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  • Systemic Inequality, Sustainability and COVID-19

    Edited by Seela Aladuwaka, Barbara Wejnert, Ram Alagan ...
    Series Book 29 - Research in Political Sociology
    The global spread of COVID-19 has led to devastating effects on countries worldwide in terms of population health, economy, politics, and sustainable development. Systemic Inequality, Sustainability and COVID-19 provides an opportunity to engage in a critical dialog on the consequences and interactions of COVID-19 with social inequalities and environment management.The pandemic has shattered ... Read more

    $144.09 CAD

  • Environment, Politics and Society

    Edited by Ram Alagan, Seela Aladuwaka ...
    Series Book 25 - Research in Political Sociology
    This special volume of Research in Political Sociology addresses the interconnectivity of environment, politics and society. Contributors engage with critical topics such as water resource management, climate change, civil rights, poverty and social inequality, green transportation and brain drain, and examines these issues internationally in North America, South America, Asia and the Middle East ... Read more

    $148.49 CAD

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    Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety

    by Cara Page, Erica Woodland ...
    A profound offering and call to action—collective stories, testimonials, and incantations for renewing political and spiritual liberation grounded in Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and Queer and Trans healing justice lineagesWe reclaim the power, resilience, and innovation of our ancestors through this book. To embody their wisdom across centuries and generations is to continue their legacy ... Read more

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  • Green Social Work

    From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice

    by Lena Dominelli ...
    Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in environmental issues that increasingly impact on people's well-being, both locally and globally.This compelling new contribution confronts this topic head-on, examining environmental issues from a social work perspective. Lena Dominelli draws attention to the ... Read more

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  • Cultivating Food Justice

    Race, Class, and Sustainability

    Edited by Alison Hope Alkon, Julian Agyeman ...
    Series series Food, Health, and the Environment
    Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement urges us to support sustainable agriculture by eating fresh food produced on local family farms. But many ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Black Agenda

    Bold Solutions for a Broken System

    Edited by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman ...
    " The Black Agenda mobilizes top Black experts from across the country to share transformative perspectives on how to deploy anti-racist ideas and policies into everything from climate policy to criminal justice to healthcare. This book will challenge what you think is possible by igniting long overdue conversations around how to enact lasting and meaningful change rooted in racial justice." ... Read more

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  • Forty Years of Community-Based Forestry: A Review of Its Extent and Effectiveness

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Since the 1970s and 1980s, community-based forestry has grown in popularity, based on the concept that local communities, when granted sufficient property rights over local forest commons, can organize autonomously and develop local institutions to regulate the use of natural resources and manage them sustainably. Over time, various forms of community-based forestry have evolved in different ... Read more

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  • The Overlooked Americans

    The Resilience of Our Rural Towns and What It Means for Our Country

    by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett ...
    How small-town America’s surprising success reshapes our understanding of the nation’s urban-rural divide, offering “the most balanced and broadest-ranging look at the topic” (Tyler Cowen, George Mason University).The Next Big Idea Club 2023 Must Read BookWe are frequently told rural America is in crisis. According to many journalists, academics, and politicians, our small towns have been hollowed ... Read more

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  • Strategic Environmental Assessment For Policies: An Instrument For Good Governance

    by Ahmed Kulsum; Sanchez-Triana Ernesto ...
    Environmentally and socially sustainable policies are essential for good governance. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is the key tool for integrating environmental considerations into policies, programs and plans. This book focuses on SEA applied to policies. Through lessons learned from previous use of SEA on policies, it draws lessons on the strengths and weaknesses of current SEA ... Read more

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  • Public Education Under Siege

    Edited by Michael B. Katz, Mike Rose ...
    Proponents of education reform are committed to the idea that all children should receive a quality education, and that all of them have a capacity to learn and grow, whatever their ethnicity or economic circumstances. But though recent years have seen numerous reform efforts, the resources available to children in different municipalities still vary enormously, and despite landmark cases of the ... Read more

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  • Child Brides, Global Consequences

    How to End Child Marriage

    by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon ...
    One-third of the world's girls are married before the age of eighteen, limiting both their educational and economic potential. Child marriage is damaging to global prosperity and stability, yet despite the urgency of the issue, there remains a significant lack of data on the subject. Senior Fellow Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses both the factors that contribute to and strategies that have proved ... Read more

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  • Cities and the Politics of Difference

    Multiculturalism and Diversity in Urban Planning

    Edited by Michael Burayidi ...
    Demographic change and a growing sensitivity to the diversity of urban communities have increasingly led planners to recognize the necessity of planning for diversity. Edited by Michael A. Burayidi, Cities and the Politics of Difference offers a guide for making diversity a cornerstone of planning practice.The essays in this collection cover the practical and theoretical issues that surround this ... Read more

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