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This collection features three peer-reviewed literature reviews on
pesticide residues in agriculture. The first chapter outlines the
ways in which pesticide use can lead to increased pest problems,
such as pest resurgence and replacement, and the development of
pesticide resistance. The chapter examines current strategies for
mitigating the impacts of pesticides and refers to a detailed case
study on the diamondback moth (DBM) to demonstrate the practical
application of these strategies. The second chapter explores the
threat of pesticide poisoning to human health, either via
deliberate self-poisoning or via occupational exposure. It
discusses how best to monitor exposure to pesticides, as well as
how to minimize the human health risks that may arise as a result
of their use/exposure. The authors refer to a case study on
smallholder cotton farmers in the Republic of Benin to emphasise
the global pesticide poisoning crisis. The final chapter reviews
the environmental impacts of pesticide use in agriculture,
focussing on their contribution to global human and ecological
health issues. It provides an overview of how pesticides are
currently addressed in emission inventory and impact assessment,
and discusses the relevance of spatiotemporal variability in
modelling emissions and the toxicity and ecotoxicity impacts of
pesticides.
A detailed study of the role and legacy of weaving at the legendary
Black Mountain College  In the mid-twentieth century, Black
Mountain College attracted a remarkable roster of artists,
architects, and musicians. Yet the weaving classes taught by Anni
Albers, Trude Guermonprez, and six other faculty members are rarely
mentioned or are often treated as mere craft lessons. This was far
from the case: the weaving program was the school’s most
sophisticated and successful design program. About ten percent of
all Black Mountain College students took at least one class in
weaving, including specialists like textile designers Lore Kadden
Lindenfeld and Else Regensteiner, as well as students from other
disciplines, like artists Ray Johnson and Robert Rauschenberg and
architects Don Page and Claude Stoller. Drawing upon a wealth of
unpublished material and archival photographs, Weaving at Black
Mountain College rewrites history to show how weaving played a much
larger role in the legendary art and design curriculum than
previously assumed. Â The book illustrates dozens of objects
from private and public collections, many of which have never been
shown in this context. Essays explore connections and networks
fostered by Black Mountain weavers; the ways in which weaving at
the college was linked to larger discourses about weaving and
craft; and Bauhaus influences transmitted by way of Anni Albers.
The book also includes works by five contemporary artists that
connect and respond to the legacy of weaving at Black Mountain
College today. Â Distributed for the Black Mountain College
Museum + Arts Center  Exhibition Schedule  Black
Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC (September 29,
2023–January 6, 2024) Â
First published in 1982. Considerable public controversy surrounded
the large amount of public expenditure devoted to agriculture under
the European Community's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). There
were serious disputes over how the farm support system operated and
how it was financed. This book describes the CAP situation and
summarises previous attempts to assess some of the economic and
financial flows arising from its creation using a common framework
of well-established economic theory and methods. The CAP turned out
to have a number of 'costs', depending on the concept of 'cost'
used, the alternative policies considered, and the various
assumptions made. The bulk of the book presents the structure and
results of a comprehensive model of European Community agricultural
markets and the associated CAP support mechanisms. This model is
validated against official Community budget figures and then run to
simulate a number of policy options and their consequences. This
title will be of interest to students of economics, geography and
agriculture.
A unique title comparing rural policies and employment in the two
most developed parts of the world - the EU and USA. While both
regions are concerned for their vast rural areas, each adopts a
strikingly different approach to create and maintain employment
there, making rural space attractive to businesses and
residents.This book focuses on a major issue of socioeconomic and
policy concern, i.e. whether jobs and incomes can be protected or
created in rural areas, where often agriculture no longer provides
a large and secure basis for employment. Within a 'paired' chapter
structure covering both the European Union and the United States of
America, it deals with several themes of interest including farm
policies, labor entry and exit, and rural and household enterprise
diversification. Specific 'special studies' also analyze recent
developments within countries or regions.
An icon of British national identity and one of the most widely
performed twentieth-century composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams has
been as much misunderstood as revered; his international impact and
enduring influence on areas as diverse as church music, film scores
and popular music has been insufficiently appreciated. This volume
brings together a team of leading scholars, examining all areas of
the composer's output from new perspectives, and re-evaluating the
cultural politics of his lifelong advocacy for the music-making of
ordinary people. Surveys of major genres are complemented by
chapters exploring such topics as the composer's relationship with
the BBC and his studies with Ravel; uniquely, the book also
includes specially commissioned interviews with major living
composers Peter Maxwell Davies, Piers Hellawell, Nicola Lefanu and
Anthony Payne. The Companion is a vital resource for all those
interested in this pivotal figure of modern music.
