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Dividing Lines
The Politics of Immigration Control in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Immigration is perhaps the most enduring and elemental leitmotif of America. This book is the most powerful study to date of the politics and policies it has inspired, from the founders' earliest efforts to shape American identity to today's revealing struggles over Third World immigration, noncitizen...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
South Africa’s transition to a greener economy features prominently in the long-term development vision of the country, and is an integral part of the country’s national climate change response strategy. Despite significant gains in socio-economic development since its transition to democracy,...
The Urban Climate Challenge
Rethinking the Role of Cities in the Global Climate Regime
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Drawing upon a variety of empirical and theoretical perspectives*, The Urban Climate Challenge*provides a hands-on perspective about the political and technical challenges now facing cities and transnational urban networks in the global climate regime. Bringing together experts working in the fields...
Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa
The Tragedy of Endowment
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2007
Conflict over natural resources has made Africa the focus of international attention, particularly during the last decade. From oil in Nigeria and diamonds in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to land in Zimbabwe and water in the Horn of Africa, the politics surrounding ownership, management, and...
by David Phinnemore, Lee McGowan
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
This unique collection of data includes concise definitions and explanations on all aspects of the European Union. It explains the terminology surrounding the EU and outlines the roles and significance of the institutions, member countries, programmes and policies, treaties and personalities. It contains...
Handbook of Climate Change and India
Development, Politics and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
How do policymakers, businesses and civil society in India approach the challenge of climate change? What do they believe global climate negotiations will achieve and how? And how are Indian political and policy debates internalizing climate change? Relatively little is known globally about internal...
Beyond Neoliberalism, Nationalism and Socialism
Rethinking the Boundary Between State and Market
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The stunning political upheavals witnessed across the western world over the past year have raised the question of whether the neoliberal economic system that has dominated since the 1980s is about to unravel.
During the 1930s, when liberalism last came under attack, two distinct ideologies...
by Herman E. Daly, Robert Costanza, Thomas Prugh
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
The mdifficult questions of sustainability are not about technology; they are about values. Answers to such questions cannot be found by asking the "experts," but can only be resolved in the political arena. In The Local Politics of Global Sustainability, author Thomas Prugh, with Robert Costanza...
by Michael Oxley
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2004
This broad-ranging new text applies economics analysis to the aims, instruments and outcomes of land use planning and housing policies. The core focus is on providing students with a substantive and sophisticated understanding of the relation of the state and market and such key current issues as...
Foreign Policy Begins at Home
The Case for Putting America's House in Order
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A rising China, climate change, terrorism, a nuclear Iran, a turbulent Middle East, and a reckless North Korea all present serious challenges to America's national security. But it depends even more on the United States addressing its burgeoning deficit and debt, crumbling infrastructure, second class...
Hard Choices
Challenging the Singapore Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that underpin Singaporean exceptionalism are no longer accepted as easily and readily as before. Among these are the ideas that the country is uniquely vulnerable,...
Looking for Work in Post-Socialist China
Governance, Active Job Seekers and the New Chinese Labour Market
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Unemployment is one of the most politically explosive issues in China and has gained further prominence as a result of the present global financial crisis. The novelty, urgency, and complexity of Chinese unemployment have compelled the government to experiment with policy initiatives that originate...
China 2020
The Next Decade for the People’s Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
This book presents eight separate essays and provides the reader with a unique perspective and objective judgement of where China will stand by the end of the current decade. It is suitable reading for foreign policy practitioners, academics and anyone interested in one of the world’s fastest-developing...
Contemplating Climate Change
Mental Models and Human Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Global climate change policy has failed us all, but what is the reasoning that underlies this failure? Why are some people more disposed to reflect on confounding issues like climate change, recognise the danger, seek a solution, and act accordingly, more than others?
This book is concerned...