Authors:Pierre Marc Johnson, Karel Mayrand, Marc Paquin,
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: global, environmental, governance, series, participation, poverty, degradation, linking, governing, desertification
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2006-06
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 075464359X
ISBN-13: 9780754643593

Desertification affects 70 per cent of all arable lands on the planet in more than 100 countries. Inextricably linked to poverty, it is estimated that the livelihood of 250 million people are directly affected while another billion living in rural drylands are threatened by this phenomenon. This volume examines the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) signed in 1994. It studies the linkages between land degradation and poverty, the role of civil society and good governance in implementing the UNCCD and the various approaches to fighting desertification. Furthermore, this

Authors:Colin Haslam, John Williams, Karel Williams, Karel Wi
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: cases, history, analysis, cars
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1994-08
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1571818510
ISBN-13: 9781571818515

Car manufacturing involves the movement of large numbers of heavy, awkward objects incorporating some 20,000 parts, through a large number of short cycles. As to be expected the constant flow of the process involved is disrupted by both the inherent complexities of production and those of market restrictions. This study, a unique blend of analysis, history, and case studies, not only characterizes the essence of car manufacturing but also explains the likes between production, market conditions, and financial results and constraints. At the same time, it challenges fashionable views on the car

Authors:Colin Haslam, John Williams, Karel Williams, Karel Wi
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: cases, history, analysis, cars
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1994-11
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1571818502
ISBN-13: 9781571818508

Car manufacturing involves the movement of large numbers of heavy, awkward objects incorporating some 20,000 parts, through a large number of short cycles. As to be expected the constant flow of the process involved is disrupted by both the inherent complexities of production and those of market restrictions. This study, a unique blend of analysis, history, and case studies, not only characterizes the essence of car manufacturing but also explains the likes between production, market conditions, and financial results and constraints. At the same time, it challenges fashionable views on the car

Author: Karel Kul
Publisher: CRC
Keywords: technology, science, marcel, dekker, inc, food, revised, cereal, second, handbook, expanded
Number of Pages: 790
Published: 2000-03-28
List price: $279.95
ISBN-10: 0824782941
ISBN-13: 9780824782948

This thoroughly revised second edition addresses the full spectrum of cereal grain science, employing agronomic, chemical, and technological perspectives and providing new and expanded treatment of food enrichment techniques, nutritional standards, and product quality evaluation. Written by over 40 internationally respected authorities, the Handbook of Cereal Science and Technology, Second Edition discusses recent developments in the chemical composition and functionality of cereal components such as proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids; highlights newly developed special ingredients and microb

Authors:J. L. Bos, Karel W. A. Wirtz,
Publisher: IOS Pre
Keywords: series, life, sciences, nato, transduction, mechanisms, signal, molecular
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 2001-07-01
List price: $142.00
ISBN-10: 1586030167
ISBN-13: 9781586030162

This book contains overviews of topics that has been discussed. It includes contributes from leading experts in the field on small GTPases, protein kinases, receptors and transcription factors. A particular focus was the influence of oxigen radicals on signalling processes. It also contains the contribution of scientists early in their career, who have made an excellent contribution to the institute.

Author: Karel Capek
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pre
Keywords: year, gardener
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1984-08-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0299100243
ISBN-13: 9780299100247

Karel Capek’s The Gardener’s Year is a timeless classic of wit and wisdom, sure to capture the heart and imagination of every gardener—indeed, everyone who has pursued any hobby with a passion that occasionally overrides good common sense. Originally published more that fifty years ago in Czechoslovakia, it transcends the years with grace and ease. Whether Capek is talking about the lack or surfeit of rain, the fruitless search for space to plant just a few more perennials, or the unfathomable mystery of the green thumb, his words strike chord upon chord within every gardener, in

Author: Karel Welle
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: international, comparative, law, studies, cambridge, organisations, remedies
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2002-04-15
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0521812496
ISBN-13: 9780521812498

International organizations have become major players on the international scene, whose acts and activities affect individuals, companies and states. Damage to interests or violation of rights sometimes occur (such as during peacekeeping operations). Wellens considers the remedies available to potential claimants such as private contractors, staff members or anyone suffering damage. Can they turn to an ombudsman or national courts, or do they have to rely on support by their own state? Are the remedies provided by international organizations adequate? Wellens’ study includes suggestions