In the days of the National Lending Library, the policy of what is now the British Library Lending Division was simply to develop and promote the use of a collection of worthwhile scientific and technical literature. Worthwhile literature was defined as that which might be of use to the higher...

This interview with David Wood of the HCIMA highlights his belief that recruitment and staffing are going to be the big problems of the new millennium. With hospitality perceived as a low‐skilled, low‐paid industry, recruitment presents difficulties now. Education in the industry has changed...

Policy makers, economists and water researchers have advocated water transfer and trade as a key potential response to worldwide water scarcity and/or efficiency problems. This paper examines aspects of an operational irrigation scheme in New Zealand that enables transfer of water between...

This article examines how public policy can and does play a role in enabling impact investing by U.S. institutional asset owners. We outline how government often plays a key role as underwriter, co-investor, regulator, procurer of goods and services, or provider of subsidies and technical...