Drawing on insights from theoretical applications, empirically based approaches and case study experience, this book contributes to the improved design and use of trade and related policy interventions in staple food markets

1. Ethnic minorities in the European Union : an overview / Martin Kahanec, Anzelika Zaiceva and Klaus F. Zimmermann -- 2. An expert stakeholder's view on European integration challenges / Amelie F. Constant, Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann -- 3. The practice of minority integration in the...

This Handbook brings together a range of viewpoints on a number of the burning issues affecting urban sustainability in North America and Europe at the beginning of the 21st century. H.S. Geyer and his contributors cover a wide spectrum of the urban policy issues that determine the growth and...

"This timely book explores how Northern European countries have sought to balance their welfare states with increased levels of migration from low-income countries outside the EU. Using case studies of the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden, leading scholars analyse the varying approaches...

Bottom-up approaches towards a global climate agreement : an overview -- Carlo Carraro, Christian Egenhofer and Noriko Fujiwara -- Regional and subglobal climate blocs : a cost-benefit analysis of bottom-up climate regimes / Barbara Buchner and Carlo Carraro -- Do regional integration approaches...

1. A reconsideration of environmental federalism / Wallace E. Oates -- 2. Global environmental governance, political lobbying and transboundary pollution / Surjinder Johal and Alistair Ulph -- 3. Endogenous transfrontier pollution / Michael Rauscher -- 4. Allocating greenhouse gas emissions...

This well-documented book analyzes the possibilities and constraints of regulatory cooperation between the EU and the US (particularly California) with a specific focus on environmental protection, food safety and agriculture, biosafety and biodiversity

This timely book brings together cutting-edge research on the important subject of science and innovation policies. The contributors--distinguished social science scholars--tackle the key challenges of designing and implementing public policies in the context of the new knowledge economy

This compact and authoritative book brings together the topical themes of networks and governance to advance understanding of the determinants of local economic development in the context of increasingly global relationships