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  • Conflict-Sensitive Conservation

    Lessons from the Global Environment Facility

    by Carl Bruch, Geeta Batra, Anupam Anand, Shehla Chowdhury, Sierra Killian ...
    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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  • International Development

    A Casebook for Effective Management

    by Frederick Keenan, Christine Gilmore ...
    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

    $11.19 CAD

  • Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution

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

    Edited by Cedric de Coning, Ako Muto, Rui Saraiva ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book introduces adaptive mediation as an alternative approach that enables mediators to go beyond liberal peace mediation, or other determined-design models of mediation, in the context of contemporary conflict resolution and peace-making initiatives. Adaptive mediation is grounded in complexity theory, and is specifically designed to cope with highly dynamic conflict situations ... Read more

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  • Gender In Agriculture Sourcebook

    by World Bank; Food and Agriculture Organization; International Fund for Agricultural Development ...
    The Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook provides an up-to-date understanding of gender issues and a rich compilation of compelling evidence of good practices and lessons learned to guide practitioners in integrating gender dimensions into agricultural projects and programs.It is serves as a tool for: guidance; showcasing key principles in integrating gender into projects; stimulating the imagination ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Blind Spot

    The Global Rise of Unhappiness and How Leaders Missed It

    by Jon Clifton ...
    **The rising unhappiness that leaders didn’t seeUnhappiness has been increasing globally for a decade, according to Gallup — and its rise has been missed by almost every world leader.**That’s because while leaders pay close attention to measures like GDP or unemployment, almost none of them track their citizens’ wellbeing.The implications of this blind spot are significant and far-reaching — ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • The Future of the Fifth Child

    An Overview of Global Child Protection Programs and Policy

    by Sid Gardner ...
    The premise of this book is that 400 million childrenone in five children aliveare abused and neglected in ways that could affect their entire lives, and that greater progress in protecting those children is both urgent and possible.The book reviews the long history of child maltreatment from prehistoric times to the present, contrasting statements about precious, innocent children with the ... 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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  • 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

    $10.99 CAD

  • Reframing the Urban Challenge in Africa

    Knowledge Co-production from the South

    Edited by Ntombini Marrengane, Sylvia Croese ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cities and Development
    This book explores the changing dynamics and challenges behind the rapid expanse of Africa’s urban population.Africa’s urban age is underway. With the world’s fastest growing urban population, the continent is rapidly transforming from one that is largely rural, to one that is largely urban. Often facing limited budgets, those tasked with managing African cities require empirical evidence on the ... Read more

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  • Preventive Engagement

    How America Can Avoid War, Stay Strong, and Keep the Peace

    by Paul Stares ...
    Series series A Council on Foreign Relations Book
    The United States faces an increasingly turbulent world. The risk of violent conflict and other threats to international order presents a vexing dilemma: should the United States remain the principal guarantor of global peace and security with all its considerable commitments and potential pitfalls––not least new and costly military entanglements––that over time diminish its capacity and ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • 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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  • Addressing Gender Inequalities to Build Resilience: Stocktaking of Good Practices in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ Strategic Objective 5

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Risings, conflicts and disasters around the world, and the negative impacts on lives and properties, are drawing attention to the need to increase the resilience of vulnerable rural communities and their livelihood sources from agriculture and rural areas. Protection from sexual and gender-based violence is also an area of work that merits special attention particularly in areas of protracted ... Read more

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