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Brand: Taylor and Francis
In The Green Leap to an Inclusive Economy, two leading thinkers, Stuart L. Hart and Fernando Casado Cañeque, challenge head on the two biggest issues facing humanity and the planet today: Inequality and Environmental Degradation. They present the ne..
50.36£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
In this landmark text, Gilbert Rist provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history. He traces it from its origins in the Western view of history, through the early stages of the world sy..
27.16£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Thirty years ago, the UN report Our Common Future placed sustainable development firmly on the international agenda. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development takes the ethical foundations of Our Common Future and builds a model that emphasizes thr..
47.75£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Since its establishment in 1951, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has expanded from a small, regionally specific, logistically focused outfit into a major international organization involved in an almost dizzying array of activitie..
46.86£
Brand: University of Chicago Press
In 1935, after the death of dictator General Juan Vicente Gómez, Venezuela consolidated its position as the world's major oil exporter and began to establish what today is South America's longest-lasting democratic regime. Endowed with the power of ..
56.46£
The Myth of Development Non-Viable Economies and the Crisis of Civilization - Development Essentials
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
The Myth of Development boldly states that the benefits of development, so long promised over the past sixty years, have not come about for most people. Nor are they going to. State-driven and market-led development models have both failed. Many cou..
22.73£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, p..
35.22£
The contrast in the rate of growth between Western and Eastern societies since 1800 has caused Asian societies to be characterized as backward and resistant to change, though until 1600 or so certain Asian states were technologically far in advance ..
29.41£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Since the 2008 financial crash the expansion of neoliberalism has had an enormous impact on nature-society relations around the world. In response, various environmental movements have emerged opposing the neoliberal restructuring of environmental p..
50.61£
Brand: Bristol University Press
Tensions between the US and China have escalated as both powers seek to draw countries into their respective political and economic orbits by financing and constructing infrastructure. Wide-ranging and even-handed, this book offers a fresh interpret..
121.25£
This comparison of rural development in India and the United States develops important departures from economic and historical institutionalism. It elaborates a new conceptual framework for analyzing state-society relations beginning from the premis..
51.30£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Achieving a sustainable society is the biggest issue of our time. It is not an issue confined to a particular subject area or to certain jobs. It is a way of thinking and behaving that will need to be embedded in all aspects of all of our lives. The..
43.92£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Development education is much more than learning about development; it is a pedagogy for the globalised societies of the twenty-first century that incorporates discourses from critical pedagogy and postcolonialism, and a mechanism for ensuring that ..
54.00£
Brand: Stanford University Press
This book captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean b..
31.83£
Brand: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231043380Publisher: Columbia University PressImprint: Columbia University PressPublished date: 22 Oct 1977DEWEY: 382.1091724DEWEY edition: 18Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 384Weight: 452gHeight: 278mmWidth: 153mmSpine width: 31mm..
102.35£
Brand: Harvard University Press
How a group of intellectuals and policymakers transformed development economics and gave Latin America a new position in the world.After the Second World War demolished the old order, a group of economists and policymakers from across Latin America ..
38.62£
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
The new millennium has witnessed profound changes to the way donor countries are approaching international development - with the emphasis now on collaborative, people-centred development. This timely book explores how research and research culture ..
116.59£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
With contributions from both Mozambican and non-Mozambican scholars of multi-disciplinary backgrounds and approaches, this book provides a range of new perspectives on how Mozambique has been characterized by profound changes in its rural communitie..
28.90£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Transforming Multilateral Diplomacy provides the inside view of the negotiations that produced the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Not only did this process mark a sea change in how the UN conducts multilateral diplomacy, it changed the way..
46.69£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
A playbook that will significantly enhance the capabilities of every organization, in three dimensions of sustainable business transformation: strategy formation, leadership development and performance management Supported by case studies, models, t..
41.30£
Brand: Reaktion Books
Ukraine is a country caught in a political tug of war: looking East to Russia and West to the European Union, this pivotal nation has long been a pawn in a global ideological game. And since Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014 in response to..
34.58£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Understanding ExtrACTIVISM surveys how contemporary resource extractive industry works and considers the responses it inspires in local citizens and activists. Chapters cover a range of extractive industries operating around the world, including log..
46.06£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Contemporary international affairs are largely shaped by widely differing thematic issues and actors, such as nation states, international institutions, NGOs and multinational companies. Obtaining a deeper understanding of these multifaceted themes ..
46.39£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
We are facing hugely complex challenges - from climate change to world poverty, our problems are part of an inter-related web of social and natural systems. Human ecology promises an approach to these complex challenges, a way to understand these pr..
54.59£