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Fresh water is an environmental, economic, social, and cultural commodity. This book provides a thorough assessment of its protection, management, and uses in international law. It explores the international, regional, and national regulatory frameworks that make up the international legal regime regulating fresh water....

&'You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.&'John Bold has lost his heart to Eleanor Harding but he is a political radical who has launched a campaign against the management of the charity of which her father is the Warden. How can this tangle be resolved? In...

This Handbook brings together the latest research on applied market design. It surveys matching markets: environments where there is a need to match large two-sided populations to one another, such as law clerks and judges or patients and kidney donors....

Economic Collapse and Recovery in TanzaniaFor many years Tanzania was the darling of international aid agencies. During the 1970s it received more assistance per capita than any other nation in the world. And yet, the economy performed dismally: growth was negative, exports collapsed, and poverty increased massively. In the mid 1980s, however, the...

Flowers are the beautiful and complex reproductive structures of the angiosperms, one of the most diverse and successful groups of living organisms. The underlying thesis of this book is that to fully understand plant development (and why flowers differ in shape, structure and colour), it is necessary to understand why it is advantageous for them...

The first book to analyse the law and practice in all key jurisdictions, Private Foundations World Survey systematically examines the fundamental aspects of setting up and running a private foundation in the main foundation jurisdictions. With 21 country-specific chapters, the book is a unique and invaluable resource in this evolving area....