The book analyses agricultural economics and food policy in New Zealand, where farming produce has been by far the main export commodity. Farming exports' importance, together with the need to diversify exports away from a former colonial relationship with the UK, makes liberalising agricultural...

International actors and factors, including multinational companies, have constrained and influenced local decision-making on the structure of water systems in Europe since 1990. The EU itself has exercised a major influence through environmental directives, fiscal policies associated with...

Based on empirical evidence, the article looks at the implications of private sector participation (PSP) for the delivery of water supply and sanitation to the urban and peri-urban poor in developing countries, with particular reference to Africa and Latin America. More precisely, the article...

The London Science Centre communicates with some 560 learned societies. Nearly all have libraries, archives and collections of various kinds, forming individually, as well as together, unique collections of special value to mankind in scholarship and learning. The size of library varies from a...

A new management ‘system’ has been developed which is so comprehensive and integrated that it provides a new direction in management thinking. On the basis of real‐life experiences at the ‘sharp end’ of management rather than theoretical research, it argues that business failures are...

This paper addresses the potential of public water operations in achieving developmental goals such as the Millennium Development Goals, and argues that the public sector has a comparative advantage in developing water services. The global importance of the public sector in urban water supply is...