Development studies Books

Book SynopsisThis annual volume shows key trends that should be integrated into the planning of our global future. It enables readers to track key indicators that show social, economic and environmental progress, or the lack of it, into 45 vital signs of our time. Each trend is presented as an overview using both text and graphics.Table of ContentsForeword * Overview: an off-the-Chart Year * Part One: Key Indicators - Food Trends * Agricultural Resource Trends * Energy Trends * Atmospheric Trends * Economic Trends * Transportation Trends * Communication Trends * Social Trends * Military Trends * Part Two Special Features - Environmental Features * Economic Features * Social Features * Military Features * Notes

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Book SynopsisSince the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1997, the negotiation of policy responses to climate change has become an area of major research. This authoritative volume sets out the main debates and processes of joint implementation - bilateral or multilateral investments in greenhouse gas emission reduction or sequestration - and explores the issues involved in constructing an appropriate institutional framework. It examines the key economic, environmental, social and ethical impacts, and assesses the operational design of the flexibility mechanisms of joint implementation, including emissions trading and the Clean Development Mechanism. An approach is developed in which streamlined assessment procedures are combined with institutional safeguards in order to balance the demand for practical mechanisms with the environmental objectives of the Protocol. The book provides detailed case studies of energy sector investment in Eastern European host countries.Trade Review'It provides structure to the often fuzzy discussion on joint implementation mechanisms. It shows how things can be applied in practice. It transcends generalities by providing in-depth discussions of concepts, evaluation procedures, and scientific uncertainty.' Luc Hens, Human Ecology Department, Free University Brussels.Table of ContentsPreface * Beyond Joint Implementation: an Overview and Summary of the Argument * The Language of Flexibility: Operational Forms of Joint Implementation * Objectives of Joint Implementation: Towards a Multicriteria Evaluation Framework * The Baseline Question: Dealing with the Problem of Counterfactuality * Case Study Projects * Environmental ad Social Aspects of Joint Implementation: Methodologies and Case Study Results * Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis: Methodology and Case Study Results * Measures for Managing Flexibility: Dealing with Complexity and Uncertainty * Evaluating Joint Implementation Options: an Illustrative Analysis * Appendix 1: Analysis of Crediting Regimes * Notes * References * Index

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Book SynopsisGlobal economic and social forces are affecting everyone, everywhere. However, their influence is shaped by local communities' interpretation of these forces and responses to them. Social identities provide a guide; they are the product of history, culture, economy, patterns of governance and degree of community cohesion. How the global and the local connect and reconfigure at various scales and through different cultures is explained in this forward-looking volume. The book's thesis, namely that localism is the crucial complement to globalism, is supported by a range of European case studies. Local responses to globalizing forces depend on the nature of the interlinkages in governance from international structures, through multilateral organizations to nation states, regions and localities, as these are mediated through social-local identity. The contributors draw on numerous themes in examining the interaction between the global and the local, such as decay and revitalization, local identity and empowerment, opportunism through sustainability and governance for the transition. This is a pioneering publication utilizing an innovative person-centred methodology. It makes an original and important contribution to the study of contemporary societies and is aimed at anyone interested in the social, economic, political, cultural and environmental implications of any move towards sustainability.Trade Review'This is an important contribution to the field and of a uniformly high standard throughout.' Aslib Book GuideTable of ContentsPreface * Acknowledgements * Part 1: Providing Perspective - Synthesis and Context * Globalization and Localization * Multilevel Governance for the Sustainability Transition * Social-local Identities * Methods of Inquiry * Part 2: The Case Studies - Decay and Revitalization in Two Swedish Communities * Opportunism Via Sustainability in Austria * Coming to Terms with Globalization in Portugal * Local Identity and Survival in Greece * Local Identity and Empowerment in the UK * Taking the Transition Forward

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Book SynopsisThe importance of involving the poor recipients in planning and implementing development policies has long been recognized, and has been the official aim of large donors, including the World Bank and major donor agencies. This text assesses their success and the results of the primary stakeholder participation achieved. It analyzes the institutional changes necessary for stakeholders to participate in decision-making, and the strategies and behaviour of other parties involved, including NGOs. From this review and analysis, it draws an important range of lessons for future donor and NGO policies and organizational reform.Trade Review'A well researched, well argued book.' Aubrey Williams, former Participation Coordinator, World Bank 'This is a superb account of the efforts undertaken by international development agencies to introduce the simple but powerful notion that the poor must participate if development is to succeed.' Brian Atwood, President, Citizens International, former Administrator, USAID 'The book comes up with a number of lessons which are worthwhile to be considered.' Habitat International 'Carolyn Long's rich, historical and comparative analysis of efforts by civil society to mainstream participation in the development paradigm is an excellent and practical addition to arguments for placing the poor at the centre of development efforts.' Lisa Jordan, Program Officer, Governance and Civil Society, Ford Foundation, former Executive Director, Bank Information Center 'This book is a thoughtful analysis of the progress made by donors and agencies during the past decade to embrace participation as an imperative, and makes an important contribution to our understanding of how to effectively involve citizens in the donor-assisted social and economic development programmes of their governments. It sounds a hopeful note for what donors, governments and civil society can do together to foster participatory development in the future, and shares useful lessons on how to improve development practices.' Sadig Rasheed, Director, Programme Division, UNICEFTable of ContentsForeword * Introduction * The World Bank and NGOs: The Evolution of a Participation Policy * Participation in Development Initiatives * Incorporating Participation of the Poor in International Development Agencies * Incorporating Participation of the Poor in Government Implementation Agencies * Lessons Learned and Implications for Participation of the Poor * Notes * References * Index

