The concentration of livestock production is problematic due to environmental concerns. European regulations are guiding the sector become increasingly sustainable and, at same time, maintaining population in rural areas. aim was determine suitable areas municipalities where presented as a market option. methodology applied based on combination multi-criteria methods and geographic information ...

We develop a generalised impulse response function (GIRF) approach to explore the different impacts of aggregate and sectoral shocks within a VAR-GARCH-M model. Using the output of our GIRF analysis, we explore the behaviour of three European countries (Germany, Spain and the UK). We analyse the aggregate and sectoral responses to discriminate among three different hypotheses of business cycle ...

Socio-ecological systems have increasingly faced climate-change impacts, which adversely affected the lives and property of inhabitants. The present study aims to prioritize adaptation actions along an altitudinal gradient (<1200 m asl (Zone A), 1201–1800 B), >1801 C)) in Pauri District, Uttarakhand. A cross-sectional survey research design was employed action from 545 randomly selected h...

This research uses the production function theoretical framework and an extensive, exchangelevel database on telephone usage and infrastructure, employment and population, to clarify the relationships between rural economic activities and telecommunications. Relationships are estimated through regression analysis, linking telephone usage, measured in aggregate conversation seconds, by each of e...

Recently, Imbs, Mumtaz, Ravn and Rey (2005; hereinafter IMRR) have argued that much of the PPP puzzle is due to upwardly-biased estimates of persistence. According to them, the source of the bias is the existence of heterogeneous price adjustment dynamics at the sectoral level that established time series or panel data methods fail to control for. This paper re-examines this claim in two steps....

We use a statistical model to estimate impulse responses of sectoral price indices to aggregate shocks and to sector-specific shocks. In the median sector, 100 percent of the long-run response of the sectoral price index to a sector-specific shock occurs in the month of the shock. The Calvo model and the sticky-information model match this finding only under extreme assumptions concerning the p...

The assumption of linearity is tested using five statistical tests for the US and the Canadian unemployment rates and the employment sectoral shares growth rates; construction, finance, manufacturing and trade. An AR(p) model was used to remove any linear structure from the series. Evidence of non-linearity is found for the sectoral shares with all five statistical tests in the US case but not ...

Abstract Successfully achieving the sustainable development goals requires addressing complex, interrelated, wicked problems across multiple scales and contexts decision-making that tackles nested layers of targets interrelated social, economic environmental dimensions sustainability. The Stakeholder Approach to Risk-informed Evidence-based Decision-making (SHARED) bridges processes, tools acce...

BACKGROUND At the hilum of the liver, there is a structure called the hilar plate, which is of great surgical importance because all variations in the bile ducts and blood vessels occur within this region. The Rex-Cantlie line does not always pass the point of portal bifurcation. Classifying portal vein (PV) variations based on the shape and origin of anterior sectoral trunk (AST) within the he...