Product Description: See how master craftsman Philip C. Lowe builds a Queen Anne Lowboy. This Fine Woodworking Workshop video is the ideal project for advancing your skills as you build a beautiful period piece. You'll learn classic case construction techniques and gain a deeper understanding of traditional techniques along the way...read more

Product Description: Every year, top-level market regulators, academics, and legal and economic practitioners contribute to the Annual Competition Workshop organized at the European University Institute in Florence. Workshop participants address and critically analyze a particular set of topical issues in the field of competition law and policy...read more

Product Description: This volume contains the written contributions and oral proceedings of the "16th Annual EU Competition Law and Policy Workshop," held at the European University Institute in June 2011. This meeting of the Workshop examined the emerging and increasingly important use of private rights of action before national courts and in ADR fora, and the prospects for legislation and soft law initiatives at the level of the EU...read more

Product Description: Build a master furniture maker’s favorite bench. In this Fine Woodworking workshop DVD, award-winning craftsman Philip C. Lowe will show you how to build the workbench that’s been his trusty workshop companion for 40 ye

Product Description: Youll gain experience and confidence as you watch a pro construct a sturdy case and face frames, cut curves with a bandsaw, edge plywood, shape moldings, glue up, and add masterful finishing touches. Plus you will learn how to customize your bookcase with either flat or ogee bracket feet...read more

Product Description: Learn the simple steps to masterfully reproduce any piece with Measuring Furniture for Reproduction. In this one-of-a-kind DVD, woodworker Phil Lowe shows you how to take the measurements of an existing piece, create a set of plans, and then reproduce the piece in your workshop...read more

Product Description: This book reviews assessments on the environmental effects of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and assesses the contribution of agricultural policy to environmental quality in the EU. It focuses on the role of agricultural policy in reducing harmful effects and/or creating benefits to the physical environment, landscape and nature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book explores the effectiveness of the response of environmental groups and organisations in Britain in to the challenges of European integration. Examining the relative European orientation of British environmental policy, and the impact of British concerns on European environmental policy, the book examines issues of environmental diplomacy, institutional dynamics, and policy debates relating to specific concerns such as: * pollution * land use * transport * natural conservation Presenting a wealth of examples throughout, the book draws together contributions from leading academics and practitioners from institutions and organisations such as the DOE, European Commission, WWF and CPRE...read more

Product Description: This work investigates the dichotomy between the notion of polluting cities and rural idyll. Examining the emergence of the farm pollution problem in Britain in the 1980s, the book traces the resulting change in public opinion leading to a new "moralizing" of the countryside...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The aim of this annual review is to provide an analysis of actual and proposed changes to rural planning legislation across the main sectors: agriculture, forestry, conservation, recreation, settlement planning, transport planning, and other issues such as mineral extraction and employment...read more

Product Description: A collection of papers that brings gender issues to the forefront of rural research. Focusing on the role of rural women and their position in family farming, the text addresses gender issues as they relate to rural households and agricultural science...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: An in-depth examination of the processes that are moulding rural labour markets around the world. Presents a new integrative approach to labour market analysis, replacing the outdated conventional sectorial approach currently in use...read more

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Product Description: A thorough examination of tremendous changes apparent in traditional rural society in recent years and their affects on modern, national societies. Studies the broad trends that have altered the parameters employed by policymakers at different scales in western societies including Sweden, Australia, Britain and the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An in-depth examination of how the rural environments of developed and currently developing countries have been transformed not only by urbanization and industrialization but also by the technological revolution. From the greenhouse effect to slurry pollution and the destruction of genetic resources to the risks associated with advanced biotechnology, the book addresses a broad sampling of problems and the impact they have on the environmental, social and political dynamics of their respective regions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The aims of this annual review are twofold. Firstly, it provides an overview of actual and proposed changes to rural planning legislation across the main sectors, ie agriculture, forestry, conservation, recreation, settlement planning, transport planning and other issues like mineral extraction and employment...read more

Product Description: This book provides new insights into the trends that will guide rural change in advanced economies into the next century and offers an innovative approach to investigating those trends. Constructing the Countryside will appeal to students and staff in a wide range of social science disciplines, including rural sociology, geography, planning, environmental management, agricultural economics and land economy, as well as to anyone concerned with the future development of rural areas...read more

The first of a five-volume series, 'Restructuring Rural Areas', from the London Countryside Research Centre, this book aims to put the rural domain firmly on the agenda of social science enquiry. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Research into rural issues is a dominant theme of contemporary social science as the countryside repsonds to the new challenges of contemprorary politics, economics and society. This book has been produced by the Franco-British Association for Rural Studies as a major review and inventory of rural research over the past 25 years and contains parallel papers by leading French and British scholars in History, Geography, Economics, Anthropology, Sociology and Politics each of which reviews the main empirical and theoretical themes of the past quarter century, identifies current debates and schools of thought, the institutional structure of rural research, emergent trends and further research directions...read more