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Book SynopsisAcross the developing world the preceding decade or so has witnessed a profound reconfiguration of the political economy of urban policy. This new policy environment is driven by globalization, the neo-liberal macro-economic package of 'market enablement' and structural adjustment, which now form the dominant development paradigm. The consequences of this approach for urban development agendas and ultimately the lives and livelihoods of millions of people across the globe are profound. Market Economy and Urban Change explores and evaluates urban sector and development policies in the context of market enablement, and the associated instruments of structural adjustment, urban management reform and 'good' governance. By articulating the linkages between this neo-liberal development paradigm and the way different actors in the urban sector enact policy responses, the book provides an understanding of both the factors driving market enablement, and its impacts on urban sector policies and programmes. With case studies drawn from countries such as Egypt, Mexico, Kenya, Brazil, Colombia and transitional economies, the book focuses in particular on the implications for land, shelter and related sectoral policies for poverty alleviation. By linking policy to practice, the book seeks to inform policy-makers in governments, donor and implementing agencies of the impact of shifts in the development debate on urban sector strategies.Table of ContentsPreface * Market Enablement and the Urban Sector * Developmental Welfare and Political Economy: Reflections on Policy-conditioned Aid and Strategic Redirection of International Housing and Urban Policies, 1960-2000 * The State, Foreign Aid and the Political Economy of Shelter in Egypt * Tackling Urban Poverty: Principles and Practice in Project and Programme Design in Kenya * Bridging the Rural - Urban Divide: What Can the Urban Learn from the Rural? Reflections on the Case of Mexico * Between Command and Market Economies: The Changing Roles of Public and Private Housing Sectors in Transitional Economies * Urban Land Tenure in Brazil: From Centralized State to Market Processes of Housing Land Delivery * Market Enablement and the Reconfiguration of Urban Structure in Columbia * Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a compilation of an United Nations research institute for social development report for Geneva in 2000. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the progress to date, exploring efforts to reassert the value of equity and social cohesion in an increasingly individualistic world.Table of ContentsGlobalization with a Human Mask - Who Pays?: Financing Social Development - Fragile Democracies - A New Mission for the Public Sector - Calling Corporations to Account - Civil Societies - Getting Development Right for Women - Sustaining Development - Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSoils are critical to agriculture and, in turn, to food supply and livelihoods. Sustainable management of soils is crucial for a large proportion of the population of Africa. Contrary to many claims, soil fertility is improved and managed successfully by small-scale farmers there. Careful studies from widely different areas reveal how closely bound up soil management is with complex social, cultural and ecological factors - requiring a far more subtly tuned approach to development policy and practice. This work is a study of how the context of livelihood systems has to inform development policy and practice.Table of ContentsTransforming Soils: The Dynamics of Soil-fertility Management in Africa * Creating Gardens: The Dynamics of Soil-fertility Management in Molayta, Southern Ethiopia * Seizing New Opportunities: Soil-fertility Management and Diverse Livelihoods in Mali * Soils, Livelihoods and Agricultural Change: The Management of Soil-fertility in the Communal Lands of Zimbabwe * Participatory Approaches to Integrated Soil-fertility Management * Ways Forward? Technical Choices, Intervention Strategies and Policy Options. * Notes * References * Index

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Book SynopsisThis annual volume from the Worldwatch Institute gives prominence to key trends that too often escape the attention of the news media, world leaders and economic experts. By distilling 45 vital signs of our times from thousands of government, industrial and scientific sources, the volume allows readers to track key indicators that show social, economic and environmental progress, or the lack or it. Each trend is presented in both text and graphics.Trade Review'Excellent material to be included in the reference libraries. Social and Environmental Accounting Journal, Vol. 26, Issue 2, Sept. 2006 'An interesting book.' Elements 'It's an information packed read: a bluffer's guide to the world and its future.' What on Earth 'Carefully selected data distilled into vital signs.' Social and Environmental AccountingTable of ContentsAcknowledgements * Foreword * Overview: The Triple Health Challenge * Part One: Key Indicator - Food and Agriculture Trends * Energy Trends * Atmospheric Trends * Economic Trends * Transportation Trends * Health and Social Trends * Military Trends * Part Two: Special Features - Environmental Features * Economy and Finance Features * Resource Economics Features * Transportation Features * Health Features * Social Features * Notes * the Vital Signs Series

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Book SynopsisSocieties need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 80 per cent in order to counter the risks of climate change. This study envisions a climate neutral society - one where the output of polluting gases is minimised by social innovations set up in households, by local authorities, through developments in information and communications technologies and dematerialization, and through the shift towards product service systems and emissions trading. The work discusses the possibilities for steering and orchestrating this long-term transition towards a climate-friendly society, mapping paths through current dilemmas in climate policy and exploring the legal issues of making this transition.Trade Review'Well illustrated and readable.' International Journal of Environmental Studies 'A very important book.' Tom Downing, Stockholm Environment Institute 'Brings together a range of evidence and perspectives to provide a multidisciplinary commentary on the problem of climate change' Alister Scott, Assistant Director, Global Environmental Change Programme, University of Sussex 'This work will encourage further work in this critical area from researchers in several disciplines' Professor Robert Socolow, Princeton University 'This is an awesome resource, with authoritative projections on many aspects of environment and resources.' Future Survey, September 2003Table of ContentsForeword * Towards a Climate-Neutral Society * Transforming the Energy System of The Netherlands: Two Versions on Reaching 80 Per Cent Emissions Reduction by 2050 * Contemporary Practices; Greenhouse Scepticism? * Technological Change and Innovation for Climate Protection: the Governance Challenge * Households Past and Present, and Opportunities for Change * the Role of Local Authorities in a Transition Towards a Climate-Neutral Society * Improved Material Management as Trend-Breaking Technology for Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions * The Contribution of ICT to the Transition Towards a Climate-Neutral Society * Economy Versus Environment? Design Alternatives for Emissions Trading from a Lock-in Perspective * Legal Aspects of a Changing System in The Netherlands in 2050 * Climate Options for the Long Term (COOL): Stakeholders' Views on 80 Per Cent Emission Reduction * The Climate-Neutral Society: Opportunities for Change * List of Contributors * Index

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Book SynopsisTechnical co-operation involving northern experts transferring expertise to the south has not always worked. In fact it has sometimes been counter-productive, fostering a dependency on outside help rather than creating a genuine indigenous capability. This study by experts from Harvard University and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) uses a range of country studies to analyze what has worked in the past, what hasn't, and how to ensure that future co-operation results in genuine capacity building and ownership of the new capabilities by the recipients. It aims to offer a framework for evaluating different methods to achieve these goals. The volume is a companion to the earlier Capacity for Development, and should be useful for all those working in international development, as well as researchers, academics and students.Table of ContentsForeword * Preface * Accra Outcomes Statement * Acknowledgements * Part 1: Introduction and Overview - Introduction: Rethinking Capacity Development for Today's Challenges * Overview: Meeting the Capacity Development Challenge: Lessons for Improving Technical Cooperation * Part 2: Country Studies - Bangladesh: Applying Technical Cooperation to Health and Financial Reform * Bolivia: the Political Context of Capacity Development * Egypt: Building Private Sector Capacity through Technical Cooperation * The Kyrgyz Republic: Developing New Capacities in a Post-Transition Country * Philippines: Bringing Civil Society into Capacity Development * Uganda: Driving Technical Cooperation for National Capacity Development * Statistical Annex * About the Authors

