Events in natural language semantics, conceived as strings of observations, are extracted from formulas of linear temporal logic, and collected in regular languages. Infinite strings of sets of atomic formulas (fully specifying truth) are truncated and partialized, in line with the bounded temporal extent and descriptive content of events. Branching from that line, counterfactual events are ana...

Brad Hardenbrook, NV Department of Wildlife, (2/23/99) Christine Robinson, Environmental Planning Manager, Clark County, (3/5/99) Jim Moore, The Nature Conservancy, (2/20/99) Karen Budd-Fallon, Ranching and multiple-user representative, (3/18/99) Mark Trinko, ORV multiple-user, Las Vegas, (3/1/99) Michael Burrows, USFWS-Staff Biologist, Las Vegas Office, (2/17/99) Paul Selzer, HCP mediator, law...

considerations on production costs By B. H. Buck, J. Br€ uggemann, M. Hundt, A. A. Bischoff, B. Grote, S. Strieben and W. Hagen Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany; University of Applied Science, Bremerhaven, Germany; Institute for Marine Resources (IMARE), Bremerhaven, Germany; Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of ...

This study examines whether policies to encourage cattle ranching intensification in Brazil can abate global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by sparing land from deforestation. We use an economic model of global land use to investigate, from 2010 to 2030, the global agricultural outcomes, land use changes, and GHG abatement resulting from two potential Brazilian policies: a tax on cattle from co...

Growing demand for agricultural commodities is causing the expansion of agricultural frontiers onto native vegetation worldwide. Agribusiness companies linking these frontiers to distant spaces of consumption through global commodity chains increasingly make zero-deforestation pledges. However, production and land conversion are often carried out by less-visible local and regional actors that a...