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Towards Sustainable Rural Regions in Europe - Exploring Inter-Relationships Between Rural Policies, Farming, Environment, Demographics, Regional Economies and Quality of Life Using System Dynamics (Paperback)
John M. Bryden, Sophia Efstratoglou, Tibor Ferenczi, Karlheinz Knickel, Tom Johnson, …
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This book presents the methodology and results of a three-year,
eleven-country science-to-policy research project - Toward a Policy
Model of Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development -
undertaken between 2005 and 2008 and financed under the European
Union's Sixth Framework program. It deals with an important
contemporary policy issue: how best to ensure that an
agriculturally-based policy can contribute to the development of
rural regions. It tackles this problem in a number of different but
complementary ways, primarily by the development of a unique and
innovative dynamic systems model, POMMARD (a Policy Model of
Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development).
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Towards Sustainable Rural Regions in Europe - Exploring Inter-Relationships Between Rural Policies, Farming, Environment, Demographics, Regional Economies and Quality of Life Using System Dynamics (Hardcover)
John M. Bryden, Sophia Efstratoglou, Tibor Ferenczi, Karlheinz Knickel, Tom Johnson, …
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This book presents the methodology and results of a three-year,
eleven-country science-to-policy research project, Toward a Policy
Model of Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development,
undertaken between 2005 and 2008 and financed under the European
Union's Sixth Framework program. It deals with an important
contemporary policy issue, how best to ensure that an
agriculturally-based policy can contribute to the development of
rural regions. It tackles this problem in a number of different but
complementary ways, primarily by the development of a unique and
innovative dynamic systems model, POMMARD (a Policy Model of
Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development).
First published in 1982. Considerable public controversy surrounded
the large amount of public expenditure devoted to agriculture under
the European Community's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). There
were serious disputes over how the farm support system operated and
how it was financed. This book describes the CAP situation and
summarises previous attempts to assess some of the economic and
financial flows arising from its creation using a common framework
of well-established economic theory and methods. The CAP turned out
to have a number of 'costs', depending on the concept of 'cost'
used, the alternative policies considered, and the various
assumptions made. The bulk of the book presents the structure and
results of a comprehensive model of European Community agricultural
markets and the associated CAP support mechanisms. This model is
validated against official Community budget figures and then run to
simulate a number of policy options and their consequences. This
title will be of interest to students of economics, geography and
agriculture.
Of the ten Central and Eastern European countries that have applied
for membership in the European Union, Romania ranks among the
largest and most impoverished. Romania represents the final
challenge in the European Union's enlargement to the east, largely
due to its major, but underdeveloped, agriculture and food sectors.
The agriculture industry, which is a major component of the
national economy, extends its pervasive influence to both Romanian
social life and environment. Consequently, the transition towards a
market oriented economic system will pose new obstacles for the
country's farmers, processors, traders, and policymakers. While
identifying the impediments that surround Romanian agriculture and
its inevitable progression towards transition is a simple task, the
challenges lie in recommending solutions. Through careful analysis
of numerous recent studies on reform policies in the Romanian
agri-food sector during its economic transition, this comprehensive
examination offers perspicacious suggestions and insights on the
following topics in particular: international trade, credit for
agricultural development, price policies, and rural development.
The conclusions reached are not only of domestic importance and
application, they are also of immediate relevance for many
post-socialist countries, for which the agri-food sector is a
principal vehicle for rural development.
It is a truism that Russian culture is based upon the reception of
Byzantine culture. However, the question of what was in fact
received is the task that Professor Thomson has set in these
studies, by means of a detailed examination of the corpus of
translations. Down to the 17th century this corpus was essentially
made up of works required for the liturgy and the monastic life.
Few works of dogmatic theology and virtually no classical or
philosophical works were translated, neither was a knowledge of
Greek, which would have provided access to the originals,
widespread. The result was an unreasoning adherence to ritual
forms. Western ideas which began to penetrate into Muscovy in the
17th century were not absorbed by Russian culture but fundamentally
reshaped it, and the result led to a schism within the Church.
Russia today is Orthodox by religion, but Byzantine culture
disappeared with Byzantium. A major section of addenda takes into
account the advances in scholarship since the articles were first
published.
