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Geraghty, P. A. "Bulk water entitlements: Legal rights to water in Victoria, Australia." SIL Proceedings, 1922-2010 25, no. 3 (January 1994): 1971–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03680770.1992.11900538.

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HARRIS, EDWYNA. "INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: THE EVOLUTION OF WATER RIGHTS IN VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA 1850-1886." Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy 26, no. 2 (June 2007): 118–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-3441.2007.tb01011.x.

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Crase, Lin, Brian Dollery, and Joel Byrnes. "An intersectoral comparison of Australian water reforms." Water Policy 10, no. 1 (October 1, 2007): 43–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wp.2007.031.

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Reformation of the policies for allocating Australia's water resources has now assumed profound political, economic and social significance. However, there are marked contrasts between urban and agricultural sectors, in the approach to policy reform. Whereas governments have embarked on a range of mandated initiatives to alter or constrain the behaviour of urban dwellers, the approach adopted for irrigated agriculture has been characterised by an emphasis on markets and private property rights. This paper explores the extent of these disparate and potentially incongruous policies by focussing primarily on the states with the largest irrigation sectors, New South Wales and Victoria. Whilst acknowledging the high transaction costs of individual households engaging in a water market, the paper argues for more liberal market participation by urban water authorities on behalf of their constituents. The paper also calls for more rigorous economic assessment of the plethora of water-saving and demand-management strategies being proposed in the urban water setting.
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Kiggundu, Nicholas, Listowel Abugri Anaba, Noble Banadda, Joshua Wanyama, and Isa Kabenge. "Assessing Land Use and Land Cover Changes in the Murchison Bay Catchment of Lake Victoria Basin in Uganda." Journal of Sustainable Development 11, no. 1 (January 30, 2018): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jsd.v11n1p44.

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The Murchison Bay catchment in the northern shoreline of Lake Victoria basin is a high valued ecosystem because of the numerous human-related activities it supports in Uganda. The catchment has undergone tremendous human-induced land use/cover changes, which have not been quantified. This study aimed at quantifying the land use/cover changes as well as the rate at which these changes occurred over the last three decades in the catchment. This was achieved using remote sensing techniques and Geographic Information System (GIS) to analyse and contextualize the changes. To that effect, images of Landsat satellites MSS, TM, ETM+ and OLI were interpreted using supervised image classification technique to determine the land use/land cover changes from 1984 to 2015. The obtained results indicated that the catchment has undergone huge land use and land cover transformations over the last three decades attributable to rapid population growth and urbanization. The prevailing changes in footprint between 1984 and 2015 were expansions of built–up land (20.58% to 49.59%) and open water bodies (not detected in 1984 to 1.74%), and decreases in the following sectors: agricultural lands (from 43.88% to 26.10%), forestland (from 23.78% to 17.49%), and wetlands (from 11.76% to 5.08%). The changes pose a threat to the environment and water quality of the Murchison Bay and consequently increases National Water and Sewerage Corporation water treatment costs. Therefore, there is the need to take critical and practical measures to regulate and police land use, water use rights and conserve the environment especially wetlands.
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Nichols, P. G. H., M. J. Barbetti, P. M. Evans, A. D. Craig, G. A. Sandral, B. S. Dear, P. Si, and M. P. You. "Napier subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L. var. yanninicum)." Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 46, no. 8 (2006): 1109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ea05084.

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Napier is a late flowering F6-derived crossbred subterranean clover of var. yanninicum [(Katz. et Morley) Zohary and Heller] developed by the collaborating organisations of the National Annual Pasture Legume Improvement Program. It is a replacement for both Larisa and Meteora and has been selected for release on the basis of its greater herbage and seed production and disease resistance to both known races of clover scorch and 2 of the common races of Phytophthora root rot. Napier is recommended for sowing in Victoria, Western Australia, New South Wales, and South Australia. It is best suited to moderately acidic soils prone to water-logging and to loamy and clay soils with good water-holding capacity in areas with a minimum growing season length of 7.5 months, which extends into late November. Napier is well adapted to the permanent pasture systems found in the areas in which it will be grown. Its upright, vigorous growth makes it well suited to grazing by cattle or sheep and to fodder conservation. Napier has been granted Plant Breeders Rights in Australia.
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Breadsmore, Graeme. "Geothermal energy: deep sources in Victoria." Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 126, no. 2 (2014): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rs14023.

