Search Results - "Valcu, Adriana"
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Evaluating the tradeoff between cost effectiveness and participation in agricultural conservation programs
Published in American journal of agricultural economics (01-03-2024)“…Using a survey of 430 farmer respondents in the Boone and North Raccoon River watersheds in Iowa, we examine the impacts of three program innovations—reverse…”
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Regional economic aspects of carbon markets and anaerobic digesters in the USA: the case of swine production
Published in Biofuels, bioproducts and biorefining (01-09-2024)“…The USA has significant potential to produce energy from anaerobic digesters (AD) due to the size of its agricultural sector. The use of ADs reduces greenhouse…”
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Cost-effective targeting of conservation investments to reduce the northern Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (30-12-2014)“…Significance Hypoxic (low-oxygen) zones threaten an increasing number of marine ecosystems. Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico is the second largest in the world…”
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Reversing Property Rights: Practice-Based Approaches for Controlling Agricultural Nonpoint-source Water Pollution When Emissions Aggregate Nonlinearly
Published in American journal of agricultural economics (01-03-2014)“…Nonpoint-source water pollution remains a major issue despite decades of research and sizable conservation programs. We suggest that by taking advantage of…”
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Resilient Provision of Ecosystem Services from Agricultural Landscapes: Trade-offs Involving Means and Variances of Water Quality Improvements
Published in American journal of agricultural economics (01-10-2016)“…We assess the trade-offs and synergies involved in reducing agriculture-generated nutrient loads with different levels of resilience. We optimize the selection…”
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Assessment of Bioenergy Cropping Scenarios for the Boone River Watershed in North Central Iowa, United States
Published in Journal of the American Water Resources Association (01-12-2017)“…Several biofuel cropping scenarios were evaluated with an improved version of Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) as part of the CenUSA Bioenergy consortium…”
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LUMINATE: linking agricultural land use, local water quality and Gulf of Mexico hypoxia
Published in European review of agricultural economics (01-07-2014)“…In this paper, we discuss the importance of developing integrated assessment models to support the design and implementation of policies to address water…”
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An alternative approach for dissemination of mass unit after the new definition of the kilogram
Published in Metrology and Measurement systems (01-03-2022)“…The paper proposes an alternative approach to the dissemination of the mass unit in the context of the new definition of the kilogram. Considering the fact…”
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Between parallel mirrors - An electronic weighing instrument
Published in 2015 9th International Symposium on Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering (ATEE) (01-05-2015)“…The paper presents the assessment way of electronic weighing instruments according to their use. Thus, in mass measurements there are two ways to use a…”
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Comparison between the National Prototype of the kilogram and stainless steel mass standards
Published in International journal of metrology and quality engineering (2016)“…In 2013, the National Prototype of the Kilogram (NPK) No. 2 belonging to Romania, together with stainless steel kilogram standard Ni 81, received an updated…”
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The Optimality of Using Marginal Land for Bioenergy Crops: Tradeoffs between Food, Fuel, and Environmental Services
Published in Agricultural and resource economics review (01-08-2016)“…We assess empirically how agricultural lands should be used to produce the highest valued outputs, which include food, energy, and environmental goods and…”
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Impacts of climate change on hydrology, water quality and crop productivity in the Ohio-Tennessee River Basin
Published in International journal of agricultural and biological engineering (01-06-2015)“…Nonpoint source pollution from agriculture is the main source of nitrogen and phosphorus in the stream systems of the Corn Belt region in the Midwestern US…”
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Markov-Perfect Rent Dissipation in Rights-Based Fisheries
Published in Marine resource economics (01-06-2013)“…We present a general dynamic model of within-season harvesting competition in a fishery managed with individual transferable quotas. Markov-perfect equilibrium…”
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Subdivision or Multiplication? The Choice of Calibration Design for Multiples of Kilogram
Published in Measurement science review (01-01-2008)“…The realization, maintenance and dissemination of the SI base unit, the kilogram, is one of the tasks of the NMI's mass laboratory and is assured by means of…”
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An Overview of Carbon Offsets from Agriculture
Published in Annual review of resource economics (01-01-2012)“…While climate change has largely been removed from the federal policy agenda of the United States in the near term, the continued reliance on fossil fuels as a…”
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Spatial multiobjective optimization of agricultural conservation practices using a SWAT model and an evolutionary algorithm
Published in Journal of visualized experiments (09-12-2012)“…Finding the cost-efficient (i.e., lowest-cost) ways of targeting conservation practice investments for the achievement of specific water quality goals across…”
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An Overview of Carbon Offsets from Agriculture
Published in Annual review of resource economics (01-01-2012)“…Although climate change has largely been removed from the federal policy agenda of the United States in the near term, the continued reliance on fossil fuels…”
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Spatial Multiobjective Optimization of Agricultural Conservation Practices using a SWAT Model and an Evolutionary Algorithm
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An alternative approach for dissemination of mass unit after the new definition of the kilogram
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Agricultural nonpoint source pollution and water quality trading: empirical analysis under imperfect cost information and measurement error
Published 01-01-2013“…Water quality problems associated with agricultural nonpoint-source pollution remain significant in the majority of US watersheds. In this dissertation, I…”
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