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  • Gender, Climate Change and Livelihoods

    Vulnerabilities and Adaptations

    de Margaret Alston, Muhammad Asaduzzaman, Aden Aw-Hassan, Agnes Babugura, Bipasha Baruah, Abderrahim Bentaibi, Quinn Bernier, Yvonne Braun, Elizabeth Bryan, Boubaker Dhehibi, Elisabeth Garner, Diana Hummel, Zobaidul Kabir, Edward Kato, Salim Momtaz, Francis Mwesigye, Dina Najjar, Balikisu Osman, Elizabeth Opiyo Onyango, Patricia E. Perkins, Nahid Rezwana, Shahreen Shehwar ...
    This book applies a gendered lens to evaluate the dynamic linkages between climate change and livelihoods in developing countries. It examines how climate change affects women and men in distinct ways, and what the implications are for earning income and accessing the natural, social, economic, and political resources required to survive and thrive. The book's contributing authors analyze the ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

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  • Human Security and Sustainable Development in East Africa

    Edición de Jeremiah O. Asaka, Alice A. Oluoko-Odingo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
    This book investigates contemporary human security issues in East Africa, setting forth policy recommendations and a research agenda for future studies.Human security takes a people-centered rather than state-centered approach to security issues, focusing on whether people feel safe, free from fear, want, and indignity. This book investigates human security in East Africa, encompassing issues as ... Leer más

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  • Science and Technology for Development

    de James Smith ...
    Series series Development Matters
    How can science realize its potential and help us tackle global inequality, environmental change and crippling poverty? How can more appropriate technologies be developed for those most in need? Science has long promised much -- new crops, new medicines, new sources of energy, new means of communication -- but the potential of new technologies has frequently bypassed the poorest people and the ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Green Social Work

    From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $24.00 USD

  • Population and Society

    An Introduction

    de Gregg Lee Carter ...
    This exciting new book presents the field of social demography, animating the study of population with a vibrant sociological imagination. Gregg Lee Carter provides multiple demonstrations of how taking a demographic perspective can give us a better understanding of social phenomena once thought to be largely the products of culture, politics, or the economy.Five key chapters concentrate on (1) ... Leer más

    $25.00 USD

  • The Social Dimensions Of Climate Change: Equity And Vulnerability In A Warming World

    de Robin Mearns; Andrew Norton; Edward Cameron ...
    Climate change is arguably the most profound challenge facing the international community in the 21st century. It is as much a challenge for poverty reduction, growth and development as it is a global environmental issue. It could undermine or reverse progress in reducing poverty and attaining the Millenium Development Goals, thereby unraveling many of the development gains of recent decades. It ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Cities, Disaster Risk and Adaptation

    de Christine Wamsler ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Worldwide, disasters and climate change pose a serious risk to sustainable urban development, resulting in escalating human and economic costs. Consequently, city authorities and other urban actors face the challenge of integrating risk reduction and adaptation strategies into their work. However, related knowledge and expertise are still scarce and fragmented.Cities, Disaster Risk and Adaptation ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • The Short Guide to Environmental Policy

    de Carolyn Snell, Gary Haq ...
    Series series Short Guides
    Some have argued that the rate and scale of human-induced global environmental change is so significant that it now constitutes a new geological epoch in the Earth’s history called the Anthropocene (Zalasiewicz et al, 2011; Steffen et al, 2011). More than ever, there is a need to have appropriate and effective environmental policies that address the challenges of climate change, biodiversity, food ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Gender and Climate Change: An Introduction

    de Irene Dankelman ...
    Although climate change affects everybody it is not gender neutral. It has significant social impacts and magnifies existing inequalities such as the disparity between women and men in their vulnerability and ability to cope with this global phenomenon.This new textbook, edited by one of the authors of the seminal Women and the Environment in the Third World: Alliance for the Future (1988) which ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Environmental Justice

    Issues, Policies, and Solutions

    de Roger Bezdek, Deeohn Ferris, Jamal Kadri, Robert Wolcott, William Drayton, Kelly Alley, Charles E. Faupel, Cathy Solheim, Connor Bailey, J. Mark Fly, Frances Larkin, Rebecca Head, Patrick C. West, Dorrie Rosenblatt, Robert Marans, Tom B.K. Goldtooth, David Ostendorf, Beverly Wright, David Hahn Baker ...
    In Environmental Justice, leading thinkers of the environmental justice movement take a direct look at the failure of "top down" public policy to effectively deal with issues of environmental equity.The book provides a startling look at pressing social and environmental problems and charts a course for future action. Among the topics considered are: the history of the social justice movement the ... Leer más

    $33.19 USD

  • Children’s Work in African Agriculture

    The Harmful and the Harmless

    de Abdulai Abubakari, Felix Ankomah Asante, Inka Barnett, Imogen Bellwood-Howard, Rosilin Bock, Máiréad Dunne, Irene Egyir, Emmanuel Boamah Frimpong, Neil Howard, Sara Humphreys, Tessa Lewin, Vicky Johnson, Roy Maconachie, Becky Mitchell, Sam Okyere, Keetie Roelen, Carolina Szyp, Jodie Thorpe, Dorte Thorsen, Giel Ton, Amy Warmington, Mary Wickenden, Thomas Yeboah ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Millions of children throughout Africa undertake many forms of farm and domestic work. Some of this work is for wages, some is on their family’s own small plots and some is forced and/or harmful.This book examines children’s involvement in such work. It argues that framing all children’s engagement in economic activity as ‘child labour’ ... Leer más

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  • Ecological Systems Integrity

    Governance, law and human rights

    Edición de Laura Westra, Janice Gray, Vasiliki Karageorgou ...
    Environmental law and governance are the cornerstones of global efforts to conserve the environment, protect resources and ensure fair and equitable outcomes for all of the planet's inhabitants. This book presents a series of thought-provoking chapters which consider the place of governance and law in the defence against imminent and ongoing threats to ecological, social and cultural integrity ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD