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| Albers, Heidi J.. |
| This paper discusses the application of a spatial-intertemporal model for tropical forest management to Khao Yai National Park in Thailand. This type of model, especially the spatial components, finds different optimal land allocations than do traditional models at empirically relevant levels of benefits. The spatial analysis here suggests that most of this park can be best used as a preserved area and also provides support for expanding the park into an adjacent unpopulated area. The analysis demonstrates that the park's benefits to regional agriculture and villagers are large enough that preservation can proceed without international support, and that local people, as a group, have incentives to maintain most of the area as preserved land. Although the... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Parks; Protected areas; People-park conflict; Spatial; Biodiversity; Option value; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Q2; Q15; O13. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10751 |
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| Atreya, Ajita; Susana, Ferreira. |
| We use hedonic property models to estimate the spatial variation in flood risk in the city of Albany, GA. In addition to knowing whether a property is in the floodplain, we have a unique dataset with actual inundation maps from tropical storm Alberto that hit Albany in 1994. In the absence of information on the structural damages caused by a flood, having information on the actual inundated area can be useful to tease out information effect of a new flood from potential reconstruction cost. We find that the discount in actually inundated properties is larger which supports our hypothesis that homeowners respond better to what they have visualized (“seeing is believing”) and also the potential reconstruction cost in addition to information effect is... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Flood Risk; Inundation; Spatial; Discount; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use; Q; R. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119738 |
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| Mullally, Conner. |
| This paper measures the impact of year one of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Rural Business Development program for small rice farming households on the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua. The program was rolled out in the 2009-2010 agricultural year, which was the driest year on record in the region, likely due to an El Niño event. Estimated impacts show that the program at best had no effect, and at worst led to a 10 percent reduction in yields. These impacts are estimated using an econometric model which uses selection on observables as its identifying assumption, and robustness checks suggest that this is a reasonable approach in this case. Inference accounts for spatial correlation across households of the unobserved determinants of agricultural... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Development; Impact evaluation; Agricultural extension; Rural credit; Spatial; International Development. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103799 |
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| Mullally, Conner. |
| This essay is an evaluation of year one of the Rural Business Development (RBD) program for small rice farmers in León, Nicaragua. The RBD program is administered by the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and is designed to deliver agricultural extension advice and affordable credit in the form of inputs to farm households. This essay estimates the average impact of the program on rice yields and revenues utilizing inverse propensity score weighting combined with linear regression. In conducting statistical inference, it also accounts for the fact that agricultural outcomes are likely correlated over space in a small area such as the one studied here. The results suggest that the program had no impact on average, likely due to the presence of a severe... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Development; Extension; Credit; Spatial; Impact evaluation; International Development. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108723 |
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| Mullally, Conner. |
| Abstract: This essay is an evaluation of year one of the Rural Business Development (RBD) program for small rice farmers in León, Nicaragua. The RBD program is administered by the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and is designed to deliver agricultural extension advice and affordable credit in the form of inputs to farm households. This essay estimates the average impact of the program on rice yields and revenues utilizing inverse propensity score weighting combined with linear regression. In conducting statistical inference, it also accounts for the fact that agricultural outcomes are likely correlated over space in a small area such as the one studied here. The results suggest that the program had no impact on average, likely due to the presence of a... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Development; Agriculture; Extension; Credit; Spatial; Propensity score; International Development. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108498 |
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| Chalak, Morteza; Pannell, David J.; Polyakov, Maksym. |
| Invasive species are significant threats to biodiversity, natural ecosystems and agriculture leading to large worldwide economic and environmental damage. Spread and control of invasive species are stochastic processes with important spatial dimensions. Most economic studies of invasive species control ignore spatial and stochastic aspects. This paper covers this gap in the previous studies by analysing a spatially explicit dynamic process of controlling invasive species in a stochastic setting. We show how stochasticity, spatial location of infestation and control can influence the spread, control efficiency and optimal control strategies. The main aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between economic parameters and stochastic spatial... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Spatial; Dynamics; Invasive; Economics; Stochastic; Optimisation; Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103325 |
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| Mazzella, Audrey. |
| This work is part of a general study aiming at the modelling growth and dispersion of the larvae of Pinctada margaritifera in the lagoon of Ahe atoll (Tuamotu, French Polynesia). The general objective of this study is to set up a model coupling the growth and the dispersal of chlorophyll and particulate matter according to different spatial and temporal scales. Totally 1111 samples were taken in 12 stations from April 21st to May 28th, 2007. The speed and the direction of the wind bad a significant effect on the different parameters. The depth has not influence on the variations of the chlorophyll and the particulate matter that of their quality descriptors (proportion of cells lower than 2 µm, that of the phaeopigments and the organic matter). A... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Ahe; Collectage; Temporel; Spatial; Chlorophylle; Phéopigments; Matières en suspension; Matière minérale; Matière organique. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00426/53794/54709.pdf |
