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Abstract: The main aspects covered for each guarantee scheme are: history, legal status, funding, working principles and procedures, quantitative data and financial performance, contribution to the agricoltural sector, perspective.

Abstract: Focusing onretailing in nineteenth-century Britain, this book traces the expansion of commodity culture and a mass consumer orientated market, and explores the wider social and cultural implications this had for society. It challenges the view that women were helpless consumers manipulated by merchants' use colour, light and display intoexcessive purchases, or even driven by their desires into acts of theft.

Abstract: Arrivare all'individuazione dell'esistenza di un rischio da cause ambientali è particolarmente difficile e può trascorrere molto tempo tra le segnalazioni scientifiche ed il riconoscimento e l'accettazione dell'effetto sulla salute. In questo volume si cerca di garantire informazioni chiare su alcune delle principali problematiche ambientali, con intento divulgativo, che possono essere lo spunto per successivi approfondimenti.

Abstract: Leading the way towards answering this question, The Ethical Consumer is an indispensable introduction to the subject. Exploring areas like boycotts and fair trade projects, it gathers together the diverse experiences of scholars, campaigners and business practitioners from the international community.

Abstract: In this book, Rob Dellink shows he is a skillful applied modeller of environment-economy interactions. The book includes three stylized models that will prove to be a great help for students who want to understand the basics of environmental policy analysis in general equilibrium models.

Abstract: This book examines alternative theories and the empirical testing of trade-offs we make in life among work, leisure, travel and personal maintenance actions and how our plans relate to lenght of stay, attractions, destinations, accomodation and activities, and investigates how marketing strategies affect consumer plans.

Abstract: A "Safe and Sustainable World" demonstrates what has and can be done. It also looks to what must be done to integrate human ingenuity and the four billion or so years of evolutionary intelligence of the natural world into healthy human environment.

Abstract: In this book, the tow authors bring together an array of scholars who explore the ambivalence provoked by the global spread of "American" consumer culture. The first comparative volume to examine global phenomena of consumer culture from the perspective of East Asia, this book analyze not only the attractions of mass consumption but also the many discontents and dilemmas that arise from consumerism.

Abstract: While many rural areas continue to experience depopulation and economic declfacing rapid in-migration, as well as employment and income growth. Much of this growth is due to the presence and use of amenity resources, broadly defined as qualities of a region that make it an attractive place to live and work. Rather than extracting natural resources for external markets, these communities have begun to build economies based on promoting environmental quality.