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Environmental Economics: The Essentials offers a policy-oriented approach to the increasingly influential field of environmental economics that is based upon a solid foundation of economic theory and empirical research. Students will not only leave the course with a firm understanding of environmental economics, but they will also be exposed to a number of case studies showing how underlying economic principles provided the foundation for specific environmental and resource policies. This key text highlights what insights can be derived from the actual experience. Key features include: Extensive coverage of the major issues including climate change, air and water pollution, sustainable development, and environmental justice; Introductions to the theory and method of environmental economics including externalities, experimental and behavioral economics, benefit-cost analysis, and methods for valuing the services provided by the environment; Boxed Examples' and Debates' throughout the text which highlight global examples and major talking points. The text is fully supported with end-of-chapter summaries, discussion questions, and self-test exercises in the book, as well as with multiple-choice questions, simulations, references, slides, and an instructor's manual on the Companion Website. This text is adapted from the best-selling Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, 11th edition, by the same authors.

"State-owned enterprises make up roughly 10 percent of the world economy, yet they are woefully understudied. This handbook offers the first synthesis of the topic since the 1980s and offers a comprehensive reference for a generation. The authors provide a detailed explanation of the theory that underpins the expansion of state-owned enterprises in the 21st century. Each chapter delivers an overview of current knowledge, as well as identifying issues and relevant debates for future research. The authors explain how state-owned enterprises are used in both developed and developing countries and offer an insight into complex and fascinating organizations such as the German municipal conglomerates or the multinational companies owned by states. New modes of governance and regulation have been invented to make sure they act in the public interest. This handbook brings together a wealth of international scholars, offering multiple theoretical perspectives to help shape a brave new world. It will be of interest to teachers and students of Economics, Public Administration and Business, academics, established researchers and PhD students seeking rigorous literature reviews on specific aspects of SOEs, as well as practitioners and decision makers in international organizations"--

Front cover -- Title page -- About this book -- Copyright and imprint information -- Introduction: Challenging gender violence Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson -- Section I. Gender Violence in the Home -- Chapter 1 Historicising a "national disgrace" Towards a feminist history of domestic violence since 1788 -- Chapter 2. Discovering violence in the family -- Chapter 3. Understanding economic abuse as domestic violence -- Chapter 4. "Your troubles are over, Mummy": Prosecuting children who kill violent men -- Chapter 5. Uncovering a hidden offence: Social and legal histories of familial sexual abuse -- Chapter 6 Criminalising the husband and the home: Marital rape law reform, 1976-1994 -- Section II. Gender Violence in the Community -- Chapter 7. The "Drover's Boy" and Indigenous women's unthinkable consent -- Chapter 8. Sex trafficking, labour migration, and the state -- Chapter 9. Gender-based violence in out-of-home care -- Chapter 10. "It was quite a scary time": Lesbians and violence in post-war Australia -- Chapter 11. "Laying siege and storming citadels": Hostility and marginalisation in higher education -- Section III. Activism against Gender Violence -- Chapter 12. From page to meme: The print and digital revolutions against gender violence -- Chapter 13. Feminist films on women's experiences of violence -- Chapter 14. Domestic violence activism in Victoria, 1974-2016 -- References -- About the contributors.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- NOTES ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STYLE AND CULTURE / Zölkiewski, Stefan -- The Semantics of a Text and its Formal Structure / Segal, D. -- THE MEANINGS OF FORM AND THE FORMS OF MEANING / Levy, J. -- Notes on the Analysis of some Poetic Texts (on the low levels) / Toporov, V. -- The Scheme of a Language with a Finite Number of States and its Applicability in Poetics / Revzin, I. -- Anafora / Diuska, M. -- Accent and qoantity as elements of rhythm / Kurylowicz, Jerzy -- Accent and Quantity as Elements of Rhytm / Kurylowicz, J. -- The Basic Problems of Statistical Research in Slavic Metrics / Taranowski, K. -- REMARKS ON THE CHARACTER OF CZECH PURE-SYLLABIC AND SYLLABOTONIC VERSE / Hrabák, Josef -- THE VERSIFICATION OF MAJAKOVSKI / Zhirmunski, Victor -- The Rhythm of Majakowski's Poem / Iwanow, V. -- The Rhythmical Structure of Mezhirov's / Iwanow, V. -- The Grammar and Sound - structure of the Polish Rhyme in the XIX Century / Grzgdzielska, M. -- The Function of the Rhyme in the Non-gtanzaic Verse / Kopczynska, Z. -- The Stanza and the Non-stanzaic Verse / Pszczofowska, L. -- Notes on the Word Order in the Polish and Russian Verse / Wierzbicka, A. -- Accent Pattern in Polish Syllabic Verse / Mayenowa, M.R. -- REFERENCES -- Annex -- INDEX

Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I Counterfactual evaluation method -- 2. The theory and practice of public-sector r&d economic impact analysis -- 3. An economic evaluation of the Baldrige national quality program -- 4. On the social value of quality: an economic evaluation of the Baldrige performance excellence program -- 5. The impact of public investment in medical imaging technology: an interagency collaboration in evaluation -- Part II Spillover evaluation method -- 6. Public/private partnerships: stimulating competition in a dynamic market -- 7. Financing and leveraging public/private partnerships: the hurdle-lowering auction -- 8. An assessment of the small business innovation research program in New England: fast track compared with non-fast track projects -- 9. An assessment of the small business innovation research fast track program in Southeastern States -- Part III Other evaluation methods -- 10. Cost-benefit analysis for global public-private partnerships: an evaluation of the desirability of intergovernmental organizations entering into public-private partnerships -- 11. Evaluating public sector r&d programs: the advanced technology program's investment in wavelength references for optical fiber communications -- 12. Intelligent machine technology and productivity growth -- 13. Public gains from entrepreneurial research: inferences about the economic value of public support of the small business innovation research program -- 14. Public/private technology partnerships: evaluating SBIR-supported research -- Index.

This comprehensive yet accessible book offers an in-depth overview of the law relating to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). It explores both the initial objectives set out in the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, and also those policies that have emerged as a result of the growth of competencies within the EU. Examining the four regulations that currently govern the CAP in the areas of direct payments, rural development, finance, and the common organisation of the markets, the author considers their interpretation in the case-law of the Court of Justice of the EU and the General Court. Throughout this insightful book, the European Commission's proposals for CAP reform are discussed and an astute assessment of their National Strategic Plans concludes that Member States would benefit from greater discretion in fine-tuning the principles of the policy established at European level to the particular characteristics of their national agricultural sector. Students and scholars of European law and agricultural law more specifically will find this book a structured and nuanced guide to existing and future policy at both EU and WTO levels. Policy makers and practitioners will also find its up to date treatment of the law a valuable reference

The fields of entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development are inextricably linked, with people, organisations and the environment or their location, forming the main building blocks in an integrated model of value creation. This second edition of a key textbook draws on the diversity of approaches in these areas to produce a unified understanding of this important subject and its sub-sets. The author connects theory and practice using references to academic studies as well as industry sources. The importance of technology is highlighted throughout to demonstrate the value of new technology-based ventures and the role of technology for innovation in both organisational and spatial contexts. The economic and social contexts of entrepreneurship are covered in dedicated chapters offering an appreciation of multiple perspectives on key themes of growth and development. Drawing on insights and concepts from a wide range of disciplines such as business, sociology, economics, geography and management, this unique textbook introduces entrepreneurship to students from different backgrounds and varied interests. With a range of new case studies and coverage of emerging themes such as smart cities, ecosystems, female entrepreneurship and social and human capital, this book provides an expert exposition of the elaborate empire of entrepreneurship

Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Transcription conventions -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Examining the social practices of interviewing / Kathryn Roulston -- 2. 'Like us you mean?': Sensitive disability questions and peer research encounters / Valerie Williams -- 3. Research interviewers as 'knowers' and 'unknowers' / Kathryn Roulston -- 4. On doing 'being feminist' and 'being researcher': Lessons from a novice interviewer / Brigette Adair Herron 79 -- 'What does it mean?': methodological strategies for interviewing children / Rebecca Ann Smith -- 6. Epistemic shifts: Examining interviewer and self-praise in interviews / Stephanie Anne Shelton -- 7. 'That's a stupid question!': Competing perspectives and language choice in an English-Japanese bilingual research interview / Amy Snyder Ohta and Matthew T. Prior -- 8. 'But you're gonna ask me questions, right?' : Interactional frame and 'for-the-record' orientation in language biography interviews / Daniela Veronesi -- 9. 'It doesn't make sense, but it actually does': Interactional dynamics in focus group interaction / Hanbyul Jung -- 10. Continuers in research interviews: A closer look at the construction of rapport in talk about interfaith dialogue / Elizabeth M. Pope -- 11. Discourse strategies of mitigation in an oral corpus of narratives of life experience collected in interviews / Carla Aurélia de Almeida -- 12. The way(s) of interviewing: Exploring social studies of interviews / Tim Rapley -- References

