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Natural Resource Management in the Hillsides of Honduras

Bioeconomic Modeling at the Microwatershed Level

By: Bruno Barbier,Gilles Bergeron

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Natural Resource Management in the Hillsides of Honduras

Bioeconomic Modeling at the Microwatershed Level

By: Bruno Barbier,Gilles Bergeron

Farmers who live in fragile tropical hillsides often operate under severe resource constraints and face difficult tradeoffs when confronted with changes in production conditions. Using a bioeconomic linear programming model, this study simulates the effects of population, market, and technological changes on farmers' income and on their management of the natural resource in a hillside area of Central Honduras. The results show that economic growth and agricultural intensification are not necessarily adverse for fragile environments. In fact, farmer incomes would be much lower and degradation much higher if intensive agriculture had not been adopted. Such a result, however, must be framed within a complex set of conditioning factors, among which agroecology plays a fundamental role. Although the economic advantages of horticultural production are clear in the area studied, this strategy is not suited for all contexts. This report offers a series of policy recommendations that implicitly recognize such limitations, thereby helping to direct resources where they will have their greatest impact.

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst

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0896291251

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Second International Conference, ITS '92, Montreal, Canada, June 10-12, 1992. Proceedings

By: Claude Frasson,Gilles Gauthier

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Second International Conference, ITS '92, Montreal, Canada, June 10-12, 1992. Proceedings

By: Claude Frasson,Gilles Gauthier

This volume of the Encyclopaedia offers a systematic introduction and a comprehensive survey of the theory of complex spaces. It covers topics like semi-normal complex spaces, cohomology, the Levi problem, q-convexity and q-concavity. It is the first survey of this kind. The authors are internationally known outstanding experts who developed substantial parts of the field. The book contains seven chapters and an introduction written by Remmert, describing the history of the subject. The book will be very useful to graduate students and researchers in complex analysis, algebraic geometry and differential geometry. Another group of readers will consist of mathematical physicists who apply results from these fields.

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710

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540556060

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Gilles Paquet

By: Gilles Paquet

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Gilles Paquet

By: Gilles Paquet

Cet ouvrage examine et remet en contexte les travaux de Gilles Paquet, économiste et historien qui tout au long de sa carrière a été un intellectuel public et un penseur d'une remarquable créativité. Celui qui se décrit lui-même comme un "homo hereticus"--Esprit critique ne craignant pas la controverse - a exercé une grande influence dans les milieux universitaires et dans le monde des décideurs au Canada et ailleurs. Les auteurs montrent comment ses écrits et ses commentaires sur l'économie, la politique, l'administration publique et l'éducation les ont aidés à mieux comprendre le monde qui les entoure. [Memento].

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University of Ottawa Press

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0776606921

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9780776606927

The Trinitarian Theology of St Thomas Aquinas

By: Gilles Emery OP

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The Trinitarian Theology of St Thomas Aquinas

By: Gilles Emery OP

A historical and systematic introduction to what the medieval philospher and theologian Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) said about faith in the Trinity. Gilles Emery OP provides an explanation of the main questions in Thomas's treatise on the Trinity in his major work, the Summa Theologiae. His presentation clarifies the key ideas through which Thomas accounts for the nature of Trinitarian monotheism. Emery focuses on the personal relations of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, both in their eternal communion and in their creative and saving action. By highlighting the thought of one of the greatest defenders of the doctrine of the Trinity, he enables people to grasp the classical Christian understanding of God.

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Oxford University Press

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0191525782

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9780191525780

Dark Matter Credit

The Development of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Banking in France

By: Philip T. Hoffman,Gilles Postel-Vinay,Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

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Dark Matter Credit

The Development of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Banking in France

By: Philip T. Hoffman,Gilles Postel-Vinay,Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

How a vast network of shadow credit financed European growth long before the advent of banking Prevailing wisdom dictates that, without banks, countries would be mired in poverty. Yet somehow much of Europe managed to grow rich long before the diffusion of banks. Dark Matter Credit draws on centuries of cleverly collected loan data from France to reveal how credit abounded well before banks opened their doors. This incisive book shows how a vast system of shadow credit enabled nearly a third of French families to borrow in 1740, and by 1840 funded as much mortgage debt as the American banking system of the 1950s. Dark Matter Credit traces how this extensive private network outcompeted banks and thrived prior to World War I—not just in France but in Britain, Germany, and the United States—until killed off by government intervention after 1918. Overturning common assumptions about banks and economic growth, the book paints a revealing picture of an until-now hidden market of thousands of peer-to-peer loans made possible by a network of brokers who matched lenders with borrowers and certified the borrowers’ creditworthiness. A major work of scholarship, Dark Matter Credit challenges widespread misperceptions about French economic history, such as the notion that banks proliferated slowly, and the idea that financial innovation was hobbled by French law. By documenting how intermediaries in the shadow credit market devised effective financial instruments, this compelling book provides new insights into how countries can develop and thrive today.

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Princeton University Press

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0691185050

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9780691185057

Expect The Unexpected: A First Course In Biostatistics (Second Edition)

By: Raluca Balan,Gilles Lamothe

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Expect The Unexpected: A First Course In Biostatistics (Second Edition)

By: Raluca Balan,Gilles Lamothe

This textbook introduces the basic concepts from probability theory and statistics which are needed for statistical analysis of data encountered in the biological and health sciences. No previous study is required. Advanced mathematical tools, such as integration and differentiation, are kept to a minimum. The emphasis is put on the examples. Probabilistic methods are discussed at length, but the focus of this edition is on statistics.The examples are kept simple, so that the reader can learn quickly and see the usefulness of various statistical and probabilistic methods. Some of the examples used in this book draw attention to various problems related to environmental issues, climate change, loss of bio-diversity, and their impact on wildlife and humans.In comparison with the first edition of the book, this second edition contains additional topics such as power, sample size computation and non-parametric methods, and includes a large collection of new problems, as well as the answers to odd-numbered problems. Several sections of this edition are accompanied by instructions using the programming language R for statistical computing and graphics.The Solution Manual is available upon request for all instructors who adopt this book as a course text. Please send your request to sales@wspc.com.

