The rural areas of Britain, Europe and the developed world are undergoing massive changes, with increasing concern about productivity, agricultural methods and environmental policy. Rural Politics examines the issues affecting rural areas, such as water pollution, forestry, and the greening of agricultural policy. It looks in particular at the political parameters to these issues and how concern for the countryside is essentially a part of a wider set of political processes. Rural Politics provides a much needed examination of the evolution and content of policies affecting...

This volume focusses on the key issues affecting rural areas today and examines them in the light of the current agricultural crisis. Issues such as water pollution, forestry, the greening of agricultural policy, as well as mainstream agricultural policy, are of increasing importance in the development of the countryside. Examining the history of agricultural policies and environmental concerns, the book looks in particular at the political parameters to these issues and how concern for the countryside is essentially part of a wider set of political processes.

JCL (Job Control Language) ist der Schlussel zur Job-Verarbeitung in MVS-Systemen. Dieses Buch zeigt, wie man JCL effektiv einsetzt. Es ist aus der Praxiserfahrung des Autors entstanden. Die Neuerungen der Version 4.2 von MVS/ESA sind in diesem Buch mit berucksichtigt, ebenso wie das Datenmanagementsystem SMS und LDS, das Lineare VSAM-Dataset.

Die wichtigsten Kapitel sind:
- Jobverarbeitung in MVS-Systemen
- JCL, JCL-Prozeduren Utilities und SORT
- VSAM und IDCAMS
- SMS
- JCL-Schnittstellen
- JCL-Fehler und ABENDs

Alle Beispiele im Buch sind...

Rethinking Virtue Ethics offers a model of Aristotelian virtue ethics based on a deductive paradigm. This book argues that, contrary to what many contemporary thinkers are inclined to believe, Aristotelian virtue ethics is consistent with at least some action-guiding moral principles being true unconditionally, and that a justification for general moral principles can be grounded in fundamental concepts within Aristotle's theory. An analysis of ethical propositions that hold for the most part is proposed that fits well within the deductive paradigm developed. This unique interpretation of...