This text presents the specialist and those less familiar with water treatment and environmental management with information from a range of international workers. The conference was a forum at which interest groups representing the research community, water companies, regulatory bodies, and designers and operators of plant were beneficially brought into contact. The spirit of information exchange is retained in this book.

Presents an account of the regulatory state and governance. This book examines both key concepts and theories, and important policy domains, and utilizes comparative, historical and transnational perspectives. It questions whether the regulatory state that has developed over the decades is an authoritarian or a liberalizing mode of governance.

A lively collection of essays from scholars from across Europe, North America and Australia. The book ranges from Shakespeare's use of manuals on war written for the sixteenth-century English public by an English mercenary, to reflections on the ways in which Shakespeare has been represented in Nazi Germany, wartime Denmark, or cold war Romania.