The Republic of Armenia is facing a number of emerging challenges in the water sector. Though overall water resource availability in the country is good, the country's ability to monitor groundwater and surface water is deteriorating, enforcement under the existing water permit system is weak, conflicts loom over water use in the agriculturally important Ararat valley, and climate change continues to exert pressure. The performance of the irrigation, hydropower, municipal, industrial, and ...

Managing climate variability and change remains a key development and food security issue in Bangladesh. Despite significant investments, floods, droughts, and cyclones during the last two decades continue to cause extensive economic damage and impair livelihoods. Climate change will pose additional risks to ongoing efforts to reduce poverty. This book examines the implications of climate change on food security in Bangladesh and identifies adaptation measures in the agriculture sector usi...

This book brings together the emerging body of work on age-friendly neighbourhoods in Singapore, the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and North America. It begins with an overview chapter on the current state of policy, practice and research on age-friendly neighbourhoods in Singapore. This is followed by an annotated bibliography of published materials on age-friendly neighbourhoods in the above-mentioned countries and regions, encompassing theoretical work and empirical research reported on i...

Having grown up as a foster child, Sylvie cherishes her colleagues like family. When Marcus, their largest shareholder, appears ready to ruin the company, Sylvie sees him as the devil. Confronting him, a man rumored to be a merciless businessman, Sylvie becomes even more convinced that he’s the devil himself because of his ability to stop a woman’s heart just by looking at her. Desperately enchanted and determined to protect her family at the same time, she must struggle to fight her insti...

Having grown up as a foster child, Sylvie cherishes her colleagues like family. When Marcus, their largest shareholder, appears ready to ruin the company, Sylvie sees him as the devil. Confronting him, a man rumored to be a merciless businessman, Sylvie becomes even more convinced that he’s the devil himself because of his ability to stop a woman’s heart just by looking at her. Desperately enchanted and determined to protect her family at the same time, she must struggle to fight her insti...