Water is vital to food production: every calorie of plant food requires at least one litre of water, while one calorie of meat or dairy product can require up to 10 litres of water. Water is supplied either through rainfall or through irrigation. Irrigated agriculture uses 18 per cent of agricultural land, and produces 40 per cent of agricultural products. But urbanisation, agricultural land de...

In England, appraisals of the financial viability of development schemes have become an integral part of planning policy-making, initially in determining the amount of planning obligations that might be obtained via legal agreements (known as Section 106 agreements) and latterly as a basis for establishing charging schedules for the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL). Local planning authoritie...

The challenges facing companies of the forest products industry are diverse and can be approached from many view points. How can these companies adapt to a changing environment and an increased need to improve their bottom line? Can new information technologies (IT) be adapted to this particular industry to allow it to flourish in the future? This paper will first focus on the particularities a...

The standard for minimum acceptable product development performance is high and rising in many industries. It is no longer possible to dominate large markets by developing and mass producing one product at a time. Increasingly, good product development means developing a family, or platform of products, and producing them in a flexible process tailored to the needs of individual customers. We d...

Cognitive models of psychosis propose that maladaptive appraisals of anomalous experiences contribute to distress and disability in psychosis. Attentional, attributional and reasoning biases are hypothesised to drive these threat-based appraisals. Experimental and self-report data have provided support for the presence of these biases in psychosis populations, but recently there have been calls...