK; graham@internationalfuturesforum.com; Lyon, Andrew; International Futures Forum, The Boathouse, Silversands, Aberdour, Fife, UK; andrew@internationalfuturesforum.com; Fazey, Ioan; Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK ; i.fazey@dundee.ac.uk. |
| Global environmental change requires responses that involve marked or qualitative changes in individuals, institutions, societies, and cultures. Yet, while there has been considerable effort to develop theory about such processes, there has been limited research on practices for facilitating transformative change. We present a novel pathways approach called Three Horizons that helps participants work with complex and intractable problems and uncertain futures. The approach is important for helping groups work with uncertainty while also generating agency in ways not always addressed by existing futures approaches. We explain how the approach uses a simple framework for structured and guided dialogue around different patterns of change by using examples. We... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Adaptation pathways; Climate change; Scenarios; Transformation; Transition. |
| Ano: 2016 |
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| Werners, Saskia E.; ; werners@mungo.nl; Matczak, Piotr; ; matczak@amu.edu.pl; Flachner, Zsuzsanna ; ; flachner@rissac.hu. |
| This paper offers a novel interpretation of the introduction of floodplain rehabilitation and rural development into the water policy for the Tisza River in Hungary. It looks at the role of individuals and the strategies that they used to bring about water policy change. Five strategies are explored: developing new ideas, building coalitions to sell ideas, using windows of opportunity, playing multiple venues and orchestrating networks. Our discussion on the importance of each strategy and the individuals behind it is based on interviews, group discussions and a literature review. The international and political attention sparked by a series of floods, dike failure and a major cyanide spill, which preceded national elections, opened a window of opportunity... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Coalition; Individual actor; Hungary; Tisza River; Transition; Water policy change. |
| Ano: 2010 |
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| Ferguson, Briony C.; Monash Water for Liveability; Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities; Monash University; briony.ferguson@monash.edu; Brown, Rebekah R.; Monash Water for Liveability; Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities; Monash University; Rebekah.Brown@monash.edu; Deletic, Ana; Department of Civil Engineering; Monash Water for Liveability; Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities; Monash University; ana.deletic@monash.edu. |
| Urban water governance regimes around the world have traditionally planned large-scale, centralized infrastructure systems that aim to control variables and reduce uncertainties. There is growing sectoral awareness that a transition toward sustainable alternatives is necessary if systems are to meet society’s future water needs in the context of drivers such as climate change and variability, demographic changes, environmental degradation, and resource scarcity. However, there is minimal understanding of how the urban water sector should operationalize its strategic planning for such change to facilitate the transition to a sustainable water future. We have integrated concepts from transitions, resilience, and institutional theory to develop a... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Institutions; Resilience; Strategic planning; Sustainability; Transformative change; Transition; Urban water. |
| Ano: 2013 |
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| 平田, 昌弘; HlRATA, Masahiro. |
| To understand milk processing systems in Caucasia and analyze their history，nine households of agro-pastoralists were surveyed in Georgia and Armenia. The techniques of clotting agent using series，fermented milk processing series and cream separating series ware broadly shared among agro-pastoralists over Georgia and Armenia. The characteristics of milk processing systems in Caucasia are 1) the milk processing techniques (clotting agent using series and fermented milk processing series) in Caucasia base on those techniques of West Asia，2) the cream separating series have developed in Caucasia because of its cooler natural environment，3) butter and butter-oil making by the technique of fermented milk processing series became unnecessary，thus the fermented... |
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Palavras-chave: Milk processing system; Caucasia; Transition; Cold natural environment; Sedentary. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/3189 |
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| Balmann, Alfons; Czasch, Britta. |
| The transition of East German agriculture led to major structural adjustments that showed some very particular phenomena. For instance, most of the successors of the former agricultural production cooperatives (LPGs) make slight losses and they operate at a higher employment level than new and re-established farms. In this paper we try to explain these phenomena with the farms' history prior to the transition period. Particular attention is given to sunk costs, the identity of members and employees, and old debts. A Data Envelopment Analysis of 210 financial statements distributed over the financial years 1992/93 to 1995/96 gives evidence that these historical arguments had a decisive impact on the farms' behaviour. However, this impact decreases over... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Transition; Farm behaviour; Organisation; Sunk costs; DEA; Farm Management; Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/98876 |
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| Beckmann, Volker; Boger, Silke. |
