Landlords and Tenants in Mid-Victorian Ireland
ISBN: 9780198203568 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of relations between landlords and tenants in Ireland in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. W.E. Vaughan explores evictions, rents, tenants' rights, estate management, and tenants' resistance to landlords. In place of the conventional image of predatory and all-powerful landlords, and oppressed, impoverished tenants, the author presents a scholarly and nuanced picture of mutual accommodation, thus revising the traditional view of land relations in nineteenth-century Ireland.
This is a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of relations between landlords and tenants in Ireland in the middle decades of the nineteenth centur...
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Domesday Book: Its Place in Administrative History
ISBN: 9780198224242 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Domesday Book Its Place in Administrative History
Domesday Book Its Place in Administrative History
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Westminster Abbey and Its Estates in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780198224495 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traces the material fortunes of the abbot and convent of Westminster and describes the changing policies which the monks brought to bear on their estates, and the responses of their tenants to those policies.
Traces the material fortunes of the abbot and convent of Westminster and describes the changing policies which the monks brought to bear on their esta...
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722,95 zł |
The Public Economics of the Environment
ISBN: 9780198297987 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental policy is high on the political agenda in many countries. Considering the various dimensions of environmental quality as public goods, Sandmo identifies the failures of the market mechanism in the face of environmental problems and shows how economic policy should be designed to overcome them. Specific topics covered include the assessment of environmental benefits and costs, the choice between taxes and quotas as policy tools, the principles of environmental taxation in a second-best world, the various notions of the double dividend from environmental tax reform, and...
Environmental policy is high on the political agenda in many countries. Considering the various dimensions of environmental quality as public goods, S...
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599,38 zł |
Access to Land, Rural Poverty, and Public Action
ISBN: 9780199242177 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Redesigning access to land to increase efficiency and reduce poverty is back on the policy agenda. This book broadens the analysis of alternative options beyond state-led redistributions to consider channels of access such as inheritance and inter-vivos transfers, intra-household and intra-community land allocations, community titling of open access resources, the break up of common property resources and the individualization of rights, decollectivization, land markets, and land rental contracts. Each of these channels of access to land is analyzed, and recommendations made to enhance their...
Redesigning access to land to increase efficiency and reduce poverty is back on the policy agenda. This book broadens the analysis of alternative opti...
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The Politics of Planting: Israeli-Palestinian Competition for Control of Land in the Jerusalem Periphery
ISBN: 9780226112763 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the open landscape of Israel and the West Bank, where pine and cypress forests grow alongside olive groves, tree planting has become symbolic of conflicting claims to the land. Palestinians cultivate olive groves as a vital agricultural resource, while the Israeli government has made restoration of mixed-growth forests a national priority. Although both sides plant for a variety of purposes, both have used tree planting to assert their presence on and claim to disputed land.
Shaul Ephraim Cohen has conducted an unprecedented study of planting in the region and the control of land it... On the open landscape of Israel and the West Bank, where pine and cypress forests grow alongside olive groves, tree planting has become symbolic of co...
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175,73 zł |
Actively Seeking Work?: The Politics of Unemployment and Welfare Policy in the United States and Great Britain
ISBN: 9780226436227 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why have both Great Britain and the United States been unable to create effective training and work programs for the unemployed? Desmond King contends that the answer lies in the liberal political origins of these programs. Integrating extensive, previously untapped archival and documentary materials with an analysis of the sources of political support for work-welfare programs, King shows that policymakers in both Great Britain and the United States have tried to achieve conflicting goals through these programs.
The goal of work-welfare policy in both countries has been to provide... Why have both Great Britain and the United States been unable to create effective training and work programs for the unemployed? Desmond King contends...
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Dividing the Land, 238: Early American Beginnings of Our Private Property Mosaic
ISBN: 9780226680651 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many property lines drawn in early America still survive today and continue to shape the landscape and character of the United States. Surprisingly, though, no one until now has thoroughly examined the process by which land was divided into private property and distributed to settlers from the beginning of colonization to early nationhood.
In this unprecedented study, Edward T. Price covers most areas of the United States in which the initial division of land was controlled by colonial governments the original thirteen colonies, and Maine, Vermont, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee,... Many property lines drawn in early America still survive today and continue to shape the landscape and character of the United States. Surprisingly, t...
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219,66 zł |
European Real Estate Markets
ISBN: 9780230013162 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book gives a comprehensive analysis of the different real estate markets in Europe, with a thorough description of the various sectors. The recent disturbing events in the real estate industry and its interrelationship and repurcussions on the adjacent financial industries is also addressed.
This book gives a comprehensive analysis of the different real estate markets in Europe, with a thorough description of the various sectors. The recen...
