Plunkett's Companion to the Almanac of American Employers
A complete report by Plunkett Research analyzing both America's top mid-size corporate employers (those with 100 to 2,500 employees) and the major trends sweeping through business and the economy that affect job seekers of all types. Plunkett's Companion to the Almanac of American Employers: Mid-Size Firms FIRMS is the premier guide to the most ......
Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920
Throughout the twentieth century, natural resource conservation emerged as a vital force in US politics, laying the groundwork for present-day ""sustainability."" Merging environmental, agricultural, and political history, Joshua Nygren traces the political economy and ecology of agricultural conservation through the lens of the ......
Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920
Throughout the twentieth century, natural resource conservation emerged as a vital force in US politics, laying the groundwork for present-day ""sustainability."" Merging environmental, agricultural, and political history, Joshua Nygren traces the political economy and ecology of agricultural conservation through the lens of the ......
Nonstandard Interaction Domains and Finite Element Discretizations
The book presents the state of the art of nonlocal modeling and discretization and novel analyses of a class of nonstandard nonlocal models. These models have recently become a viable alternative to classical partial differential equations when the latter are unable to capture effects such as discontinuities and multiscale behavior in a system of ......
"This book provides new insights into the important and developing agricultural value chains, including on current constraints and the enormity of opportunities, emanating in the dynamic GMS, especially through to their main giant market of China. Analysis in the GMS countries forms comparable case studies of major crops using mappings of their ......
Catalysts for Socio-Economic Development in Brunei Darussalam
As in many other oil and gas dependent countries, Brunei Darussalam-a country with a small population but the second highest income per capita in Southeast Asia-has been diversifying its economy in three sectors: from oil and gas to other sectors of export/economic growth; from the dominance of public sector employment to a more balanced public ......
The Opium Factory of Ghazipur has a history all its own. Like most other colonial enterprises, it was developed to further colonial mercantile and imperial interests. Ghazipore, as it was known in British India, was the headquarters of the Benaras opium agency, which included almost the whole of the then-United Provinces. Directed and driven by ......
There is a growing policy trend that in addressing climate change, various trade measures must be implemented to enhance the sustainable practices of global stakeholders. As a response to level up the playing field of global trade partners in enhancing sustainability, the EU recently introduced the European Union (EU) Carbon Border Adjustment ......
Forced labour, encompassing various types of coercive practices and rights violations, is an entrenched problem in Malaysia. Recent years have seen more decisive and concerted efforts to resolve the problem and repair Malaysia's damaged reputation, but the country's forced labour woes escalated amid COVID-19, with exposes and trade embargoes in ......
