Agent-based modeling offers the technical opportunity to spatially integrate biophysical and socio-economic model components, thereby capturing the interactions between agricultural and environmental policy measures, land use decisions and ecological processes. Development paths in the use of resources can be calculated with the help of computer stimulations which determine the range of possible farm adjustments and policy interventions.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2004
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2004Austria
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2004Hungary, Ukraine, Czech Republic
In the planned Soviet economy, agricultural enterprises in Ukraine played a significant role inmaintaining social infrastructure in rural areas. The state insisted that these enterprisesprovide medical care, transport infrastructure, kindergartens, schools and housing, as well asfood supplies.Over the course of transition, the economic and political conditions of agricultural enterpriseshas drastically changed. The state greatly reduced financing for rural social infrastructure.Additionally, agricultural production significantly fell.
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Local sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities
Reports & ResearchDecember, 2004NamibiaLocal and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that work for people and for nature. Few publications or case studies tell the full story of how such initiatives evolve, the breadth of their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practitioners themselves guiding the narrative. The Equator Initiative aims to fill that gap.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2004
Using the example of the MAB Biosphere Preserve “Mittlere Elbe”, this article demonstrates how an “optimal” land-use pattern – a pattern aimed at combining ecological, economic and social objectives in an adequate way – can be determined. The focus is on the definition of alternative nature conservation approaches, the scenario technique, the definition of landscape functions, the utility analysis and the adaptive conjoint analysis.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2004Russia
More than ten years after the departure of the Central and Eastern EuropeanCountries (CEEC) towards market economy and democracy now it seems to bepossible as well as necessary to analyse the present settings, the developmentsso far, and relevant problems faced during the transition. The main tasks aremaking the transition process empirically transparent and investigate its determinants.This has to be done in order to understand the particular trends and –based on that – to conceptualise sustainable policy concepts as well as adjustedreform measures.
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Library ResourceLegislationSeptember, 2004Germany
The present Law lays down provisions relating to land survey and information on geo-data. The text consists of 23 articles divided into 5 Parts as follows: General provisions (1); Land survey (II); Land survey register (III); Geo-basis information system (IV); Final provisions (V).
Repeals: Sachsen-Anhalt Land Survey Geo-Information Law. (1998-11-21)
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