In March 2000, the European Commission presented a Green Paper on greenhouse gas emissions trading within Europe, supporting implementation of a Community-wide scheme in which the design and regulation of all essential elements would be harmonized at the Community level. The present paper analyzes economic arguments used to justify such a coordinated scenario, showing these arguments to be base...

Accessing specialty coffee markets is recognized as a way for some small-scale coffee farmers to earn higher prices, counteract unequal distributions of market power, and achieve a better quality of life. Members of CEPICAFE, a Peruvian coffee producer association that has gained access to Fair Trade and organic markets, do receive higher prices than they would by selling to local traders. Howe...

Fair Trade coffee sales have grown exponentially over the past fifteen years amidst a volatile and shaky coffee commodity market. This paper incorporates the prior research that global climate change will lead to more climate shocks with research on the coffee market’s volatility and farmer welfare. In accordance with prior research on commodity volatility, I develop an OLS estimator of the vol...

The EU funded FAIRWIS project (Trade Fair Web-based Information Services) aims at offering on-line innovative services to support the management of trade fairs, either real or Web-based virtual fairs. One of the main differences with respect to what is currently available on Web sites is that these sites have static data that it is difficult to update and to put on-line in an appropriate format...

This paper presents the first approach towards the main goal of developing a completely autonomous robot that serves as a local and remote guide