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Global Issues Bogserier

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  • Food is Different

    Why We Must Get the WTO out of Agriculture

    af Peter M. Rosset ...
    Serier serie 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, ... Læs mere

    218,91 kr.

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  • The Politics of Evidence and Results in International Development

    Redigeret af 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, ... Læs mere

    130,80 kr.

  • South Sudan

    A Slow Liberation

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    233,06 kr.

  • Overheating

    An Anthropology of Accelerated Change

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    201,61 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Sharing Nature's Interest

    Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    429,05 kr.

  • Global Citizens

    Social Movements and the Challenge of Globalization

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    339,17 kr.

  • Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers

    New Partners or Old Patterns?

    af 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, ... Læs mere

    247,21 kr.

  • Urban Competitiveness

    Theory and Practice

    af Peter Kresl, Daniele Ietri ...
    Serier serie 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 ... Læs mere

    525,61 kr.

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

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    133,61 kr.

  • Rise Of Singapore, The (In 2 Volumes)

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    613,11 kr.

  • Measuring Sustainability

    Learning From Doing

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    525,61 kr.

  • The Political Economy of Turkey

    af Zülküf Aydin ...
    Serier serie 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, ... Læs mere

    259,39 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus