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Global Issues Serie de eBooks

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  • Food is Different

    Why We Must Get the WTO out of Agriculture

    de Peter M. Rosset ...
    Series series Global Issues
    Why does our global food system gives us expensive, unhealthy and bad-tasting food, where we pay more for packaging and long-distance shipping than we do for the food itself? Why do farmers and peasants from around the world lead massive protests each and every time the World Trade Organization meets?Peter Rosset explains how the runaway free trade policies and neoliberal economics of the WTO, ... Leer más

    $26,881 CLP

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  • The Politics of Evidence and Results in International Development

    Edición de Rosalind Eyben ...
    Understanding and demonstrating the effectiveness of efforts to improve the lives of those living in poverty is an essential part of international development practice. But who decides what counts as good or credible evidence? Can the drive to measure results do justice to and promote transformational change – change that challenges the power relations that produce and reproduce inequality, ... Leer más

    Antes $17,962 CLP Ahora $16,061 CLP

  • South Sudan

    A Slow Liberation

    de Edward Thomas ...
    In 2011, South Sudan became independent following a long war of liberation, that gradually became marked by looting, raids and massacres pitting ethnic communities against each other. In this remarkably comprehensive work, Edward Thomas provides a multi-layered examination of what is happening in the country today. Writing from the perspective of South Sudan's most mutinous hinterland, Jonglei ... Leer más

    $28,618 CLP

  • Overheating

    An Anthropology of Accelerated Change

    de Thomas Hylland Eriksen ...
    The world is overheated. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know it.In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Hylland Eriksen breathes new life into the discussion around global modernity, bringing an anthropologist’s approach to bear on the three interrelated crises of ... Leer más

    Antes $29,144 CLP Ahora $26,060 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sharing Nature's Interest

    Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability

    de Nicky Chambers, Craig Simmons, Mathis Wackernagel ...
    Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small-scale planning and development. This is an introduction to ecological footprint analysis, showing how it can be done, and how to measure the footprints of activities, lifestyles, organizations and regions. Case studies illustrate its effectiveness ... Leer más

    $55,869 CLP

  • Global Citizens

    Social Movements and the Challenge of Globalization

    de Marjorie Mayo ...
    The dawn of the twenty-first century has been accompanied by an upsurge of anti-capitalist campaigning, challenging the very basis of the New World Economic order. Dramatic events such as the protests from Seattle to Genoa, have captured media headlines. But media headlines leave key questions unanswered, questions about the ultimate significance of the challenges posed by global social movements ... Leer más

    Antes $44,126 CLP Ahora $39,457 CLP

  • Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers

    New Partners or Old Patterns?

    de Adolfo Kloke-Lesch, Manmohan Agarwal, Ross Herbert, James Mackie, Enrique Saravia, Zhou Hong, Maximo Romero ...
    The current framework of development cooperation is dominated by the experiences of industrialized countries. But emerging economies have begun to accelerate their own development programmes, and attempts to bring them into existing aid models have been met with caution and reservation.This expert, topical volume explores the development policies of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa, ... Leer más

    $28,758 CLP

  • Urban Competitiveness

    Theory and Practice

    de Peter Kresl, Daniele Ietri ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    During the past 25 years the burden of managing economic policy for competitiveness has devolved to cities and to urban regions. National governments have increasingly been focused on staving off fiscal collapse. Mayors and local administrations have become very creative and active in looking after the state of their local economy and have developed extensive agencies for inter-city cooperation ... Leer más

    $67,046 CLP

  • The Quality Of Life In Latin American Cities: Markets And Perception

    de Lora Eduardo; Powell Andrew; van Praag Bernard M.S.; Sanguinetti Pablo ...
    This book explores a new method of monitoring the quality of urban life, combining objective and subjective information to assess quality of life by using the market price of housing and individuals' life satisfaction in six Latin American cities: Bogota, Buenos Aires, Lima, Medellin, Montevideo and San Jose. Housing prices show how the market values characteristics of not only a house itself, but ... Leer más

    Antes $16,354 CLP Ahora $14,623 CLP

  • Rise Of Singapore, The (In 2 Volumes)

    de Mark Tat Soon Hong, Amy V R Lugg ...
    In the 50th anniversary year of Singapore's independence, it is timely to trace our developmental journey in order that young Singaporeans students, visiting tourists and foreigners working in Singapore may be informed about why and how Singapore succeeded, despite tremendous odds. The two volumes relate the developmental stories and secrets of Singapore, so that other developing countries can be ... Leer más

    Antes $79,765 CLP Ahora $71,323 CLP

  • Measuring Sustainability

    Learning From Doing

    de Simon Bell, Stephen Morse ...
    'Measuring the sustainability of development is crucial to achieving it, and is one of the most actively studied issues in the area. To date, most studies of measurements or indicators have been largely theoretical.However, this book, a follow-on to Bell and Morse's highly influential Sustainability Indicators (1999), presents valuable practical advice on how to develop measurements that will work ... Leer más

    $67,046 CLP

  • The Political Economy of Turkey

    de Zülküf Aydin ...
    Series series Third World in Global Politics
    Since the 1970s, Turkey has faced some of the most serious crises since the Republic was established in 1923. This book analyses the political and socio-economic problems faced by Turkey in recent decades and the country's gradual integration into the global economy.Social unrest, political and ethnic violence, paralysis of the state bureaucracy and other institutions, increasing foreign debt, ... Leer más

    $30,175 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus