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The River Nile in the post-colonial age : conflict and cooperation among the Nile Basin countries

Ethics in public and community health /

Sumário: “.../ Peter Bradley Ethics and the extra-contractual referral : a case study from Northamptonshire Health Authority / Henrietta Ewart The prioritisation of health care in Oxfordshire / Siân Griffiths Using a citizens' jury to involve the public in a decision about priorities : a case study / Gill Needham International perspectives on priority-setting in health care / Louise Locock Screening : general principles / Pat Troop Genetic tests, screening and priorities in health care / Jan Helge Solbakk and Homa Hasan Antenatal screening / Corinne Camilleri-Ferrante Childhood screening / Sarah Stewart-Brown Research methods in public health / Amanda Burls and Juan Cabello-López Public participation in public health decisions / Amanda Burls Ethical considerations in water fluoridation / Ruth Holt, John Beal and Joanna Breach Should childhood immunisation be compulsory? ...”
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The state of food and agriculture 2002

Sumário: “...Foreword v Glossary xvii Explanatory note xx PART I World review Current Agricultural Situation - Facts and Figures 3 (35) Trends in undernourishment 3 (3) Crop and livestock production 6 (5) Food shortages and emergencies 11 (3) World cereal supply situation 14 (3) External assistance to agriculture 17 (3) Food aid flows 20 (3) Commodity price trends 23 (6) Fisheries: production, disposition and trade 29 (4) Production and trade of forest products 33 (5) The Global Economy and Agriculture 38 (13) World economic environment 38 (13) World trade and commodity prices 39 (3) Implications of the Fourth World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference for agriculture 42 (6) Notes 48 (3) PART II Regional review Africa 51 (21) Regional overview 51 (6) General economic performance 51 (3) Agricultural performance 54 (3) Women farmers' productivity in sub-Saharan Africa 57 (8) Introduction 57 (1) The role and importance of women farmers 57 (5) Gender differentials in agricultural productivity and constraints facing women farmers 62 (2) Conclusion and policy implications 64 (1) Tsetse and trypanosomiasis control 65 (7) Introduction 65 (1) The direct impact of trypanosomiasis 65 (1) The indirect impacts of the disease 66 (2) Cost-benefit ratios for tsetse control 68 (1) Conclusion 69 (3) Asia and the Pacific 72 (24) Regional overview 72 (5) General economic performance 72 (1) Agricultural performance 73 (4) China's accession to the World Trade Organization and implications for Chinese agricultural policies 77 (19) The changing role of agriculture in the Chinese economy 78 (2) Agricultural policy in the reform period 80 (4) China's WTO accession commitments and provisions related to agriculture 84 (3) Recent policy shifts and likely changes as a result of accession to the WTO 87 (8) Conclusions 95 (1) Latin America and the Caribbean 96 (26) Regional overview 96 (5) General economic performance 96 (1) Recent agricultural performance 97 (4) Changing patterns in agricultural trade 101 (21) Growing importance of agricultural trade relative to production 101 (2) Declining role of agriculture in total merchandise trade 103 (1) Stable regional share in world agricultural trade 104 (1) Diversified product composition of agricultural trade 104 (6) Geographic diversification of markets 110 (1) Agricultural trade balances and their economic significance 111 (6) The price factor 117 (2) Conclusions 119 (3) Near East and North Africa 122 (19) Regional overview 122 (7) General economic performance 122 (1) Agricultural performance 123 (6) Climate variability, aridity and vulnerability to drought 129 (12) Drought -- a structurally recurrent phenomenon in the region 130 (3) Water and land resource issues 133 (1) Impact of recent droughts on crop and livestock production 134 (1) Impact on population livelihood, household income and rural poverty 134 (2) Impact on the environment 136 (1) Government measures for drought prevention and relief of affected groups 137 (2) From reactive crisis management to proactive risk management in agriculture 139 (2) Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States 141 (14) Regional overview 141 (3) Macroeconomic trends and agricultural performance 141 (3) Land and farms in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS in the period of central planning 144 (1) Land and farm reform in Central and Eastern European and CIS countries 145 (10) The establishment of clear and secure rights of land tenure 147 (3) The creation of farms with an efficient ownership and management structure 150 (1) The formation of a class of mid-sized commercial farms 151 (2) Conclusions 153 (2) Developed Market Economies 155 (20) Overview 155 (20) General economic performance 155 (1) Agricultural performance 155 (5) Agricultural policy changes 160 (4) Notes 164 (11) PART III Agriculture and global public goods ten years after the Earth Summit The Role of Agriculture and Land in the Provision of Global Public Goods 175 (14) Introduction 175 (1) Economic concept of local and global public goods 176 (1) Public goods associated with the land-cluster chapters of Agenda 21 177 (1) Progress in the provision of global public goods since Rio-92 178 (4) Financing global public goods 182 (2) The need to increase international financial cooperation for promoting global public goods 184 (4) Conclusions 188 (1) Harvesting Carbon Sequestration Through Land-Use Change: A Way Out of Rural Poverty? ...”

