Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Managing Water for All
An OECD Perspective on Pricing and Financing
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Water is a key prerequisite for human and economic development, and for maintaining ecosystems. However, billions of people lack access to water and sanitation services, mainly due to poor governance and inadequate investment and maintenance. This report, which emphasises the economic and financial...
Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change
Scaling it up
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
As climate change adaptation rises up the international policy agenda, matched by increasing funds and frameworks for action, there are mounting questions over how to ensure the needs of vulnerable people on the ground are met. Community-based adaptation (CBA) is one growing proposal that argues for...
Brazil in the Anthropocene
Conflicts between predatory development and environmental policies
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Brazil is considered one of the world’s most important environmental powers. With a continental territory containing almost 70 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, along with a rich biodiversity and huge amount of natural resources, its geopolitical role in environmental decisions is crucial to ongoing...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The fate of the climate change regime hangs in the balance as the UN-led negotiations try to forge a new international strategy for the post-2020 period. Since 1992, the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol has been the primary legal instrument to respond to the climate challenge. However, the intergovernmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the growing transnational climate movement. A dual focus on climate politics and civil society provides a hitherto unavailable broad and systematic analysis of the current global movement, highlighting how its dynamic and diverse character can play...
Industrialising Rural India
Land, policy and resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Rapid industrialisation is promoted by many as the most feasible way of rejuvenating the Indian economy, and as a way of generating employment on a large scale. At the same time, the transfer of land from rural communities and indigenous groups for industrial parks, mining, or Special Economic Zones...
African Artisanal Mining from the Inside Out
Access, norms and power in Congo’s gold sector
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Artisanal mining is commonly associated with violent conflict, rampant corruption and desperate poverty. Yet millions of people across Sub Sahara Africa depend on it. Many of them are living in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), home to important mineral reserves, but also to a plethora of...
Water and Climate Change in Africa
Challenges and Community Initiatives in Durban, Maputo and Nairobi
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change. While the details vary from country to country, the impacts will be especially grave for marginalized people, whose access to food, potable water, and safe shelter may be threatened...
Social Protection in Developing Countries
Reforming Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Providing universal access to social protection and health systems for all members of society, including the poor and vulnerable, is increasingly considered crucial to international development debates. This is the first book to explore from an interdisciplinary and global perspective the reforms...
Science, Society and the Environment
Applying Anthropology and Physics to Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
In an era when pressing environmental problems make collaboration across the divide between sciences and arts and humanities essential, this book presents the results of a collaborative analysis by an anthropologist and a physicist of four key junctures between science, society, and environment. ...
by Jessica L. DeShazo, Chandra Lal Pandey, Zachary A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) attempts to address climate change from one angle – by paying developing countries to slow or stop deforestation and forest degradation. Trumpeted as a way to both mitigate climate change and assist countries with development, REDD...
Persistent Underdevelopment
Change and Economic Modernization in the West Indies
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
First published in 1996, this insightful and informative text examines the post-emancipation and recent economic history of the Commonwealth Caribbean. Jay R. Mandle offers an explanation of the region’s continuing underdevelopment. Through the use of an analytical framework derived from the works...
The Tierra Solution
Solving Climate Change through Monetary Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
As climate change continues to threaten the earth and as the global financial crisis lingers, governments and communities need to take charge of their own and global monetary systems. Sustainability sociologist Frans Verhagen proposes a solution—the Tierra Solution—to repair the present global monetary,...
Rethinking Greenland and the Arctic in the Era of Climate Change
New Northern Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This ground-breaking book investigates how Arctic indigenous communities deal with the challenges of climate change and how they strive to develop self-determination. Adopting an anthropological focus on Greenland’s vision to boost extractive industries and transform society, the book examines how...