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Introduction: Course Syllabus -- Globalization and Global Policies -- Concepts and Principles of Conflict -- Concepts and Principles of Negotiation -- Domestic Interests and International Negotiations -- Concepts and Principles of Cooperation -- Climate Change Policy -- The CDM: A Cooperation Mechanism? -- Shaping Global Policies by International Organizations and NGOs.

Front -- Contents -- 1 AGRICULTURAL REFORM -- 2 AGRICULTURE: DIVERSIFICATION AND PRODUCTIVITY -- 3 LAND REFORM: HOW WILL THE FUTURE LOOK? -- 4 LAND MARKETS AND TENURE -- 5 DISRUPTION AND CONTINUITY IN BULGARIA'S AGRARIAN REFORM -- 6 POLITICAL ECONOMY OF REFORM IN BULGARIAN AGRICULTURE -- 7 FOOD CONSUMPTION DURING ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION -- 8 AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- 9 PRICE POLICIES DURING TRANSFORMATION -- 10 AGRICULTURAL TRADE: POST-REFORM CHALLENGES -- 11 THE GRAIN SECTOR: WHEAT IS KING -- 12 WINE AND THE POLITICS OF SURVIVAL -- 13 THE COTTON INDUSTRY IN DECAY -- 14 LIQUIDATION COMMITTEES, LAND COMMISSION AND NO FRUIT -- 15 IMPROVING MARKETS AND MARKETING' -- 16 DEVELOPING HUMAN CAPITAL -- 17 CREDIT FOR AGRICULTURE DURING THE TRANSITION -- 18 CREDIT SUBSIDIES TO SUPPORT AGRICUL TURE -- 19 AGRICUL TURAL TRANSFORMATION: AN OVERVIEW

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"The chapter highlights the structure of the book, explains its approach and summarizes its main message. Increased water scarcity intensifies the tradeoffs inherent in allocating water to competing uses and turns the policy challenge of managing water resources ever more crucial. The book promotes the view that water policies should be designed and implemented within a comprehensive framework that accounts to the many interconnected pieces comprising water economies."

"International Water Scarcity and Variability considers international water management challenges created by water scarcity and environmental change. Although media coverage and some scholarship tend to cast natural resource shortages as leading inexorably toward war, Shlomi Dinar and Ariel Dinar prove that there are many examples of and mechanisms for more peaceful dispute resolution regarding natural resources, even in the face of water paucity and climate change. The authors base these arguments on both global empirical analyses and case studies. Using numerous examples that focus on North America, Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East, this book asks scholars and policy makers to consider strategies and incentives to help lessen conflict and motivate cooperation under scarcity and increased variability of water resources." - Provided by publisher