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| Mahevas, Stephanie; Pelletier, Dominique. |
| Assessing the impact of management scenarii on multi-species multi-fleet fisheries requires spatially and seasonally explicit simulation tools. No such tools are currently available in fisheries science. This paper presents a software that evaluates the impact of management measures on the dynamics of a complex fishery. The simulation model is generic in order to be used for different types of fisheries. Existing knowledge about each fishery is stored in a database included in the software, and may be easily modified. This includes the parameters describing each population and each fishing activity. Furthermore, the software allows for flexibility in several model assumptions. Both management measures and behaviour of fishermen in reaction to these... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Management measures; Fisheries dynamics; Complex systems; Spatial; Integration of knowledge; Simulation tool. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2004/publication-1133.pdf |
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| Petitgas, Pierre; Ernande, Bruno; Andonegi, Eider; Fabi, Gianna; Scarcella, Guiseppe; Kapiris, Kostas; Leocadio, Ana. |
| A variety of conservation policies now frame the management of fishing activity and so do also the spatial planning of different sectorial activities. These framework policies are additional to classical fishery management. There is a risk that the policies applying on the marine system are not coherent from a fisheries point of view. The spatial management of fishing activity at regional scale has the potential to meet multiple management objectives, on a habitat basis. Here we consider how to integrate multiple objectives of different policies into integrated ocean management scenarios. In the EU, European Directives and the CFP are now implementing the ecosystem approach to the management of human activity at sea. In this context, we further identify... |
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Palavras-chave: Ecosystem approach; Integration; Spatial; Policy. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00353/46380/46002.pdf |
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| Raudsepp-Hearne, Ciara; McGill University; ciara.rh@gmail.com; Peterson, Garry D; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; garry.peterson@su.se. |
| Ecosystem service assessment and management are shaped by the scale at which they are conducted; however, there has been little systematic investigation of the scales associated with ecosystem service processes, such as production, benefit distribution, and management. We examined how social-ecological spatial scale impacts ecosystem service assessment by comparing how ecosystem service distribution, trade-offs, and bundles shift across spatial scales. We used a case study in Québec, Canada, to analyze the scales of production, consumption, and management of 12 ecosystem services and to analyze how interactions among 7 of these ecosystem services change across 3 scales of observation (1, 9, and 75 km²). We found that ecosystem service... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Covariance; Ecosystem service bundles; Mont Saint-Hilaire; Problem of fit; Scaling; Social-ecological; Spatial; Trade-offs. |
| Ano: 2016 |
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| Mahevas, Stephanie. |
| Fisheries are defined by a set of fishermen and of marine populations impacting each other in a spatial-limited marine ecosystem. Within the over-exploitation context and according to ratified sustainable management objectives, my research has been focused on the development and a caution use of a mechanistic model describing fisheries dynamics. This model allows for integrating existing knowledge of fisheries. It aims at improving the understanding of fisheries functioning and at investigating the impact of fishing regulations on fisheries dynamics. This modelling exercise has supported many methodological developments for its parametrisation and its use in uncertainty context. Concerned with promoting a correct use of a complex model (that ambiguity link... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Statistics; Spatial; Management; Optimal complexity; Sensitivity; ISIS Fish; Statistiques; Spatial; Gestion; Complexité optimale; Sensibilité; ISIS Fish. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2009/these-7302.pdf |
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| Burke, William J.; Jayne, Thomas S.. |
| The goals of this study are: 1) to determine the relative importance of spatial factors in explaining household wealth; 2) to identify the spatial characteristics of the chronically poorest, the consistently well off, and households escaping from poverty as well as descending into poverty; 3) to determine effects of compound disadvantages on the likelihood of chronic poverty; and 4) to assess the evidence of spatial poverty traps (SPTs). Quantitative analysis is conducted using panel data collected from 1275 households, each surveyed four times with a structured questionnaire over an 11 year period from 1997 to 2007. We identified four distinct groups. The chronically poor are defined as households remaining consistently in the bottom third (tercile) of... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Africa; Food security; Kenya; Spatial; Poverty; Food Security and Poverty; Q18. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54560 |
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| Voogd, N.J. de; Cleary, D.F.R.; Hoeksema, B.W.; Noor, A.; Soest, R.W.M. van. |
| Sponge assemblages were investigated in the Spermonde Archipelago, southwestern Sulawesi, Indonesia. In this study spatial patterns of sponge similarity among sites were significantly related to remotely sensed environmental variables, the degree of human settlement and depth, but not to the distance between sites. Both oviparous and viviparous species groups responded to similar environmental constraints, and differences in similarity were unrelated to the distance between sites. The degree of human settlement, however, was significantly related to variation in the composition of viviparous, but not oviparous species. Our results demonstrate, most importantly, the utility of remotely sensed data in predicting the spatial turnover of diverse species... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Indonesia; Porifera; Similarity; Spatial; 42.72. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/227743 |
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