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Book SynopsisThis title focuses on Haiti from an international perspective. Haiti has endured undue influence from successive French and US governments; its fragile 'democracy' has been founded on subordination to and dominance of foreign powers. This book examines Haiti's position within the global economic and political order, and how the more dominant members of the international community have, in varying ways, exploited the country over the last 200 years.Trade Review"a “must-read” for scholars interested in Haitian history and politics as well as in the intersection of class and race relations", Robert Fatton Jr., New West Indian GuideTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Capitalist World-Economy, the Fetishism of Commodities, and the Social Geography of Race: A Reply to Michel Foucault 2. Toussaint Louverture, the Haitian Revolution, and Negritude: A Critical Assessment of Aimé Césaire's Interpretation 3. From Revolutionary Slaves to Powerless Citizens 4. The Transition to Democracy and the Demise of Color Politics in Haiti 5. The World Bank and Haiti: Abetting Dictatorship, Undermining Democracy 6. Class, Power, Sovereignty: Haiti Before and After the Earthquake

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Book SynopsisNow in its 23rd edition, the Europa International Foundation Directory 2014 provides an unparalleled guide to the foundations, trusts, charitable and grantmaking NGOs, and other similar not-for-profit organizations of the world. It provides a comprehensive picture of third sector activity on a global scale. New introductory essays offer an overview of non-profit sector activity in various countries and regions of the world, and an analysis of the growing importance and impact of community foundations.Indexes, which allow the reader to find organizations by area of activity (including conservation and the environment, science and technology, education and social welfare) and geographical region of operations (e.g. South America, Central America and the Caribbean, Australasia, Western Europe and North America), are included for ease of use.Users will find names and contact details for over 2,500 institutions worldwide. This new edition has been revised and expanded to include the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on this growing sector.Trade Review'There is no other directory to foundations which is truly international in scope.' - Reference Reviews'The best place to start grant research ... an important addition to any international studies library.' - World DevelopmentHighly recommended for all academic and public libraries.' - SLA Social Division BulletinTable of ContentsPart 1: Essays The State of Global Civil Society and Volunteering: Patterns and Possible Explanations Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski and Megan A Haddock The Growing Importance of Community Foundations Eleanor Sacks Non-profits during Times of Crisis: Organizational Behaviour and Policy Responses Helmut K. Anherier, Annelie Beller and Norman SpenglerPart 2: Directory Albania - Zimbabwe Part 3: Indexes

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Book SynopsisThe Complex Forest systematically examines the theory, processes, and early outcomes of a research and management approach called adaptive collaborative management (ACM). An alternative to positivist approaches to development and conservation that assume predictability in forest management, ACM acknowledges the complexity and unpredictability inherent in any forest community and the importance of developing solutions together with the forest peoples whose lives will be most affected by the outcomes. Building on earlier work that established the importance of flexible, collaborative approaches to sustainable forest management, The Complex Forest describes the work of ACM practitioners facing a broad range of challenges in diverse settings and attempts to identify the conditions under which ACM is most effective. Case studies of ACM in 33 forest sites in 11 countries together with Colfer's systematic comparison of results at each site indicate that human and institutional capabilities have been strengthened. In Zimbabwe, for example, the number of women involved in decisionmaking soared. In Nepal, community members detected and sanctioned dishonest community elites. In Cameroon and Bolivia, learning programs resulted in better conflict management. These are early results, but a wide range of recent research supports Colfer's belief that these new capabilities will eventually contribute to higher incomes and to sustainable improvements in the health of forests and forest peoples. The Complex Forest reinforces calls for change in the way we plan conservation and development programs, away from command-and-control approaches, toward ones that require bureaucratic flexibility and responsiveness, as well as greater local participation in setting priorities and problem solving.Trade Review'A significant contribution because of the richness of its material, its critique of simplistic approaches to understanding factors in forest management, its clear and compelling writing style, and the range and significance of the sites that it studies.' Diane Russell, Senior Scientist, World Agroforestry CentreTable of ContentsOne: Introduction; Two: ACM's Intellectual Underpinnings; Three: Complexity, Change, and Uncertainty; Four: Seven Analytical Dimensions; Five: Creativity, Learning, and Equity; Six: Devolution; Seven: Forest Type and Population Pressure; Eight: Management Goals; Nine: Human Diversity; Ten: Conflict and Social Capital; Eleven: Catalyzing Creativity, Learning, and Equity; Twelve: Commentary and Conclusions

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Book SynopsisComposed of articles first published in the journal Politique africaine, this book proposes an original interpretation of neoliberalism in Africa. Instead of seeing neoliberal reforms as intrinsically destructive of the post-colonial state, the authors, who include some of Africa's best-known social scientists, focus on the resilience and adaptability of African state structures, economic systems, and social survival mechanisms. They examine the diversity of responses to neoliberalism in what the editors call the "everyday politics of the state." In essays that range from diverse theoretical or historical discussions to close studies of the dynamics of specific reforms in particular places, they argue against univocal interpretations of the effects of neoliberalism. They show that the African state, far from disappearing, is adapting and reconfiguring itself in fascinating new social realities "co-constructed" by state action, as well as by the improvisations of communities and other private actors. These fascinating studies reveal processes far more complex and ambivalent than what entrenched ideas of the distinction between "public" and "private" actors or between the "state," the "market," and "society" allow for. Whether discussing neoliberal theories of sovereignty and property in the context of centuries of African political development or revealing the intricacies of people's adjustments to the restructuring of an urban transport system, these essays show that conventional readings of governance in Africa underestimate the dynamics of reappropriation and adaptation, and the conflicts between differing conceptions of power that are profoundly reshaping the state in contemporary Africa. [Subject: Politics, African Studies]

