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The privatization of the oceans
Rich with detail and provocatively argued, this study of the development of property rights in the world's fisheries tells the story of one industry's evolution and provides a useful illustration of the forces that shape economic institutions. The emergence of exclusive individual rights of access in the fishing industry began after the revolution in the international law of the sea that took p…
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- 9780262274869
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- 1 online resource (viii, 202 pages) :illustrations, 1 map
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Shadows in the forest :Japan and the politics of timber in Southeast Asia
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- 0585337888
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- 1 online resource (x, 308 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Reflections on water :new approaches to transboundary conflicts and cooperation
This book offers conceptual and empirical support for the idea that the human relationship with water must move beyond rationalist definitions of water as product, property, and commodity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268660
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 358 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Seeing the forest and the trees :human-environment interactions in forest eco…
'Seeing the Forest and the Trees' examines changes in land cover & land use in forested regions as major contributors to global environmental change.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262280150
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 442 pages) :illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
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Scalable input/output :achieving system balance
As we enter the "decade of data," the disparity between the vast amount of data storage capacity (measurable in terabytes and petabytes) and the bandwidth available for accessing it has created an input/output bottleneck that is proving to be a major constraint on the effective use of scientific data for research. Scalable Input/Output is a summary of the major research results of the Scalable …
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- 9780262287869
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- 1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) :illustrations.
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State making and environmental cooperation :linking domestic and internationa…
The Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers of Central Asia flow across deserts to empty into the Aral Sea. Under Soviet rule, so much water was diverted from the rivers for agricultural purposes that salinity levels rapidly rose and the sea shrank. There was an upsurge in dust storms containing toxic salt residue, and a new desert began to replace the sea. At the same time, agricultural runoff rendered…
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- 9780262285919
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Social capital and information technology
A selection of revised papers from a workshop organized by the editors and held in Amsterdam on 21-22 May 2002, with the addition of some invited papers by social researchers.A multidisciplinary examination of the interplay between social capital-the value derived from social ties-and information technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262256391
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- 1 online resource (ix, 416 pages) :illustrations
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Sharing expertise :beyond knowledge management
An overview of expertise sharing, an approach to knowledge management that emphasizes the human components of knowledge work in addition to information storage and retrieval. The field of knowledge management focuses on how organizations can most effectively store, manage, retrieve, and enlarge their intellectual properties. The repository view of knowledge management emphasizes the gathering, …
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- 9780262266772
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Software development failures :anatomy of abandoned projects
Failed or abandoned software development projects cost the U.S. economy alone billions of dollars a year. In Software Development Failures, Kweku Ewusi-Mensah offers an empirically grounded study that suggests why these failures happen and how they can be avoided. Case studies analyzed include the well-known Confirm travel industry reservation program, FoxMeyer's Delta, the IRS's Tax System Mod…
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- 9780262256087
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Web Reasoning and Rule Systems 9th International Conference, RR 2015, Berlin…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR 2015, held in Berlin, Germany, in August 2015. The 5 full papers, 4 technical communications presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The scale and the heterogenous nature of web data poses many challenges, and turns ba…
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- 978-3-319-22002-4
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