it is a well-known result in both environmental economics and natural resources managementthat you will not be able to manage what you are not able to measure. this paper presents a dichotomous-choicecontingent valuation survey that analyses individuals’ preferences for the implementation of a rural developmentprogram (rdp) that fosters the provision of non-commodity outputs in rural areas in s...

Agricultural and the rural landscape have undergone significant and wide-ranging changes in demographics, economics, land uses, and spatial land use relationships. This section explores a methodology to examine the spatial relationship, and resulting potential for conflict, of two changes in particular: • consolidation of animal agricultural facilities into larger operating units as a response ...

The economics and livelihoods impacts of stand-alone, small-scale (less than 2 kW) renewable energy technologies for rural electrification are assessed using a representative sample of 531 rural households in three provinces of Western China. Over 20 small wind, photovoltaic (PV) and wind–PV hybrid configurations were evaluated for their potential to meet local electricity needs. The assessment...

The development of a community is reflected in the efforts designed to improve the economic and social atmosphere, and the quality of life of the community. Nevertheless, community development specialists have focused on economics, ignoring other aspects of development and the interrelation of such. The goals of this proposal are: 1) To study how the design of robotic artifacts and the use of o...

In a country where for many generations the virtues of rural life have appeared to be a t the heart of the national ethos, there currently exists astonishingly little hard information about critical economic and social aspects of that life. That, a t least, is the conclusion of a recent review of research into the economics of rural poverty by economists Keith Bryant, Lee Bawden, and WilliarnSa...

Nonmetropolitan America contains almost 25 percent of the nation's population and 33 percent of its labor force. Rural residents are more likely to experience subemployment or poverty than their urban counterparts', and nonmetropolitan areas have lower wage rates and family income than urban areas. During the 1970s, rural areas benefited from a shift of manufacturing jobs from the metropolitan ...

Department of Agric. Economics and Extension, University of Uyo, Uyo,Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. E-mail address: [email protected] The study assessed rural household accessibility to health care on agricultural resource use efficiency in Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria. Primary data were duly obtained using well structured questionnaire which was administered on eighty r...

Rural areas and small towns are facing new challated to these impacts. With shifting populations, ecolenges as their economies grow and develop. The popnomic changes, and energy development, reliable ulation influx to nonmetropolitan areas has brought new impact models are increasingly useful. Many types of and increasing demands for community services. Premodels and methodologies have been dev...