Table of Contents

Food, Nutrition & Quality.- 1. Differing U.S. and European Perspectives on GMOs.- 2. The Italian Legislation on Intellectual Property Rights Related with GMOs.- 3. Child Nutrition and Economic Growth in Vietnam in the 1990s.- 4. Large Scale Retailers and Diffusion in the Agri-food System of the ISO 9000 Certified quality Management System.- 5. Vertical Coordination and the design Process for Supply chains to Ensure food Quality.- Land & Resource Assessment.- 6. Water Scarcity: Institutional Change, Water Markets, and Privatization.- 7. Evaluation of the Recreational uses of Rural land: A case Study.- 8. The Value of Licenses for Recreational use of natural Resources.- 9. Analysis of Land Prices under Uncertainty: A Real Option Valuation Approach.- Agriculture & Rural Development.- 10. Assessing Strategic Programs for Sustainable Local Development: A Case Study.- 11. Reinterpreting Structural Change in U.S. Agriculture.- 12. Risk Management: from the Researcher to the Farmer.- 13. New Paradigms in Rural Development: Some Lessons from the Italian Experience.- 14. Principles of Rural Tourism Development.- Environment & Markets.- 15. Market-based Mechanisms for Environmental Improvement.- 16. Evaluating Sustainability in Planning and Design.- 17. Transfer of Development Rights: An Innovative Approach to Urban and Regional Management in Italy.- 18. Transformation of Recreational Environmental Goods and Services Provided by Agriculture and Forestry into Recreational Environmental Products.- 19. Integrating Prediction Models, Evaluation Methodologies, and Gis: The Assessment of Agriculture-Environment Relationships in the Trasimeno Watershed.- 20. The Application of REG. 2078/1992 in the Province of Vicenza.- 21. Application of Agro-Environmental Programs in Emilia-Romagna Region.- 22. A Decision Support System for the Economic- Environmental Assessment of Crop Production.- 23. Traffic Noise and Housing Values.

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