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  • Commodity Chains under Pressure

    Resilience through Coping, Adaptation, and Transformation

    Edited by Lara M. Espeter, Linda Hering ...
    This insightful book presents an overview of how external shocks affect commodity chains and their neighbouring systems. Expert authors employ diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to illustrate the extensive scope of this research area, exploring the impact of external shocks throughout various parts of the commodity chain.Chapters investigate the intricate relationships between ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • From Hobby to Billion-Dollar Industry

    Mapping the Commodity Chain of Cut Flowers in the Longue Durée

    by Lara Maria Espeter ...
    Series series Social Sciences, Humanities and Law (excluding publishing partner content) (German language)
    This Open-Access-book examines the process-nature of economic structures as commodity chains within the modern world-system. Building on the theoretical and methodological concepts developed by Hopkins and Wallerstein, it introduces 'process-oriented commodity chain mapping' as a method for analyzing and understanding the process-nature of economic structures. The cut flower commodity chain, with ... Read more

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  • The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State

    by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich ...
    We are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, people around the world are searching for alternatives. The Wealth of the Commons explains how millions of commoners have organized to defend their forests and fisheries, reinvent local food systems, organize ... Read more

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  • State of the World 2014

    Governing for Sustainability

    by The Worldwatch Institute, David W. Orr, Tom Prugh, Michael Renner, John Gowdy, Robert Engelman, Michael L. Weber, Conor Seyle, Matthew Wilburn King, Matt Leighninger, Diana Lind, Monty Hempel, Peter Brown, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Cormac Cullinan, Isabel Hilton, Sam Geall, Shakuntala Makhijani, Aaron Sachs, Inge Kaul, Maria Ivanova, Rick Worthington, Sean Sweeney, Dr., Thomas Palley, Gar Alperovitz, Colleen Cordes, David Bollier, Burns Weston, Petra Bartosiewicz, Marissa Miley, Evan Musolino, Katie Auth, Nina Netzer, Judith Gouverneur, Josephine Mitschke, Ian Johnson, Yu Hongyuan ...
    Series series State of the World
    Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.’s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments’ progress has been lackluster. That’s not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the bottom up rather than the top down. Action—on climate, species loss, inequity, and other ... 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

    $25.19 USD

  • Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development

    Edited by Margaret B. Holland, Yuta J. Masuda, Brian E. Robinson ...
    This open access book presents a nuanced and accessible synthesis of the relationship between land tenure security and sustainable development. Contributing authors have collectively worked for decades on land tenure as connected with conservation and development across all major regions of the globe. The first section of this volume is intended as a standalone primer on land tenure security and ... Read more

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  • Our Extractive Age

    Expressions of Violence and Resistance

    Edited by Judith Shapiro, John-Andrew McNeish ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life.Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and urban sites of extraction, this volume also foregrounds related violence in areas we might not expect, such ... Read more

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  • Running Out of Time: The Reduction of Women's Work Burden in Agricultural Production

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Based on a broad literature review, this publication discusses rural women's time poverty in agriculture, elaborates on its possible causes and implications and provides insight into the various types of constraints that affect the adoption of solutions for reducing work burden. This paper raises questions about the adequacy of women's access to technologies, services and infrastructure and about ... Read more

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  • Fairness and Justice in Natural Resource Politics

    Edited by Melanie Pichler, Cornelia Staritz, Karin Küblböck, Christina Plank, Werner Raza, Fernando Ruiz Peyré ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    As demand for natural resources increases due to the rise in world population and living standards, conflicts over their access and control are becoming more prevalent. This book critically assesses different approaches to and conceptualizations of resource fairness and justice and applies them to the analysis of resource conflicts.Approaches addressed include cosmopolitan liberalism, political ... Read more

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  • The World After GDP

    Politics, Business and Society in the Post Growth Era

    by Lorenzo Fioramonti ...
    GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the global economy. But the convergence of major economic, social and environmental crises has exposed the flaws of our economic system which values GDP above all else as a measure of prosperity and growth.In this provocative and inspiring new book, ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Climate Obstruction

    A Global Assessment

    Edited by J. Timmons Roberts, Carlos R. S. Milani, Jennifer Jacquet, Christian Downie ...
    Large-scale assessments, such as those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), have been crucial in advancing our understanding of climate change. They have affirmed that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is urgently needed to avoid its disastrous consequences and that we possess the scientific knowledge and technical ability to meet that challenge. Citizens around the world are ... Read more

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  • 2018 The State of the World’s Forests: Forest Pathways to Sustainable Development

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This edition of The State of the World's Forests is aimed at enhancing our understanding of how forests and their sustainable management contribute to achieving several of the SDGs. Time is running out for the world's forests: we need to work across sectors, bring stakeholders together, and take urgent action.The State of the World's Forests 2018 identifies actions that can be taken to increase ... Read more

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