There has been increasing interest in low-carbon technologies to reduce climate change impacts. However, careful assessments of their implications for the vibrancy local economies are rare. This paper employs techno-economic analysis assess technical and economic feasibility investment one such technology: green ammonia production its contribution viability economy. The considers price projecti...

This paper presents a simple dynamic model dealing with the management of a marine renewable resource. But instead of studying the ecological and economic interactions in terms of equilibrium or optimal control, we pay much attention to the viability of the system or, in a symmetric way, to crisis situations. These viability/crisis situations are defined by a set of economic and biological stat...

Increases in spiny lobster size and abundance have been observed within some marine protected areas (MPAs). To date, the potential economic benefits of these changes have been assumed to derive from the effects of emigration of adult lobster to adjacent fishing grounds and/or increased larval export to downstream nurseries that sustain fisheries. According to economic theory, these effects may ...

Offshore wind farm (WF) projects have been promoted by support schemes as part of the expansion of renewable energy resources in Korea. This paper examines in detail how the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), which was adopted post the Feed-in-Tariff scheme in 2012, has had a profound impact on the economic benefits of offshore WFs in Korea. A framework for analyzing the economic viability of ...

The traditional hospital-physician relationship in the United States was an implicit symbiotic collaboration sheltered by financial success. The health care economic challenges of the 1980s and 1990s unmasked the weaknesses of this relationship as hospitals and doctors often found themselves in direct competition in the struggle to maintain revenue. We recount and examine the history of the lar...

In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of supervised learning methods in predicting the short-term viability of retail pharmaceutical businesses. We use data mining techniques such as linear discriminant analysis, k-nearest neighbour (k-NN) and the C4.5 Decision Tree to classify retail business units from the Greek pharmaceutical sector into viable and non-viable classes, while operating i...

In the context of the present discussion, we adopt a simple working definition of resilience as an organisation‟s ability to successfully adjust to the compounded impact of internal and external events over a significant time period. Within the domain of business systems we further define success as the organisation‟s ability to maintain economic viability as defined by the economic markets. We...