1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457753403321

Autore

Klotz Audie <1962-, >

Titolo

Strategies for research in constructivist international relations / / Audie Klotz and Cecelia M. Lynch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-315-70057-3

1-317-45926-1

1-280-91292-8

9786610912926

0-7656-2164-9

Descrizione fisica

viii, 135 p ; 24 cm

Collana

International relations in a constructed world

Altri autori (Persone)

LynchCecelia

Disciplina

327.1072

Soggetti

International relations - Research

Constructivism (Philosophy)

Research - Methodology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2007 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Constructivism -- Structure -- Agency -- Identities -- Interests -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

Constructivism's basic premise - that individuals and groups are shaped by their world but can also change it - may seem intuitively true. This book lays out concepts and tools for those seeking to apply the constructivist approach in research. It is intended for those trying to sort out appropriate methods for empirical research.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910682568403321

Titolo

Agricultural innovation in Asia : efficiency, welfare, and technology / / edited by Teruaki Nanseki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

9789811990861

9789811990854

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 pages)

Disciplina

338.16095

Soggetti

Agricultural innovations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Agricultural innovation and Its Impact on Farming and Rural Welfare -- Impacts of Organic Rice Farming on Production Performance in Cambodia: An Application of Propensity Score Matching -- The Adoption of GAP and Impacts on Pig Production in Vietnam: An Application of Probit Model -- Impacts of GAP on Profit efficiency of Tea Farmers in Vietnam: An Application of Stochastic Profit Function -- Impacts of Irrigation, Mechanization and Subsidies on Wheat Efficiency in China: An Application of Two-stage DEA -- Impacts of Information Sources on Technical Inefficiency of Crop Farmers in Vietnam: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Analysis -- Impacts of Maize Production Groups on Commodity Chain in Lao PDR: An Application of Commodity Chain Analysis -- Impacts of Farmers Group on the Technical Efficiency of Oil Palm Production in Indonesia: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Analysis -- Traceability System of Dairy Products and its Impacts on Consumer Behavior in China: An Application of Multinominal Logit Model -- Impacts of Microfinance Program on Rural Households in Myanmar: An Application of Logistic Regression Model -- Smart farming Technology Aoption and Its Determinants in Japan -- Innovation Implementation and Its Determinants in Japanese -- The Role of Education, Institutional Settings and ICT on the Integrated Production Development in Spain.



Sommario/riassunto

This book covers the major findings of almost all types of innovation in agriculture that includes product and process innovation, marketing and organizational innovation, and extended to institutional changes and social welfare in agricultural innovation in Asia. Specially, this book provides the measuring of these types of agricultural innovation on production, economics, and social welfare. Furthermore, this book provides the overview of smart farming in two advanced countries in Asia in this field, which are China and Japan along with its innovation. This book also aims to give an overview on the development of agricultural innovation in the era of digital agriculture over the world.