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Locating localism
Statecraft, citizenship and democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Locating localism explores the development of localism as a new mode of statecraft and its implications for the practice of citizenship. Drawing on original research, Jane Wills highlights the importance of having the civic infrastructure and capacity to facilitate the engagement of citizens in local...
by Gonzalo Vazquez, Chris Kraul, Maxime Larive
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Changing patterns of energy production and consumption are transforming the geopolitics of the global system. The BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (not discussed in this volume), a loose conglomeration of emerging powers, are part of the change as are Western powers.
Variations...
On Risk and Disaster
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Named one of Planetizen's Top 10 Books of 2006
Hurricane Katrina not only devastated a large area of the nation's Gulf coast, it also raised fundamental questions about ways the nation can, and should, deal with the inevitable problems of economic risk and social responsibility. This volume...
Taming the Sun
Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
How solar could spark a clean-energy transition through transformative innovation—creative financing, revolutionary technologies, and flexible energy systems.
Solar energy, once a niche application for a limited market, has become the cheapest and fastest-growing power source on earth. What's...
50 Years of Environment
Singapore's Journey Towards Environmental Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
In conjunction with Singapore's 50th birthday in August 2015, 50 Years of Environment: Singapore's Journey Towards Environmental Sustainability takes the reader through Singapore's environmental journey over the past 50 years, to its present day challenges and solutions, and seeks to explore what...
Back to the Future
Advanced Nuclear Energy and the Battle Against Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
The Golden Age of nuclear energy in the United States has passed, and the accidents, if not disasters, at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima have damaged nuclear power’s rise in some parts of the world. And yet today, as Third Way’s Josh Freed illuminates in the latest Brookings Essay,...
by Gail Dexter Lord, Ngaire Blankenberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Museum planners Gail Lord and Ngaire Blankenberg demonstrate how museums and cities are using their soft power to address some of the most important issues of our time.Soft power is the exercise of influence through attraction, persuasion, and agenda-setting rather than military or economic coercion.Thirteen...
Europe’s Energy Transition
Insights for Policy Making
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Europe’s Energy Transition: Insights for Policy Making looks at the availability and cost of accessing energy and how it significantly affects economic growth and competitiveness in global markets. The results in this book, from a European Commission (EC) financed project by INSIGHT_E, provide an...
The United States of Excess
Gluttony and the Dark Side of American Exceptionalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Compared to other wealthy countries, America stands out as a gluttonous over-consumer of both food and fuel. The United States boasts an obesity prevalence double the industrial world average, and per capita carbon emissions twice the average for Europe. Still worse, the policy steps taken by America...
Before the Neoliberal Turn
The Rise of Energy Finance and the Limits to US Foreign Economic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
This book pinpoints continuities and changes in U.S. foreign economic policy from the fixed exchange rate system of the 1960s through to the period between the two oil crises of the 1970s. Chapters pay close attention to the interconnectedness between the long lasting decline of the U.S. Dollar on...
From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals
Rethinking African Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Millennium development goals (MDGs) and sustainable development goals (SDGs) have significant implications for global development, in particular for African countries. This book seeks to assist Africa’s policy makers and political leaders, MNCs and NGOs, plus its increasingly heterogeneous media...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
This comprehensive handbook, prepared by leading ocean policy academics and practitioners from around the world, presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of fifteen developed and developing nations and four key regions of the world that have taken concrete steps toward cross-cutting and integrated...
Deportation and Return in a Border-Restricted World
Experiences in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
This volume focuses on recent experiences of return migration to Mexico and Central America from the United States. For most of the twentieth century, return migration to the US was a normal part of the migration process from Mexico and Central America, typically resulting in the eventual permanent...
Sustainable Consumption
Key Issues
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Sustainable Consumption: Key Issues provides a concise introduction to the field of sustainable consumption, outlining the contribution of the key disciplines in this multi-disciplinary area, and detailing the way in which both the problem and the potential for solutions are understood.
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