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Geothermal energy is heat stored naturally within the rocks of the earth. The higher the temperature of the rock, the more thermal energy is potentially available. In general, temperature increases with depth so deeper rocks store larger amounts of geothermal energy. Water has a higher volumetric heat capacity than most solid minerals, so saturated porous rocks tend to store larger amounts of heat than non-porous rocks. Under the right circumstances, geothermal energy can be economically extracted and put to use either directly (for example, to heat buildings) or by converting it to electrical energy. There are already two geothermal power generators in Australia (a 120 kWe plant at Birdsville, Queensland, and one 1 MWe plant at Innamincka, South Australia) and a range of direct applications of geothermal energy (heated buildings, swimming pools and spas)
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Linehan, C. J., D. P. Armstrong, P. T. Doyle, and F. Johnson. "A survey of water use efficiency on irrigated dairy farms in northern Victoria." Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 44, no. 2 (2004): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ea02234.

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Water use efficiency (WUE) in irrigated dairy systems has been defined, in this paper, as the amount of milk (kg milk fat plus protein) produced from pasture per megalitre of water (irrigation plus effective rainfall). A�farm survey was conducted for the 1997–98 and 1998–99 seasons in the Goulburn Irrigation System (GIS) and Murray Irrigation System (MIS) when the irrigation water allocated to irrigators in the GIS was low (100–120% of water right compared with the MIS which was 130 and 200% of water right). These data were analysed in conjunction with information collected on the same farms in the 1994–95 and 1995–96 seasons when the irrigation water allocated to irrigators in both systems was above 150% of water right (Armstrong et al. 1998, 2000). The aim of the survey was to determine if the management decisions made by dairy farmers in seasons of low irrigation water allocations had an impact on WUE.Milk production averaged across the 2 irrigation systems increased significantly over the 5-year period (57 540–75 040 kg milk fat + protein per farm). Over the same period the amount of irrigation water applied (GIS�7.6 ML/ha, MIS 9.2 ML/ha) and the milking area (GIS 72 ha, MIS 73 ha) remained constant. The amount of concentrates fed per cow (GIS 650–1100 kg DM, MIS 480–860 kg DM) and per farm (GIS 119–228 t DM, MIS�72–157 t DM) increased, but pasture consumption (GIS 8.9–9.5 t DM/ha, MIS 9.1–9.7 t DM/ha) did not increase significantly over the survey period. Therefore, the increase in milk production appeared to come primarily from an increase in supplementary feeding rather than an increase in pasture consumption, resulting in no significant change in WUE in either system (GIS 66 kg milk fat + protein/ML, MIS 61 kg milk fat + protein/ML).The survey results indicate that despite varying water allocations in the 2 major irrigation systems in northern Victoria, milk production on farms in both systems increased while changes in WUE could not be detected by the methods used. This suggests tactical options to increase WUE in response to short-term changes in water allocation were either difficult to implement or not a priority in a business sense.
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Ritvo, Harriet. "Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England: The Story of Edward Pickles and the Bradford Water Supply (review)." Victorian Studies 46, no. 3 (2004): 522–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vic.2004.0134.

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Ho, C. K. M., D. P. Armstrong, L. R. Malcolm, and P. T. Doyle. "Evaluating options for irrigated dairy farm systems in northern Victoria when irrigation water availability decreases and price increases." Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 47, no. 9 (2007): 1085. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ea06313.

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A case study and spreadsheet modelling approach was used to examine options for two dairy farms in northern Victoria that would enable them to maintain profit, or ameliorate a decline in profit, under changes in irrigation water availability and price. Farm 1 obtained 43% of estimated metabolisable energy requirements for the milking herd from supplements, had a predominantly spring-calving herd, and used mainly owner/operator labour. Farm 2 obtained 54% of estimated metabolisable energy requirements for the milking herd from supplementary feeds, had a split-calving herd, and used owner/operator and employed labour. When long-term allocation of irrigation water declined from 160% to 100% water right (WR), the ‘base farm’ system for both farms was maintained by purchasing temporary water. At a water price of $35/ML and allocation of 160% WR, the operating profit of Farms 1 and 2 was AU$52 000 and $315 000, respectively. This declined to $30 000 and $253 000 at a water availability of 100% WR. In response to changes in water availability and/or price, Farm 1 could purchase more supplements (a mix of grain and fodder) or replace some irrigated perennial pasture with irrigated annual pasture. Purchasing more supplements was not as profitable as buying irrigation water on the temporary market in the long term. At an irrigation water allocation of 130% WR, a water price of $35/ML and assumed response to extra supplement of 1.4 L milk/kg, operating profit was $24 000 compared with $44 000 when the base farm system was maintained by purchasing temporary water. At an allocation of 100% WR, increased supplement use was not profitable as a long-term option, unless exceptionally high responses in milk production to extra supplement were achieved. For this farm, converting an area of perennial pasture to annual pasture slightly increased operating profit compared with maintaining the base farm system when water availability decreased or price increased. The options analysed for Farm 2 involved converting some of the irrigated annual pasture to perennial pasture and, associated with this, additional options of reducing the area of maize grown or reducing the amount of nitrogen fertiliser applied to perennial pasture. Farm 2 had already implemented significant farm system changes to deal with reduced irrigation water availability in recent years, including increased supplementary feeding and growing annual pastures and maize. Hence, the options analysed for Farm 2 focused more on whether less significant changes would be more profitable. Converting 16 ha of annual pasture to perennial pasture, and growing 2.2 ha less maize appeared to be marginally more profitable than both the base farm system and the option of reducing nitrogen fertiliser use on the perennial pasture (operating profit $295 000 v. $291 000 or $292 000 at a water allocation of 130% WR and price of $35/ML). Reductions in irrigation water availability or increases in water price would need to be substantial to make the option of growing more perennial pasture and less maize unattractive. While the maize and annual pasture dry matter yield per megalitre of water were higher than for perennial pasture, the costs associated with harvesting, storing and feeding maize and annual pasture meant they were unlikely to be more profitable than a productive perennial pasture.
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Wahyuni, Sri, and Sudarmin Harun. "The Depiction of Slavery through Animal Treatment in Sewell’s Black Beauty in Relation to Living with Environment." ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 1, no. 3 (September 25, 2018): 381–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.34050/els-jish.v1i3.5131.

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The purposes of this research were (1) to elaborate the kind of slavery depiction through animal treatment in Sewell’s Black Beauty and (2) to exposure how the human treatment to horses in the novel is considered as a form of slavery in England Victorian age. The data were obtained from Sewell’s Black Beauty through a descriptive qualitative method by applying Sociological Approach. The study concluded that human treatment to horses is considered slavery for violating laws on animal protection. Horses are created to work but also there are rules in using them. There were four animal Anti-Cruelty laws in 1867 existed in the novel. Those laws are penalty for overdriving cruelly treating animal, for impounding animals without giving sufficient food and water, penalty for carrying animals in a cruel manner and penalty for abandoning infirm animals in public place. This study also suggest human being that there is no rights of one creature to judge another creatures.
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Mabikke, Samuel [Verfasser], Holger [Akademischer Betreuer] Magel, Jacob A. [Akademischer Betreuer] Zevenbergen, and Michael [Akademischer Betreuer] Kirk. "Improving Land and Water Governance in Uganda : the Role of Institutions in Secure Land and Water Rights in Lake Victoria Basin / Samuel Mabikke. Gutachter: Jacob A. Zevenbergen ; Michael Kirk ; Holger Magel. Betreuer: Holger Magel." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2014. http://d-nb.info/105107830X/34.

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Brulotte, Jayna. "Taking on Water: A Discourse Analysis of Drinking Water Policy and Practices at the University of Victoria." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/4535.

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In recent years, universities, municipalities, and other public and private organizations throughout Canada have banned the sale of bottled water from their facilities. To explore how such bans are linguistically and textually framed, proposed, and debated, this thesis analyzes drinking water policy and practice at the University of Victoria. Using Maarten Hajer’s approach to discourse analysis, discourses, story-lines, and discourse coalitions are identified. Through interviews with key players as well as textual analysis, I identify several discourses being mobilized to discuss drinking water at the University of Victoria, including that drinking water is an environmental issue, a public resource, a human right, a commodity, a health issue, and a revenue issue. The key discourse coalition working to define the issue of drinking water is a student coalition comprising the University of Victoria Sustainability Project and the University of Victoria Students’ Society. This coalition is promoting the argument that the sale of bottled water should be banned on campus.
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Books on the topic "Water rights Victoria"

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Simpson, A. W. B. Victorian law and the industrial spirit. London: Selden Society, 1995.

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Ritvo, Harriet. The dawn of green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and the Victorian environment. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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Private property and abuse of rights in Victorian England: The story of Edward Pickles and the Bradford water supply. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

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The dawn of green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and the Victorian environment. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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Simpson, A. W. B. Victorian law and the industrial spirit: Selden Society lecture delivered in the Old Hall of Lincoln's Inn, July 13th, 1994. London: Selden Society, 1995.

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Simpson, A. W. B. Victorian law and the industrial spirit: Selden Society lecture delivered in the Old Hall of Lincoln's Inn, July 13th, 1994. London: Selden Society, 1995.

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A successful experiment in international relations: An address delivered before the Victorian Club of Boston on February 17th, 1919. Ottawa: J. de L. Taché, 1997.

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Ross, Andrew. Bird on Fire. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199828265.001.0001.

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Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the prospects for sustainability in Phoenix--a city in the bull's eye of global warming--and also the obstacles that stand in the way. Most authors writing on sustainable cities look at places like Portland, Seattle, and New York that have excellent public transit systems and relatively high density. But Ross contends that if we can't change the game in fast-growing, low-density cities like Phoenix, the whole movement has a major problem. Drawing on interviews with 200 influential residents--from state legislators, urban planners, developers, and green business advocates to civil rights champions, energy lobbyists, solar entrepreneurs, and community activists--Ross argues that if Phoenix is ever to become sustainable, it will occur more through political and social change than through technological fixes. Ross explains how Arizona's increasingly xenophobic immigration laws, science-denying legislature, and growth-at-all-costs business ethic have perpetuated social injustice and environmental degradation. But he also highlights the positive changes happening in Phoenix, in particular the Gila River Indian Community's successful struggle to win back its water rights, potentially shifting resources away from new housing developments to producing healthy local food for the people of the Phoenix Basin. Ross argues that this victory may serve as a new model for how green democracy can work, redressing the claims of those who have been aggrieved in a way that creates long-term benefits for all. Bird on Fire offers a compelling take on one of the pressing issues of our time--finding pathways to sustainability at a time when governments are dismally failing their responsibility to address climate change.
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Hochmayr, Gudrun, and Walter Gropp, eds. Die Verjährung als Herausforderung für die grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit in Strafsachen. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748926535.

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The statute of limitations for criminal offenses varies within the European Union. This raises considerable problems for cross-border cooperation in criminal matters. Overcoming them was the subject of a comparative law research project with the aim of developing a first harmonization proposal for the statute of limitations in the EU. The publication presents the most important research results including a comprehensive analysis of the statute of limitations for criminal offenses and sanctions in 14 countries. The comparative law cross-section evaluates similarities and differences and draws conclusions that resulted in a harmonization proposal. For this purpose, a case study on the statute of limitations for fraud provided valuable insights. An analysis of whether a human right to a statute of limitations can be justified completes the comparison. The cross-section and the harmonization proposal are also available in English. With contributions by Robert Esser, Michael Faure, Victor Gómez Martín, Walter Gropp, Livia Häberli, Samantha Halliday, Rita Haverkamp, Gudrun Hochmayr, Krisztina Karsai, André Klip, Thomas Kolb, Marek Kulik, Susan Lazer, Marianne Johanna Lehmkuhl, Renzo Orlandi, Theodoros Papakyriakou, Andres Parmas, Magdalena Pierzchlewicz, Angeliki Pitsela, Sophie Sackl, Helmut Satzger, Lyane Sautner, Leandro Schafer, Arndt Sinn, Jaan Sootak, Zsolt Szomora, Stephen Thaman, Julien Walther, Jan Wenk and Ann Wood.
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Elizondo Griest, Stephanie. "The Movement." In All the Agents and Saints. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631592.003.0017.

