Intro; Foreword; Preface; Part I. Contemporary Views of Rural Development, Sustainability, and Cooperation; Part II. Novel Technologies and Innovative Farming Systems to Support Rural Development; Part III. ICT Applications in Agribusiness and New Business Models in the Agri-food Sector; Part IV. New Methods for High-Quality Agricultural Products and Environmental Protection; Contents; Contributors; Editors; Part I: Contemporary Views of Rural Development, Sustainability and Cooperation
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2.1 Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP): Multi-criteria MethodMeasuring Consistency of Decision-Makers in AHP Applications; Aggregation of Individual Priorities of Alternatives Obtained by AHP into the Group Priorities; 2.2 Borda Count: Preferential Social Choice Method; 2.3 Approval Voting: Non-preferential Social Choice Method; 3 Combined Use of Multi-criteria and Social Choice Theory Methods for Deriving BEST Water Management Plan: An Illustrative Exa ... ; 3.1 Statement of the Decision Problem; 3.2 Hierarchy; 3.3 Remarks; 3.4 Procedure and Results; 4 Conclusions
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4 Results4.1 Finland; 4.2 France; 4.3 The United Kingdom; 4.4 Analysis of Three European Business Models of Frugal and Sustainable Innovation; 4.5 The Proposed Practices; Value Proposition; Target Customers; Channels; Customer Relationship; Key Activities; Key Partners; Key Resources; Revenue Stream; Cost Structure; 5 Discussion and Conclusions; Appendices; References; Group Evaluation of Water Management Plans with Analytic Hierarchy Process and Social Choice Methods; 1 Introduction; 2 AHP, Borda Count, and Approval Voting Mathematics
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4.4 Social Innovation5 A New Framework for Rural Areas: Local Breeds as Development Resources; 6 Novel Approaches and New Technologies for the Protection and Promotion of Local Breeds; 7 Conclusions and Future Directions; References; Internet Sources (Accessed in 30/8/2018); Restructuring the Greek Forest Sector in Order to Facilitate Rural Development in Greece; 1 Introduction; 2 Forestry and Connected Secondary Activities in Greece; 3 New Scopes and Suggested Actions; 4 Conclusions; References; Best Practices for Frugal and Sustainable Innovation; 1 Introduction; 2 Baseline; 3 Approach
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A New Development Paradigm for Local Animal Breeds and the Role of Information and Communication Technologies1 Introduction; 2 The Situation So Far: The Need for a New Paradigm; 3 New Conditions Call for New Actions; 3.1 External Factors; The Common Agricultural Policy; The Economic Crisis; Changing Trends in Food Consumption and Food Marketing; Climate Change; 3.2 Internal Factors; Competition with Other Economic Activities; Low Profitability; 4 Toward an Integrated Development Framework: Basic Concepts; 4.1 Multifunctionality; 4.2 Resilience and Vulnerability; 4.3 Territorial Development
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book presents proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment (HAICTA 2017) which examine sustainable rural development in the context of environmental, economic, and the socio-cultural dimension. This book raises awareness of the importance of sustainable management in agriculture using examples of actual industry cases, sustainable management practices, new forms of rural cooperation and entrepreneurship.