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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9813209089

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9789813209084

Piano Pedagogy

A Research and Information Guide

By: Gilles Comeau

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Piano Pedagogy

A Research and Information Guide

By: Gilles Comeau

Piano Pedagogy: A Research and Information Guide provides a detailed outline of resources available for research and/or training in piano pedagogy. Like its companion volumes in the Routledge Music Bibliographies series, it serves beginning and advanced students and scholars as a basic guide to current research in the field. The book will includes bibliographies, research guides, encyclopedias, works from other disciplines that are related to piano pedagogy, current sources spanning all formats, including books, journals, audio and video recordings, and electronic sources.

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Routledge

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1135914842

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Priceless Markets

The Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660-1870

By: Philip T. Hoffman,Gilles Postel-Vinay,Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

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Priceless Markets

The Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660-1870

By: Philip T. Hoffman,Gilles Postel-Vinay,Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

This pathbreaking book shows how credit markets functioned in Paris, through the agency of notaries, during a critical period of French history. Its authors challenge the usual assumption that organized financial markets—and hence the opportunity for economic growth—did not emerge outside of England and the Netherlands until the nineteenth century. Drawing on innovative research, the authors show that as early as the Old Regime, financial intermediaries in France were mobilizing a great tide of capital and arranging thousands of loans between borrowers and lenders. The implications for historians and economists are substantial. The role of notaries operating in Paris that Priceless Markets uncovers has never before been recognized. In the wake of this pathbreaking new study, historians will also have to rethink the origins of the French Revolution. As the authors show, the crisis of 1787-88 did not simply ignite revolt; it was intimately bound up in an economic struggle that reached far back into the eighteenth century, and continued well into the 1800s.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226348016

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9780226348018

The Developing Human Brain

Growth and Epidemiologic Neuropathology

By: F. H. Gilles,A. Leviton,E. C. Dooling

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The Developing Human Brain

Growth and Epidemiologic Neuropathology

By: F. H. Gilles,A. Leviton,E. C. Dooling

The Developing Human Brain: Growth and Epidemiologic Neuropathology presents the analyses that study the conditions and events of pregnancy, labor, and delivery as they relate to neuropathological outcomes. This book reviews the weaknesses and strengths of epidemiologic methods applied to autopsy populations and provide the details of the neuropathologic sample. Organized into three sections encompassing 27 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the hypotheses about the relationships between potential antecedents and morphologic events that can subsequently be tested in the living child using specific measure of cerebral or neurologic function. This text then examines the general principles of epidemiology. Other chapters consider the advantages and disadvantages of using autopsy data for epidemiologic studies. This book discusses as well the statistical and descriptive methods used to provide a panoramic view of the developing human brain based on infants aborted at different stages of development. The final chapter deals with anatomical changes at the final months of the second trimester. This book is a valuable resource for neuropathologists, neurologists, and pathologists.

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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1483281043

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The Mediterranean Region

Biological Diversity in Space and Time

By: Jacques Blondel,James Aronson,Jean-Yves Bodiou,Gilles Boeuf

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The Mediterranean Region

Biological Diversity in Space and Time

By: Jacques Blondel,James Aronson,Jean-Yves Bodiou,Gilles Boeuf

It is becoming clear that the Mediterranean region is one of the "hottest" of the biodiversity hotspots on the planet. There is also an increasing concern for the conservation, adaptive management, and restoration of the unique natural ecosystems and cultural landscapes that characterize this area. The region's biological and cultural heritage as well as its huge wealth of biodiversity is now at real risk. This brings a further urgency to the task of communicating detailed but readily accessible information on the Mediterranean biota, and an ecological, historical and evolutionary perspective to the changing contexts in which the region's flora and fauna continue to evolve. There is no other recent textbook devoted solely to Mediterranean evolutionary ecology, and a synthesis of the many recent advances is now overdue. This new work builds on the success and reputation of the first edition, although the text has been updated and expanded to document recent changes to biodiversity, new ecological and evolutionary insights, and the challenges for the future. These changes include the addition of two new chapters devoted to the Mediterranean Sea itself, and especially the coastal areas. Throughout the book, the pressing issues of global change (especially climate warming) are addressed, in conjunction with changing land use, and in terms of their potential impact on biota, communities, ecosystems, and landscapes.

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OUP Oxford

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0191574287

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9780191574283

Natural Resource Management in the Hillsides of Honduras

Bioeconomic Modeling at the Microwatershed Level

By: Bruno Barbier,Gilles Bergeron

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Bioeconomic Modeling at the Microwatershed Level

By: Bruno Barbier,Gilles Bergeron

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Natural Resource Management in the Hillsides of Honduras

Natural Resource Management in the Hillsides of Honduras

Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Gilles Paquet

Gilles Paquet

The Trinitarian Theology of St Thomas Aquinas

The Trinitarian Theology of St Thomas Aquinas

Dark Matter Credit

Dark Matter Credit

Expect The Unexpected: A First Course In Biostatistics (Second Edition)

Expect The Unexpected: A First Course In Biostatistics (Second Edition)

Piano Pedagogy

Piano Pedagogy

Priceless Markets

Priceless Markets

The Developing Human Brain

The Developing Human Brain

The Mediterranean Region

The Mediterranean Region

Natural Resource Management in the Hillsides of Honduras

Natural Resource Management in the Hillsides of Honduras

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