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Book Synopsis​The mining sector has been an integral part of economic development in many African countries. Although minerals have been exploited for decades in these countries, the benefits have not always been as visible. This has necessitated reforms including nationalisation of mining activities in the distant past; and currently legal and regulatory reforms. This book gives an insight of these reforms and with reference to the fieldwork research undertaken by the author in some African countries, the book highlights the social and environmental impacts of mining activities in Africa. The central question of the book is, why the mining laws have worked in some countries but not others and what can be done to ensure that these laws are effective? Consequently, the book analyses the legal reforms made in the sector and highlights both the challenges and the opportunities for foreign investors as well as the African governments and local communities. The book will be of great interest to researchers and students in Energy and Geography related fields, as well as to practitioners and policy makers.Table of Contents1. Introduction to Mining in Africa.- 2. Regulation of the Mining Sector in Africa.- 3. Role of International Institutions in African Mining.- 4. Regionalism in African Mining.- 5. Current trends in African Mining.- 6. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis open access handbook analyses the role of development cooperation in achieving the 2030 Agenda in a global context of ‘contested cooperation’. Development actors, including governments providing aid or South-South Cooperation, developing countries, and non-governmental actors (civil society, philanthropy, and businesses) constantly challenge underlying narratives and norms of development. The book explores how reconciling these differences fosters achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.Table of ContentsForeword (Jorge Chediek).-​Introduction : Contestation and Collaboration: Effective Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda.-Section 1: Changing Context of Development Cooperation - Current Narratives and Trends Chapter 1: An evolving shared concept of Development Cooperation (Milindo Chakrabarti and Sachin Chaturvedi, Research and Information System for Developing Countries, India).-Chapter 2: The globalisation of foreign aid: Global influences and the diffusion of aid priorities (Liam Swiss, Memorial University).-Chapter 3: Southernization of OECD’s ODA approach (Paulo Esteves, BRICS Policy Center, Brazil / Stephan Klingebiel, DIE).-Chapter 4: Conceptualising ideational convergence of Chinese and “Western” aid (Heiner Janus, DIE / Tang Lixia, China Agricultural University).-Section 2: Global Development Norms and Institutional Architecture - Points of Convergence and Divergence Chapter 5: How to govern a global development cooperation regime? (André de Mello e Souza, Institute for Applied Economic Research, Brazil).-Chapter 6: The position of development policy: a functional definition(Adolf Kloke-Lesch, Sustainable Development Solutions Network Germany).-Chapter 7: The past and future of the emerging economies and the GPEDC: points of convergence and divergence (Gerardo Bracho, Centre for Global Cooperation Research).-Chapter 8: Should China join the GPEDC? The prospects for China and the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation(Qi Gubo, China Agricultural University / Li Xiaoyun, China Agricultural University).-Section 3: Measurements of Development Cooperation - Frameworks and Theories for Assessments: Development Cooperation Chapter 9: ‘From billions to trillions’: Measuring financing the SDGs in a world ‘beyond aid’ (Emma Mawdsley, University of Cambridge).-Chapter 10: Future of the GPEDC Monitoring Framework (Debapriya Bhattacharya, Centre for Policy Dialogue).-Chapter 11: Monitoring and evaluation in South-South Cooperation: the case of CPEC in Pakistan (Murad Ali, DIE).-Chapter 12: African civil society organizations: Monitoring and Evaluation of CSO programmes (Fanwell Kenala Bokosi, AFRODAD).-Section 4: Multi-level perspectives on development cooperation for achieving the SDGs Domestic:Chapter 13: South Africa’s changing role in development structures: Being in them but not of them (Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIA).-Chapter 14: India’s approach to development cooperation (Anthea Mulakala, The Asia Foundation).-Chapter 15: The SDGs, multilateral development organisations and maximsing the impact of U.S. development assistance (Anthony Pipa, Brookings).-Chapter 16: A middle way towards development cooperation: Foreign aid discourse of South Korea and Turkey in relation to the OECD DAC (Melis Baydag, Ruhr University Bochum).-Chapter 17: Malawi: a micro-cosm of the new development finance architecture (Neissan Besharati, Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa).-Chapter 18: The role of development cooperation in new national planning in Least Developed Countries (Admos Chimhowu, University of Manchester / David Hulme, University of Manchester).-Triangular Cooperation:Chapter 19: Achieving the SDGs through triangular cooperation/South-South cooperation on climate change: Germany-China-Ethiopia (Moritz Weigel, The ChinaAfricaAdvisory / Alexander Demissie, The ChinaAfricaAdvisory).-Chapter 20: India as a Partner in Triangular Development Cooperation: Prospects for the India-UK Partnership for Global Development (Sebastian Paulo, Observer Research Foundation India).-Non-State Actors:Chapter 21: The changing role of the private sector for development cooperation (Jorge A. Pérez Pineda, Anáhuac University / Dorothea Wehrmann, DIE).-Chapter 22: The Changing Role of the Private Sector in South-South Co-operation: The Cases of Kenya and Uganda (Vitalice Meja, Reality of Aid Africa Network).-Conclusion: What Future for Development Cooperation? Prospects and key messages for BAPA+40 and beyond

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the processes for the inclusion of women, and the role of women employees in Nepal’s forestry bureaucracy. The book adopts a “gender lens” drawn from feminist institutionalism and is framed around the following four objectives: evaluating the effectiveness of current legislative and policy frameworks for the inclusion of women in the Nepalese forest bureaucracy; examining the dynamics of organizational culture, formal and informal institutions, and structure and agency in and around forest bureaucracy in Nepal; assessing power relations in forestry institutions focusing on influential participation of women forestry professionals in the bureaucratic structure; and gaining insights about the alternative space of feminist institutionalism in connection with women inclusive forest bureaucracy.Findings in the book inform and extend feminist institutionalism perspectives by applying it to a context which remains under explored, providing insights on the efficacy of public sector cultural change, especially as it relates to those areas within bureaucracies less in a position to adopt the changes mandated by society and principles of good governance.Table of Contents1. Introduction.2. Gender perspective in forestry and feminist institutionalism.3. The history of Nepalese forest management and the roles of women.4. Methodological Insights into Forestry experiences.5. An analysis of legislative measures on gender equality and women’s inclusion.6. Forestry experiences and Feminist Institutionalism.7. Extending on Feminist Institutionalism.8. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the struggle between China and the United States to expand their influence in Asia through economic assistance and defensive alliances. It brings together the diverse viewpoints of scholars from various countries on how Asian countries will exploit this geo-strategic competition to pursue their national interests, while also balancing their relations with the two great powers. The book offers a valuable asset for all those who have an interest in great power politics and international relations, especially academics, policymakers and security experts.Table of Contents1. Rebalancing Asia: Belt and Road Initiative and Indo-Pacific Strategy 2. Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision– In Pursuing a Valid and Substantive Initiative 3. Spatial Conquest by Other Means: Assessing the Geopolitical Impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative4. CPEC: The Buckle in China’s BRI5. China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its Concerns for India6. Connectivity, Cooperation, and Collaboration: China-South Asia Partnerships under the Scientific Belt &Road Initiative7. Opportunities for new trend of labour mobility from Vietnam as a result of Doi Moi, ASEAN Connectivity and One Belt, One Road Initiative8. China’s Geopolitical, Geo-economic and Geostrategic gameplay in the Indian Ocean Region9. China and the BRI: Challenges and Opportunities for Southeast Asia10. Sitting on the Fence? Australia’s Balancing of the Belt and Road Initiative and Indo-Pacific Strategy in the new Multipolar World System11. Belt and Road Initiative Vs. Indo-Pacific Strategy: Increasing US-China Strategic Distrust12. China’s Maritime Ambition in South Asia vis-à-vis Bangladesh: A Concern for India?13. India’s China Policy in the ‘Indo-Pacific’: A Balancing Act14. Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS): Challenges and Opportunities for Sri Lanka15. China's Belt and Road: Is it a Game Changer?16. The US and the Indo-Pacific: Trump’s Policy Towards the Region17. A Real Conundrum for ASEAN: How to Cope with America and China?

