This essay addresses the question whether one should support regulatory proposals that one believes are, standing alone, bad public policy in the hope that they will do such harm that they will ultimately produce (likely unintended) good results. This question can arise in many contexts. If one opposes a certain policy that will sound attractive to voters and/or legislators and would be popular...

Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is one of the most important industrial cash crops, contributing to world sugar industry and biofuel production. It has been cultivated improved from prehistoric times through natural selection conventional breeding and, more recently, using modern tools genetic engineering biotechnology. However, heterogenicity, complex poly-aneuploid genome susceptibility sugarcane ...

Our society’s dependence on chemicals is a comparatively recent phenomenon. The chemical industry today is a US$1.55 trillion global industry, nearly four times as big as it was just 30 years ago. World-wide, the industry employs some 12 million people. The chemical industry in OECD Member countries accounts for 76 per cent of world-wide production. Chemicals and related products represent 14 p...

Recovery planning is a key component of many threatened species conservation initiatives and can be a powerful awareness raising tool. One of the largest impediments to conservation efforts in the Pacific region however, is the lack of ecological data and its subsequent effects on the development of feasible and useful recovery plans for threatened species. Without these plans, the understaffed...

Virtual communities of practice (VCoPs) are online business networks which are increasingly used by large organisations as a key strategy for creating value in the knowledge-based economy of the 21 st Century. This paper examines the applicability of VCoPs to cross-industry regionally clustered small business networks. Interviews conducted with government and industry informants in two regional...