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  • Understanding and minimising fungicide resistance

    The emergence of fungicide resistance is a major challenge facing agriculture. With increasing regulation and costs limiting the development of new fungicides, farmers remain reliant on a relatively small group of working fungicides, many of which are decreasingly effective as major crop disease pathogens develop resistance to them.Understanding and minimising fungicide resistance provides an ... Read more

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  • The Carbon Market Challenge

    Preventing Abuse Through Effective Governance

    Series series Elements in Earth System Governance
    Carbon markets – both emission trading systems and baseline and credit systems – are an increasingly common policy instrument being introduced to address climate change mitigation. However, their design is crucial to ensure that they deliver cost-effective emission reductions while maintaining environmental integrity. This Element puts together a comprehensive, principle-based overview of the ... Read more

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    Series Book 26 - British Mycological Society Symposia
    The fungi are a highly diverse kingdom of eukaryotic microbes. Recent advances in molecular genetics, together with the release of whole genome sequences of an increasing number of fungi, are facilitating their exploitation and commercialisation. Fungi have the ability to secrete large quantities of proteins of commercial value, and their complex secondary metabolic pathways produce a diverse ... Read more

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  • The Blockchain Alternative

    Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory

    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Examine what would happen if we were to deploy blockchain technology at the sovereign level and use it to create a decentralized cashless economy. This book explains how finance and economics work today, and how the convergence of various technologies related to the financial sector can help us find solutions to problems, such as excessive debt creation, banks getting too big to fail, and shadow ... Read more

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  • Understanding Japanese Savings

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    by Robert Dekle ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
    Japan's savings are among the highest in the world, and these high rates have played a valuable role throughout the post-war period. However, over the next several decades, Japan's population will be ageing rapidly. Will this lower Japanese savings rates?Using up-to-date financial and demographical data, author Robert Dekle finds that the answer to this question is an emphatic 'yes'. Understanding ... Read more

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  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1

    Breeding, quality traits, pests and diseases

    Series Book 5 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance;Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality;Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases together with ways of controlling them such as disease-resistant varieties, integrated pest and ... Read more

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  • The Doom Loop in the Financial Sector

    And Other Black Holes of Risk

    by William Leiss ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Risk Management
    In the past two years, the world has experienced how unsound economic practices can disrupt global economic and social order. Today’s volatile global financial situation highlights the importance of managing risk and the consequences of poor decision making.The Doom Loop in the Financial Sector reveals an underlying paradox of risk management: the better we become at assessing risks, the more we ... Read more

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    Plant stresses are serious threats to the sustainability of crop yields accounting for more crop productivity losses than any other factor in rainfed agriculture. Post-harvest losses mean surplus crops do not reach market, affecting the livelihoods of farming families, and too often these families are left with no other option than to eat contaminated stored food. These constraints impact the food ... Read more

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  • Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy

    Multidisciplinary Methods and Tools for a Low Carbon Society

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
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  • Insect Resistance Management

    Biology, Economics, and Prediction

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  • Globalization And Growth: Implications For A Post-Crisis World

    *What were the causes of the financial and economic crises of 2008-2009?*What intellectual and policy mistakes prevented academics and policymakers from anticipating the crisis?*What is the future of financial regulation both domestic and international?*What role did global macroeconomic imbalances play in the run-up to the crisis?*What is the future of the export-led growth model and what are the ... Read more

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