LOCAL ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM ENROLLMENTS: A SUB-COUNTY ANALYSIS

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'Puma' Grapefruit

'Puma' is a high quality, productive citrus hybrid resulting from a cross between pummelo and grapefuit (C. grandis x C. paradisi L.). The cross was made and resulting hybrid seedlings grown by the Department of Horticulture, University of Hawaii

Climigration? Population and climate change in Arctic Alaska

Residents of towns and villages in Arctic Alaska live on “the front line of climate change.” Some communities face immediate threats from erosion and flooding associated with thawing permafrost, increasing river flows, and reduced sea ice protection of shorelines. The term climigration, referring to migration caused by climate change, originally was coined for these places. Although initial applications emphasized the need for government relocation policies, it has elsewhere been applied more broadly to encompass unplanned migration as well. Some historical movements have been attributed to climate change, but closer study tends to find multiple causes, making it difficult to quantify the climate contribution. Clearer attribution might come from comparisons of migration rates among places that are similar in most respects, apart from known climatic impacts. We apply this approach using annual 1990–2014 time series on 43 Arctic Alaska towns and villages. Within-community time plots show no indication of enhanced out-migration from the most at-risk communities. More formally, there is no significant difference between net migration rates of at-risk and other places, testing several alternative classifications. Although climigration is not detectable to date, growing risks make either planned or unplanned movements unavoidable in the near future

Customer Databases for Small Firms: Maximizing the Power of Your Marketing

This article describes how and why a small business can take advantage of the benefits which will accrue from the creation and use of a custon1er database.  What information may be useful to capture (or buy) about your customer, and how that information can be used to improve your n1arketing efforts and subsequent "bottom line'' is presented How to create (or evaluate for purchase of) a database, and how to maintain your database lo preserve its accuracy and value is explained. Information technology is transforming the business game for small firms today. The importance of database marketing as a cost-effective tool which small firms should be utilizing cannot be understated or overlooked

A GLOBAL DATABASE OF DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL TOURIST NUMBERS AT NATIONAL AND SUBNATIONAL LEVEL

We present a new, global data base on tourist destinations. The data base differs from other data bases in that it includes both domestic and international tourists; and it contains data, for the most important destinations, data at national level as well as at lower administrative levels. Missing observations are interpolated using statistical models. The data are freely accessible on the internet.tourism, data

'Kaimana', an improved new lychee cultivar for Hawaii

Lychee (Litchi chinensis L.) 'Kaimana' was named in 1982 to commemorate the 75th ("diamond") anniversary of the establishment of the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station. 'Kaimana' means "diamond" in the Hawaiian language. The original seedling tree of 'Kaimana' grown at the Poamoho experimental farm on Oahu first produced fruit in 1965 at 10 years of age. This is truly a jewel of a lychee, producing excellent quality fruit. In addition, it has a more consistent bearing habit than any of the 14 Chinese lychee cultivars imported and tested in Hawaii during the past 110 years