Principles of European environmental law : proceedings of the Avosetta Group of European Environmental Lawyers /

Sumário: “...Principles and the hierarchy of norms 17 (5) a) General remark 17 (2) b) German law 19 (1) c) EC law 19 (2) d) International law 21 (1) 4 Judicial review of principles 22 (9) a) The context of providing powers 23 (2) b) The context of commanding action 25 (2) III Conclusion 27 (4) CHAPTER 3 The Genesis of EC Environmental Principles Ludwig Kr��mer 1 The birth 31 (2) 1.1 The origins 31 (1) 1.2 Principles in action programmes 32 (1) 2 The integration principle 33 (5) 2.1 Origins 33 (1) 2.2 Treaty amendments 34 (1) 2.3 Procedures inside the Commission 35 (1) 2.4 Sectoral initiatives 36 (1) 2.5 Cardiff process; impact assessments 37 (1) 3 The principle of preventive action 38 (1) 4 The precautionary principle 38 (3) 4.1 Birth of the principle 38 (1) 4.2 Precaution and prevention 39 (1) 4.3 Content 39 (2) 5 The rectification of environmental damage at source 41 (2) 5.1 Origins 41 (1) 5.2 Application 42 (1) 6 The polluter pays principle 43 (4) 6.1 Origins 43 (1) 6.2 State aids 44 (1) 6.3 EC law 45 (1) 6.4 Environmental liability 46 (1) 7 Concluding remarks 47 (4) CHAPTER 4 The Precautionary Principle before the European Courts Joanne Scott I The status of the precautionary principle according to the case law of the European courts 51 (5) II The implications of the precautionary principle 56 (11) III The WTO and the elaboration of the precautionary principle 67 (8) CHAPTER 5 European Environmental Law Principles in Belgian Jurisprudence Luc Lavrysen 1 Introduction 75 (1) 2 The polluter pays principle 76 (5) 2.1 The Court of Arbitration 76 (1) 2.2 The Flemish Wastewater Tax case 77 (2) 2.3 The Walloon Waste Tax case 79 (1) 2.4 The Flemish Cooling Water Tax case 80 (1) 3 The precautionary principle 81 (5) 3.1 The Aubange-messancy Transmission Line case 82 (1) 3.2 The Wilrijk Waste Incinerator case 83 (2) 3.3 The Sint-Niklaas Waste Incinerator case 85 (1) 4 The prevention at source principle 86 (1) 5 The constitutional rights on the protection of a healthy environment and of privacy - The stand still principle 87 (4) 5.1 The constitutional rights 87 (1) 5.2 The Zolder Race Circuit case 88 (1) 5.3 The Bierset Airport case 88 (2) 5.4 The Brussels National Airport Night Flights case 90 (1) 6 Conclusion 91 (4) CHAPTER 6 Implementation and Application of Environmental Principles in Danish Law Peter Pagh 95 (6) CHAPTER 7 Principles into Practice - The German Case Bernhard W. ...”