An icon of British national identity and one of the most widely
performed twentieth-century composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams has
been as much misunderstood as revered; his international impact and
enduring influence on areas as diverse as church music, film scores
and popular music has been insufficiently appreciated. This volume
brings together a team of leading scholars, examining all areas of
the composer's output from new perspectives, and re-evaluating the
cultural politics of his lifelong advocacy for the music-making of
ordinary people. Surveys of major genres are complemented by
chapters exploring such topics as the composer's relationship with
the BBC and his studies with Ravel; uniquely, the book also
includes specially commissioned interviews with major living
composers Peter Maxwell Davies, Piers Hellawell, Nicola Lefanu and
Anthony Payne. The Companion is a vital resource for all those
interested in this pivotal figure of modern music.
The TCP06 conference in Canada showcased the impressive progress
in the study of fundamental physics using trapped charged
particles. The combination of overview articles by leaders in the
field and detailed reports on recent research results will without
doubt make these proceedings an extremely useful reference for
researchers within the community, but also for those who study
similar physics with different techniques, or use trapping methods
for different purposes.
She has addressed the world's leaders at the UN. She has sat in the
hot seat at the World Economic Forum in Davos persuading economists
that genetically modified food is the answer to food security in
Africa. She has faced vitriolic activists on television and
explained the facts and fallacies of genetic engineering. And she
has won the L'Oreal Women in Science award. So how did someone who
thought she would choose the career of a teacher end up as a
microbiologist in a very male-dominated arena and become one of the
world's leading scientific advisors? In Food for Africa, Jennifer
Thomson traces through anecdote and science the development of a
hotly contended area of research, from the dawn of genetic
engineering in the USA in 1974, through the early stages of its
uptake in South Africa to the current situation in which
approximately 80% of maize in South Africa is genetically modified
for drought resistance. Through her own story of how she came to
choose GM as a career and her path-breaking involvement in the
development of GM research, she describes the spread of this
technology into other parts of Africa and her venture into unknown
territory to develop crops resistant to drought, insects and
viruses, a journey in which she came up against the multinational
Monsanto. The book describes a remarkable personal and scientific
evolution and looks to a future in which staple crops may be grown
in difficult conditions by smallholder farmers and help Africans
achieve food security.
After several years of being out of print and becoming a bit of a
collectors item; TAKEN, the startling accounts of alien abduction
as documented by the late Karla Turner, has been refreshed and
reissued faithfully with the sole input and authorization from
husband Elton Turner. With a new foreword written by the legendary
Nick Pope who with 21 years of experience at the British
Government's Ministry of Defence and an incredible history of
research and broadcasting, puts it best that Taken is a real
'researcher's book'. This is the ultimate investigation of the
paranormal links between humans and 'other worldly' beings.
This collection provides an in-depth look at musical criticism
between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth century. British
music between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth century
reflected changes and developments in society, education,
philosophy, aesthetics, politics and the upheaval of wars, often
signifying a distinctively British national history. All of these
changes informed the published work of contemporary music critics.
This collection provides an in-depth look at musical criticism
during this period. It focusses on major figures such as
Grove,Parry, Shaw, Dent, Newman, Heseltine, Vaughan Williams,
Dyson, Lambert and Keller, yet does not neglect less influential
but nevertheless significant critics. Sometimes a seminal work
forms the subject of investigation; in otherchapters, a writer's
particular stance is highlighted. Further contributions closely
analyse the now famous polemics by Shaw, Heseltine and Lambert. The
book covers a range of themes from the historical, scientific and
philosophical to matters of repertoire, taste, interdisciplinary
influence, musical democratisation and analysis. It will be of
interest to scholars and students of nineteenth- and early
twentieth-century British music and music in Britain as well as to
music enthusiasts attracted to standard works of popular music
criticism. JEREMY DIBBLE is Professor of Music at Durham
University. JULIAN HORTON is Professor of Music at Durham
University. Contributors: KAREN ARRANDALE, SEAMAS DE BARRA, PHILIP
ROSS BULLOCK, JONATHAN CLINCH, SARAH COLLINS, JEREMY DIBBLE, JULIAN
HORTON, PETER HORTON, CHRISTOPHER MARK, AIDAN J. THOMSON, PAUL
WATT, HARRY WHITE, BENNETT ZON, PATRICKZUK
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