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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “stuart j smyth”
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  • The Coexistence of Genetically Modified, Organic and Conventional Foods

    Government Policies and Market Practices

    Edited by Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes, Peter W.B. Phillips, Justus Wesseler, Stuart J. Smyth ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Since their commercial introduction in 1996, genetically modified (GM) crops have been adopted by farmers around the world at impressive rates. In 2011, 180 million hectares of GM crops were cultivated by more than 15 million farmers in 29 countries. In the next decade, global adoption is expected to grow even faster as the research pipeline for new biotech traits and crops has increased almost ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Biotechnology Regulation and Trade

    by Stuart J. Smyth, William A. Kerr, Peter W. B Phillips ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book discusses the regulatory and trade challenges facing the global adoption of biotechnological products and offers strategies for overcoming these obstacles and moving towards greater global food security. The first section of the book establishes the context of the conflict, discussing the challenges of global governance, international trade, and the history of regulation of genetically ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Socio-Economic Considerations in Biotechnology Regulation

    Edited by Karinne Ludlow, Stuart J. Smyth, José Falck-Zepeda ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Within the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) was established as an implementing agreement. The CPB is an international agreement establishing the rights of recipient countries to be notified of and to approve or reject the domestic import and/or production of living modified organisms (LMOs). Decisions regarding import/production are ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    From Regulation to Innovation

    by Philipp Aerni ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book addresses the ability of market-based instruments to improve the sustainable provision of environmental services. The author combines field research and insights from the multi-stakeholder dialogue at the FAO to analyze the gap between the predictions provided by theory and the corresponding outcomes in practice. In particular, the author challenges the theory behind Payments for ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Sugarcane Complex in Brazil

    The Role of Innovation in a Dynamic Sector on Its Path Towards Sustainability

    by Felix Kaup ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book offers an in-depth analysis of the Brazilian sugarcane complex with a special focus on technological advances that promote sustainable development. It first examines the question why sugarcane-based ethanol from Brazil is considered a superior alternative to fossil fuel compared to other biofuels produced on an industrial scale and subsequently analyzes the most dynamic areas within the ... Read more

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  • Emerging from an Entrenched Colonial Economy

    New Zealand Primary Production, Britain and the EEC, 1945 - 1975

    by David Hall ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is a study of New Zealand shaking off its quasi-colonial dependence on Britain. Has New Zealand moved beyond its colonial heritage? Is it now time to remove the Union Jack from the national flag and change to a Republic? Hall analyses the three decades after World War II when changes in Britain, mainly as a consequence of that war, forced New Zealand to seek new markets for its exports, ... Read more

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  • Chainsaw Operator's Manual

    Chainsaw Safety, Maintenance and Cross-cutting Techniques

    by ForestWorks ...
    The Chainsaw Operator's Manual is an essential safety tool for chainsaw operators. It is the ultimate guide to basic chainsaw operating techniques covering safety, maintenance and cross-cutting, but not tree felling. Detailed diagrams illustrate horizontal, vertical and boring cuts, as well as trimming and cross-cutting techniques.Safety considerations are discussed, including workplace safety, ... Read more

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  • The Economics of Sustainable Development

    The Case of India

    by Surender Kumar, Shunsuke Managi ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book highlights methodological approaches for the economics of sustainable development and brings together recent empirical work done in India, especially by Dr. Surender Kumar and Dr. Shunsuke Managi. Various chapters in this book use Indian data to show the very wide applicability of methodologies in the theory of production for dealing with many empirical issues of environmentally ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Transforming Water Management in South Africa

    Designing and Implementing a New Policy Framework

    Edited by Barbara Schreiner, Rashid M. Hassan ...
    Series Book 2 - Global Issues in Water Policy
    One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights to water, radical reforms in water management and supply institutions, ... Read more

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  • Land of Plenty

    A Journey Through the Fields and Foods of Modern Britain

    by Charlie Pye-Smith ...
    **Golden fields, ripening apples, lowing cattle: our idea of the landscape has been shaped by agriculture, as has the land itself. But in a fast-changing world, how does the great British countryside continue to provide the food we eat?**Most people living in Britain today must go back several generations before they find an ancestor who worked on the land. How much do we really know about those ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Water Markets for the 21st Century

    What Have We Learned?

    Edited by K. William Easter, Qiuqiong Huang ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book evaluates the history, the present and the future of water markets on 5 continents, beginning with the institutional underpinnings of water markets and factors influencing transaction costs. The book examines markets in seven countries and three different U.S. states, ranging from village-level water markets in Oman to basin wide formal water markets in Australia's Murray-Darling River ... Read more

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  • Health and Animal Agriculture in Developing Countries

    Edited by David Zilberman, Joachim Otte, David Roland-Holst, Dirk Pfeiffer ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides an overview of the state of animal agriculture and present methodologies and proposals to develop policies that result in sustainable and profitable animal production that will protect human and environmental health, enhance livelihood of smallholders and meet consumer needs. The book combines lessons of the past, factual foundation to understand the present, analytical tools to ... Read more

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