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Japan's explosive transformation from a primarily agrarian society to a highly industrialized modern nation has been the subject in recent years of a great deal of interest and study, particularly in...

This study is presented in three parts: the first part outlines the major historical developments that influenced current Egyptian social policy. The second part details the demographic, socio...

Knowledge of what is in the foods that are eaten around the world is of critical importance and at the same time extremely inadequate. Data on food composition underpin research and policy in a number...

Data on the nutrient composition of foods are of crucial importance for health assessment, the formulation of appropriate therapeutic and institutional diets, food and nutrition training.The reader is...

Brucellosis is a disease of animals and humans that causes serious economic and social distress, especially in developing countries. This volume examines the bacteriological, immunological...

This study traces the small-scale labour-intensive industries in Japan from the Meiji period (1868-1912) up to World War II. With numerous case studies of the shell-button, brush, knit fabric and...

This technical study focuses on outer space technologies and their implications for conflict or peace. It deals with such areas as: space as a source of conflict, civil space activities...

This book is a sequel to Human Rights and Scientific and Technological Development and follows on the theoretical discussion concerning the interrelation between scientific and technological...

Japan has led the world in high-speed rail development and its industry is nearly unmatched in sophistication - yet just over 100 years ago, people and goods moved mostly on foot and by ox cart. The...

Describes and compares the pattern and distribution of urban ordinary criminal behaviour in a variety of cultural settings; the social, economic and cultural structures or processes that may be...

This is a comparative study of the impact of demographic transitions in Colombia on the lives and families of women in rural and urban areas and of different socio-economic strata. It looks at the...

This study begins with a look at the well-known Ashio Copper Mine pollution case, one of modern Japan's first and most devastating environmental disasters; the country's worst pollution incident in...

This study is a companion to 'Migration of Asian Workers to the Arab World'. The Arab region has witnessed a massive inflow of migrant workers from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Korea, the...

The authors analyze systems designed to integrate, intensify and increase food and energy production by transforming the by-products of one system into the feedstock of another. Strategies to increase...

This study stresses the importance of understanding how resources are distributed within the household in order to design successful and effective development programmes.

This study is an important contribution to the urgent need for a careful assessment on the part of scholars, planners and decision-makers of past and present colonization schemes in order to insure...

In addition to the consumption, distribution, supply, ecological aspects and the management of wood fuel resources, the authors examine relevant policy issues, including alternative sources of wood...

This volume, the first study of its kind, begins a review of all currently available information and research results on home gardens in South and Southeast Asia, Latin American, Africa and the...

This study, by a group of Japanese business and economic historians, contributes to a better understanding of technological development in Japan generally and more particularly, of the specific...

The replacement of forest with human domesticates is one of the most ancient relationships between humanity and the environment. What is new is the rate and scale at which forests are being cleared to...