New and emerging technologies can yield a high payoff in catalyzing Africa's transition to sustainable development. Where effective, the new technologies can lower the incidence of disease, reduce food insecurity, and reduce vulnerability to environmental damage by allowing more flexible crop management systems. These are some of the conclusions in harnessing technologies for sustainable dev…
A long-time undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11. Its express purpose is to gain the trust of terrorists whose goals are to take out as many people in as public and devastating a way as possible. It's a furious race against the clock for Tamer and his unit to stop them before they can implement their plans. Yet as new as this war still is, the…
Peluang usaha produk halal masih terbuka bagi produsen Indonesia, menyusul tren permintaan produk halal yang terus meningkat dari tahun ke tahun. Indonesia sebagai negra berpenduduk muslim terbesar seharusnya bisa menangkap peluang tersebut, bukan melulu melakukan impor produk halal dari negara-negara non muslim. Ini penting dilakukan mengingat kepedulian akan sertifikasi halal merupakan salah …
Occupational and Environmental Safety Engineering and Management provides in-depth guidance toward all aspects of workplace safety. Extensive explanations of relevant legislation and regulation aids in compliance, while individual coverage of major hazards including fire, noise, and electricity provides targeted guidance for effective management. Practical appendices provide lists of known and …
Despite numerous small success stories, the big picture of America's toxics programs is one of overall failure. Superfund has failed to clean up America's worst dump sites; policies to regulate generation of new hazardous waste have foundered; standards have been set for only eight of several hundred air toxics; transportation spills and industrial toxics accidents continue unabated. In part, t…
The postwar alliance that evolved among Australia, New Zealand and the United States is rarely recognized as having had three distinct although closely related parts: legal basis (the ANZUS treaty); the diplomatic alliance, which is most commonly studied; and the defence relationship. This study provides a description and functional analysis of the long-ignored, but important security relations…
Almost overnight, the massive military-industrial assets of the Soviet Union came under the jurisdiction of fifteen states instead of one established government. While only four states inherited weapons of mass destruction, most of the fifteen states of the former Soviet Union can produce sensitive materials and equipment. Because all the states serve as transit points for both legal commerce a…
In South China Sea: Energy and Security Conflicts, foreign policy analyst Christopher L. Daniels analyzes the core causes of the dispute over territorial claims in the South China Sea, which separates some of the world’s fastest-growing economies. Starting with the question of access to the billions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas presently thought to lie beneath …
This is the book that blows the whistle on the politics of global warming in Australia. Why have our political leaders been so slow to act? Which are the fossil-fuel lobby groups that still set the policy agenda? How many different ways can one spin, deceive, lie and obfuscate instead of facing facts and looking for the solutions that are desperately needed? Written with humour, urgency and gre…
World-renowned futurist Hazel Henderson extends her twenty-five years of work in economics to examine the havoc the current economic system is creating at the global level. Markets are now spreading worldwide - a spread which is often equated with the hope of democracy spreading along with it. But markets still run on old textbook models that ignore social and environmental costs - leading to a…