In this book a multi-disciplinary team of experts from around the world studies the environmental challenge posed by China's phenomenal economic growth.
An exploration of the environmental challenge posed by China's phenomenal economic growth.
Written by a multi-disciplinary team of experts from around the world.
Argues that China's development poses the greatest ever challenge for the modern world in terms of speed, size and resource scarcity.
Discusses issues such as cleaner production, green car technology, resettlement...
In this book a multi-disciplinary team of experts from around the world studies the environmental challenge posed by China's phenomenal economic growt...
Case Studies in Food Safety and Environmental Health, the sixth volume of the ISEKI-Food book series, presents food safety concepts and issues in a practical and applied framework for use in the classroom.
The book is divided into three main sections:
microbial food safety
chemical residues and contaminants
risk assessment and food legislation
These sections can be used individually or together as a series to discuss a range of food safety issues. Section One covers specific food safety issues...
Case Studies in Food Safety and Environmental Health, the sixth volume of the ISEKI-Food book series, presents food safety concepts and is...
In chemical engineering and related fields, a unit operation is a basic step in a process. For example in milk processing, homogenization, pasteurization, chilling, and packaging are each unit operations which are connected to create the overall process. A process may have many unit operations to obtain the desired product. The book will cover many different unit operations as they apply to food processing.
In chemical engineering and related fields, a unit operation is a basic step in a process. For example in milk processing, homogenization, pasteuri...
In recent years China has been remarkable in achieving extraordinary economic transformation, yet without fundamental political change. To many observers this would seem to imply a weakness in Chinese civil society. However, though the idea of democracy as multitudes of citizens taking to the streets may be attractive, it is simultaneously misleading as it disregards the nature of political change taking place in China today: a gradual shift towards a polity adapted to a pluralist society. At the same time, one may wonder what the limited political space implies for the development of a...
In recent years China has been remarkable in achieving extraordinary economic transformation, yet without fundamental political change. To many obs...
From a neo-liberal, neo-classical paradigm, secure, formal and private property rights are crucial to fostering sustained development. Institutions that fail to respond to shifting socio-economic opportunities are thus forced to make new arrangements. The enigma is posed by developments on the ground. Why would the removal of authoritarian institutions during the Arab Spring or Iraq war not increase market efficiency but rather cause the reverse, while China and India, despite persisting insecure, informal and common institutions, featured sustained growth? This collection posits that...
From a neo-liberal, neo-classical paradigm, secure, formal and private property rights are crucial to fostering sustained development. Institutions...
