The Agricultural Economics of the 21st Century

167 Pages·2015·12.11 MB·English

by  Vítor João Pereira Domingues Martinho (eds.)

Vítor João Pereira Domingues Martinho
Editor
The Agricultural
Economics of
st
the 21 Century
The Agricultural Economics of the 21st Century
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V´ıtor Joa˜o Pereira Domingues Martinho
Editor
The Agricultural Economics
st
of the 21 Century
Editor
V´ıtorJoa˜oPereiraDominguesMartinho
Viseu
Portugal
ISBN978-3-319-09470-0 ISBN978-3-319-09471-7(eBook)
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-09471-7
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Acknowledgement
I would like to thank “Roccio Torregrosa”, “Irene Barrios-Kezˇic´” and “Sylvia
Schneider” from Springer editorial and Vinodhini Gejendran from SPi global for
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Contents
1 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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2 AnApproachtotheDeterminantsoftheAgriculturalOutput
DynamicsintheUSA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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3 Cross-sectionandSpatialApproachesfortheAgricultural
Contextsinthe27CountriesoftheEuropeanUnion. . . . . . . . . . . 19
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4 ThePerformanceofManufacturingintheEuropeanUnion
intheContextofAgriculturalEconomics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
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5 TheEconomic,Social,andEnvironmentalDeterminants
fortheAgriculturalOutputinSomeEuropeanUnionCountries. . . 49
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6 ThePerformanceoftheAgriculturalEconomicsinBRICS
Countries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
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7 EvaluationofSustainableEconomicGrowthinPortuguese
AgricultureandOtherSectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
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8 AnalysisoftheRelationshipBetweenAgriculture,Economic
Growth,andtheEnvironmentThroughKeynesianModels. . . . . . 103
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9 AgriculturalEconomicsintheContextofPortugueseRural
Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
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