accessible for policy-makers, environmental managers and public discussion. Local factors are more important than commonly perceived, not only in terms of understanding impacts upon physical systems but also in formulating mitigating policies
Asia ; Economic aid ; Foreign policy ; International relations ; Japan ; Pacific Region ; Public assistance ; Security ; Sustainable development ; United States of America
Using the Asia-Pacific region to assess changes in U.S. and Japanese aid policies, the analysis compares the rhetoric and discourses evident in policy documents with actual aid disbursements to the region before and after the Cold War. US refocused
Agricultural policy, marginalisation of women and their effect on agricultural production in Vihiga district, Kenya
Agricultural credit ; Agricultural policy ; Agricultural production ; Gender ; Impact ; Kenya ; Land ; Land tenure ; Marginality ; Peasantry ; Rural development ; State control ; Vihiga ; Woman
Economic reform ; European part of Russia ; Finance ; Habitability ; Housing ; Housing cost ; Housing market ; Housing policy ; Legislation ; Moscow ; Privatisation ; Residential mobility ; Urban construction
The paper examines the results of the housing policy reforms in terms of their effects on private ownership, residential mobility, housing conditions and housing affordability. Longitudinal data on these four characteristics of the Moscow housing
The paper opens with a summary of the background to and the ambitions of the post-war planning system. The issues are illustrated by a brief look at three policy areas (new settlements, retailing and transport). Government has acted as a mediator
between conflicting interests rather than as a leader in policy-making.
Economic system ; Foreign policy ; Geopolitics ; Ideology ; Imperialism ; Japan ; Political geography ; Sovereignty
their negative posture and geopolitical thought came to affect policy-making. From the latter half of the 1930s, geopolitics was linked to a traditional concept regarding land. As far as geographers were concerned, their lending of countenance to geopolitics
Economic policy ; Foreign investment ; Foreign policy ; Geopolitics ; International relations ; International trade ; Russia ; South Korea
Evolution des relations entre les facteurs politiques et économiques qui ont influencé les relations économiques entre les deux pays de 1992 à 1997. Evolution des interactions politiques et du commerce bilatéral. Analyse de données sur les échanges
the shift in policy has provided a strong incentive to protect the species and recent data indicates a decline in poaching, it is still too early to know the outcomes of the recent policy changes. - (SLD)