| The paper investigates theoretically and empirically the role of courts for contract enforcement in transition agriculture. In a survey of 306 Polish hog farmers conducted in 1999, only 38.5% of them reported to believe that they could use courts to enforce contracts with their most important customer. Furthermore, those who believe the legal system could be used would accept significant financial losses before taking action. We develop a theoretical model, based on the costs and benefits of court enforcement, which captures the boundary between contracts to be regarded as "enforceable" and "not-enforceable" and, simultaneously, the threshold of taking legal action. The empirical analysis strongly supports our model: (1) the farmers' responds can be... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural contracts; Contract enforcement; Courts; Transition; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25878 |
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| Zweynert, Joachim; Goldschmidt, Nils. |
| The increasing gap between the formerly socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CE & EE) with regard to both their economic and political performance cannot be explained by their different starting conditions after the breakdown of the Soviet Union alone. Rather, it is due to cultural and historical circumstances that shape the particular tradition and societal environment. Taking a cultural approach and referring to the newer literature on the transfer of institutions, we try to improve the understanding of the interrelation between formal and informal institutions. Our central thesis is that the "reaction rate" of informal institutions depends on their compatibility with imported formal institutions. The transition processes in CE & EE... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Cultural Economics; Institutions; Transition; Path Dependence.; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Z10; P51. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/26391 |
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| Voigt, Peter. |
| This paper is an extraction of some results achieved in a comprehensive study of Russia's transition in its regional as well as sectoral dimension. Thereby, the transition process between 1993 - 2000 has been approximated by aggregated developments of productivity, technical change, and technical efficiency which all have been calculated by a Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). The obtained results have been analyzed with respect to any institutional circumstances in a second analytical step. Based on that, in a third step, some political call for actions have been specified as well as addressed according to regional/federal responsibility. The study has shown a notable heterogeneity within the considered regional as well as sectoral transition paths.... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Russia; Transition; Productivity; Efficiency; Regional development; Political Economy; O47. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24591 |
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| Bezemer, Dirk J.. |
| The replacement of wage-labour farms by family farms in Central and Eastern Europe during the transformation has been more limited than was initially expected. In this paper a formal framework is developed in order to analyse the behaviour of family farms and socialist-style farms in the presence of risk, given the typical post-socialist environment. Management incentives, ownership structure, lump-sum transfers and consumption choices are shown to have the potential to limit the size of family farms relative to socialist-style farms. The hypotheses are tested with survey data collected by the author in the Czech Republic. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Transition; Agriculture; Structural change; Risk; Survey data; Risk and Uncertainty; D21; D81; O18; Q12. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24888 |
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| Swinnen, Johan F.M.; Vranken, Liesbet. |
| Studies on efficiency changes in transition agriculture yield mixed results. This paper develops both a theoretical model and an empirical analysis of how distribution of efficiency scores changes with the various stages of transition. We use a unique set of representative farm survey data to calculate farm level efficiency scores, compare the efficiency distributions of different transition countries and correlate these with various indicators of particular reforms. Our study indicates that, in particular, general institutional reforms and reforms focused on market institutions and on reducing market imperfections in input and output markets have an important positive impact on farm efficiency. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Transition; Production efficiency; Reforms; Agribusiness; P2; E2; P21. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24707 |
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| Zhang, Xiaobo; Tan, Kong-Yam. |
| A key objective of China's reform program was to reduce distortions in the economic system and enhance growth. However, when implemented in incremental and partial ways, local governments or individuals have chance to capture rents inherent in the reform process. Young (2000) warned that the rent-seeking behavior might lead to increasing market fragmentation. Empirical studies have since shown that this did not happen in the product markets. In this paper we argue that as rents from the product markets were squeezed out during the reform process, rent-seeking behavior shifted to the factor markets, especially the capital and land markets. The reform process now needs to be deepened to ensure that the factor markets also become more integrated and efficient. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Reform; China; Rent Seeking; Factor and Product Market; Transition; International Development; D33; D61; D63; O11; O53; P23. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/60183 |
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