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41st annual AGU hydrology days, March 30-31, 2021
Includes the schedule and presentation abstracts only. The 41st Annual American Geophysical Union Hydrology Days meeting provides a unique opportunity for students, faculty, staff and practitioners to engage in wide range ... -
Schlick's Responsible man
A criticism of the concept of responsibility in the work of Moritz Schlick. The solution, or dissolution, of moral responsibility is not nearly so simple as Schlick has proposed. Upon analysis, his hope of retaining ... -
CVMBS research conference 2021
The annual symposium showcases cutting-edge student research and innovative research approaches. Connecting local researchers and scientists, Research Day enhances collaboration and communication between basic and clinical ... -
Catalog of Scolytidae (Coleoptera), supplement 4 (2011-2019) with an annotated checklist of the world fauna (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Scolytidae), A
This contribution consists of two parts. The first part is the fourth supplement to the 1992 Catalog of the Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera) of the World (Wood and Bright 1992) and summarizes the additions and ... -
Suffering through to something higher
The Darwinian world of "survival of the fittest" is "survival of the better adapted." Over evolutionary time the fight for life deepens into sentience, and sentience into suffering. This forces philosophers and theologians ... -
Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) Peroxyacetyl Nitrate (PAN) and Carbon Monoxide (CO) retrievals for the 2018 wildfire season over the western U.S.
We use new peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) observations from the Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite to investigate PAN over the western U.S. during the summer 2018 ... -
Determinants of effective beginning farmer programming and implications for future programs
This research explores the determinants of effective beginning farmer programming and implications for emerging and established programs. We use responses from 100 interviews with participants in the Building Farmers in ... -
Federal policy, administration, and local good coming of age
This article reviews the federal legislative and administrative maturation of local food. By focusing on the Farm Bill and the Know Your Farmer Know Your Food program—one way in which the USDA carries out its legislative ... -
Community-supported agriculture marketing performance: results from pilot market channel assessments in Colorado
Due in large part to rising consumer interest, the number of farmers and ranchers selling through local food markets is growing. Community-supported agriculture (CSA) is a unique local food channel adopted by producers ... -
Financial performance implications of differential marketing strategies: exploring farms that pursue local markets as a core competitive advantage, The
This study explores how participation in direct and intermediated marketing channels and key operational factors influence agricultural producers’ financial performance. Accordingly, we divide the sample of local and ... -
What is a 'multiplier' anyway? Assessing the economics of local foods systems toolkit
This special issue examines the effectiveness of organizing and conducting formal impact assessments in measuring the economic impacts and opportunity costs associated with local food system policies, programming, and ... -
Farm to school activities and student outcomes: a systematic review
Farm to school programs (F2SPs) operate in 42% of school districts and are supported in part through federal and state policies as well as philanthropic funding. Although research evaluating the effects of farm to ... -
One place doesn't fit all: improving the effectiveness of sustainability standards by accounting for place
The growing interest in incentivizing sustainable agricultural practices is supported by a large network of voluntary production standards, which aim to offer farmers and ranchers increased value for their product in support ... -
Connecting urban food plans to the countryside: leveraging Denver's food vision to explore meaningful rural-urban linkages
Cities are increasingly turning to food policy plans to support goals related to food access, food security, the environment, and economic development. This paper investigates ways that rural farmers, communities, and ... -
Assessing the economic impacts of food hubs on regional economies: a framework that includes opportunity cost
The number of food hubs—businesses that aggregate and distribute local food—in the United States is growing, fueled in part by increasing public support. However, there have been few data-driven assessments of the economic ... -
Food value chain development in Central New York: CNY bounty
In the past 10 years, demand for locally grown food has increased dramatically. Concomitantly, small, commercial farms have declined disproportionately to small and large farms. The decline may be due to the lack of ... -
Economics of local food systems: a toolkit to guide community discussions, assessments and choices, The
As consumers across the Nation express a growing interest in a closer connection to their food producers—whether through access to more localized markets and/or shorter supply chains— cities and regions have begun to regard ... -
Contemporary concept of the value(s)-added food and agriculture sector and rural development, A
The changing structure of agriculture strains the historically close relationship between commodity agriculture and rural development. Meanwhile, growth in consumer interest for differentiated, value-added products has the ... -
Shape of the concentration–response association between fine particulate matter pollution and human mortality in Beijing, China, and its implications for health impact assessment, The
Background: Studies found approximately linear short-term associations between particulate matter (PM) and mortality in Western communities. However, in China, where the urban PM levels are typically considerably higher ... -
Assessing United States county-level exposure for research on tropical cyclones and human health
Background: Tropical cyclone epidemiology can be advanced through exposure assessment methods that are comprehensive and consistent across space and time, as these facilitate multiyear, multistorm studies. Further, an ...