The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. This book brings together academics, members of European institutions, and regional and national level policymakers in order to assess the performance and direction of EU Cohesion pol…
Pelestarian, perlindungan, dan promosi Sumber Daya Genetik Tanaman (SDG), Pengetahuan Tradisional (TK), inovasi, dan praktik-praktik dari masyarakat lokal dan masyarakat adat merupakan kunci penting bagi pembangunan suatu negara. Kekayaan PGR dan TK memainkan peran penting dalam perawatan kesehatan, ketahanan pangan, budaya, agama, identitas, lingkungan, pembangunan berkelanjutan, dan perdagang…
Pemuliaan tanaman yang mulai bekerja pada tahun 2015 akan mendekati akhir karir mereka pada tahun 2050. Kedua tahun itu sangat penting. Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa menetapkan delapan Tujuan Pembangunan Milenium yang ambisius untuk dicapai pada tahun 2015, dari garis dasar tahun 1990. Salah satunya mengurangi separuh tingkat kemiskinan ekstrim dan termasuk mengurangi separuh proporsi orang yang m…
Ada peningkatan hasil panen yang signifikan sejak tahun 1950-an, yang membuat makanan lebih murah dan lebih terjangkau. Namun, produksi tanaman dunia harus meningkat dalam tiga setengah dekade ke depan untuk memberi makan populasi yang terus bertambah. Itu harus terjadi sebagian besar di tanah yang sudah ditanami. Pemuliaan tanaman, subjek buku ini, menyediakan sarana untuk mengatasi tantangan …
The Anthropocene, in which humankind has become a geological force, is a major scientific proposal; but it also means that the conceptions of the natural and social worlds on which sociology, political science, history, law, economics and philosophy rest are called into question. The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis captures some of the radical new thinking prompted by the arriv…
This book explores how the Indian education and training system prepares young people for the world of work and for the requirements of the employment market – because India is a leading industrialised nation with a very young population and a high demand for a skilled workforce. Indian experts write from a course-specific perspective, offering a comprehensive picture of educational policy, c…
This open access book presents a person-centered exploration of student profiles, using variables related to motivation to do school mathematics derived from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data. Statistical cluster analysis is used to identify groups of students with similar motivational profiles, across grades and over time, for multiple participating…
"Brij V. Lal is a singular scholar. His work has spanned disciplines—from history to politics—and genres—from conventional monograph history, to participant history, political commentary, encyclopaedia, biography and faction. Brij is without doubt the most eminent scholar Fiji has ever produced. He also remains the most significant public intellectual of his country, despite having been b…
"Increasing inequalities, social exclusion and poverty within the EU (although at a different scale between States) prove that the effectiveness of social rights falls behind their formal entitlements and their judicial enforceability. Beyond the classical way followed by legal studies in dealing with the issue, the focus would shift to experimental ways better able to cope with the current mul…
The role of oxidative stress in human disease has become an area of intense interest. Free radicals, a normal product of metabolism, exist in all aerobic cells in balance with biochemical antioxidants. Environmental stress increases the levels of free radicals drastically, thereby disturbing the equilibrium between free radical production and the antioxidant capability causing oxidative stress.…