ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF MODULARIZATION OF DRY GROCERY PACKAGING

Agribusiness,

Land Use Policy: Lessons from Water Quality Markets

Land Economics/Use, Q24, Q25, Q53,

AGRICULTURE AND GROUND WATER QUALITY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC POLICY EDUCATION

Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

IMPROVING FOOD SYSTEM PERFORMANCE THROUGH MODULAR GROCERY DISTRIBUTION PACKAGING: BARRIERS, OPPORTUNITIES, AND RESEARCH NEEDS

Agribusiness,

NATURAL RESOURCES AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Community/Rural/Urban Development,

COOPERATIVE VERSUS INDIVIDUAL APPROACHES TO TREATMENT OF CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER BY RURAL RESIDENTS IN THE NORTHEAST

Point-of-use/point-of-entry treatment can provide an affordable means for rural residents on private wells to remedy groundwater contamination. Cooperation among homeowners was hypothesized to be a means of further reducing treatment costs due to quantity discounts and avoidance of dealer mark-ups. Data obtained through a mail survey of water treatment firms was used to test this hypothesis. Individual and group purchase, installation and maintenance costs and manufacturer and dealer costs were compared using analysis of variance. Results indicate a cooperative treatment approach may provide benefits due to quantity discounts but little potential exists for savings via direct manufacturer purchase.Environmental Economics and Policy,

Environmental Issues in Animal Agriculture

Environmental Economics and Policy, Livestock Production/Industries, Q0, F2, Q25, Q30, R52,

POLITICS AND MARKETS IN THE ARTICULATION OF PREFERENCES FOR ATTRIBUTES OF THE RAPIDLY CHANGING FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL SECTORS: FRAMING THE ISSUES

Industrialization of the food and agricultural sectors changes the pattern of external effects. Participants helped or harmed in the process attempt to influence outcomes through markets and politics. Decisions about property rights and boundaries determine benefits and burdens and the relative cost of animal agriculture in different jurisdictions. Prescriptions to redefine property rights are influenced by selective perception of rights to share in the benefits and be protected from costs. Political choices about the appropriate jurisdiction (state versus local) for addressing environmental and nuisance effects of animal agriculture affect whose preferences count and will influence the development of these sectors.Animal agriculture, Externalities, Industrialization, Institutions, Jurisdictional boundaries, Regulation, State versus local policy, Environment, Political Economy,

Integrable models: from dynamical solutions to string theory

We review the status of integrable models from the point of view of their dynamics and integrability conditions. Some integrable models are discussed in detail. We comment on the use it is made of them in string theory. We also discuss the Bethe Ansatz solution of the SO(6) symmetric Hamiltonian with SO(6) boundary. This work is especially prepared for the seventieth anniversaries of Andr\'{e} Swieca (in memoriam) and Roland K\"{o}berle.Comment: 24 pages, to appear in Brazilian Journal of Physic