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  • Urban Planning Against Poverty

    How to Think and Do Better Cities in the Global South

    par Jean-Claude Bolay ...
    Collections Livre 14 - Future City
    This open access book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the context of Southern countries by examining several case studies from different regions of the world. For instance, the case of Koudougou, a medium-sized city in one of the poorest countries in the world, Burkina Faso, with a population of 115.000 inhabitants, allows ... En savoir plus

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  • Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

    Protecting Culture and the Environment

    Modifié par Fabien Girard, Ingrid Hall, Christine Frison ...
    Collections series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    This volume presents a comprehensive overview of biocultural rights, examining how we can promote the role of indigenous peoples and local communities as environmental stewards and how we can ensure that their ways of life are protected.With Biocultural Community Protocols (BCPs) or Community Protocols (CPs) being increasingly seen as a powerful way of tackling this immense challenge, this book ... En savoir plus

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  • Untamed Urbanisms

    Modifié par Adriana Allen, Andrea Lampis, Mark Swilling ...
    Collections series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based ... En savoir plus

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  • Unnatural Disasters

    Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed

    par Gonzalo Lizarralde ...
    Storms, floods, fires, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, and other disasters seem not only more frequent but also closer to home. As the world faces this onslaught, we have placed our faith in “sustainable development,” which promises that we can survive and even thrive in the face of climate change and other risks. Yet while claiming to “go green,” we have instead created new risks, continued to ... En savoir plus

    $36.79 CAD

  • Local and Global

    The Management of Cities in the Information Age

    par Jordi Borja, Manuel Castells ...
    This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global. In this way ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

  • Root-Cause Regulation

    Protecting Work and Workers in the Twenty-First Century

    par Michael J. Piore, Andrew Schrank ...
    Work is now more deadly than war, killing approximately 2.3 million people a year worldwide. The United States, with its complex regulatory system, has one of the highest rates of occupational fatality in the developed world, and deteriorating working conditions more generally. Why, after a century of reform, are U.S. workers growing less safe and secure? Comparing U.S. regulatory practices to ... En savoir plus

    $42.89 CAD

  • Environmental Governance in Latin America

    Modifié par Fabio De Castro, Barbara Hogenboom, Michiel Baud ...
    Collections series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC-BY license.The multiple purposes of nature – livelihood for communities, revenues for states, commodities for companies, and biodiversity for conservationists – have turned environmental governance in Latin America into a highly contested arena. In such a resource-rich region, unequal power relations, conflicting priorities, and trade-offs among multiple goals ... En savoir plus

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  • Oil in the Soil

    The Politics of Paying to Preserve the Amazon

    par Pamela L. Martin ...
    Paradise may have been found in the Western Amazon, but it is on the brink of destruction. Oil in the Soil analyzes the campaign to save the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) block of Yasuní National Park in Ecuador's Amazon and the global networks that have resulted in one of the world's most innovative plans to save the Amazon and other biodiverse places on our planet. Pamela L. Martin examines ... En savoir plus

    $125.29 CAD

  • Side Effects

    Mexican Governance Under NAFTA’s Labor and Environmental Agreements

    par Mark Aspinwall ...
    This is a story about governance in Mexico after the labor and environmental accords—called "side agreements"—that accompanied the NAFTA treaty went into effect. These side agreements required member states to uphold and enforce their labor and environmental laws; though never codified, it was widely accepted that Mexico, in particular, had a problem with law enforcement.Side Effects explores how ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Labor Relations in Globalized Food

    Modifié par Terry Marsden, Josefa Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti, Alessandro Bonanno ...
    Collections Livre 20 - Research in Rural Sociology and Development
    In recent years labor relations have altered significantly and new and more serious forms of labor marginalization and control have emerged. This book looks at labor in agriculture and food in a global era by studying salient characteristics of the conditions and use of labor in global agri-food. Written by experienced and also emerging scholars, the chapters present a wealth of empirical data and ... En savoir plus

    $213.29 CAD

  • Neoliberalism and Urban Development in Latin America

    The Case of Santiago

    Modifié par Camillo Boano, Francisco Vergara-Perucich ...
    Collections series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    In the 1970s and following on from the deposition of Salvador Allende, the Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet installed a radical political and economic system by force which lent heavy privilege to free market capitalism, reduced the power of the state to its minimum and actively suppressed civil society. Chicago economist Milton Friedman was heavily involved in developing this model, and ... En savoir plus

    $86.56 CAD

  • The Costs of Inequality in Latin America

    Lessons and Warnings for the Rest of the World

    par Diego Sánchez-Ancochea ...
    From the United States to the United Kingdom and from China to India, growing inequality has led to social discontent and the emergence of populist parties, also contributing to economic crises. We urgently need a better understanding of the roots and costs of these income gaps. The Costs of Inequality draws on the experience of Latin America, one of the most unequal regions of the world, to ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD