M R Brett‐Crowther
Biographic Data
| ID | 5931156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M R Brett‐Crowther |
| GIVEN NAMES | M R |
| FAMILY NAME | Brett‐Crowther |
| SIGNATURE | CROWTHER M R B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 41 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Sugar
From Curse to Blessing? Using Natural Resources to Fuel Sustainable Development
edited by Irakli Khodeli, Wiley‐Blackwell & UNESCO, Oxford, 157 pp., 2009, £19.99 (ISBN 978‐1‐4051‐9263‐7). This is a puzzling book. It attempts to confront the problems of resource rich societies
Unveiling the Whale
Strange Blooms
The Road to Yucca Mountain
The Losing Battle with Islam
Science & Islam
by Ehsan Masood, Icon Books Ltd, London, ISBN 978 184831 040 7, xvi +240 pages, £14.99. Masood says that the Muslim world was an empire of which the last caliphate ended in 1923 with the fall of th
Technology and Values
Islamic Imperialism
Water Law, Poverty, and Development
by Philippe Cullet, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009, xiv + 241 pp., hardback, £60 (ISBN 978019 9546237). This book calls for a broader frame of reference. But there is a lack of definition ei
Climate Change
World Ethics and Climate Change
Colors
Taming the Anarchy
by Tushaar Shah, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC/International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2009, x + 310 pp., cloth, $49.95 (ISBN 978‐1‐933‐115‐60‐3). Shah begins by sa
The Biology of Civilisation
by Stephen Boyden, UNSW Press, Sydney, 189 pp, AU$29.95, pbk (ISBN 0 86840 766 6). This is popular science written by a scientist’s scientist who understands the limitations of his environment very
The Vanishing Face of Gaia
by James Lovelock, with a foreword by Martin Rees, Allen Lane, Penguin, London, 2009, hardback (ISBN 978 1846141850) Lovelock notes at the outset that ‘icons are important to us’ and that for some
Disease in the Merchant Navy
by Gordon C. Cook, Radcliffe Publishing Ltd, Oxford, 2007, vi + 630 pp. (ISBN 13: 978 1 84619 236 4). Cook begins with 1 Cor 13: 13 ‘And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the great
The Retreat of the Elephants
by Mark Elvin, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT and London, 2004, pages xxviii + 564, ISBN: 9780300101119 There has sadly become established a habit of public praise by those who know an author
Water, society and the future
The need to innovate in the use and re‐use of water in the Middle East and North Africa is related to the need for making a transition to the post‐petroleum economy, both of many states there, and oil‐dependent states elsewhere. The paper raises some fundamental issues
Modern Iran
by Nikki R. Keddie, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2006, xviii + 408 pp., £10.99, pbk, ISBN‐13:978‐0‐300‐12105‐6 Keddie loves Iran. She dedicates her book ‘to the people of Iran’, with
Energy, society and the future
The paper surveys the energy problem in relation to global warming and the social criteria of India. India’s failure to develop a policy on global warming is highlighted and her economic policy judged in relation to her energy options, including such notable work as jatropha development and nuclear energy
Temptations of the West
The future of the crown
Obituary
Ecological balance and change
From consideration of homeostasis the author offers some discussion of sociobiology related to fundamental concepts and proposes an approach to the world problem through human ecology, which is illustrated by the problem of aggression and certain other problems in health and nutrition
No prominent works on this page.