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At the end of 2012, the biggest indigenous rights movements in Canada’s history erupted. Known as Idle No More, it was triggered by legislation to eliminate key protections for water, fish, Aboriginal land, and native sovereignty. On January 5, 2013, six Cree youth left their remote village of Whapmagoostui, Quebec on the shores of Hudson Bay and started snowshoeing across Canada in the name of peace. Hundreds joined them for “The Journey of Nishiyuu,” or the Journey of the People. The author and her Cree/Metis friend Bob drive out to greet the youth on Victoria Island in Ottawa, Canada, and follow along on their march toward Parliament, where a rally is held.
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Law, Jules. "Water Rights and the “Crossing O’ Breeds”." In Rewriting the Victorians, 52–69. Routledge, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203120446-4.

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TAGGART, MICHAEL. "Property and Water." In Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England, 107–44. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256877.003.0006.

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O’Bryan, Katie. "Victorian Indigenous rights legislation, environment and land management legislation and the management of water resources." In Indigenous Rights and Water Resource Management, 121–43. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351239820-8.

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TAGGART, MICHAEL. "Bradford and its Water Supply." In Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England, 5–22. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256877.003.0002.

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TAGGART, MICHAEL. "Coal, Stone, and Water at East Many Wells Farm." In Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England, 23–48. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256877.003.0003.

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Matzko, Paul. "Seven Days in May." In The Radio Right, 61–93. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190073220.003.0003.

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President Kennedy’s concerns over the Radio Right grew throughout his term in office. At the time, the administration worried about the prospect of a right-wing military coup led by someone like recently cashiered Army General Edwin Walker, especially after he headlined a campaign-style national tour called Operation Midnight Ride with conservative broadcaster Billy James Hargis. The final straw was the wave of conservative attacks on the president’s proposed Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the Soviet Union in the summer of 1963. Kennedy responded to the rise of the Radio Right by commissioning a strategy document from labor union leaders Walter and Victor Reuther. This “Reuther Memorandum,” as it became known, called for targeting conservative broadcasters with extra regulatory scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Communications Commission.
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Hazelton, Andrew J. "Dying Union, Rising Movement, 1959–66." In Labor's Outcasts, 139–64. University of Illinois Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252044632.003.0016.

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This chapter examines the AWOC and the Bracero Program’s final years. The AWOC struggled because of inexperienced leadership, Ernesto Galarza’s departure, and ongoing power struggles between George Meany and Walter Reuther in the AFL-CIO. The NAWU was destroyed, but the reform coalition it had mobilized won victories. Growers resisted, but advocates elevated farmworker issues to the national discussion. Farm bloc support for guestworkers splintered, and the historic Eighty-Eighth Congress voted to end the program in 1963. Simultaneously, a “farmworker moment” arrived. The National Farm Workers Association merged with the AWOC to create the United Farm Workers in 1966, indicating new civil rights–labor organizing potential.
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Searle, Mike. "Pressure, Temperature, Time, and Space." In Colliding Continents. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199653003.003.0009.

