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    Lessons from the Global Environment Facility

    This book provides an empirically formulated foundation for conflict-sensitive conservation, a field in which the existing literature relies primarily on anecdotal evidence.Seeking to better understand the impact of conflict on the implementation and outcomes of environmental projects, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Independent Evaluation Office and the Environmental Law Institute undertook ... Read more

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  • Governance, Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

    Series series Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management
    When the guns are silenced, those who have survived armed conflict need food, water, shelter, the means to earn a living, and the promise of safety and a return to civil order. Meeting these needs while sustaining peace requires more than simply having governmental structures in place; it requires good governance.Natural resources are essential to sustaining people and peace in post-conflict ... Read more

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  • Essential Concepts of Environmental Peacebuilding

    An A–Z Guide

    Series series A-Z Guides for Environment and Sustainability
    This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the essential concepts of environmental conflict and peacebuilding by compiling and explaining key terms in an easy-to-navigate A–Z format.Over the past 80 years, scholarly interest in war and peace has flourished, resulting in the institutionalization of disciplines such as international relations, security studies, and peace and conflict studies ... Read more

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  • International Development

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    INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT uses the highly successful case method of the Harvard Business School and the Richard Ivey Business School to help you to become a much more effective manager of international development projects. Using real case studies of different types of situations in a wide range of countries, Keenan and Gilmore examine projects, identifying what to do and how to do it.Sharpen your ... Read more

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  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

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    Peace-making in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
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  • The Routledge Handbook of Global Development

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of some of the world’s most pressing global development challenges – including how they may be better understood and addressed through innovative practices and approaches to learning and teaching.Featuring 61 contributions from leading and emerging academics and practitioners, this multidisciplinary volume is organized into five thematic parts ... Read more

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