Preface -- PART I. Farm Bill Basics -- What is the Farm Bill?- Why Does the Farm Bill Matter?- Whom Does the Farm Bill Benefit?- How Does the Farm Bill Work?- PART II. The History of Food Policy -- Origins of the Farm BillChapter 6. The Changing Face of Agriculture -- The Changing Face of Hunger -- The Conservation Era -- PART III. Key Policy Issues -- Crop Subsidies -- Nutrition, SNAP, and Hea…
Despite the largest-scale decentralisation of education since 1999, which broadly led to the marketisation of education, it is not clear how school education responds to the multicultural realities of Indonesian society and ethno-religious conflicts. Creating Multicultural Citizens presents a comprehensive evaluation of contemporary education in the largest democratic Muslim country in the worl…
Michael E. Brown.
Part I: Identifying the Legal Person -- 1. The Troublesome ‘Person (Bartosz Brozek) -- 2. Legal Persons as Abstractions (Ngaire Naffine) -- 3. The Idea of Non-Personal Subjects of Law (Tomasz Pietrzykowski) -- Part II Persons, Things and Rights -- 4. Why Things Can Hold Rights: Reconceptualizing the Legal Person (Visa Kurki) -- 5. The Right of a House (Qing Xiangyang) -- 6. Animals' Race Agai…
Over the past few decades, rapid urbanisation has threatened to erode public space, especially in emerging economies. Market forces that prioritise profit generation are allowed to construct venues of consumption in its place. Though their physical appearance may resemble traditional public space, in reality, they are greatly restrictive and diminished in affordability, accessibility and social…
Explaining how to design spaces for pedestrians while also accommodating transit needs, this book is an excellent reference for students, public sector planners and officials, and private sector designers and developers seeking to make places more pedestrian- and transit-friendly. Written by a noted expert on pedestrian design and planning, this handbook contains examples of zoning codes from d…
Introduction -- Cultural attributes and legal "No-mans land" in Greece -- Violent fraternities and garrison politics in Nigerias Fourth Republic: lessons from the "University of the South" -- Defining success in the military advising mission -- The privatization of civil-security sector relations and the struggle for public security in Iraq -- In entering the military organization: decivilianiz…
Shawn M. Powers and Michael Jablonski.
The Systems Approach: History and Schools of Thinking -- Systems and Systems Theory -- Schools of Systems Thinking - Development Trends in Systems Methodology -- Systems Analysis in Sweden - Examples of Projects Using a Systems Approach -- Systems Analysis in Geography -- Multi-Agent Systems, Time Geography, and Microsimulations -- Analyzing Biological Systems: The Brain as an Example -- Defini…