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What is ecological restoration? -- Why should we restore nature? -- International soft law and ecological restoration -- International conventions and ecological restoration -- The convention on biological diversity and ecological restoration -- Regional approaches : law and policy on ecological restoration in the European Union -- National approaches to ecological restoration -- Private non-state actors and ecological restoration -- Protected areas and ecological restoration -- Climate change and ecological restoration -- Future directions for International law on ecological restoration

Worldwide, farmers lose more than 25% of their harvests each year due to crop pests and diseases that attack their fields. Pests and diseases not only affect farmers' family food baskets and income, but they also affect how much food is available on global markets. Ironically, one solution to that loss can be found where the loss is occurring. Consider, for example, that there are some 1,200 varieties of bananas and thousands of varieties of beans – each of these varieties has its own level of resistance to pests, diseases and even to extreme weather conditions that could stem those losses. That is why Bioversity International has set up field trials, working with farmers who plant different varieties of the same crops next to each other in their fields, to see which combinations provide the most effective control against which pests and diseases. Initial results from around the world indicate change. Ugandan farmers have seen the presence of weevils that attack banana plants reduced by 75%. Smallholder farmers in Ecuador who planted diverse bean varieties harvested their crop in spite of a heat wave, while those who invested in one commercial variety lost everything. Chinese farmers in the mountains of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces identified their most resistant traditional maize and rice varieties and established community seedbanks to make them available. The Government of Morocco produced a film promoting the importance of genetic diversity in reducing crop pests and diseases for the general public.

Dominance of U.S. views in the field; based on conference paper. Ways in which U.S. policy concerns dominate the U.S. academic community's definition of the subject.

Although rarely quantified, the cost of maternity protection in SMEs is widely perceived to be greater than the benefits and to lead to competitive disadvantage. This review suggests that effective maternity protection is not only feasible in SMEs but can offer a range of positive productivity-related outcomes for enterprises. To achieve these positive effects, and for maternity, paternity and family responsibilities to become "a normal fact of business life", maternity protection and other work-family balance measures need to fit into the practices and interests of SMEs. The report proposes a multi-pronged approach, involving strategies adopted at state, market, community and family levels to combat gender inequality, support SMEs and ultimately achieve wider development objectives

"In this revised edition of his 1979 classic Political Theory and International Relations, Charles Beitz rejects two highly influential conceptions of international theory as empirically inaccurate and theoretically misleading. In one, international relations is a Hobbesian state of nature in which moral judgments are entirely inappropriate, and in the other, states are analogous to persons in domestic society in having rights of autonomy that insulate them from external moral assessment and political interference. Beitz postulates that a theory of international politics should include a revised principle of state autonomy based on the justice of a state's domestic institutions, and a principle of international distributive justice to establish a fair division of resources and wealth among persons situated in diverse national societies."--Jacket.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures and Boxes -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Questions and Concepts -- 1 International Relations and International Security -- International security: politics, policy and prospects -- Theory and research design in international security -- Evolution of the international security research agenda -- 2 Theory, Research and International Security: Continuity and Change -- International security studies in the interwar period -- International security studies and the Cold War -- International security studies after the Cold War -- Globalization and human security -- Summary -- 3 The Politics of International Security -- The politics of international security: basic assumptions -- The value-threat relationship and international security -- Stakeholders and international security -- Political debates about international security -- The politics of policy effectiveness -- Summary -- Part II: The Traditional International Security Agenda -- 4 Interstate War -- Interstate war and international security -- Stakeholder factors -- Interstate war as a policy problem -- The politics of policy effectiveness -- Summary -- Further reading -- 5 Intrastate War -- Intrastate war and international security -- Stakeholder factors -- Intrastate war as a policy problem -- The politics of policy effectiveness -- Summary -- Further reading -- 6 Weapons Proliferation -- Weapons proliferation and international security -- Stakeholder factors -- Proliferation as a policy problem -- The politics of policy effectiveness -- Summary -- Further reading -- 7 Terrorism -- Terrorism and international security -- Stakeholder factors -- International terrorism as a policy problem -- The politics of policy effectiveness -- Summary -- Further reading -- 8 Cybersecurity and Cyberwar.