Evaluating the Impact of Alternative Policy Scenarios on Multifunctionality: A Case Study of Finland. CEPS ENARPRI Working Papers No. 13, 1 July 2005

This paper provides first results of the sector-model approach to analysing the effects of alternative policy scenarios on the multifunctional role of Finnish agriculture. In terms of environmental non-commodity outputs, this study focuses on nutrient runoffs, landscape diversity and biodiversity. As regards other non-commodity outputs, the paper considers rural socio-economic viability. The results suggest that, on the whole, reform of the common agricultural policy is not likely to result in any drastic decline of agricultural production in Finland. The amount of green fallow will increase considerably when agricultural support payments are decoupled from production, and as a result the remaining cultivated agricultural land will become biologically richer. The agricultural labour force is likely to decrease substantially irrespective of agricultural policy. The study concludes that the credibility of the production economics and biological relationships of the economic model determine the validity of the results of the many indicators examined. Further, the economic logic of microeconomic simulation models provides a consistent assessment of the many aspects of multifunctionality

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This paper investigates the impact of geometrical and nongeometrical features on the use of the lexical concepts NEAR and FAR in English and Finnish. Participants’ acceptability ratings for these concepts demonstrate that a bar in between a Figure and a Ground acts as a scale-setting object but not as a distance enhancing barrier, shows that the influence of the geometrical feature Figure–Ground distance exceeds the influence of several nongeometrical features, but most of all reveals that language specific lexical properties associated with NEAR and FAR predict language dependent effects for functional relatedness in interaction with Figure–Ground distance and bar presence

Linearity and morphological structure in derived words: Evidence from category decision

The present article investigates the influences of word-internal category informa- tion and linearity on the processing of morphologically complex words. Three sets of Finnish derived nouns consisting of a noun, adjective or verb stem, and a suffix were submitted to two on-line category decision tasks, where the subjects had to decide whether the word was a noun or a verb respectively. Both experiments show a stem–suffix category mismatch effect manifesting itself in prolonged reaction time latencies. Thus, the results indicate that the order of presentation and the word- internal structural information are intimately tied together also in the visual pro- cessing of morphological complex words.Peer reviewe

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Vaikka kielellä erittäin todennäköisesti onkin monogeneettinen tausta, artikkelissapyritään osoittamaan, että alkukielen sanastoa on turha edes yrittää rekonstruoidakielitieteen menetelmin. Kommentti kohdistuu erityisesti viimeaikaisiin väitteisiin siitä,että papa-tyyppiset sanat olisivat palautettavissa alkukieleen (esim. Bancelin &de l'Etangin tutkimus, ks. New Scientist, 2004). Paradoksaalista kyllä Bancel ja del'Etang perustavat väitteensä sanatyypille, jonka todistusaineisto on historiallisten sukulaisuussuhteidenrakentamisessa heppoinen, ellei peräti olematon. Koko rakennelmanimittäin lepää onomatopoeettisen ja hoivakielellisen evidenssin varassa.Avainsanat: Alkukieli, onomatopoetiikka, hoivakieliKey words: Proto-language, onomatopoeia, caretaker languag

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The Impacts of Alternative Policy Scenarios on Multifunctionality

This paper provides first results of the sector model approach to analyze the effects of alternative policy scenarios on the multifunctional role of Finnish agriculture. In terms of environmental non-commodity outputs we focus on nutrient runoffs, landscape diversity and biodiversity. As regards to socio-economic outputs our focus is on direct and indirect agricultural labour force. The results suggest that while partial de-coupling agricultural supports from production is not likely to result in any drastic decline of agricultural production the amount of green fallow will increase considerably. As a result, the agricultural land will become biologically richer. The agricultural labour force is likely to decrease substantially irrespective of agricultural policy.agricultural policy, multifunctionality, sector model, Agricultural and Food Policy, Q18, Q21,