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Book SynopsisStripping urban sprawl of its pejorative connotations, this book offers a new vision of the city and its growth. The author leads readers to the conclusion that in its complexity and constant change, the city is a wonderful work of mankind.Trade Review"Robert Bruegmann's Sprawl is the most important book on the American landscape since Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities. It will be as influential in helping us to see American cities and suburbs as they actually are, rather than as imagined by the world's ideologues." - Alexander Garvin, Professor of Urban Planning and Management, Yale University, and author of The American City: What Works, What Doesn't"

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the examples of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and transitional European economies, this volume proposes an alternative vision of institutional development with chapter-length applications to finance, state formation, and health care to provide a holistic, contextualized solution to the problems of developing nations.Trade Review"A fascinating analysis of World Bank policies and lending, focusing primarily on the theory and practice of structural adjustment.... The historical aspects of the presentation are especially interesting, as are institutional details in the chapters on financial repression and health policy." (Choice) "Every year books about the World Bank are published. Few make an impact beyond the moment, if at all. This book does more than make an impact: it sets the standard." (John Weeks, University of London)"

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Book SynopsisThis book includes Janowitz's seminal work, The Military in the Political Development of New Nations, with additional new analysis of Latin American nations and of the increasing significance of paramilitary and police forces in authoritarian regimes in developing nations.

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Book SynopsisBy considering the fada as a site of experimentation, Masquelier offers a nuanced depiction of how young men in urban Niger engage in the quest for recognition and reinvent their own masculinity in the absence of conventional avenues to self-realization.

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Book SynopsisBy considering the fada as a site of experimentation, Masquelier offers a nuanced depiction of how young men in urban Niger engage in the quest for recognition and reinvent their own masculinity in the absence of conventional avenues to self-realization.

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Book SynopsisUnder the tutelage of the World Bank, developing countries have experienced lower growth and rising inequality. This book argues that the institution is plagued by a myopic, neoclassical mindset that wrongly focuses on individual rationality and downplays the social and political contexts that can either facilitate development.Trade Review"Beyond the World Bank Agenda will certainly make an important and novel contribution to the literature. Howard Stein puts forward an institutional approach to development, very different and more akin to the real world than the prevailing view. Commendable." - Philip Arestis, Cambridge Center for Economic and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge"

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Book SynopsisThe last two decades have ushered in what has become known as a “Participatory Revolution,” with authorities called into communities to listen to ordinary people through “open” forums for engagement. The Participation Paradox argues that amplifying the voices of the poor and dispossessed is often a quick fix incapable of delivering lasting change.Trade Review“This is an outstanding book, rich with data from the grassroots of South African politics and brimming with significant and important contributions to how we should understand the power of a radical reframing of participation.” Alexander Beresford, University of Leeds and author of South Africa’s Political Crisis: Unfinished Liberation and Fractured Class Struggles

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Book SynopsisThis collection asks how citizens and civil society express their interests and exert their agency in authoritarian settings. Focusing on the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front regime over three decades, the book explores civic activism in Ethiopia, presenting diverse examples of how citizens have (re)shaped the country.Trade Review“This crucial volume addresses a clear gap in the existing literature by thoroughly studying Ethiopian civil activism in recent years. The book comes at an important moment of instability and change in Ethiopian politics, providing a wide range of extremely illuminating case studies of civil society activity and the constraints it has faced. It is particularly pleasing to see so many excellent Ethiopian authors contributing chapters, something that is unfortunately uncommon in international publications.” Tom Lavers, University of Manchester and editor of The Politics of Distributing Social Transfers: State Capacity and Political Contestation in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

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Book SynopsisAmid a rise of challenges to the advancement of women’s rights, reproductive health is at the center of discussions of gender equality. Asking how communications are used to shape policy, Carolina Matos explores feminist and health NGOs from across the world and how they are improving discourse on reproductive health in the public sphere.Trade Review“This book makes an important contribution to a range of areas, bringing together debates across gender and development, feminist theory and praxis in development, communication and media analysis, international development, sexual and reproductive health rights, and social justice. I strongly recommend this book for students, scholars and practitioners interested in the field.” Suzanne Clisby, Coventry University“This fascinating work combines intellectual traditions, with practical examples and critical empirical approaches. It is the first book, in a long time, that provides both a theoretical and empirical critique from a feminist perspective, of the field of communication for development. Carolina Matos exposes, using a range of research methods including critical discourse analysis, the problems, difficulties and challenges of the practices that characterise the work of NGOs, especially when they work towards the ‘emancipation of women’.” Linje Manyozo, RMIT University

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Book SynopsisThe world's arid and semiarid lands are plagued by serious environmental problems and are deteriorating in their ability to sustain conventional crops. The authors discuss the plight of deteriorating arid lands and, more importantly, offer practical solutions for improved land and water usage and the use of alternative new crops for food, chemicals, and energy production.

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Book SynopsisThis monograph argues that, contrary to stated claims, Japanese foreign aid is inextricably linked to Japanese business interests. It demonstrates how Japanese aid to the developing world is often tied to purchases from Japan, with potentially devastating consequences to Third World nations.