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183,69 zł |
Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building
ISBN: 9780262532730 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Water is a key component of critical ecosystems, a marketable commodity, a foundation of local communities and cultures, and a powerful means of social control. It has become a source of contentious politics and social controversy on a global scale, and the management of water conflicts is one of the biggest challenges in the effort to achieve effective global environmental governance. In Governing Water, Ken Conca examines political struggles to create a global framework for the governance of water. Threats to the world's rivers, watersheds, and critical freshwater ecosystems... Water is a key component of critical ecosystems, a marketable commodity, a foundation of local communities and cultures, and a powerful means of so... |
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Damming the Delaware: The Rise and Fall of Tocks Island Dam
ISBN: 9780271027456 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1987 and named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book the following year, Damming the Delaware is the definitive study of two hundred years of water management history along the Delaware River. The history of the Tocks Island Dam Project is traced from an early 1783 anti-dam treaty, through the highly emotional environmental controversy in the 1970s, to the historic Good Faith agreement of the 1980s. The story involves the water politics of four states, two major U.S. cities, and the federal government, plus the influence of the environmental movement over major... First published in 1987 and named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book the following year, Damming the Delaware is the definitive study of t... |
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261,60 zł |
Modeling Economic Management and Policy Issues of Water in Irrigated Agriculture
ISBN: 9780275950170 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work presents models that characterize the relationships between quantity and quality of irrigation water application, and agricultural production and the environment. A comprehensive modeling approach addressing both the benefits of irrigation and the potential negative effects is introduced. Physical-biological concepts are combined with economic and engineering principles to demonstrate the usefulness of the model for analyzing various water management and policy issues. Decision makers on all levels should find the modeling approach interesting and useful in the management issues... This work presents models that characterize the relationships between quantity and quality of irrigation water application, and agricultural produc... |
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384,41 zł |
Latin American Land Reforms: A Retrospective Analysis
ISBN: 9780299131647 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Surveying three decades of land reform efforts in Latin America. Peter Dorner draws upon his experience as both a policy maker and a researcher specializing in land tenure systems. He argues that failures of Latin American land reforms are due to lack of political will and commitment exacerbated by inadequate capital resources.
Surveying three decades of land reform efforts in Latin America. Peter Dorner draws upon his experience as both a policy maker and a researcher specia...
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85,11 zł |
Public Lands Conflict and Resolution: Managing National Forest Disputes
ISBN: 9780306428616 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States Forest Service, perhaps more than any other federal agency, has made great strides during the past two decades revolution izing its public involvement efforts and reshaping its profile through the hiring of professionals in many disciplinary areas long absent in the agency. In fact, to a large extent, the agency has been doing precisely what everyone has been clamoring for it to do: involving the public more in its decisions; hiring more wildlife biologists, recreation specialists, sociologists, planners, and individuals with "people skills"; and, fur thermore, taking a more...
The United States Forest Service, perhaps more than any other federal agency, has made great strides during the past two decades revolution izing its ...
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586,33 zł |
The Lerma-Chapala Watershed: Evaluation and Management
ISBN: 9780306467479 / Angielski / Twarda / 385 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James O. Leckie Environmental Engineering and Science Program, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4020, USA Nearly 10 years have passed since the beginning of the systematic studies of the Lerma-Chapala Basin coordinated by the Instituto Mexicano de Tecnologia del Agua. Although many public and private institutions, universities and research centers have conducted studies on the Lerma- Chapala Basin over the last two decades, the need for a comprehensive summary of the findings of those studies has become increasingly obvious and...
James O. Leckie Environmental Engineering and Science Program, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif...
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The Co-Op Bible: Everything You Need to Know about Co-Ops and Condos; Getting In, Staying In, Surviving, Thriving
ISBN: 9780312194475 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A user-friendly guide to the art of living in a co-op and condo Sylvia Shapiro, a lawyer and board president of a major Manhattan apartment building, has written what will become required reading for anyone buying or selling an apartment, or curious about entering the fray of the co-op and condo market. Shapiro answers all the questions apartment dwellers are afraid of asking the board, broker, lawyer, or accountant-and she does so without talking down or a steep hourly fee. Included are such topics as: Is the building right for you? How can you make the approval process go as... A user-friendly guide to the art of living in a co-op and condo Sylvia Shapiro, a lawyer and board president of a major Manhattan apar... |
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Federal Lands Policy
ISBN: 9780313256127 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the oldest policy debates in U.S. history concerns the allocation, use, and management of public lands, which currently comprise one-quarter of the United States. In this volume, Phillip O. Foss has assembled a selection of original research papers and interpretative essays from recognized authorities with a variety of philosophical orientations in order to present a well-rounded picture of today's views of public lands policy. Contributors describe and analyze the three major trends in lands management: preservation, conservation, and the environmental movement. Issues which have... One of the oldest policy debates in U.S. history concerns the allocation, use, and management of public lands, which currently comprise one-quarter... |
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Wind Energy in the 21st Century: Economics, Policy, Technology and the Changing Electricity Industry
ISBN: 9780333792483 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wind energy is the great success story of modern renewable energy. Since the industry's rebirth following the energy crisis of the 1970s, thousands of wind energy projects have been installed around the world. The technology today is competitive with traditional fossil-fuelled electricity generation. Wind Energy in the 21st Century explores the current economic, financial, technical, environmental, competitive, and policy considerations facing the wind energy industry. With discussions of the latest electricity industry trends including deregulation, green markets, and tradable renewable...
Wind energy is the great success story of modern renewable energy. Since the industry's rebirth following the energy crisis of the 1970s, thousands of...
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390,87 zł |
Conflict and Cooperation in Participating Natural Resource Management
ISBN: 9780333792773 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past 100 years, there has been a steady process by which natural resources have been increasingly managed by centralized institutions. Governments and other national agencies have argued that this promotes efficiency and equity. Recently this orthodoxy has been challenged by experiments that show how centralized management tends to fail. Global, national and local goals are more likely to be met, at lower cost and with other benefits (such as promoting better democratic institutions) by involving local populations in collaborative management agreements. This volume, based on detailed...
Over the past 100 years, there has been a steady process by which natural resources have been increasingly managed by centralized institutions. Govern...
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390,87 zł |
Energy in the Caspian Region: Present and Future
ISBN: 9780333929599 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The energy reserves of the Caspian Region have been hailed as the new 'Middle East'. This book offers a thorough assessment of its energy resources and the nature of the international politics that surround them. This volume presents a unique study of the various dimensions of Caspian energy, ranging from the geopolitical to the economic, technical, religious and political.
The energy reserves of the Caspian Region have been hailed as the new 'Middle East'. This book offers a thorough assessment of its energy resources an...
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390,87 zł |