Agricultural Cooperative Management and Policy

1. Front Matter

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2. Risk Management and Pricing Issues in Agricultural Policy Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. VAR Models for Dynamic Analysis of Prices in the Agri-food System

      • A. C. Leucci, S. Ghinoi, D. Sgargi, V. J. Wesz Junior

      Pages 3-21

   3. Irrigation Water Resource in a Rice-Growing Area: Economic Evaluation under Different Pricing Conditions

      • Guido Sali, Federica Monaco

      Pages 23-40

   4. Stochastic Partial Equilibrium Modelling: An Application to Crop Yield Variability

      • Siyi Feng, Julian Binfield, Myles Patton, John Davis

      Pages 41-61

3. Estimating Income and Performance Levels

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Alternative Specifications of Reference Income Levels in the Income Stabilization Tool

      • Robert Finger, Nadja El Benni

      Pages 65-85

   3. Developing of Modelling Tool for Policy and Economic Rent in Agriculture

      • A. Bezat-Jarzębowska, W. Rembisz, A. Sielska

      Pages 87-107

   4. Performance Evaluation of Rural Governance Using an Integrated AHP-VIKOR Methodology

      • Giuseppa Romeo, Claudio Marcianò

      Pages 109-134

4. Surveying and Experimental Designs in Agricultural Policy Analysis

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Consumers’ Perception of Wastewater Usage in Agriculture: Evidence from Greece

      • Foivos Anastasiadis, Fragiskos Archontakis, Georgios Banias, Charisios Achillas

      Pages 137-150

   3. Modelling Structural Change in Ex-Ante Policy Impact Analysis

      • Frank Offermann, Anne Margarian

      Pages 151-162

   4. Public Preferences for Climate Change Adaptation Policies in Greece: A Choice Experiment Application on River Uses

      • Dimitrios Andreopoulos, Dimitrios Damigos, Francesco Comiti, Christian Fischer

      Pages 163-178

   5. The Stakeholder Analysis: A Contribution Toward Improving Impact of Rural Policy

      • G. Benedetto, D. Carboni, G. L. Corinto

      Pages 179-196

5. The Influence of Climate Change and Constraints

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197

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   2. Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture Water Management: Application of an Integrated Hydrological-Economic Modelling Tool in a Semi-Arid Region

      • A. Scardigno, D. D’Agostino, D. El Chami, N. Lamaddalena

      Pages 199-222

   3. Expanding Agri-Food Production and Employment in the Presence of Climate Policy Constraints: Quantifying the Trade-Off in Ireland

      • Ana Corina Miller, Trevor Donnellan, Alan Matthews, Kevin Hanrahan, Cathal O’Donoghue

      Pages 223-242

   4. Development and Application of Economic and Environmental Models of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture: Some Difficult Choices for Policy Makers

      • Trevor Donnellan, Kevin Hanrahan, James P. Breen

      Pages 243-263

6. Regulatory Changes and Management of Emissions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 265-265

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   2. Economic Incentives and Alternative Nitrogen Regulation Schemes: A Spatial Sector Economic Modelling Approach

      • Jørgen D. Jensen, Jens E. Ørum

      Pages 267-280

This book focuses on the use of farm level, micro- and macro-data of cooperative systems and networks in developing new robust, reliable and coherent modeling tools for agricultural and environmental policy analysis. The efficacy of public intervention on agriculture is largely determined by the existence of reliable information on the effects of policy options and market developments on farmers' production decisions and in particular, on key issues such as levels of agricultural and non-agricultural output, land use and incomes, use of natural resources, sustainable-centric management, structural change and the viability of family farms. Over the last years, several methods and analytical tools have been developed for policy analysis using various sets of data. Such methods have been based on integrated approaches in an effort to investigate the above key issues and have thus attempted to offer a powerful environment for decision making, particularly in an era of radical change for both agriculture and the wider economy.

