Taking Stock: Seventeen Years after the Murray-Darling Basin Agreement

There has now been almost two decades of natural resource management by signatory states under the Murray-Darling Basin Agreement Despite significant public expense, the success of initiatives to improve the Basin’s environmental remains ambiguous. This confusion is partly due to poorly distinguished investment outcomes, a blurring of the transparency of public spending and a lack of accountability of decision makers. The aim of this study is to demonstrate that significant environmental improvements could have been achieved at a much lower cost if decisive action been taken early. The research report outlines the myriad of Murray-Darling Basin related policies and its funding. It also notes the achievements and impediments to program success.water reform, water policy, cost efficiency, Murray-Darling Basin, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Environmental Economics and Policy, Land Economics/Use,

Japan’s Tradition and Modernity in Eisenstadt’s Sociological Formulation

S. N. Eisenstadt (1923-2010) was an Israeli sociologist renowned for his fruitful and diversified research. Among his many contributions, one of particular interest to cultural interaction studies is his comparative analysis of civilizations. This branch of study took shape early in Eisenstadt’s career and later developed into a grand theoretical framework which attempts to outline and explain the different paths from tradition to modernity in different societies with a particular focus on conceptual, structural, and institutional changes. From this framework came Eisenstadt’s study of Japanese civilization, which claims Japan occupies a unique position in world history for its not having followed a “regular” route towards modernity. This paper explores Eisenstadt’s macro-sociological, theory-oriented characterization of Japan and tries to indicate both the advantages and the limitations of his unconventional methodology and perspective

Hasse principles for multinorm equations

Let $k$ be a global field and let $L_0$,...,$L_m$ be finite separable field extensions of $k$. In this paper, we are interested in the Hasse principle for the multinorm equation $\underset{i=0}{\overset{m}{\prod}}N_{L_i/k}(t_i)=c$. Under the assumption that $L_0$ is a cyclic extension, we give an explicit description of the Brauer-Manin obstruction to the Hasse principle. We also give a complete criterion for the Hasse principle for multinorm equations to hold when $L_0$ is a meta-cyclic extension.Comment: minor change