The book analyses agricultural economics and food policy in New Zealand, where farming produce has been by far the main export commodity. Farming exports' importance, together with the need to diversify exports away from a former colonial relationship with the UK, makes liberalising agricultural...

International actors and factors, including multinational companies, have constrained and influenced local decision-making on the structure of water systems in Europe since 1990. The EU itself has exercised a major influence through environmental directives, fiscal policies associated with...

Based on empirical evidence, the article looks at the implications of private sector participation (PSP) for the delivery of water supply and sanitation to the urban and peri-urban poor in developing countries, with particular reference to Africa and Latin America. More precisely, the article...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Coming Together to Work Collectively -- Chapter 3: Struggling Towards a Unified Organisation -- Chapter 4: Emerging from wartime conditions -- Chapter 5: Impact nationally and internationally -- Chapter 6: Farming anxieties and a more favourable Government...

This book is a study of New Zealand shaking off its quasi-colonial dependence on Britain. Has New Zealand moved beyond its colonial heritage? Is it now time to remove the Union Jack from the national flag and change to a Republic? Hall analyses the three decades after World War II when changes...

Introduction, David Hall -- Chapter 1: Trade-offs and tough choices, Amelia Sharman -- Chapter 2: A tika transition, Maria Bargh -- Chapter 3: Our world up-ended, Kya Raina Lal -- Chapter 4: An intergenerational view, Sylvia Nissen -- Chapter 5: A just transition, Sam Huggard -- Chapter 6:...

Hospitalisation is a stressful experience, especially for children. While maternal separation has been as a major cause of distress among younger children, a broader perspective is required to understand the links between the individual, familial, professional, institutional and structural...