Take Gansu Province as an Example to Study the Promotion of Technological Innovation on Agricultural Economy

Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780190644673.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 1-9

Author(s):

Aaron T. Hale-Dorrell

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Cold War ◽

Soviet Union ◽

Technological Innovation ◽

Food Supply ◽

The United States ◽

Mirror Image ◽

Agricultural Economy ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

Industrial Societies

As the source of the Soviet Union’s unreliable food supply, the country’s farms have received little attention from scholars, who depend on old interpretations steeped in Cold War–inspired misconceptions. Nikita Khrushchev’s crusade to spread the planting of corn to feed livestock comprised part of an attempt to resuscitate the failing agricultural economy inherited from Stalin in 1953 by adopting technologies from foreign sources, especially the United States. Giving substance to long-established but atrophied connections abroad, Khrushchev’s initiative brings to light how the Soviet Union experienced processes of rural modernization and technological innovation similar to those found in other industrial societies. These commonalities challenge the views of scholars portraying the Soviet Union as an unchanging mirror image of its capitalist Cold War rivals. These insights into Khrushchev’s reforms reinvigorate study of the post-Stalin countryside by overturning misinterpretations of how the Soviet Union’s farm economy really worked.

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Vision: Using technological innovation to transform the imaginative and practical potential of social and behavioral research

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e633982013-004 ◽

2007 ◽

Keyword(s):

Technological Innovation ◽

Behavioral Research

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Pictish Horse Carvings

Glasgow Archaeological Journal ◽

10.3366/gas.1991.17.17.53 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 53-62

Author(s):

Irene Hughson

Keyword(s):

Class Ii ◽

Class I ◽

Early Historic Period ◽

High Quality ◽

Historic Period ◽

Agricultural Economy ◽

Different Types ◽

Early Historic

Summary This paper examines the horse carvings to be found on Class I and Class II Pictish sculptured stones and considers their reliability as evidence of the sort of horses and ponies that would have existed in the Early Historic Period. An attempt is made to show that the availability in Britain of good sized, high quality riding horses during that period is not inconsistent with what is known of the development and distribution of different types of horses in pre-hislory. The importance of horses and ponies in Early Historic societies is stressed and inferences drawn about the agricultural economy that could support horses and the skilled specialists required to look after them.

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Agricultural Improvement and Technological Innovation in a Slave Society: The Case of Early National Northern Virginia

Agricultural History ◽

10.1525/ah.2001.75.2.135 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 75 (2) ◽

pp. 135-167 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

A. Glenn Crothers

Keyword(s):

Technological Innovation ◽

Agricultural Improvement ◽

Slave Society ◽

Early National

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Split Estate and Wyoming’s Orphaned Well Crisis: The Case of Coalbed Methane Reclamation in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming

Case Studies in the Environment ◽

10.1525/cse.2017.000455 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 1-8 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Kathryn Bills Walsh

Keyword(s):

Natural Gas ◽

River Basin ◽

Technological Innovation ◽

Coalbed Methane ◽

Powder River Basin ◽

Gas Wells ◽

Mineral Rights ◽

Split Estate ◽

Legal Condition

This case presents the stakeholder conflicts that emerge during the development and subsequent reclamation of abandoned natural gas wells in Wyoming where split estate, or the separation of surface land and mineral rights from one another, occurs. From 1998 to 2008, the Powder River Basin of northeastern Wyoming experienced an energy boom as a result of technological innovation that enabled the extraction of coalbed methane (CBM). The boom resulted in over 16,000 wells being drilled in this 20,000 square-mile region in a single decade. As of May 2017, 4,149 natural gas wells now sit orphaned in Wyoming as a result of industry bankruptcy and abandonment. The current orphaned wells crisis was partially enabled by the patchwork of surface and mineral ownership in Wyoming that is a result of a legal condition referred to as split estate. As the CBM boom unfolded in this landscape and then began to wane, challenges emerged most notably surrounding stalled reclamation activities. This case illuminates these challenges highlighting two instances when split estate contributed to issues between landowners and industry operators which escalated to litigation.

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