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Balanced Growth
Springer 2011; US$ 69.99What is balanced growth? This book shows that the definitions and implications of the concept of balanced growth vary significantly among the different disciplines in economic science, but are not exclusive at all. Terms such as sustainability or balanced growth have become buzzwords. In practice, they are often a desirable vision rather than an achievable... more...
Farmer Behaviour, Agricultural Management and Climate Change
OECD Publishing 2012; US$ 33.00This study examines the broad range of factors driving farm management decisions that can improve the environment, including drawing on the experiences of OECD countries. It identifies policy options that would contribute to a sustainable and resilient agricultural sector in the context of climate change. more...
Advances in Water Treatment and Pollution Prevention
Springer 2012; US$ 139.99Water Rights and Social Justice in the Mekong Region
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 105.00The Mekong Region has come to represent many of the important water governance challenges faced more broadly by the mainland Southeast Asian region. This book focuses on the complex nature of water rights and social justice in the Mekong region. The chapters delve into the diverse social, political and cultural dynamics that shape the various realities... more...
OECD Review of Agricultural Policies: Indonesia 2012
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2012; US$ 70.00This Review, undertaken in close co-operation with the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture, assesses the performance of Indonesian agriculture over the last two decades, evaluates Indonesian agricultural policy reforms and provides recommendations to address key challenges in the future. The evaluation is based on the OECD Committee for Agricultures... more...
The Highland Clearances
Birlinn 2012; US$ 8.44Description: A documented study of Scotland's most emotive subjects. It traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s, showing how the process of clearance was part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation. more...
Unlocking markets to smallholders
Springer 2012; US$ 59.95This book assesses the institutional, technical and market constraints as well as opportunities for smallholders, notably, emerging farmers in disadvantaged areas such as the former homelands of South Africa. Emerging farmers are previously disadvantaged black people who started or will start their business with the support of special government programs.... more...









