This analysis of Colombia's System of National Park Reservations
accomplishes four objectives: 1) The historical development of national
parks in Colombia was described; 2) The status, as of August,
1974, of the areas administered by the Colombian Renewable Natural
Resources Development Institute (INDERENA) was summarized; 3) An
analysis of major...
With agriculture continuing to play an ever-increasing role in our modern economy, more and more attention is being directed toward the hitherto more or less neglected finer points of crop production. In the past it has been the tendency to concentrate research on those factors which most obviously affect agricultural...
The traditional Hicks-Allen theory was presented and modified
by (1) formulating the consumer's budget constraint with a weak
inequality, (2) deriving the Slutsky equation in matrix notation and
(3) demonstrating that the income and substitution effects could be
derived directly from the partial derivatives of the consumer's
demand functions. Two...
Covering half of South America, Brazil is one of the largest agricultural and commercial forest producers globally, with a correspondingly complex road network necessary to support the production and marketing processes of such goods. Contrary to global statistics, almost 90% of the country’s road network is classified as unsealed or...
The Tumalo Project at Tumalo Reservoir in Central Oregon was proclaimed a failure almost as soon as it was completed. As the reservoir filled with water diverted from Tumalo creek in the spring of 1915, sinkholes developed in the reservoir floor and every last drop of captured water disappeared into...
Senator Al Gore Jr. was elected Vice-President of the United States
on November 3, 1992. During many of his public speeches, Gore utilized
a speaking style that differed radically from the style he used in other
political campaigns of his life. This style, which will be called the "rhetoric
of...