Some reflexions on mycotoxicosis (an introduction)
With savages the difficulty of obtaining subsistence occasionally limits their number in a much more direct manner than with civilised people, for all tribes periodically suffer from severe famines. At such times savages are forced to devour much bad food, and their health can hardly fail to be injured. Many accounts have been published of their protruding stomachs and emaciated limbs after and during famines
On social coherence and the new towns
One cause of social unrest is the constant acquaintance of people with themselves; an acquaintance which seldom becomes true knowledge. There is no escape from people. They are a continuous pressure on each would‐be individual, a continuous threat to his space, his property, his life, his freedom. They also demand the same resources as he needs and they tend to waste them in as prodigal a fashion. All the deadly sins are more venomous in a massiv…
Science, values and the social future
Cultural unity depends on the acceptance of value systems. Science, one of the Two Cultures, has seemed to replace value systems and become the whole of culture. But science is being re‐shaped together with its partner. Education should reflect cultural unity, but even interdisciplinary work is restricted by an exaggeration of the role of science. Social psychology impinges on both cultures. Current trends to maximise the last profits of the Indu…
Energy and ethics
The justification of nuclear energy is said to be exponential energy need. Demand is not the same as need; and justice is not self‐interest. Risk assessment methods seem to be pre‐determined by the objectives of energy‐obsessed technocrats. The vulnerability of man and the environment will be increased by nuclear expansion. Energy is a real problem. It takes other forms than electrification and other answers are possible
Which way the future
Median objectives in the world problematic
Key words: Development StudiesMiddle EastFoodEnergy, Biomass, Oil, SolarPost‐harvest LossesMycotox‐insTropical PlantsWorld EconomyReclamation
Mass poverty
Patterns of law, pressures of place
Iran and Iraq at war
Bookshelf
THE OVERSEAS STUDENT QUESTION The Overseas Student Question: Studies for a Policy. Edited by PETER WILLIAMS. Contributors: MARK BLAUG, GUY HUNTER, JEAN‐PIERRE JAROUSSE, JOHN OXENHAM, ALAN SMITH, WILLIAM WALLACE, CHRISTINE WOESLER de PANAFIEU and MAUREEN WOODALL. Heinemann, for the Overseas Students Trust. £6.50. THE ALTERNATIVE TO SUBMISSION Arabia, the Gulf and the West. J. B. Kelly. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 1980. 530 pp. £15.00. COMMONW…
Economic development
(1981). Economic development: Theory v. practice. The Round Table: Vol. 71, No. 283, pp. 280-288
Commonwealth bookshelf
Australia in world war COMMONWEALTH DATA The Commonwealth Factbook: Facts and Figures about Commonwealth Countries, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, 1982, 48 pp. HONG KONG MIRACLE Hong Kong: Economic Growth and Policy, A.J. YOUNGSON, Oxford University Press, 1982, 163 pp, £9. PURSUIT OF AUTONOMY Canadian Relations with South Africa: A Diplomatic History, BRIAN DOUGLAS TENNYSON, University Press of America Inc, Washington, DC, 1982, xvi + 238 pp,…
Commonwealth bookshelf
MORE THAN AFTERTHOUGHTS Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism, Ronald Robinson and John Gallagher with Alice Denny, Macmillan, second edition, 1981, xxiii + 519 pp, paperback. REVOLUTIONARY SOURCES Grenada: The Struggle against Destabilization, Chris Searle, Writers and Readers, London, 1983, 164 pp, £3.95 pb, also hb. HONG KONG PREOCCUPATIONS Hong Kong Briefing, The China Quarterly, September 1983, Contemporary China Instit…
Human ecology and development
Human ecology is the attempt to make sense of the environmental crises, so that their implications for human being—their ontological questions—and their revelations of external reality—their empirical data—unite. The paradoxical and religious levels of experience, including the worldviews of the great cultures, are integral to an eco‐conscious development policy. Cosmic values are instanced via the Judaeo‐Christian worldview
Urban renewal in the Indian subcontinent
(1985). Urban renewal in the Indian subcontinent. The Round Table: Vol. 74, No. 296, pp. 348-359
Conference news
Ecological balance and change
From consideration of homeostasis the author offers some discussion of sociobiology related to fundamental concepts and proposes an approach to the world problem through human ecology, which is illustrated by the problem of aggression and certain other problems in health and nutrition
Obituary
The future of the crown
Water, society and the future
The need to innovate in the use and re‐use of water in the Middle East and North Africa is related to the need for making a transition to the post‐petroleum economy, both of many states there, and oil‐dependent states elsewhere. The paper raises some fundamental issues
Modern Iran
by Nikki R. Keddie, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2006, xviii + 408 pp., £10.99, pbk, ISBN‐13:978‐0‐300‐12105‐6 Keddie loves Iran. She dedicates her book ‘to the people of Iran’, with
Energy, society and the future
The paper surveys the energy problem in relation to global warming and the social criteria of India. India’s failure to develop a policy on global warming is highlighted and her economic policy judged in relation to her energy options, including such notable work as jatropha development and nuclear energy
Temptations of the West
Taming the Anarchy
by Tushaar Shah, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC/International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2009, x + 310 pp., cloth, $49.95 (ISBN 978‐1‐933‐115‐60‐3). Shah begins by sa
The Biology of Civilisation
by Stephen Boyden, UNSW Press, Sydney, 189 pp, AU$29.95, pbk (ISBN 0 86840 766 6). This is popular science written by a scientist’s scientist who understands the limitations of his environment very
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