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Book SynopsisRare interviews with contemporary slaveholders reveal how they justify their actions and resist challenges to their authority.Trade ReviewA much-needed and unique work. Our understanding of modern slavery holds virtually nothing on slaveholders. Such a study has always been seen as the Holy Grail, truly critical knowledge if we are to move forward, but always outside our ability to grasp. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick also goes somewhere that few scholars in this area have gone-raising important, challenging questions about how slaveholders might be understood and rehabilitated. -- Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the Slaves The exponential growth of social movement studies has yielded a rich and varied portrait of movements and movement groups. By contrast, we know little about movement targets. In this important book, Choi-Fitzpatrick not only reverses this emphasis, but offers the beginnings of a theory of how targets respond to movement pressure. And what is the data on which his theory is based? Nothing less than in-depth interviews with slaveholders targeted by contemporary anti-slavery groups. It would be hard to imagine a more original or significant contribution to the field than What Slaveholders Think. -- Doug McAdam, Stanford University Choi-Fitzpatrick reinvigorates the theory and practice of representing slavery and related systems of domination, in particular our understandings of the binaries between slavery and freedom, victims and perpetrators. Incisive and stimulating, this is a stellar work of scholarship that demands of the academy-and human rights campaigners-a marked shift in direction. -- Zoe Trodd, University of NottinghamTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. In All Its Forms: Slavery and Abolition, Movements and Targets 2. Best-Laid Plans: A Partial Theory of Social-Movement Targets 3. Just Like Family: Slaveholders on Slavery 4. As If We Are Equal: Slaveholders on Emancipation 5. The Farmer in the Middle: Target Response to Threats 6. Private Wrongs: Slavery and Antislavery in Contemporary India 7. Long Goodbye: The Contemporary Antislavery Movement 8. Between Good and Evil: The Everyday Ethics of Resources and Reappraisal Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on fifteen years of work in the antislavery movement, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick examines the systematic oppression of men, women, and children in rural India. Through frank and unprecedented conversations with slaveholders, Choi-Fitzpatrick reveals the condescending and paternalistic thought processes that blind them.Trade ReviewA much-needed and unique work. Our understanding of modern slavery holds virtually nothing on slaveholders. Such a study has always been seen as the Holy Grail, truly critical knowledge if we are to move forward, but always outside our ability to grasp. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick also goes somewhere that few scholars in this area have gone—raising important, challenging questions about how slaveholders might be understood and rehabilitated. -- Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the SlavesThe exponential growth of social movement studies has yielded a rich and varied portrait of movements and movement groups. By contrast, we know little about movement targets. In this important book, Choi-Fitzpatrick not only reverses this emphasis, but offers the beginnings of a theory of how targets respond to movement pressure. And what is the data on which his theory is based? Nothing less than in-depth interviews with slaveholders targeted by contemporary anti-slavery groups. It would be hard to imagine a more original or significant contribution to the field than What Slaveholders Think. -- Doug McAdam, Stanford UniversityChoi-Fitzpatrick reinvigorates the theory and practice of representing slavery and related systems of domination, in particular our understandings of the binaries between slavery and freedom, victims and perpetrators. Incisive and stimulating, this is a stellar work of scholarship that demands of the academy—and human rights campaigners—a marked shift in direction. -- Zoe Trodd, University of NottinghamThe book offers a detailed account and analysis of how and to what extent perpetrators adapt, accommodate, and profit from this social phenomenon. Moreover, What Slaveholders Think makes a great contribution to the literature on social movements, human rights, political sociology, labor movements, and other fields of study. * American Journal of Sociology *Provides readers with many truly unique and largely overlooked insights into the world of contemporary slavery. . . . Path-breaking. * International Sociology *A rich treatment of a compelling (albeit troubling) topic, one that makes an important contribution to social movement theory. * Mobilization *A rich, theoretically interesting work that should be taken seriously by scholars of social movement activity. . . . Well-written, engaging, and theoretically insightful. * Contemporary Sociology *Choi-Fitzpatrick’s work is an essential contribution to the literature on slavery and bonded labor. * Journal of Human Trafficking *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. In All Its Forms: Slavery and Abolition, Movements and Targets2. Best-Laid Plans: A Partial Theory of Social-Movement Targets3. Just Like Family: Slaveholders on Slavery4. As If We Are Equal: Slaveholders on Emancipation5. The Farmer in the Middle: Target Response to Threats6. Private Wrongs: Slavery and Antislavery in Contemporary India7. Long Goodbye: The Contemporary Antislavery Movement8. Between Good and Evil: The Everyday Ethics of Resources and ReappraisalNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Remnants of Race Science traces the influence of ideas from the Global South on UNESCO’s race campaign, illuminating its relationship to notions of modernization and economic development.Trade ReviewBrilliantly and provocatively, The Remnants of Race Science reveals that the so-called decline of racial thought in human biology was really just a substitution of other more flexible ideas of human difference—mostly from the Global South—for the rigid racist typologies of the Global North. This more inclusive refiguring of racial difference would make possible the economic ‘development’ of people once excluded from modernity—which meant in practice their neocolonial incorporation into the netherworlds of global capitalism. In this paradigm-shifting book, Gil-Riaño thus offers us a new ‘southern’ vocabulary to talk about racism and antiracism. -- Warwick Anderson, author of Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the PhilippinesStarting with scientific research from the Southern Hemisphere, this important book overturns the common story of antiracist science as simplistically rooted in rejecting fixed biological kinds. Drawing from a transnational archive, Gil-Riaño shows how so-called anti-racist science was caught up in projects of improvement that rested on a multitude of other racisms. -- M. Murphy, author of The Economization of LifeLatin Americanists have long maintained that race and biology are shaped by culture, social organization, and economic conditions. In this deeply researched study, Gil-Riaño shows how Latin American racial ideas shaped the post–World War II human sciences and UNESCO projects. The human sciences did not renounce racial explanation—as so many believe—but folded them into global ideas about economic development. -- Karin Rosemblatt, author of The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950Offers useful historical context to current debates about how to successfully build solidarity in science and society. * Science *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Remnants of Race SciencePart I: Confronting Racism in the Southern Hemisphere, 1890–19511. Substituting Race: Arthur Ramos, Bahia, and the “Nina Rodrigues School”2. Relocating Race Science After World War II: Situating the 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race in the Southern Hemisphere3. Vikings of the Sunrise: Alfred Metraux, Te Rangi Hīroa, and Polynesian Racial ResiliencePart II: Race in the Tropics and Highlands and the Quest for Economic Development, 1945–19624. A Tropical Laboratory: Race, Evolution, and the Demise of UNESCO’s Hylean Amazon Project5. “Peasants Without Land”: Race and Indigeneity in the ILO’s Puno-Tambopata ProjectPart III: Engineering Racial Harmony and Decolonization, 1952–19616. A Brazilian Racial Dilemma: Modernization and UNESCO’s Race Relations Studies in Brazil7. A White World Perspective and the Collapse of Global Race Relations InquiryConclusion: “Racism Continues to Haunt the