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  • Managing Risk in Agriculture

    A Development Perspective

    by Tahirou Abdoulaye, Rachidi Aboudou, Aminou Arouna, Victor Barrera, Toritseju Begho, Marrit van den Berg, Pratap S. Birthal, Martina Bozzola, Selina Bruns, Jean-Paul Chavas, Simone Cerroni, Juan Dominguez, Marcella D’Souza, Ali Essossinam, Hongli Feng, Ricardo Fort, J Brian Hardaker, Jaweriah Hazrana, David A. Hennessy, Maman H. Karmana, Aditya R. Khanal, Seo Woo Lee, Sergio H. Lence, Lu Liu, Fulco Ludwig, Abel-Gautier Kouakou, Alfons G.J.M. Oude Lansink, Wanglin Ma, Hui Mao, Miranda P.M. Meuwissen, Digvijay S. Negi, Kehinde Odeniyi, Asis Kumar Senapati, Ariel Singerman, Arjuna Srinidhi, Ruggiero Rippo, Nicholas Tyack, Puneet Vatsa, Alexis H. Villacis, H. Holly Wang, Saskia E. Werners, Tesfamicheal Wossen, Eliana Wulandari, Xiaoheng Zhang, Hongyun Zheng ...
    The book addresses and documents farmers' risks in developing and emerging economies. It draws lessons from experimental economics on measuring risk preferences, attitudes, gender differences in managing risks, and risk management strategies in countries across Africa and Asia. It argues policy makers, especially in emerging economies, need a better understanding of farmers' attitudes toward risk ... Read more

    $117.19 USD

  • Aridity Trend In Northern China

    by Congbin Fu, Huiting Mao ...
    Series Book 8 - World Scientific Series On Asia-pacific Weather And Climate
    The continued aridity trend occurring in many regions worldwide is a manifestation of the response of the earth system to global change. It hinders severely the sustainable development of these regions. Northern China is one of the largest and most affected regions in the world. This book documents the climate change in its arid and semi-arid areas on decadal to geological time scales based on ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • IoT as a Service

    4th EAI International Conference, IoTaaS 2018, Xi’an, China, November 17–18, 2018, Proceedings

    Edited by Bo Li, Mao Yang, Hui Yuan, Zhongjiang Yan ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on IoT as a Service, IoTaaS 2018, which took place in Xi’an, China, in November 2018. The 50 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. The technical track present IoT-based services in various applications. In addition, there are three workshops: international ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Endovascular Surgery and Devices

    Edited by Zaiping Jing, Huajuan Mao, Weihui Dai ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book provides a systematic description of fundamental knowledge, application methods, and management issues about the clinical application of endovascular surgery and device. It is organized as the three parts. Part 1 introduces the development background of endovascular device and its knowledge hierarchy, and gives an overview on classification, structure, shape, and characteristics of the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Economic Risks of Climate Change

    An American Prospectus

    by Trevor Houser, Solomon Hsiang, Robert Kopp, Kate Larsen, Michael Delgado, Amir Jina, Michael Mastrandrea, Shashank Mohan, Robert Muir-Wood, D. J. Rasmussen, James Rising, Paul Wilson ...
    Climate change threatens the economy of the United States in myriad ways, including increased flooding and storm damage, altered crop yields, lost labor productivity, higher crime, reshaped public-health patterns, and strained energy systems, among many other effects. Combining the latest climate models, state-of-the-art econometric research on human responses to climate, and cutting-edge private ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Climate Change and Food Systems: Global Assessments and Implications for Food Security and Trade

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This book collects the findings of a group of scientists and economists who have taken stock of climate change impacts on food and agriculture at global and regional levels over the past two decades. The evidence presented describes how global warming will impact where and how food is produced and discusses the significant consequences for food security, health and nutrition, water scarcity and ... Read more

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  • Commodity Modeling and Pricing

    Methods for Analyzing Resource Market Behavior

    by Peter V. Schaeffer ...
    Series Book 514 - Wiley Finance
    Commodity Modeling and Pricing provides extensions and applications of state-of-the-art methods for analyzing resource commodity behavior. Drawing from the seminal work of Professor Walter Labys on the development of econometric methods for forecasting commodity prices, this collection of essays features expert contributors ranging from practitioners in private industry, public sector, and ... Read more

    $80.00 USD

  • Climate Smart Agriculture

    Building Resilience to Climate Change

    Edited by Leslie Lipper, Nancy McCarthy, David Zilberman, Solomon Asfaw, Giacomo Branca ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO license.The book uses an economic lens to identify the main features of climate-smart agriculture (CSA), its likely impact, and the challenges associated with its implementation. Drawing upon theory and concepts from agricultural development, institutional, and resource economics, this book expands and formalizes the conceptual foundations of ... Read more

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  • Public Policy in an Uncertain World

    Analysis and Decisions

    by Charles F. Manski ...
    Manski argues that public policy is based on untrustworthy analysis. Failing to account for uncertainty in an uncertain world, policy analysis routinely misleads policy makers with expressions of certitude. Manski critiques the status quo and offers an innovation to improve both how policy research is conducted and how it is used by policy makers. ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Handbook of the Economics of Education

    Edited by Ludger Woessmann, Stephen J. Machin, Eric A. Hanushek ...
    Series Book 3 - Handbook of the Economics of Education
    How does education affect economic and social outcomes, and how can it inform public policy?Volume 3 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education uses newly available high quality data from around the world to address these and other core questions. With the help of new methodological approaches, contributors cover econometric methods and international test score data. They examine the ... Read more

    $148.49 USD

  • The Bhopal Tragedy

    Language, Logic, And Politics In The Production Of A Hazard

    by William Bogard ...
    This book offers a critical theory of hazards, which the Bhopal tragedy would serve to highlight. It provides a general model of how hazards existed in Bhopal come to be defined and symbolically manipulated—through the institutionalized use of expert knowledge and political persuasion. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Social Science Experiments

    A Hands-on Introduction

    by Donald P. Green ...
    This book is designed for an undergraduate, one-semester course in experimental research, primarily targeting programs in sociology, political science, environmental studies, psychology, and communications. Aimed at those with limited technical background, this introduction to social science experiments takes a practical, hands-on approach. After explaining key features of experimental designs, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD