Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Sport is a global phenomenon engaging billions of people and generating annual revenues of more than US$ 145 billion. Problems in the governance of sports organisations, fixing of matches and staging of major sporting events have spurred action on many fronts. Yet attempts to stop corruption in sport...
Nature in the Global South
Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, Nature in the Global South is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch. Among the many significant paradigms for understanding...
Culture and Conservation
Beyond Anthropocentrism
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Today, there is growing interest in conservation and anthropologists have an important role to play in helpingconservation succeed for the sake of humanity and for the sake of other species. Equally important, however, is the fact that we, as the species that causes extinctions, have a moral responsibility...
Human Dependence on Nature
How to Help Solve the Environmental Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Humanity is dependent on Nature to survive, yet our society largely acts as if this is not the case. The energy that powers our very cells, the nutrients that make up our bodies, the ecosystem services that clean our water and air; these are all provided by the Nature from which we have evolved and...
Environmental Justice in Developing Countries
Perspectives from Africa and Asia-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The evolving environmental justice paradigm is conceptualized differently based on political, economic and historical factors. In developed countries, emphasis is placed on the role of individuals in environmental decision-making and the protection of their access to the prerequisite environmental...
by Sheila Jasanoff
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This collection of essays by Sheila Jasanoff explores how democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence and argument used in making state decisions accountable to citizens. The term public reason as used here is not simply a matter of deploying principled arguments...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Why is ecofeminism still needed to address the environmental emergencies and challenges of our times? Ecofeminism has a chequered history in terms of its popularity and its perceived value in conceptualizing the relationship between gender and nature as well as feeding forms of activism that aim to...
Global Governance of Genetic Resources
Access and Benefit Sharing after the Nagoya Protocol
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This book analyses the status and prospects of the global governance of Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) in the aftermath of 2010’s Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The CBD’s initial 1992 framework of global ABS governance established the objective of sharing the benefits...
Mining and Social Transformation in Africa
Mineralizing and Democratizing Trends in Artisanal Production
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
After more than three decades of economic malaise, many African countries are experiencing an upsurge in their economic fortunes linked to the booming international market for minerals. Spurred by the shrinking viability of peasant agriculture, rural dwellers have been engaged in a massive search...
by Judy L. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Poor people living in slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. They live on the most vulnerable lands within cities, typically areas that are deemed undesirable by others and are thus affordable. Residents are exposed to the impacts of landslides, sea-level...
The World Bank and Governance
A Decade of Reform and Reaction
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This timely book offers the first critical examination of World Bank policy reforms and initiatives during the past decade.
The World Bank is viewed as one of the most powerful international organizations of our time. The authors critically analyze the influence of the institution’s policy...
Experiment Earth
Responsible innovation in geoengineering
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Experiments in geoengineering – intentionally manipulating the Earth’s climate to reduce global warming – have become the focus of a vital debate about responsible science and innovation. Drawing on three years of sociological research working with scientists on one of the world’s first...
Conflict, Negotiations and Natural Resource Management
A legal pluralism perspective from India
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Conflicts over natural resources abound in India, where much of the population is dependent on these resources for their livelihoods. Issues of governance and management are complicated by the competing claims of parallel legal systems, including state, customary, religious, project and local laws.
Whereas...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This book aims to pave the way for a new interdisciplinary approach to global cooperation research. It does so by bringing in disciplines whose insights about human behaviour might provide a crucial yet hitherto neglected foundation for understanding how and under which conditions global cooperation...