In Canada, where public ownership of forestland is prevalent, a central decision facing policy makers is how to allocate timber resources to private forest companies. Debates tend to focus around what proportion of the annual harvest should be devoted to markets opposed to long-term contracts. To give a guide to policy makers, we surveyed forest firms from New Zealand and Sweden where this decision is based purely on a commercial basis. On average, mills source fifty percent of their fibre from the market.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2008Suède, Canada, Nouvelle-Zélande
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2001États-Unis d'Amérique
There are a multitude of interdisciplinary values that people derive from rural land. Productivism focuses on the commodity values of rural land, such as the use of land as a commercial input into agricultural production, timber harvesting and mineral extraction. Productivistic uses and values of rural land have been the traditional focus of rural land policy and management in the United States. Many rural areas in the United States are moving into a postproductivism era. Postproductivism focuses on both commodity and amenity values of rural land.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2005États-Unis d'Amérique
A modified version of this article has been published in the May 2007 issue of the journal Ecological Economics.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2012États-Unis d'Amérique, Bélarus
In the conditions of the Republic of Belarus there was presented the technology of automatized deciphering of area objects with the help of programme complex ENVI ((Environment for Visualizing Image), developed by the Research Systems, Inc. (the USA)). There were examined existing methods of deciphering in the programme complex ENVI. The presented order of deciphering could be recommended for production and could be used for the deciphering of linear and single-point objects.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2005États-Unis d'Amérique
The United States has invested large sums of resources in multiple conservation programs for agriculture over the past century. In this paper we focus on the impacts of program interactions. Specifically, using an integrated economic and bio-physical modeling framework, we consider the impacts of the presence of working land programs on a land retirement for an important agricultural regionthe Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB).
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2007États-Unis d'Amérique
For the last 50 years, local, state and the federal governments have expressed concerns about farmland retention. Four benefits have been used to warrant farmland preservation programs: food security and local food supply, viable local agricultural economy, environmental and rural amenities, and sound fiscal policy and orderly development. We explore the available evidence of how well farmland preservation programs have provided these benefits.
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The competing senate and house agriculture committee bills of July 2012
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2010Canada, États-Unis d'Amérique, Asie, Amérique centrale, Europe, Amérique du Sud
* Asier Hernando Malax-Echevarria
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2013Asie méridionale, Asie orientale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Amérique du Sud, Afrique, Asie, Amérique septentrionale, Brésil, Chine, Inde, États-Unis d'Amérique
This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have contributed to or hindered progress in food and nutrition security. It reviews what happened in food policy and why, examines key challenges and opportunities, shares new evidence and knowledge, and highlights emerging issues.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2013Asie méridionale, Asie orientale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Amérique du Sud, Afrique, Asie, Amérique septentrionale, Brésil, Chine, Inde, États-Unis d'Amérique
This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have contributed to or hindered progress in food and nutrition security. It reviews what happened in food policy and why, examines key challenges and opportunities, shares new evidence and knowledge, and highlights emerging issues.
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