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Languages : en
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Facility Operation and Administration, 7210.3M, Change 1, 1996
Author: Seagrasses
Author: Stephen A. BortonePublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420074474
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Seagrasses are becoming widely used as in situ indicators of the relative health and condition of subtropical and tropical estuarine ecosystems. To permit meaningful management of our estuaries, there is clearly a need to develop and refine ways of effectively monitoring and assessing seagrasses. Seagrasses: Monitoring, Ecology, Physiology, and
Economic Transformation of South China
Author: Thomas P. LyonsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780939657704
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Dynamics of the Breakthrough in Eastern Europe
Author: Jadwiga StaniszkisPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520351886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Understanding the dramatic political, social, and economic changes that have taken place in Poland in the mid-1980s is one key to predicting the future of the communist bloc. Jadwiga Staniszkis, an influential, internationally known expert on contemporary trends in Eastern Europe, provides an insider's analysis that deserves the attention of all scholars interested in the region. Staniszkis presents the breakthrough of 1989 as a consequence not only of systemic contradictions within socialism but also of a series of chance events. These events include unique historical circumstances such as the emergence of the "globalist" faction in Mosow, with its new, world-system perception of crisis, and the discovery of the round-table technique as a productive ritual of communication, imitated all over Eastern Europe. After describing the development, collapse, and reorganization of a "new center" in Poland in 1989-1990, she discusses the first attempt at privatizing the economy. Her analysis of the dilemmas accompanying breakthrough and transition is an invaluable guide to the challenges that face both capitalism and democracy in Eastern Europe.
Understanding Inequality: Social Costs and Benefits
Author: Amanda MachinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3658116633
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The contributions in this book highlight, contextualize and analyze different aspects of social inequality. What are the various cause and effects of inequality? How have these changed over recent decades? Which social policies might be best able to intervene? Written by authors from a variety of disciplines and geographical regions, these contributions provide a rich account of inequality within contemporary society. The role of the state, the media and the market in exacerbating and alleviating patterns of equality are all accessed alongside analysis of changing patterns of exclusion and hierarchy.