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Illustrations -- List of Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction and Argument -- 2 The Origins of Egypt's Economic Crisis -- Nasser's Break with the Ancien Régime -- Sadat and Infitah -- The International Context -- Mubarak and the Economic Crisis of the 1980s -- Egypt's Recurrent Economic Crisis -- 3 Economic Reforms and Egyptian Agriculture -- Egypt's Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment Programme, 1986-1998 -- Characterising the Agricultural Crisis -- Aims and Objectives of Economic Reform -- Economic Reforms-An Early Success? -- Economic Reforms-Still Not Successful Enough -- Conclusion -- 4 Agricultural Modernisation and the Egyptian Countryside: A Critique of Structural Adjustment -- Comparative Advantage and Tyranny of the Market -- The State and Agricultural Modernisation -- Government Neglect of Agriculture -- Understanding the Countryside -- Peasants, Politics, and the State -- The Critique: Bringing the Fellahin Back In -- 5 Views from the Village -- Kafr Tasfa and Kafr Saad -- Crisis in the Villages -- The Agrarian Reform Law -- Village and Environmental Transformations -- Women and Coping with Economic Reform -- Uniform Strategy Versus Socially Differentiated Villages -- 6 Egypt at a Turning Point -- Investing in Another Pyramid: The Politics of Tushka -- Rural Protest: The Politics of Law 96 of 1992 -- Agricultural Modernisation: An Alternative -- Egyptian Agriculture at a Turning Point -- References -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Water and urbanism -- Introduction -- Water and twentieth-centuryapproaches to Roman urbanism -- Justifying water networks -- Modern water supply and the urban setting -- The strange water of prehistoric temperate Europe -- Water and hybrid urban identity -- 2 Hybridity in classical accounts of urban water -- Meaning-ladenRoman water -- An entangled source -- Building rivers: hybrid water flow -- The hybrid baths -- Hybrid urban water networks -- Notes -- 3 Water in Roman Britain -- Establishing a context for water -- Lincoln (Lindum Colonia) -- St Albans (Verulamium) -- London (Londinium) -- Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) -- Dorchester (Durnovaria) -- Wroxeter (Viroconium) -- Leicester (Ratae Corieltauvorum) -- Colchester (Camulodunum/Colonia Claudia Victricensis) -- Chichester (Noviomagus) -- Winchester (Venta Belgarum) -- Canterbury (Durovernum) -- Cirencester (Corinium) -- York (Eboracum) -- Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) -- Caerwent (Venta Silurum) -- Other towns -- Manipulating urban identities: multidimensional approaches to water supply -- Notes -- 4 The value of water and new approaches to urban space -- Water and hybridity in the Mediterranean -- Hybrid motivations and functions for water supply in Britain -- Stranger things: defamiliarising Roman urbanism in Britain -- Changing environmental conditions and urban waterscapes -- Water and the identity of our urban future -- Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Index.

Roman law has shaped the Civil law tradition but its influence undoubtedly also extends to Common law countries. Legal institutions as well as legal reasoning reassembled in the Corpus iuris civilis have been studied for nearly one thousand years in Western Europe and have been a constant point of reference. Japanese law adopted this tradition since the Meiji-era. Roman law does not only offer a historical insight into the foundations of modern legal thinking, but can also be a useful tool for deeper understanding and analysis of current legal problems. The international seminar held at the University of Kyushu in February 2016 intended to show the validity of Roman law for contemporary legal practitioners facing current challenges by looking at selected issues.Das römische Recht hat die Tradition des Civil law geprägt, aber ohne Zweifel auch das Common law beeinflusst. Die Rechtsinstitute und die rechtliche Argumentation, welche im Corpus iuris civilis gesammelt sind, stehen in Westeuropa seit über tausend Jahren im Zentrum juristischer Studien und bilden auch im Japanischen Recht seit der Meiji-Ära einen wichtigen Bezugspunkt. Allerdings erlaubt das römische Recht nicht nur einen Zugang zu den historischen Grundlagen des modernen Rechtsdenkens; vielmehr kann es auch als Instrument zum tieferen Verständnis und zur Analyse aktueller Rechtsprobleme dienen. Die internationale Tagung an der Universität Kyushu im Februar 2016 verfolgte den Zweck, anhand ausgewählter Rechtsfragen den zeitlosen Wert des römischen Rechts auch für die Herausforderungen der heutigen Jurisprudenz aufzuzeigen.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- The illusion of choice -- Voice -- How did we get here? -- Food in a changing climate -- Bringing politics to the table -- Seeking synergies -- A word on methodology -- Organisation of the book -- Chasing utopias -- 2 The capture of voice and value -- Life under the corporate food regime -- A view of the dystopian future -- Feeding the world -- Framing scarcity -- Shifting discourses -- Post biotechnology: shifting purposes -- The onrushing future -- Who speaks for nature? -- Conclusion -- 3 Recovering and reclaiming voice -- Becoming food citizens -- Power in movement -- The paradox of participation -- Including all bodies -- Learning citizenship -- Participatory cultures -- Conclusion -- 4 Organising through communication -- Social movement as organisation -- The four flows -- Conclusion -- 5 Learning as resistance -- Framing food sovereignty -- Resistive epistemologies in action -- Institutes of Agroecology in Latin America (IALA) -- Invited spaces for policy-making -- Conclusion -- 6 Participatory by design -- Eating under authoritarian capitalism -- A wonderful revolution -- Growing food - and justice - in the city -- Thinking locally, acting translocally -- Re-learning urbanism -- Governance for innovative foodways -- Where participation meets policy -- (Still) a question of land -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion -- Common voice(s) -- The right to voice -- A different world, from the same window -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

