Manual SEAMLESS-IF

Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, Farm Management, Land Economics/Use, Production Economics,

Updated version of final design and of the architecture of SEAMLESS-IF

Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, Farm Management, Land Economics/Use, Livestock Production/Industries,

Bicycle parking in station areas in the Netherlands

Cities in the Netherlands have encouraged cycling in order to create a more healthy, liveable and sustainable environment. Accordingly, cycling has become an important travel mode in cities for both unimodal and multimodal travel. Consequently, the increase of bicycle use results in an increase in the demand for bicycle parking, thus encouraging illegal bicycle in station areas where supply is unable to meet demand. As space becomes scarce in these areas, managing the existing parking supply becomes crucial in the urban environment. This research attempts to explain bicycle parking behavior by finding determinants for parking near a station with a metro service, train service or both services at the same location. The results not only show that the determinants for parking in these station areas differ, but also that each station areas attracts different groups of people

Human Resources in the World

This paper is devoted to the topic of labor in the economy. The dynamics and structure of labor resources and factors of its change, as well as the labor resource requirements for the economy and the factors of its change are considered. The volume of labor resources depends both on internal (changes in the birth rate, increase in life expectancy), and on external factors (labor migration). In turn, the structure of the workforce depends on the degree of well-being and the level of education. Also, labor resources are influenced by an increase in the active life span and an increase in the tendency for the participation of older persons in the work. The needs for labor resources are determined by the type of economic development (intensive or extensive), the stage of economic development (agrarian, industrial and post-industrial) and the level of automation, computerization and mechanization

Analysis of Big Data technologies for use in agro-environmental science

Recent developments like the movements of open access and open data and the unprecedented growth of data, which has come forward as Big Data, have shifted focus to methods to effectively handle such data for use in agro-environmental research. Big Data technologies, together with the increased use of cloud based and high performance computing, create new opportunities for data intensive science in the multi-disciplinary agro-environmental domain. A theoretical framework is presented to structure and analyse data-intensive cases and is applied to three case studies, together covering a broad range of technologies and aspects related to Big Data usage. The case studies indicate that most persistent issues in the area of data-intensive research evolve around capturing the huge heterogeneity of interdisciplinary data and around creating trust between data providers and data users. It is therefore recommended that efforts from the agro-environmental domain concentrate on the issues of variety and veracity