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  • Climate Change and Adaptation

    Edited by James Adejuwon, Vicente Barros, Ian Burton, Jyoti Kulkarni, Rodel Lasco, Neil Leary ...
    Series series Earthscan Climate
    �This book provides valuable lessons that will improve public policy and the quality of decisions that will affect generations to come.�Richard Moss, Senior Director Climate and Energy, United Nations Foundation�An excellent addition to the body of knowledge on adaptation to climate change from the developing world, which has been largely missing until now.�Saleemul Huq, Director, Climate Change ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

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  • Global Political Ecology

    Edited by Richard Peet, Paul Robbins, Michael Watts ...
    The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises. So far attempts at resolving the deep basis of these have been superficial and disorganized. Global Political Ecology links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental disasters and failed attempts at environmental policies.This critical volume draws together contributions ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Resource Extraction

    Indigenous Peoples, Multinational Corporations and the State

    Edited by S. Sawyer, E. Gomez ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous communities. This volume examines mega resource extraction projects in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, India, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Grassroots Innovation Movements

    by Adrian Smith, Mariano Fressoli, Dinesh Abrol, Elisa Arond, Adrian Ely ...
    Series series Pathways to Sustainability
    Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business leaders as vital for tackling global challenges like sustainable development. Often overlooked, however, is the fact that networks of community groups, activists, and researchers have been innovating grassroots solutions for social justice and environmental sustainability for decades. Unencumbered by disciplinary boundaries, policy ... Read more

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  • Gender Equality and Sustainable Development

    Edited by Melissa Leach ...
    Series series Pathways to Sustainability
    For pathways to be truly sustainable and advance gender equality and the rights and capabilities of women and girls, those whose lives and well-being are at stake must be involved in leading the way.Gender Equality and Sustainable Development calls for policies, investments and initiatives in sustainable development that recognize women’s knowledge, agency and decision-making as fundamental. Four ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Adapting to Climate Uncertainty in African Agriculture

    Narratives and knowledge politics

    by Stephen Whitfield ...
    Series series Pathways to Sustainability
    Future climatic and agro-ecological changes in Africa are uncertain and associated with high degrees of spatial and temporal variability and this change is differently simulated within divergent climate-crop models and in controlled crop breeding stations. Furthermore, uncertainty emerges in local contexts, not just in response to climatic systems, but to social, economic, and political systems, ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Harnessing the Power of Collective Learning

    Feedback, accountability and constituent voice in rural development

    Edited by Roy Steiner, Duncan Hanks ...
    What were new ideas 30 years ago, such as the concepts of participatory development and systems thinking, are now accepted norms in international development circles. The majority of professionals engaged in rural development accept the proposition that the people who participate in development should play an active role in defining, implementing, and evaluating projects intended to improve their ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • State of the World 2010

    Transforming Cultures From Consumerism to Sustainability

    by The Worldwatch Institute ...
    Series series State of the World
    Like a tsunami, consumerism has engulfed human cultures and Earth’s ecosystems. Left unaddressed, we risk global disaster. But if we channel this wave, intentionally transforming our cultures to center on sustainability, we will not only prevent catastrophe, but may usher in an era of sustainability—one that allows all people to thrive while protecting, even restoring, Earth. In State of the World ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Global Warming and Social Innovation

    The Challenge of a Climate Neutral Society

    Edited by Andre Faaij, Marcel Kok, David Jager ...
    Societies need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 80 per cent in order to counter the risks of climate change. This study envisions a climate neutral society - one where the output of polluting gases is minimised by social innovations set up in households, by local authorities, through developments in information and communications technologies and dematerialization, and through the shift ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Cities on a Finite Planet

    Towards transformative responses to climate change

    Edited by Sheridan Bartlett, David Satterthwaite ...
    Cities on a Finite Planet: Transformative responses to climate change shows how cities can combine high quality living conditions, resilience to climate change, disaster risk reduction and contributions to mitigation/low carbon development. It also covers the current and potential contribution of cities to avoiding dangerous climate change and is the first book with an in-depth coverage of how ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Public Health Humanitarian Responses to Natural Disasters

    by Emily Chan ...
    Series series Routledge Humanitarian Studies
    The pressure of climate change, environmental degradation, and urbanisation, as well as the widening of socio- economic disparities have rendered the global population increasingly vulnerable to the impact of natural disasters. With a primary focus on medical and public health humanitarian response to disasters, Public Health Humanitarian Responses to Natural Disasters provides a timely critical ... Read more

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  • The Chinese State, Oil and Energy Security

    by Monique Taylor ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Monique Taylor analyses the policy rationale and institutional underpinnings of China's state-led or neomercantilist oil strategy, and its development, set against the wider context of economic transformation as the country transitions from a centrally planned to market economy. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD