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Role of agritourism in sustainable rural development in Uzbekistan: insights from the Italian experience
No full textAgritourism is based on the landscape, tradition and family-based farming from which may emerge a complete competitive tourism product. This paper evaluated the potential role of agritourism activities, their contribution to the sustainable rural development in Uzbekistan, considering the tourism potential of rural areas. The paper also analysed the long dating Italian experience on the farm rural tourism activities and the rural development policy providing incentives to the diversification of farming activities. The lessons learnt from the Italian case analysis provide some suggestion for the rural development policy design in Uzbekistan
Taxonomic importance of the pollen grain morphology in «quercus coccifera» s.l: Importanza tassonomica della morfologia dei granuli pollinici in «quercus coccifera» s.l
No full textThe pollen grains of Quercus coccifera s.l. are characterized by a lined exine made up to long flat plicae with abundant perforations of the tectum (SMIT, 1973) and a long colpus with a membrane, rugulate edges and evident porus (MARIANI COLOMBO, CHIESURA LORENZONI, GRIGOLETTO, 1983). This morphology was only rarely observed in the grains collected from numerous plants in certain places in Italy, during spring flowering as well as other periods. They occasionally present a very smooth exine, or, more frequently, an exine densely covered by Verrucae with a scabre surface, and crossed outside by microrugulae. In few cases even the colpus is larger. We think that these variations of exine structure together with grains measurements of polar and aequatorial axes may suggest an introgressive hybridization between different subgenera. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
Societá botanica italiana 80° congresso sociale: “Quercus Macrolepis” kotschy a tricase (lecce)
No full textAnalysing the role of factors affecting farmers’ decisions to continue with agrienvironmental schemes from a temporal perspective
Full text linkThe need to assess the impact of agri-environmental schemes from a long-term perspective has cast light on the temporal dynamics of farmer participation over the duration of single contracts. This assessment would help to better target and tailor schemes and achieve more persistent environmental benefits. This issue is addressed by considering the interplay of time, policy changes and background factors on farmers’ decisions. The farm, the farmer’s sociodemographic characteristics, attitudes and motivations, and social and informational factors were considered among the background factors, according to the theory of reasoned action and planned behaviour. A discrete-time duration model, i.e. the only approach that allows the full consideration of the effects of time and the dynamics of background factors in the continuation of agri-environmental schemes, was estimated. The analysis was based on a longitudinal sample of farmers located in the Veneto region of Italy who have adopted a specific scheme, i.e., plantation and/or maintenance of hedgerows and buffer strips, for at least one contract period within a time span of eighteen years (2000-2017). The results highlight that a farmer’s continuation of an agri-environmental scheme for a long period of time is the outcome of a mix of concurring factors, among which attitudes and motivations, as well as social factors, play important roles. The impact of these factors also evolves over time, with the effects of social pressure and neighbouring farms being the most important factors under recent policy rounds. These outcomes provide useful insights for rethinking policy design and information strategies for farmers in any new round of Rural Development Programmes
La valutazione economica del risarcimento per danno all'ambiente ai sensi dell'art. 18 1.349/89: un approccio estimativo
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The Valuation of Environmental Damage Compensation: An Integrated Framework
No full textEnvironmental resources valuation is a critical issue, mainly when non-market value elements are relevant. The economics literature suggests the total economic value (TEV) approach as being in line with valuing environmental resources, but robust estimates are required of TEV change, when an environmental damage assessment is needed in order to ask for damage compensation in a court. Currently, for environmental damage claims the valuation methods usually proposed are subject to considerable scrutiny and therefore have t
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