This Handbook offers an up-to-date collection of research on agricultural economics. Drawing together scholarship from experts at the top of their profession and from around the world, this collection provides new insights into the area of agricultural economics.The Routledge Handbook of Agricultural Economics explores a broad variety of topics including welfare economics, econometrics, agribusiness, and consumer economics. This wide range reflects the way in which agricultural economics encompasses a large sector of any economy, and the chapters present both an introduction to the subjects as well as the methodology, statistical background, and operations research techniques needed to solve practical economic problems. In addition, food economics is given a special focus in the Handbook due to the recent emphasis on health and feeding the world population a quality diet. Furthermore, through examining these diverse topics, the authors seek to provide some indication of the direction of research in these areas and where future research endeavors may be productive.Acting as a comprehensive, up-to-date, and definitive work of reference, this Handbook will be of use to researchers, faculty, and graduate students looking to deepen their understanding of agricultural economics, agribusiness, and applied economics, and the interrelationship of those areas

Cover -- Title page -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright page -- About the Authors -- Contents -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SECONDARY URBANIZATION IN NAMIBIA -- 2.1 Namibia's Urban Hierarchy -- 2.2 History of Urbanization in Northern Namibia -- 2.3 Urban Geography of Oshakati-Ongwediva-Ondangwa -- 2.4 Rural-Urban Migration -- 2.5 Municipal Governance -- 3. METHODOLOGY -- 4. HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS -- 4.1 Household Size -- 4.2 Age and Sex of Household Members -- 4.3 Migration from Rural Areas -- 4.4 Level of Education -- 4.5 Types of Household -- 5. POVERTY AND LIVELIHOODS -- 5.1 Income Inequality in Namibia -- 5.2 Housing Type -- 5.3 Household Income -- 5.4 Household Expenditure -- 5.5 Lived Poverty -- 6. HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY -- 6.1 Measuring Household Food Insecurity -- 6.2 Household Food Insecurity Access -- 6.3 Household Food Insecurity Access Prevalence -- 6.4 Household Dietary Diversity -- 6.5 Months of Adequate Household Food Provisioning -- 6.6 Impact of Food Price Increases -- 6.7 Food Shocks -- 6.8 Food Insecurity and Household Income -- 6.9 Food Insecurity and Household Type -- 7. HOUSEHOLD FOOD SOURCES -- 7.1 Market Sources -- 7.2 Food Sourcing and Food Insecurity -- 7.3 Reasons for Supermarket Patronage -- 7.4 Purchasing of Different Food Items -- 8. HOUSEHOLD AGRICULTURE -- 8.1 Urban Agriculture -- 8.2 Rural Agriculture -- 8.3 Rural-Urban Food Transfers -- 8.4 Indigenous Food Consumption -- 9. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Back cover.

Cave organisms are the 'monsters' of the underground world and studying them invariably raises interesting questions about the ways evolution has equipped them to survive in permanent darkness and low-energy environments. Undertaking ecological studies in caves and other subterranean habitats is not only challenging because they are difficult to access, but also because the domain is so different from what we know from the surface, with no plants at the base of food chains and with a nearly constant microclimate year-round. The research presented here answers key questions such as how a constant environment can produce the enormous biodiversity seen below ground, what adaptations and peculiarities allow subterranean organisms to thrive, and how they are affected by the constraints of their environment. This book is divided into six main parts, which address: the habitats of cave animals; their complex diversity; the environmental factors that support that diversity; individual case studies of cave ecosystems; and of the conservation challenges they face; all of which culminate in proposals for future research directions. Given its breadth of coverage, it offers an essential reference guide for graduate students and established researchers alike