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  • International Aid and the Making of a Better World

    Reflexive Practice

    Series series Rethinking Development
    How can international aid professionals manage to deal with the daily dilemmas of working for the wellbeing of people in countries other than their own? A scholar-activist and lifelong development practitioner seeks to answer that question in a book that provides a vivid and accessible insight into the world of aid – its people, ideas and values against the backdrop of a broader historical ... Leer más

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  • The Global Food Economy

    The Battle for the Future of Farming

    de Tony Weis ...
    The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.The current food economy is characterized by immense contradictions. Surplus 'food mountains', bountiful supermarkets, and rising levels of obesity stand in stark contrast to widespread hunger and malnutrition. Transnational companies dominate the market in food and benefit from subsidies, whilst farmers in developing ... Leer más

    $514 MXN

  • How Numbers Rule the World

    The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics

    Series series Economic Controversies
    Numbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate change, poverty and sustainability. But what is behind these numbers?In How Numbers Rule the ... Leer más

    $367 MXN

  • Reinventing Prosperity

    Managing Economic Growth to Reduce Unemployment, Inequality, and Climate Change

    "An important contribution to the global debate about growth, equality, climate change, and the path to a viable human future." —David Korten, international bestselling author of When Corporations Rule the WorldThe biggest challenges facing human wellbeing today—widening income inequality, continuing global poverty, and environmental degradation—may be simple to solve in theory. But, because we ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Transitions to Sustainable Development

    New Directions in the Study of Long Term Transformative Change

    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions
    Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are transformed into a widely-shared sense of urgency, partly due to events such as the various pandemics threatening livestock, and increasing ... Leer más

    $1,084 MXN

  • Celebrity Advocacy and International Development

    Series series Rethinking Development
    Celebrity advocacy is a curious phenomenon. It occupies a significant proportion of the public domain, but does so without engaging particularly well with much of the public. Yet this may not matter very much. Many people at the core of advocacy, and in political and business elites, simply do not notice any lack of engagement. In these circles celebrity advocacy can be remarkably effective ... Leer más

    $1,221 MXN

  • Urban Poverty in the Global South

    Scale and Nature

    One in seven of the world’s population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of these live in the Global South – mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate water, sanitation, health care and schools provision. This book explains how and why the scale and depth of urban poverty is so frequently under-estimated by governments and international agencies worldwide. The ... Leer más

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  • Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises

    Everyday Politics of Crisis Response

    Edición de Dorothea Hilhorst ...
    Series series Routledge Humanitarian Studies
    Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse – are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. In reality, there are many continuities and discontinuities between crisis and normality. What does this mean for our understanding of politics, aid, and local institutions during crises? This book ... Leer más

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  • The Rice Economy of Asia

    To millions of people in the world, rice is the center of existence, especially in Asia, where more than 90 percent of the world's rice is grown. This book is about the trends and changes that have occurred in the Asian rice economy since World War II, but particularly since the introduction of new varieties of rice and modern technology in the mid-1960s. Although there is now a vast amount of ... Leer más

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  • Evaluating Communication for Development

    A Framework for Social Change

    Evaluating Communication for Development presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating communication for development (C4D). This framework combines the latest thinking from a number of fields in new ways. It critiques dominant instrumental, accountability-based approaches to development and evaluation and offers an alternative holistic, participatory, mixed methods approach based on systems ... Leer más

    $1,170 MXN

  • Governing African Gold Mining

    Private Governance and the Resource Curse

    de Ainsley Elbra ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book takes a fresh approach to the puzzle of sub-Saharan Africa’s resource curse. Moving beyond current scholarship’s state-centric approach, it presents cutting-edge evidence gathered through interviews with mining company executives and industry representatives to demonstrate that firms are actively controlling the regulation of the gold mining sector. It shows how large mining firms with ... Leer más

    $1,656 MXN

  • Regional Cooperation in South Asia

    Socio-economic, Spatial, Ecological and Institutional Aspects

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book highlights various challenges and opportunities for regional cooperation and development in South Asia. In light of the ongoing globalization process, the contributors investigate how socio-economic developments are changing the spatial organization of production as well as the profile of cities and landscapes, are stimulating the creation of maritime, terrestrial and aerial channels, ... Leer más

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