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After the summer field season of 1989 in the Pakistani Karakoram, I drove to Oxford, the ‘city of dreaming spires’ and arrived in the Department of Earth Sciences. In those days Oxford was probably the best field-geology ‘hard-rock’ department in the country and one of the best in the world. It was a wonderful place for me, buzzing with excitement and full of talented geologists working on projects all over the world. John Platt had post-graduate students working on several projects in the European Alps and the Spanish Betics, Simon Lamb was starting a major new field project in the Andes of Bolivia, and the department had some of the world’s leading igneous petrologists working on volcanic and granitic rocks all over the world. The department was overflowing and I was given an office on the top floor of the ‘annexe’ a wonderful old Victorian building at 62, Banbury Road. My office was up in the attic and I called this grandly the ‘Oxford Centre of Himalayan Research’. Right across the Banbury Road was an excellent public house, the Rose and Crown on North Parade, and we used to congregate there regularly for discussions on geology, and the world in general over a pint or two of traditional real ale. It was an excellent life. In the 1830s the first Professor of Geology in Oxford was the Reverend William Buckland who naturally came with a lot of religious baggage. Buckland was a bit of an eccentric in many ways including living with and eating a whole variety of wild animals and doing his geological fieldwork dressed in full academic gown. Following Buckland the department settled down to a more conventional geological approach, studying the stratigraphy and palaeontology of Oxfordshire. By the 1950s Oxford had become one of the leading departments of geology and mineralogy in the world. The head of department was Lawrence Wager, who had made his name studying the classic Skaergaard igneous intrusion of Greenland. Wager had earlier joined the 1933 Everest expedition climbing to 27,500 feet on the north ridge and collecting an extremely useful set of samples from the north slopes of Everest.
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Beinart, William, and Lotte Hughes. "Imperial Travellers." In Environment and Empire. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199260317.003.0010.

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In a global maritime empire, travel was intrinsic. As sailors and slavers, traders and hunters, Europeans traversed colonized space and literacy gave them the power to record what they saw and found. In their mapping and classification of lands and peoples, many of these travellers helped to commodify and package the resources of empire. In their fulsome descriptions of the riches of overseas territories, they made these lands and all that they contained desirable to prospective hunters, settlers, speculators, and administrators. The direct uses that imperial powers made of traveller’s accounts were hinted at in 1887 by British explorer and geologist Joseph Thomson, in a note to the second edition of his best-selling Through Masai Land. “Then [1885] Masai land was for the first time made known to the world; now it has come within the “sphere of British influence”—a delicate way, I suppose, of saying that it now practically forms a part of our imperial possessions.’ In fact British East Africa, of which Maasailand formed a large part, was not established for another eight years, in 1895. But Thomson anticipated accurately: having ‘discovered’ and mapped a direct route from the coast to Lake Victoria, which cut right across Maasailand to Uganda, and described the rich pickings (including fertile land, valuable pastures, water sources, timber, and game animals) that lay along the route, he had paved the way for European trade and takeover. Sir John Kirk, British agent and consul at Zanzibar, wrote that Thomson’s ‘admirable description is the only reliable one we yet possess of the region thus secured to us, if we choose to avail ourselves of the opportunity’. Britain, anxious about Germany’s competitive ambitions, duly took it. From the mid-eighteenth century a particular kind of traveller did more than most to promote the natural potential of empire: those who combined touring with botany and other scientific, or quasi-scientific, enquiries. The avid collection of specimens—from fauna and flora through, in some cases, to human body parts—had become an adjunct to the European adventurer’s taxonomy of the natural world. Since European expansion coincided with the development of print, as illustrated in our chapter on hunting, the production and publication of texts became a by-product of travel.
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Ozano, Kim, Andrew Roby, and Jacob Tompkins. Learning Journey on Water Security: UK Water Offer. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), January 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2022.026.

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The overarching goals for the UK in relation to global water security are to; tackle and reverse growing water insecurity and its consequences caused by depletion and degradation of natural water sources; and address poor water management and increasing demand. To do this, the UK has a well-developed water ‘offer’ that together can help reach the goal of global water security. This note details some of that water offer: UK water leadership: The UK developed the concept of modern sanitation and water supply, with an early example being the Victorian Bazalgette London sewer; Ownership and regulation: The UK has four models of ownership: government department in Northern Ireland, GoCo in Scotland, Mutual in Wales, and private companies in England. But the common thread is strong and clear, regulation to deliver the right outcomes for society; Competition and markets: The UK set up the world’s first water retail markets for business customers, delivering savings and environmental benefits. Similar market mechanisms are being developed for sewage sludge, which will help drive circular economy solutions; Innovation: The UK has a huge number of water tech start-ups and most water companies have labs and pilot schemes to support these fledgling companies. At the same time, the English regulator, Ofwat, has established a huge innovation fund, which along with the Scottish Hydro Nation initiative has made the UK the best place in the world for water innovation and tech.
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