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In this volume security specialists, peace researchers, environmental scholars, demographers as well as climate, desertification, water, food and urbanisation specialists from the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and North America review security and conflict prevention in the Mediterranean. They also analyse NATO’s Mediterranean security dialogue and offer conceptualisations on security and perceptions of security challenges as seen in North and South. The latter half of the book analyses environmental security and conflicts in the Mediterranean and environmental consequences of World War II, the Gulf War, the Balkan wars and the Middle East conflict. It also examines factors of global environmental change: population growth, climate change, desertification, water scarcity, food and urbanisation issues as well as natural disasters. Furthermore, it draws conceptual conclusions for a fourth phase of research on human and environmental security and peace as well as policy conclusions for cooperation and partnership in the Mediterranean in the 21st century.
Provides: over 26,000 academic institutions, 150,000 staff and officials; extensive coverage of universities, colleges and other centres of learning; and detailed information on over 400 international cultural, scientific and educational organizations.
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The best oils are made by authentic artist-craftsmen, who marry centuries-old agricultural wisdom with cutting-edge extraction technology, and now produce the finest oils in history. However, these producers are being steadily driven from the market: extra-virgin olive oil is difficult and expensive to make, yet alarmingly easy to adulterate. Skilled oil criminals are flooding the market with low-cost, faux extra-virgins, reaping rich profits and undercutting honest producers, whilst authorities in Italy, the US and elsewhere turn a blind eye. From the feisty pugliese woman of sixty struggling to keep the family business afloat to her industrialist neighbour who has allegedly grown wealthy on counterfeit oil, to Benedictine monks in Western Australia and poker-playing agriculture barons in northern California who make this ancient foodstuff in New World ways, Mueller distils the passions and life stories of oil producers, and explores the conflict, culinary vitality and cultural importance of great olive oil.
El Cultivo del Olivo se ha concebido como un texto de elevado nivel técnico dirigido a personas del sector: agricultores, industriales, técnicos, estudiantes y, en general, a todos aquellos interesados en el cultivo de esta planta milenaria. Por ello se diseñó como una obra colectiva. Se trataba de elaborar un libro permanentemente actualizado, que contara con la participación de expertos con los conocimientos científicos y técnicos precisos en cada uno de sus capítulos que permitieran al lector plantar y cultivar con éxito un olivar y obtener unos productos de calidad a la luz de los conocimientos actuales. Esta séptima edición aparece 20 años después de la primera. Durante est...
Recursos humanos en investigación y desarrollo.--V.2.
Contains information on international organizations and individual chapters on academic institutions in countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. A comprehensive index is included in both volumes.
Guía que se realiza para dar cumplimiento a la Ley 11/83 de Reforma Universitaria y Decretos que la desarrollan.