Forests and plants adaptations to environmental change

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » CHARACTERIZING THE STRUCTURE AND BIOMASS OF MANGROVE SPECIES USING TERRESTRIAL LIDAR DATA, AND THE APPLICATION IN EXTENDING BIOMASS ALLOMETRIC EQUATIONS TO LARGE TREES1 Abstract Accurately determining biomass of large trees is crucial for...

Climate and Agriculture : Empirical evidence for Countries and Agroecological Zones of the Sahel 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Climate change: definitions, measures and models In this first section, we discuss and define the climate and global warming, their measures and the models used to measure climate and climate change. Definitions Climate...

Environmental fiscal incentives: Effectiveness or free-riding effect? An econometric evaluation of the French energy tax credit

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Uncertainty, irreversibility and high discount rates By contrast, Hassett and Metcalf (1993) argue that the so-called energy paradox is in reality a optimal response to first, uncertainty about the return on investment (i.e....

The stylized facts of the resource curse

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The stylized facts of the resource curse Although some countries have well harnessed their resource wealth to expand their economies faster, most of them have experienced bad macroeconomic performance. A useful starting point...

Agriculture and water resources management

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Active microwave remote sensing The monostatic active type creates its own electromagnetic energy which is propagated from the sensor toward the ground and through their interaction a backscatter is produced and returned to...

Combining economic and groundwater models for developing long term nitrate concentration scenarios in a large aquifer 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Optimal water allocation: a slightly different perspective There is a relatively abundant literature on designing, planning, and operating water re-sources systems. These include the withdrawal and allocation of water across different resources and...

Agrobacterium identification using whole-cell MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Agrobacterium identification using whole-cell MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry4 Fine typing of agrobacteria strains is an absolute prerequisite to assess the environmental diversity of agrobacteria for epidemiological and agro-ecological investigations especially to determine the epidemic...

Yellow Vests, Pessimistic Beliefs, and Carbon Tax Aversion 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The relative merits of different instruments When the decision-maker chooses to take action to reduce pollution, he or she can adjust the level of regulatory constraint or the size of the economic incentives...

Evolution of the char physicochemical properties during gasification

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Biomass and its composition Biomass definition The European Parliament directive 2009/28/EC of 23 April 2009 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources defined biomass as “the biodegradable fraction of...

THE SPORT OF COMPETITIVE ALPINE SKIING

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » THE SPORT OF COMPETITIVE ALPINE SKIING OVERVIEW This section provides an overview of the sport of alpine skiing. The following content was shaped by the thorough work of previous PhD candidates (Gilgien, 2014;...