TAILIEUCHUNG - Persistence Pays

The significance of these institutional developments cannot be over-empha- sized. They truly revolutionized agricultural production in the United States, and had many positive spillover effects around the world. Indeed, few industries have been as productive and innovative as agriculture during much of the 20th Century. The quantity, quality, and availability of food have increased many- fold, and real food prices have steadily declined. Today, less than 1 percent of the . population is directly engaged in primary agricultural production, yet American farmers are able to provide consumers with an abundant, high-quality and safe food supply at a low cost while still maintaining. | Natural Resource Management and Policy David Zilberman Renan Goetz Alberto Garrido Series Editors Julian M. Alston Matthew A. Andersen Jennifers. James Philip G. Pardey Persistence Pays . Agricultural Productivity Growth and the Benefits from Public R D Spending Springer Persistence Pays NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND POLICY Editors David Zilberman Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720 Renan Goetz Department of Economics University of Girona Spain Alberto Garrido Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences . Ingenieros Agronomos Madrid Spain EDITORIAL STATEMENT There is a growing awareness of the role that natural resources such as water land forests and environmental amenities play in our lives. There are many competing uses for natural resources and society is challenged to manage them to improve social well being. Furthermore there may be dire consequences to natural resources mismanagement. Renewable resources such as water land and the environment are linked and decisions made with regard to one may affect the others. Policy and management of natural resources now require an interdisciplinary approach including natural and social sciences to correctly address our societal preferences. This series provides a collection of works containing the most recent findings on economics management and policy of renewable biological resources such as water land crop protection sustainable agriculture technology and environmental health. It incorporates modern thinking and techniques of economics and management Books in this series will combine knowledge and models of natural phenomena with economics and managerial decision frameworks to assess alternative options for managing natural resources and the environment. The Series Editors For other titles published in this series go to series .

• Môi trường
• Environmental Law
• Natural Resources Law
• Model VariationsNational Benefits
• Prospective Productivity
• Productivity Patterns
• Summary of the Doctoral dissertation
• Doctoral dissertation in Law
• Implementation of the law
• Law on environmental protection
• Environmental protection in industrial zones
• Dynamic business law
• Business law
• Legal environment of business
• Business organizations
• Legal environment
• Good forest governance
• Forest management policy
• Law Number 41 of 1999
• Environmental law enforcement
• Implementation of environmental law
• Environmental Ethics
• environmental philosophy
• Environmental Justice
• Reclaiming Democracy
• Contribution of thought
• Environmental law enforcement policies
• Thinking transfer theory
• Murung Raya Regency
• Environmental civil law enforcement policies right
• The legal environment
• Agency law
• Employment law
• Labor law
• Intellectual property
• Personal property
• Natural Resources
• Valuing Environmental
• environmental economists
• estimated models
• Implementing Innovation
• Environmental politics
• Campus ecology
• environmental case
• Employment discrimination
• Sole proprietorships
• Limited liability partnerships
• Administrative law
• Edministrative law
• Overview of Vietnam's environmental laws
• Vietnam's environmental laws
• Environmental regulations
• Environmental protection law
• Sustainable development
• Nuclear energy
• Nuclear power plant
• Environmental impact assessment
• Environmental agency
• Nuclear regulatory body
• Marine environment
• Marine environmental studies
• Lecture Marine environmental studies
• Môi trường biển
• Nghiên cứu môi trường biển
• The law of the sea
• Legal status
• Residential community
• Environmental protection
• Law system
• Market Environmentalism
• Global Warming
• Resources Economics
• Environmental Economics
• supranational systems
• environmental liability
• law applicable
• transfrontier environmental
• Dangerous substancesGenetically modified organisms
• environmental harm
• environmental problems
• Social constructions
• risk management
• Risk assessment
• law enforcement
• environmental crime
• Internal relations
• International business law
• Consumer protection
• interests in real property
• General partnerships
• Relationship of principal and agent
• Securities regulation
• Accountants’ legal liability
• Resourcesand Environnent
• versrrsHolistic Science
• Flnancial Concepts
• Economic
• natural resource
• International research
• environmental natural
• scientific technology
• Abstract of Doctoral thesis
• Abstract of Doctoral thesis in Jurisprudence
• Operation of economic zones
• Comparative law
• State responsibility
• Environmental regulation
• Dispute settlement
• The multinational enterprise
• Foreign investment
• Money and banking
• Business law today
• Other professionals
• Government regulation
• Creditors’ rights
• Agency relationships
• Liability of accountants