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Focusing on the case study of Timor Leste, this book presents the New Subsistence State as a conceptual tool for understanding governance challenges in countries characterised by subsistence economic and social relations. It examines the ways in which Timor Leste conforms to the typology of the New Subsistence State, taking into consideration geographic, historical and socio-political aspects. The book defines a New Subsistence State as an overwhelmingly subsistence economy corresponding to little or no historical experience of the generation and administration of large surpluses, with minimal labour specialisation, and the predominance, especially in rural areas, of traditional authority re...
During the early 1990s, the ability of dangerous diseases to pass between animals and humans was brought once more to the public consciousness. These concerns continue to raise questions about how livestock diseases have been managed over time and in different social, economic, and political circumstances. Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine brings together case studies from the Americas, western Europe, and the European and Japanese colonies to illustrate how the rapid growth of the international trade in animals through the nineteenth century engendered the spread of infectious diseases, sometimes with devastating consequences for i...
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Brief survey of environmental issues with the conclusion that the green lobby is unwilling to acknowledge the role of economics in environment protection while most governments seem unwilling to admit that sustainable development will involve some economic cost. Working Paper No. 90/7 in the Centre's series.
Until the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to two East Timorese activists, few had heard of East Timor or of its struggle for independence from Indonesia. Here, Constancio Pinto, a colleague of the two Nobel Peace Prize winners, and Matthew Jardine, a long-time chronicler of the situation in East Timor, offer a first-hand account of life inside the Timorese independence movement.
Management of acid tropical soils in Southear Asia; Management of acid tropical soils in Africa; Management of acid soil in the humid tropics of Latin America; Management of acid tropical soils in teh savannas of South America; Pedological research in relation to soil fertility; The need for a soil fertility reference base and nutrient dynamics; Surface foil degradation and management strategies for sustained; Efficient use of phosphorus fertilization in acid tropical soil; Management of soil acidity; Reclamation of degraded acid tropical soils in Indonesia; Environmental characterization of acid tropical soils; Socioeconomic considerations in acid tropical soil research; Transfer of acid tropical soil management technology; Denor Agency Involvement with Agricultural Research Netmorks; IBSRAM and its network approach.
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