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  • Climate Adaptation and Conflict Mitigation

    The Case of South Sudan

    by Ore Koren, Jerry Urtuzuastigui ...
    Series series Organizational Response to Climate Change: Businesses, Governments
    As climate change intensifies, conflict-prone tropical regions face heightened vulnerabilities, yet little is known about how climate adaptation and food security efforts affect conflict dynamics. Using South Sudan – a country highly susceptible to climate stress and conflict – as a test case, this Element analyzes how international nongovernmental organizations' (INGO) climate adaptation ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Mass Killing in Autocratic Regimes

    by Bumba Mukherjee, Ore Koren ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book develops a detailed, disaggregated theoretical and empirical framework that explains variations in mass killing by authoritarian regimes globally, with a specific focus on Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Using a combination of game-theoretic, statistical, and qualitative approaches, this project explicates when civilians within nondemocratic states will mobilize against the ruling ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

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    by Raywat Deonandan ...
    We live in an era where someone can contract an infectious disease in Hong Kong, get on a plane, and land in New York City before the incubation period is over. We also live in a time where the wealthiest one percent of people control 34 times more than the wealth of the entire bottom 50 percent of the world's population. Climate change, mass migration, war, and the rise of Artificial Intelligence ... Read more

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  • Winners and Losers

    The Psychology of Foreign Trade

    by Diana C. Mutz ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
    From acclaimed political scientist Diana Mutz, a revealing look at why people's attitudes on trade differ from their own self-interestWinners and Losers challenges conventional wisdom about how American citizens form opinions on international trade. While dominant explanations in economics emphasize personal self-interest—and whether individuals gain or lose financially as a result of trade—this ... Read more

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  • Educating Children in Conflict Zones

    Research, Policy, and Practice for Systemic Change--A Tribute to Jackie Kirk

    by Karen Mundy, Sarah Dryden-Peterson ...
    Inspired by the work of the late Dr. Jacqueline Kirk, this book takes a penetrating look at the challenges of delivering quality education to the approximately 39 million out-of-school children around the world who live in situations affected by violent conflict. With chapters by leading researchers on education in war and other conflict zones, the volume provides a comprehensive and critical ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways

    Edited by Mora L. McLean ...
    Series series Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
    This open-access edited collection, focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, offers a transatlantic, transnational exploration of barriers that threaten the wellbeing of West African youth—ranging from Black immigrant youth in the American city of Newark, New Jersey, to students in Almajiri Islamic schools in Northern Nigeria. Incorporating themes of migration, vulnerability, and agency and aspirations, the ... Read more

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  • World Development Report 2015

    Mind, Society, and Behavior

    by World Bank ...
    Series series World Development Report
    Development economics and policy are due for a redesign. In the past few decades, research from across the natural and social sciences has provided stunning insight into the way people think and make decisions. Whereas the first generation of development policy was based on the assumption that humans make decisions deliberatively and independently, and on the basis of consistent and self ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Children’s Work in African Agriculture

    The Harmful and the Harmless

    by Abdulai Abubakari, Felix Ankomah Asante, Inka Barnett, Imogen Bellwood-Howard, Rosilin Bock, Máiréad Dunne, Irene Egyir, Emmanuel Boamah Frimpong, Neil Howard, Sara Humphreys, Tessa Lewin, Vicky Johnson, Roy Maconachie, Becky Mitchell, Sam Okyere, Keetie Roelen, Carolina Szyp, Jodie Thorpe, Dorte Thorsen, Giel Ton, Amy Warmington, Mary Wickenden, Thomas Yeboah ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Millions of children throughout Africa undertake many forms of farm and domestic work. Some of this work is for wages, some is on their family’s own small plots and some is forced and/or harmful.This book examines children’s involvement in such work. It argues that framing all children’s engagement in economic activity as ‘child labour’ ... Read more

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  • Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants

    by Miriam Potocky, Mitra Naseh ...
    Social work practice with refugees and immigrants requires specialized knowledge of these populations and specialized adaptations and applications of mainstream services and interventions. Because they are often confronted with cultural, linguistic, political, and socioeconomic barriers, these groups are especially vulnerable to psychological problems such as anxiety, depression, alienation, grief ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Global Child Poverty Challenge eBook

    In search of solutions

    Edited by Richard Morgan ...
    Children are the most vulnerable people in the world – but rarely has the impact of poverty on children been addressed as an urgent issue in its own right. The harm that deprivation does to girls and boys as individuals, and the lasting cost of poverty, have received too limited attention. Policies and programmes have not made best use of the growing evidence of ‘what works’ for the poorest ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Field Experiments in Political Science and Public Policy

    Practical Lessons in Design and Delivery

    by Peter John ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Experimental Political Science
    Field experiments -- randomized controlled trials -- have become ever more popular in political science, as well as in other disciplines, such as economics, social policy and development. Policy-makers have also increasingly used randomization to evaluate public policies, designing trials of tax reminders, welfare policies and international aid programs to name just a few of the interventions ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Ending Child Marriage

    How Elevating the Status of Girls Advances U.S. Foreign Policy Objectives

    by Rachel Vogelstein ...
    Ending child marriage is not only a moral imperative—it is a strategic imperative that will further critical U.S. foreign policy interests in development, prosperity, stability, and the rule of law. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD