Optimisation of the weed sampling system from an economic point of view on wheat(Triticum aestivum)stubble

To implement any successful policy, research about the subject-matter is essential. Lack of knowledge would result in failure and, from an economic point of view, it would lead to a waste of scarce resources. The book under review is essentially a manual which highlights the use of research for development. The book is divided into two parts. Part One informs the reader about concepts and some theory, and Part Two deals with the issue of undertaking research for development. Both parts have 11 chapters each. Chapter 1 asks the basic question: Is research important in development work? The answer is that it is. Research has many dimensions: from the basic asking of questions to the more sophisticated broad-based analysis of policy issues. The chapter, in short, stresses the usefulness of research which development workers ignore at their own peril.

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European Commission Decisions on Competition: Landmark Antitrust and Merger Cases from an Economic Point of View

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1004048 ◽

2007 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Francesco Russo ◽

Maarten Pieter Schinkel ◽

Andrea Guenster ◽

Martin A. Carree

Keyword(s):

European Commission ◽

Point Of View ◽

Economic Point

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Bleak Weather for Sun-Shine AG: A Case Study of Impairment of Assets

Issues in Accounting Education ◽

10.2308/iace-51007 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 113-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Dominic Detzen ◽

Tobias Stork genannt Wersborg ◽

Henning Zülch

Keyword(s):

Real Life ◽

Accounting Standards ◽

Point Of View ◽

Professional Judgment ◽

Economic Point ◽

Instructional Resource

ABSTRACT This case originates from a real-life business situation and illustrates the application of impairment tests in accordance with IFRS and U.S. GAAP. In the first part of the case study, students examine conceptual questions of impairment tests under IFRS and U.S. GAAP with respect to applicable accounting standards, definitions, value concepts, and frequency of application. In addition, the case encourages students to discuss the impairment regime from an economic point of view. The second part of the instructional resource continues to provide instructors with the flexibility of applying U.S. GAAP and/or IFRS when students are asked to test a long-lived asset for impairment and, if necessary, allocate any potential impairment. This latter part demonstrates that impairment tests require professional judgment that students are to exercise in the case.

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The Role of Economic Evaluation in Dissemination and Implementation Research

10.1093/oso/9780190683214.003.0006 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ramesh Raghavan

Keyword(s):

Service Providers ◽

Implementation Strategies ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Point Of View ◽

Dissemination And Implementation ◽

Economic Point ◽

Open Questions ◽

Public Health Organizations ◽

Quality Health ◽

Dissemination And Implementation Research

This chapter presents an overview of how D&I research can be evaluated from an economic point of view. Dissemination and implementation imposes costs upon knowledge purveyors, provider organizations, public health organizations, and payers (including governments). However, whether these added costs will result in improved service delivery and, perhaps more importantly, client outcomes and improvements in population health remain as open questions. If emerging studies reveal that defined implementation strategies are more cost effective than “usual” implementation, then policymakers and service providers will need to resource these added costs of implementation in order to assure the success and sustainability of high-quality health services over the long term.

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The “Zero Miles Product” Concept Applied to Biofuel Production: A Case Study

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14030565 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 565

Author(s):

Nikolaj Kaae Kirk ◽

Clara Navarrete ◽

Jakob Ellegaard Juhl ◽

José Luis Martínez ◽

Alessandra Procentese

Keyword(s):

Sugar Content ◽

Point Of View ◽

Biofuel Production ◽

Transport Costs ◽

Economic Point ◽

Product Concept ◽

Energy Demands ◽

Production Platform ◽

High Sugar Content

To make biofuel production feasible from an economic point of view, several studies have investigated the main associated bottlenecks of the whole production process through approaches such as the “cradle to grave” approach or the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) analysis, being the main constrains the feedstock collection and transport. Whilst several feedstocks are interesting because of their high sugar content, very few of them are available all year around and moreover do not require high transportation’ costs. This work aims to investigate if the “zero miles” concept could bring advantages to biofuel production by decreasing all the associated transport costs on a locally established production platform. In particular, a specific case study applied to the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) campus is used as example to investigate the advantages and feasibility of using the spent coffee grounds generated at the main cafeteria for the production of bioethanol on site, which can be subsequently used to (partially) cover the campus’ energy demands.

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Comparison between Concentrated Solar Power and Gas-Based Generation in Terms of Economic and Flexibility-Related Aspects in Chile

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14041063 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 1063

Author(s):

Catalina Hernández Moris ◽

Maria Teresa Cerda Guevara ◽

Alois Salmon ◽

Alvaro Lorca

Keyword(s):

Natural Gas ◽

Solar Power ◽

Renewable Energy Sources ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Hybrid Plant ◽

Point Of View ◽

Concentrated Solar Power ◽

Economic Point ◽

Hybrid Plants ◽

Cost Of Energy

The energy sector in Chile demands a significant increase in renewable energy sources in the near future, and concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies are becoming increasingly competitive as compared to natural gas plants. Motivated by this, this paper presents a comparison between solar technologies such as hybrid plants and natural gas-based thermal technologies, as both technologies share several characteristics that are comparable and beneficial for the power grid. This comparison is made from an economic point of view using the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) metric and in terms of the systemic benefits related to flexibility, which is very much required due to the current decarbonization scenario of Chile’s energy matrix. The results show that the LCOE of the four hybrid plant models studied is lower than the LCOE of the gas plant. A solar hybrid plant configuration composed of a photovoltaic and solar tower plant (STP) with 13 h of storage and without generation restrictions has an LCOE 53 USD/MWh, while the natural gas technology evaluated with an 85% plant factor and a variable fuel cost of 2.0 USD/MMBtu has an LCOE of 86 USD/MWh. Thus, solar hybrid plants under a particular set of conditions are shown to be more cost-effective than their closest competitor for the Chilean grid while still providing significant dispatchability and flexibility.

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Landslide Awareness System (LAwS) to Increase the Resilience and Safety of Transport Infrastructure: The Case Study of Pan-American Highway (Cuenca–Ecuador)

Remote Sensing ◽

10.3390/rs13081564 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (8) ◽

pp. 1564

Author(s):

Pietro Miele ◽

Mariano Di Di Napoli ◽

Luigi Guerriero ◽

Massimo Ramondini ◽

Chester Sellers ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Point Of View ◽

Transport Infrastructure ◽

Slope Failures ◽

Network Systems ◽

Socioeconomic Impacts ◽

Economic Point ◽

Infrastructure Monitoring ◽

Ground Deformations ◽

Pan American

In most countries, landslides have caused severe socioeconomic impacts on people, cities, industrial establishments, and lifelines, such as highways, railways, and communication network systems. Socioeconomic losses due to slope failures are very high and they have been growing as the built environment expands into unstable hillside areas under the pressures of growing populations. Human activities as the construction of buildings, transportation routes, dams, and artificial canals have often been a major factor for the increasing damage due to slope failures. When recovery actions are not durable from an economic point of view, increasing the population’s awareness is the key strategy to reduce the effects of natural and anthropogenic events. Starting from the case study of the Pan-American Highway (the Ecuadorian part), this article shows a multi-approach strategy for infrastructure monitoring. The combined use of (i) DInSAR technique for detection of slow ground deformations, (ii) field survey activities, and (iii) the QPROTO tool for analysis of slopes potentially prone to collapse allowed us to obtain a first cognitive map to better characterize 22 km of the highway between the cities of Cuenca and Azogues. This study is the primary step in the development of a landslide awareness perspective to manage risk related to landslides along infrastructure corridors, increasing user safety and providing stakeholders with a management system to plan the most urgent interventions and to ensure the correct functionality of the infrastructure.

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Optimal Pricing Strategies and Customers’ Equilibrium Behavior in an Unobservable M/M/1 Queueing System with Negative Customers and Repair

Mathematical Problems in Engineering ◽

10.1155/2017/8910819 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 ◽

pp. 1-11 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Doo Ho Lee

Keyword(s):

Queueing System ◽

Point Of View ◽

Optimal Pricing ◽

Pricing Strategies ◽

Negative Customers ◽

Economic Point ◽

Equilibrium Behavior ◽

Payment Scheme ◽

Ex Post ◽

Pricing Schemes

This work investigates the optimal pricing strategies of a server and the equilibrium behavior of customers in an unobservable M/M/1 queueing system with negative customers and repair. In this work, we consider two pricing schemes. The first is termed the ex-post payment scheme, where the server charges a price that is proportional to the time spent by a customer in the system. The second scheme is the ex-ante payment scheme, where the server charges a flat rate for all services. Based on the reward-cost structure, the server (or system manager) should make optimal pricing decisions in order to maximize its expected profit per time unit in each payment scheme. This study also investigates equilibrium joining/balking behavior under the server’s optimal pricing strategies in the two pricing schemes. We show, given a customer’s equilibrium, that the two pricing schemes are perfectly identical from an economic point of view. Finally, we illustrate the effect of several system parameters on the optimal joining probabilities, the optimal price, and the equilibrium behavior via numerical examples.

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Trade in Environmental Goods: A Review of the WTO Appellate Body's Ruling in US‒Countervailing Measures (China)

World Trade Review ◽

10.1017/s1474745615000713 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 327-349 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

RACHEL BREWSTER ◽

CLAIRE BRUNEL ◽

ANNA MARIA MAYDA

Keyword(s):

Clean Energy ◽

Point Of View ◽

Economic Point ◽

Environmental Goods ◽

Appellate Body ◽

Policy Tool ◽

The Us ◽

Clean Energy Technology ◽

Environmental Goals ◽

Wto Appellate Body

AbstractIn this paper we claim that, in the WTO Appellate Body (AB)'s ruling in US‒Countervailing Measures (China), the AB decision has not put in question the practice of imposing countervailing duties (CVDs). While the US has formally ‘lost’ the case, a change in the procedures and tests used to motivate the CVD will allow the US to continue using this policy tool on the specified products. From an economic point of view, this is not welcome news since CVDs have the standard distortionary effects of tariffs and could go against environmental goals. From a political-economy point of view, the CVDs in this case appear driven by pressure of domestic manufacturers of clean energy technology and products.

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Urban Hazard Adaptation: Efficiency of a Green Infrastructure in an Italian metropolis

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-15461 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Francesco Busca ◽

Roberto Revelli

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Green Infrastructure ◽

Local Governments ◽

Sustainable Use ◽

Point Of View ◽

Environmental Benefits ◽

Atmospheric Pollutants ◽

Water Runoff ◽

Water Shortages ◽

Economic Point

In recent years, safeguarding approaches and environmental management initiatives have been adopted both by international institutions and local governments , aimed at sustainable use of natural resources and their restoration, in order to manage hazard level of climate change consequences (urban flooding, droughts and water shortages, sea level rise, issues with food security).Cities represent the main collectors of these effects, consequently they need to implement specific adaptation plans mitigating consequences of such future events: Green Infrastructures (G.I.) fall within the most effective tools for achieving the goal. In the urban context, they also identify themselves as valid strategies for biodiversity recovery and ecological functions.This work analyzes the role of a G.I. in an urban environment, with the aim of quantifying Ecosystem Services (E.S.) provided by vegetation: through usage of i-Tree, specific software suite for E.S. quantification, the sustainability offered by &#8220;Le Vallere&#8221; park, a 34-hectares greenspace spread between municipalities of Turin and Moncalieri (Italy), was analyzed, in collaboration with the related management institution (Ente di gestione delle Aree Protette del Po torinese). The study, carried out using two specific tools (i-Tree Eco and i-Tree Hydro), focuses on different aspects: carbon sequestration and storage, atmospheric pollutants reduction, avoided water runoff and water quality improvement are just some of the environmental benefits generated by tree population. Tools enable to carry out the analysis also from an economic point of view, evaluating monetary benefits brought by the green infrastructure both at present day and in the future, &#160;taking into account climate change effects through projections based on the regional climatic model COSMO-CLM (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 scenarios).The work led to deepen potential held by the greenspace, helping the cooperating management institution &#160;to plan future territorial agenda and to find innovative approaches for an integrated and sustainable hazard control.

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