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The interconnectedness of the global environment and finiteness of
the earth's natural resources require an increased understanding of
environmental and natural-resource policy and politics in countries
around the world. This is especially true of industrializing
countries where widespread ecological disturbances and rapid
exploitation of natural resources are taking place. Ecological
Policy and Politics in Developing Countries provides an in-depth
study of ecological problems, policies, and politics in ten major
industrializing countries. Each chapter discusses the increasingly
international context of domestic environmental policies and
explores some of the powerful interests and institutional forces
that contribute to ecological problems and shape the policies to
deal with them in each country. The authors identify some of the
major impediments to both welldesigned environmental policies and
their effective implementation. The ten countries included here --
the Czech Republic, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria,
Taiwan, Thailand, Slovakia, and Venezuela -- cover five continents,
over half of the world's population and most of the major
industrializing countries.
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Applied Computing - Second Asian Applied Computing Conference, AACC 2004, Kathmandu, Nepal, October 29-31, 2004. Proceedings (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
Suresh Manandhar, Jim Austin, Uday Desai, Yoshio Oyanagi, Asoke Talukder
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The focus of the Asian Applied Computing Conference (AACC) is
primarily to bring the research in computer science closer to
practical applications. The conference is aimed primarily at topics
that have immediate practical bene?ts. By hosting the conf- ence in
the developingnations in Asia we aim to provide a forum for
engagingboth the academic and the commercial sectors in that
region. The ?rst conference "Information Technology Prospects and
Challenges" was held in May 2003 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Thisyear
theconferencenamewas changedto "Asian AppliedComputingConference"
to re?ect both the regional- and the application-oriented nature of
the conference. AACC is planned to be a themed conference with a
primary focus on a small set of topics although other relevant
applied topics will be considered. The theme in AACC 2004 was on
the following topics: systems and architectures, mobile and
ubiquitous computing, soft computing, man machine interfaces, and
innovative applications for the developing world. AACC 2004
attracted 184 paper submissions from around the world, making the
reviewing and the selection process tough and time consuming. The
selected papers covered a wide range of topics: genetic algorithms
and soft computing; scheduling, - timization andconstraintsolving;
neuralnetworksandsupportvectormachines;natural language processing
and information retrieval; speech and signal processing; networks
and mobile computing; parallel, grid and high-performance
computing; innovative - plications for the developing world;
cryptography and security; and machine lea- ing. Papers were
primarily judged on originality, presentation, relevance and
quality of work. Papers that had clearly demonstrated results were
given preference.
Eleven contributions look at the environmental problems, politics,
and policies of key industrializing countries in terms of their
historical, economic, and public policy contexts. Recurring themes
in these studies of India, China, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria,
Taiwan, Thailand, Venezuela, and the Cze
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