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Climate Change and Global Policy Regimes
Towards Institutional Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
An analysis of the global climate talks and the key human systems threatened by increased greenhouse gas emissions including health, refugee management, energy production, carbon markets and local government.
Environmentality
Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2005
In Kumaon in northern India, villagers set hundreds of forest fires in the early 1920s, protesting the colonial British state’s regulations to protect the environment. Yet by the 1990s, they had begun to conserve their forests carefully. In his innovative historical and political study, Arun Agrawal...
Disrupted Landscapes
State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The fall of the Soviet Union was a transformative event for the national political economies of Eastern Europe, leading not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the natural world itself. This painstakingly researched volume focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist...
The Political History of American Food Aid
An Uneasy Benevolence
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
American food aid to foreigners long has been the most visible-and most popular-means of providing humanitarian aid to millions of hungry people confronted by war, terrorism and natural cataclysms and the resulting threat-often the reality-of famine and death. The book investigates the little-known,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Despite their obvious importance, the ethical implications of climate change are often neglected in economic evaluations of mitigation and adaptation policies. Economic climate models provide estimates of the value of mitigation benefits, provide understanding of the costs of reducing emissions, and...
Public Personnel Management
Contexts and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Now in a thoroughly revised 7th edition, Public Personnel Management focuses on the critical issues and common processes in the management of public sector personnel. In keeping with prior editions, the text centers on the core processes within public human resource management: strategic workforce...
by Peter Reuter
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
A growing concern among those interested in economic development is the realization that hundreds of billions of dollars are illicitly flowing out of developing countries to tax havens and other financial centers in the developed world. This volume assesses the dynamics of these flows, much of which...
All Hell Breaking Loose
The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
All Hell Breaking Loose is an eye-opening examination of climate change from the perspective of the U.S. military.
The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change—still linked, for many people, with polar bears and coral reefs....
British Democracy
Its Restoration & Extension
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
British Democracy: Its Restoration and Extension
Modern parliamentary democracy first developed in Great Britain. Britons also played a major role in spreading democracy around the world – for example, through the Commonwealth.
However, at the start of the 21st century, Britain itself...
Sustainable Development
An Appraisal from the Gulf Region
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
With growing evidence of unsustainable use of the world’s resources, such as hydrocarbon reserves, and related environmental pollution, as in alarming climate change predictions, sustainable development is arguably the prominent issue of the 21st century. This volume gives a wide ranging introduction...
Toward an Environmentally Sustainable Future
Country Environmental Analysis of the People's Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This publication presents the results of a 2-year effort to update environmental assessment in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The research was a collaborative effort involving the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the National Development and Reform Commission,...
by Tony Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Environmental problems – particularly climate change – have become increasingly important to governments and social researchers in recent decades. Debates about their implications for social policies and welfare reforms are now moving towards centre stage. What has been missing from such debates...
Institutional Reforms in the Public Sector
What Did We Learn?
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
What does it take to design effective government institutions and sustain positive changes? What have we learnt about the attempts to deliberately design and redesign public sector institutions in different countries? What works and what doesn't, and why? What happens when reforms fail? This book...
Tourism Governance
Critical Perspectives on Governance and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
The role of governance has only recently begun to be researched and discussed in order to better understand tourism policy making and planning, and tourism development. Governance encompasses the many ways in which societies and industries are governed, given permission or assistance, or steered by...