• agricultural policy
• environmental policy
• modeling tools
• policy analysis
• simulation methods

“Contributors, editors and authors, of this book are to be congratulated since they produced a very good text in which patented a great sense of social commitment and a huge scientific ambition. … Indispensable for both scholars and practitioners working in the fields of business economics, cooperative management, risk management and agriculture policy. Also, accessible to anyone curious in these matters and that want to improve their culture on them.” (Manuel Alberto M. Ferreira, International Journal of Latest Trends in Finance & Economic Sciences, Vol. 6 (4), 2016)

• Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

  Constantin Zopounidis

• Department of Marketing, Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, Maastricht, The Netherlands

  Nikos Kalogeras

• School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

  Konstadinos Mattas

• Center for Entrepreneurship, Nyenrode Business University, Breukelen, The Netherlands

  Gert Dijk

• Business Economics & Management, Mediterrean Agronomic Inst. of Chania, Chania, Greece

  George Baourakis

Constantin Zopounidis is Professor of Financial Engineering and Operations Research at the Technical University of Crete (Greece), Distinguished Research Professor at Audencia Nantes, School of Management (France), Senior Academician of the Royal Academy of Economics and Financial Sciences of Spain, and President of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS). He has edited and authored 70 books with international publishers and more than 400 research papers in scientific journals, edited volumes, conference proceedings and encyclopedias, in the areas of finance, accounting, operations research and management science. In recognition of his research work, he has received several awards from international research societies such as the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, the Decision Sciences Institute, the MOISIL International Foundation, ESCP Europe and the Hellenic Operational Research Society.

Nikos Kalogeras works as an Assistant Professor of Marketing-Finance and Co-director of the Marketing-Finance Research Lab (MDRL) and MSc IB- Marketing-Finance at the Dept. of Marketing & Supply Chain Management/UM. He is also a research associate of the European Center of Corporate Engagement (ECCE), at the Dept. of Finance/UM, and the Service Science Factory (SSF)/SBE/UM. Nikos studied Economics (BSc), Economics & Management Sciences (MA), Marketing & Consumer Behavior (MSc), Financial Engineering & Management (M.Eng), Strategic Marketing-Finance (PhD) and Risk Management (Post-Doc).

Konstadinos Mattas is a Professor of Agricultural Policy. His education includes a B.Sc. in Agriculture from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1972), a B.Sc. in Economics from University of Macedonia (1976), a M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics from University of Kentucky (1982) and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from University of Kentucky (1984). He has published in more than 100 international refereed journals, in collective volumes and proceedings. He has contributed to international and Greek conferences and served as a referee to several international journals.

Gert van Dijk is Professor of Cooperative Business Administration and Management at Nyenrode Business Universiteit and became Director General of the National Council of Cooperatives in 1990. He is Director of the Netherlands Institute of Cooperative Entrepreneurship. Studied Animal Husbandry and Genetics at the Agricultural University of Wageningen and Economics at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, where he also earned his PhD. He was (senior) lecturer at both these universities for a number of years. Subsequently he was Director of Multidisciplinary Research Studies at the Organization for Applied Physical Research (TNO) and later became Director of Studies for Agricultural Policy Research at Wageningen University.

George Baourakis is the Director of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, CIHEAM–MAICh since June 2012, and the Studies and Research Coordinator of the Business Economics and Management Department of MAICh since 1989.He has co-ordinated and participated in a large number of EU (FP 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th, INTERREG I, II and III-Archimed, MED, ENPI CBC MED, Tempus, Phare, Life, Lifelong Learning, Leonardo Da Vinci, European Social Fund, etc), international and national-regional research projects. He is an Affiliate Professor in Marketing and Supply Chain Management, at the Centre of Entrepreneurship, Nyenrode University, The Netherlands Business School, while he has been appointed as Distinguished Research Fellow in Food Marketing-Management at several universities. He has published numerous papers in internationally refereed scientific journals, presented extensively at international conferences and authored/co-authored several scientific and academic books and special issues which have been distributed by renowned publishing houses.

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