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Economic Studies on Food, Agriculture, and the Environment

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This book contains a selection of the papers presented at the Joint Conference on Food, Agriculture, and the Environment, which was held in Bologna, Italy, on June 12-14, 2001. This was the seventh gathering of a biennal meeting born from a cooperation agreement between US and Italian academic and research institutions. This round of the Conference was organized in the Faculty of Agriculture in Bologna by the Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Engineering (DEIAgra) and the CNR Land and Agri-System Management Research Centre (GeST A-CNR) of Bologna. There were two main reasons for the choice of this location: fIrst, the Conference was dedicated to Maurizio Grillenzoni and Franco Alvisi, two colleagues and friends who passed away in recent years, and who committed themselves and played an important role in developing the collaboration agreement and promoting the past Conferences; second, in the year 2000 the Faculty of Agriculture in Bologna celebrated its fIrst centennial, and this Con­ ference was part of a wide set of events organized to highlight the relevant role of the Faculty in the research activity, both at an Italian and international level. The Conference papers were articulated both in plenary and concurrent sessions, dealing with key topics for agricultural economists. A structure similar to the Conference was adopted for grouping the papers into the four sections contained in this book: • food, nutrition, and quality, focusing i. e.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Maurizio Canavari

  • Centro di Studio sulla Gestione dei Sistemi Agricoli e Territoriali, CNR, Bologna, Italy

    Paolo Caggiati

  • University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA

    K. William Easter

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Economic Studies on Food, Agriculture, and the Environment

  • Editors: Maurizio Canavari, Paolo Caggiati, K. William Easter

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0609-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47242-8Published: 31 August 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5156-6Published: 22 March 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-0609-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 369

  • Topics: Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics, Agriculture, Environmental Management

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