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  • Pathways To Sustainable Development

    Implementing the Pact for the Future

    Edited by Narinder Kakar, Anna Shostya ...
    Series series Progressing the Sustainable Development Goals series
    This prescient book explores global challenges in the field of sustainable development, examining the key factors identified by the UN Pact for the Future. Expert contributors discuss the commitments outlined in the UN Common Agenda and suggest future pathways towards the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.Leading and emerging international scholars reflect on the five areas ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

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  • Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World

    A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate

    by Dani Rodrik ...
    New, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issuesFighting climate change, saving democracy, and eradicating poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world’s leaders continue to pursue outdated policies that focus on one while worsening the tradeoffs between each of them. Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World shows how the nations of the world can achieve all three ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

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  • The Sustainable State

    The Future of Government, Economy, and Society

    by Chandran Nair ...
    "Asks difficult questions and offers bold, provocative answers . . . These pages open our eyes to some of the most urgent problemss facing humanity. A must-read." —Moisés Naím, author of The Revenge of PowerThe free-market, limited-government development model has been an ecological and social disaster for the developing world. Sustainable and equitable development is only possible with the active ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Project 2025

    Exposing the Radical Agenda -The Hidden Dangers of Project 2025 for Everyday Americans

    by Carl Young ...
    Your job. Your health. Your family. All targeted by a radical plan YOU don't even know about.Project 2025 is a blueprint for a future that's not yours. It threatens your right to choose, your financial security, and the very fabric of American life.In Project 2025: Exposing the Radical Agenda, you'll discover:How this plan could impact your wallet, your health insurance, and even your child's ... Read more

    $8.18 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • State of the World 2014

    Governing for Sustainability

    by The Worldwatch Institute, David W. Orr, Tom Prugh, Michael Renner, John Gowdy, Robert Engelman, Michael L. Weber, Conor Seyle, Matthew Wilburn King, Matt Leighninger, Diana Lind, Monty Hempel, Peter Brown, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Cormac Cullinan, Isabel Hilton, Sam Geall, Shakuntala Makhijani, Aaron Sachs, Inge Kaul, Maria Ivanova, Rick Worthington, Sean Sweeney, Dr., Thomas Palley, Gar Alperovitz, Colleen Cordes, David Bollier, Burns Weston, Petra Bartosiewicz, Marissa Miley, Evan Musolino, Katie Auth, Nina Netzer, Judith Gouverneur, Josephine Mitschke, Ian Johnson, Yu Hongyuan ...
    Series series State of the World
    Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.’s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments’ progress has been lackluster. That’s not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the bottom up rather than the top down. Action—on climate, species loss, inequity, and other ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Beyond Gridlock

    by Thomas Hale, David Held ...
    It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational. It is equally common to note the failures of the international institutions the world relies on to address such challenges. As the acclaimed 2013 book Gridlock argued, the world increasingly needs effective international cooperation, but multilateralism appears unable to deliver it in ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Working with the Grain

    Integrating Governance and Growth in Development Strategies

    by Brian Levy ...
    The development discourse has long been dominated by best practices prescriptions for reform, but these are not a useful way of responding to the governance ambiguities of the early 21st century. Working with the Grain draws on both innovative scholarship and Brian Levy's quarter century of experience at the World Bank to lay out an alternative-a practical, analytically grounded, "with-the-grain" ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Transform the Inequitable System​: From Capitalism to Economic Democracy​ and Socialism

    by Habib Rahman ...
    Why do extreme inequality, poverty, and hunger persist in the 21st century? How do the marginalized billions in the Global South endure the failures of capitalism? And what can be done to build a fairer, more just world?In Transform the Inequitable System, Rahman delivers a powerful critique of global capitalism, exposing how it fuels child labor, modern slavery (forced labor, forced marriage, and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Future of the Factory

    How Megatrends are Changing Industrialization

    by Jostein Hauge ...
    For centuries, industrialization and factory-based production have been core ingredients in economic growth, development, and innovation. This symbiotic relationship between industrialization and economic prosperity is now changing. 'Megatrends' - trends within the domains of technology, economy, society, and ecology that have a global impact - are changing the ability of the manufacturing sector ... Read more

    $38.69 CAD

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  • An Unfinished Foundation

    The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance

    by Ken Conca ...
    Why is the United Nations not more effective on global environmental challenges? The UN Charter mandates the global organization to seek four noble aspirations: international peace and security, rule of law among nations, human rights for all people, and social progress through development. On environmental issues, however, the UN has understood its charge much more narrowly: it works for "better ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • The World After GDP

    Politics, Business and Society in the Post Growth Era

    by Lorenzo Fioramonti ...
    GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the global economy. But the convergence of major economic, social and environmental crises has exposed the flaws of our economic system which values GDP above all else as a measure of prosperity and growth.In this provocative and inspiring new book, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Hidden Politics in the UN Sustainable Development Goals

    by Adam Sneyd ...
    Series Book 11 - Critical Development Studies
    This book analyzes the politics of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The conventional wisdom is that efforts to achieve the SDGs, or Global Goals, will contribute to building a more inclusive, sustainable and peaceful world. Adam Sneyd’s analysis counters this orthodox and unduly utopian point of view, uncovering the hidden politics of the SDG project and showing why the SDGs are not an ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD