A study is conducted to provide information useful to the future development of agro-pastoralists
in the Kolda Region through an economic and socio-cultural analysis of the
practice of stabling. Two main issues are addressed: the generation and distribution of
profits and the factors related to adoption of stabling. A partial...
A model of agricultural decision making is developed and tested in this thesis. The expected value of utility evaluated under alternative outcomes is directly maximized in a nonlinear programming model. Two features of the model distinguished it from traditional risk programming models. First, alternative attitudes towards the assumption of risk...
Growing demand for limited quantities of fish has led to systematic
planning for the conservation and management of U.S. fishery resources.
There is a need for better understanding of the complex biological and
social environment on which regulation for conservation, social, and
economic purposes is imposed. The behavior of commercial...
In spite of the rapid economic growth of the post-war era, there
has not been significant improvement in the incidence of poverty,
nor in the inequality of income distribution around the world, and
particularly in the developing countries. A reason for the apparent
failure of the poor to benefit from...
The crop rotation decision is important to farmers because of its
impact on profitability, financing and risk exposure. This thesis
addresses the problem of farm level crop rotation selection under perfect
and imperfect knowledge of prices, yields and costs. The problem
is addressed by first estimating production functions for irrigated...
Absentee-owned manufacturing plants made up a significant
portion of the manufacturing sector in Oregon. In both 1969 and
1979, more than a quarter of the state's wage and salary
manufacturing workers were employed by manufacturers whose home
offices were located in other states or nations. Although the
orthodox economic view...
Policy decisions in fishery management are becoming increasingly
complex and difficult. This is especially true for the salmon fisheries
where policy outcomes affect the productivity of the salmon
resource and the subsequent well-being of commercial fishermen, charter
boat operators, Indian fishermen, and sport anglers. The objective
of this study was...
In the formulation of fisheries management plans required under the
Fisheries Conservation and Management Act of 1976 specific attention is
paid to the "capacity" of domestic fishing vessels to harvest the predetermined
optimum yield on an annual basis. Capacity is interpreted in
this thesis as the technical harvesting potential of...
Barth's theory of transactional analysis is applied to the
community of Tiller, Oregon and its reaction to a development proposal.
Community behavior patterns vis-a-vis the development proposal are
examined from a processual point of view to determine how these
patterns are generated.
The community's history and contemporary situation are described....