World”NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book calls for a new global approach to education to enrich and enhance the lives of children everywhere. Contributors emphasize the centrality of education to social and environmental justice, as well as the philosophical foundations of education. The book features a foreword by Pope Francis.Trade ReviewIn an age of ever mounting challenges, it is essential to reimagine and transform our approach to education to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, values, and behaviors necessary for sustainable development. The Global Compact for Education calls on all of us to prioritize inclusive and transformative education for a sustainable tomorrow. -- Ban Ki-moon, eighth secretary-general of the United Nations and cochair of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global CitizensImagine: education for all would employ the languages of the head, heart, and hands. It would give us purpose in life. It would infuse us with the motivation to pursue truth, goodness and creativity, while working to mend the fabric of human relationships. This book makes me want to make that vision reality. -- Yo-Yo MaPope Francis’s urgent call for a new compact on education is timely and should serve as a wake-up call. While many heads of state play their power games, hundreds of millions of children suffer and miss what they so obviously need: a solid education. This authoritative book sketches out what should be done and shows how. Clear-eyed about contemporary crises of pandemic, climate change, and heartbreaking migration, the authors offer an impressive range of educational insight and reform. -- Jerry Brown, former governor of CaliforniaThis volume brings together some of the very best minds from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, as they respond to Pope Francis' visionary “summons to solidarity” for a new global compact on education. The chapters, carefully crafted and curated for the volume, address the need for education practices and policies to promote healthy, flourishing and engaged children. The authors coalesce in defining critical issues in education today: early childhood education as a foundation for learning, education and social inequality, the needs of children from more vulnerable populations, education as a moral responsibility, and much more. This is a book for our times, as we strive to educate children across the world for purposeful lives. -- Kathleen McCartney, president of Smith CollegeIn this timely, engaging, and compelling book, the authors describe how education can be reformed so that students in nations around the world can attain the knowledge, skills, and values needed to function effectively in a highly technological, diverse, complex, and changing world. Once again, editors Marcelo and Carola Suárez-Orozco have assembled a group of eminent scholars who enrich this book with original and trenchant insights. This innovative and informative book deserves a wide and influential audience. -- James A. Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus, University of Washington, SeattleHow can education address the social, moral and environmental crises of our time? This important and unique volume combines rigorous cutting-edge research and a strong ethical foundation to address issues in education across the globe. Foregrounding the well-being and flourishing of children, the scholars assembled here provide cogent accounts of inequalities and injustices, as well as hopeful calls to action to improve and provide access to quality education for all. This volume deserves a wide readership across academia and among policy makers. It is both a clear eyes assessment of the present state of education, and a clarion call to work towards a better future. -- Mary C. Waters, PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences and John Loeb Professor of Sociology, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsForeword. Education: The Global Compact, by the Holy Father Pope FrancisAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Global Compact on Education, by Marcelo Suárez-OrozcoPart I. Addressing Our Most Vulnerable1. Education and Inequality, by Jeffrey D. Sachs2. Education, Health, and Demography, by David E. Bloom and Maddalena Ferranna,3. Child Poverty and Cognition: Developmental and Educational Implications, by Sebastián Lipina4. Education for Refugee and Displaced Children, by Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Dana Burde and J. Lawrence Aber5. The Consequences of Emergency and Humanitarian Relief Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey and Lebanon, by Maha Shuayb, Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie6. Countering Cascading Xenophobia: Educational Settings at the Frontline, by Carola Suárez-OrozcoPart II. Ethical and Civic Considerations7. Education as a Moral Responsibility, by Stefano Zamagni8. On Educating the Three Virtues: A Hegelian Approach, by Howard Gardner9. Ethics in Education and Education of Ethics, by Vittorio Hosle10. Education for a Purposeful Life, by William Damon and Anne Colby11. Educating for Democracy in Contentious Times, by John RogersPart III. Educating for a Sustainable Future12. Climate Change Education for All: Bending the Curve Education Project, by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Fonna Forman, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Alan Roper, Scott Friese, Karen Flammer,, Hahrie Han, Adam Millard-Ball, Paula Ezcurra, and Astrid Hsu13. Education for Sustainable Development, by Radhika Iyengar, Haein Shin, and Tara Stafford OcanseyPart IV. The Foundations of Education14. Early Childhood Education in Reggio Emilia and the World, by Carla Rinaldi15. Addressing our Global Developmental Emergency: Early Intervention and the Think Equal Early Years Program, by Leslee Udwin16. The Future of Literacy in a Digital Culture: Promise and Perils, by Maryanne Wolf17. The Feeling of Reading in a Changing World: From Neurons to Narratives, by Tami KatzirPart V. The Futures of Education18. Global Learning Ecologies: Leveraging Technologies for Equity, by Brigid Barron19. Improvement Science: The Social Glue that Helps Helpers Help?, by Louis M. Gomez, Manuelito Biag, and David G. Imig20. UNESCO and the Futures of Education, by Stefania GianniniAfterword: Universal Education: An Essential Pillar for All Sustainable Development Goals, by Jennifer Gross, Peter Stengaard, and Vanessa Fajans-TurnerList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book calls for a new global approach to education to enrich and enhance the lives of children everywhere. Contributors emphasize the centrality of education to social and environmental justice, as well as the philosophical foundations of education. The book features a foreword by Pope Francis.Trade ReviewIn an age of ever mounting challenges, it is essential to reimagine and transform our approach to education to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, values, and behaviors necessary for sustainable development. The Global Compact for Education calls on all of us to prioritize inclusive and transformative education for a sustainable tomorrow. -- Ban Ki-moon, eighth secretary-general of the United Nations and cochair of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global CitizensImagine: education for all would employ the languages of the head, heart, and hands. It would give us purpose in life. It would infuse us with the motivation to pursue truth, goodness and creativity, while working to mend the fabric of human relationships. This book makes me want to make that vision reality. -- Yo-Yo MaPope Francis’s urgent call for a new compact on education is timely and should serve as a wake-up call. While many heads of state play their power games, hundreds of millions of children suffer and miss what they so obviously need: a solid education. This authoritative book sketches out what should be done and shows how. Clear-eyed about contemporary crises of pandemic, climate change, and heartbreaking migration, the authors offer an impressive range of educational insight and reform. -- Jerry Brown, former governor of CaliforniaThis volume brings together some of the very best minds from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, as they respond to Pope Francis' visionary “summons to solidarity” for a new global compact on education. The chapters, carefully crafted and curated for the volume, address the need for education practices and policies to promote healthy, flourishing and engaged children. The authors coalesce in defining critical issues in education today: early childhood education as a foundation for learning, education and social inequality, the needs of children from more vulnerable populations, education as a moral responsibility, and much more. This is a book for our times, as we strive to educate children across the world for purposeful lives. -- Kathleen McCartney, president of Smith CollegeIn this timely, engaging, and compelling book, the authors describe how education can be reformed so that students in nations around the world can attain the knowledge, skills, and values needed to function effectively in a highly technological, diverse, complex, and changing world. Once again, editors Marcelo and Carola Suárez-Orozco have assembled a group of eminent scholars who enrich this book with original and trenchant insights. This innovative and informative book deserves a wide and influential audience. -- James A. Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus, University of Washington, SeattleHow can education address the social, moral and environmental crises of our time? This important and unique volume combines rigorous cutting-edge research and a strong ethical foundation to address issues in education across the globe. Foregrounding the well-being and flourishing of children, the scholars assembled here provide cogent accounts of inequalities and injustices, as well as hopeful calls to action to improve and provide access to quality education for all. This volume deserves a wide readership across academia and among policy makers. It is both a clear eyes assessment of the present state of education, and a clarion call to work towards a better future. -- Mary C. Waters, PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences and John Loeb Professor of Sociology, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsForeword. Education: The Global Compact, by the Holy Father Pope FrancisAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Global Compact on Education, by Marcelo Suárez-OrozcoPart I. Addressing Our Most Vulnerable1. Education and Inequality, by Jeffrey D. Sachs2. Education, Health, and Demography, by David E. Bloom and Maddalena Ferranna,3. Child Poverty and Cognition: Developmental and Educational Implications, by Sebastián Lipina4. Education for Refugee and Displaced Children, by Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Dana Burde and J. Lawrence Aber5. The Consequences of Emergency and Humanitarian Relief Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey and Lebanon, by Maha Shuayb, Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie6. Countering Cascading Xenophobia: Educational Settings at the Frontline, by Carola Suárez-OrozcoPart II. Ethical and Civic Considerations7. Education as a Moral Responsibility, by Stefano Zamagni8. On Educating the Three Virtues: A Hegelian Approach, by Howard Gardner9. Ethics in Education and Education of Ethics, by Vittorio Hosle10. Education for a Purposeful Life, by William Damon and Anne Colby11. Educating for Democracy in Contentious Times, by John RogersPart III. Educating for a Sustainable Future12. Climate Change Education for All: Bending the Curve Education Project, by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Fonna Forman, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Alan Roper, Scott Friese, Karen Flammer,, Hahrie Han, Adam Millard-Ball, Paula Ezcurra, and Astrid Hsu13. Education for Sustainable Development, by Radhika Iyengar, Haein Shin, and Tara Stafford OcanseyPart IV. The Foundations of Education14. Early Childhood Education in Reggio Emilia and the World, by Carla Rinaldi15. Addressing our Global Developmental Emergency: Early Intervention and the Think Equal Early Years Program, by Leslee Udwin16. The Future of Literacy in a Digital Culture: Promise and Perils, by Maryanne Wolf17. The Feeling of Reading in a Changing World: From Neurons to Narratives, by Tami KatzirPart V. The Futures of Education18. Global Learning Ecologies: Leveraging Technologies for Equity, by Brigid Barron19. Improvement Science: The Social Glue that Helps Helpers Help?, by Louis M. Gomez, Manuelito Biag, and David G. Imig20. UNESCO and the Futures of Education, by Stefania GianniniAfterword: Universal Education: An Essential Pillar for All Sustainable Development Goals, by Jennifer Gross, Peter Stengaard, and Vanessa Fajans-TurnerList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBeyond Coloniality is, unsurprisingly, a superbly well-informed and complex book. Forthright in tone and urgent in message, it is also remarkably engaging, and Kamugisha does his scholarly job of identifying important lacunae and unpaid debts in the existing literature on Caribbean thought. * Social Text *Aaron Kamugisha's Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition, represents the radical dimension of the black nationalist tradition. * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *Most absorbing is the book's critical assessment of how certain theories and metanarratives are inadequate to address the current realities of political-cultural discord in the contemporary Caribbean. * Small Axe.net *Kamugisha moves with great skill between the more specific discourses of the state, the middle class, tradition and modernity, and his close readings of members of the Caribbean intellectual tradition. -- Paget Henry * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsPreface1. Beyond Caribbean Coloniality2. The Contemporary as Absurdity: Denials of Citizenship in the Caribbean Postcolony3. Caribbean Racial States4. A Jamesian Poiesis? C.L.R. James's New Society and Caribbean Freedom5. The Caribbean Beyond: Reading Sylvia Wynter on Freedom and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition6. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a thought-provoking and enlightening, if in places frustrating, collection of interdisciplinary essays that will be of benefit to social scientists interested in consumer lifeworlds under communist rule. -- Gediminas Lankauskas, University of Regina * The Russian Review *The volume is a useful study of Eastern European consumption during socialism and an invaluable tool with which to think about writing the histories of consumerism and state socialism in general. The provocative conclusions regarding socialism's failures as reverse echoes of our world today, with its own tortured relation to consumption, should, one hopes, resonate beyond the confines of the fields of Eastern European and socialist history. -- Victor Petrov - University of Tennessee * H-Net (Socialisms) *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. The Pleasures of Backwardness / Zsuzsa Gille, Cristofer Scarboro, and Diana Mincytė2. Consuming Dialogues: Pleasure, Restraint, "Backwardness," and "Civilization" in Eastern Europe / Mary Neuburger3. Just Rewards: The Social Contract and Communism's Hard Bargain with the Citizen-Consumer / Patrick Hyder Patterson4. Conceptualizing Consumption in the Polish People's Republic / Brian Porter-Szűcs 5. Oranges and the New Black: Importing, Provisioning, and Consuming Tropical Fruits and Coffee in the GDR, 1971–1989 / Anne Dietrich6. VCRs, Modernity, and Consumer Culture in Late State Socialist Poland / Patryk Wasiak7. The Enchantment of Imaginary Europe: Consumer Practices in Post-Soviet Ukraine / Tania Bulakh8. The Late Socialist Good Life and its Discontents: Bit, Kultura, and the Social Life of Goods / Cristofer Scarboro9. The Prosumerist Resonance Machine: Rethinking Political Subjectivity and Consumer Desire in State Socialism / Zsuzsa Gille and Diana MincytėIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is a vibrant follow-up on the Comaroffs' Ethnicity, Inc. (2009), further unfolding the full riches of the idea of a growing 'incorporation' of ethnicity. It highlights that in the meantime ethnicity's commoditization and the branding of belonging have developed to new heights, but with startlingly variable results. Through a comparison of different trajectories—from the counter-productive celebration of dot-painting by Australian Aborigines, to Samburu beach-boys in Kenya violently defending their status as sexual icons, to ethnicity-as-(apparent)-abundance among Peruvian peasants—this collection manages to chart the uncertainties of identity and the increasingly enigmatic role of culture in a neoliberal world."—Peter Geschiere, author of The Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship, and Exclusion in Africa and Europ"Just over a decade after the publication of Ethnicity, Inc., the heady cocktail of commoditization, culture, and corporation originally modelled there has only further entangled itself in global social processes. This stunning new collection traces myriad extensions and analogs of ethnocommodities within contemporary late capitalism, while courageously exploring the limits of the model in places where the economic logic of ethnic distinction is muddled by pan-regional identities, nation-branding, and economies of violence. As these authors deftly demonstrate, even as the Durkheimian enchantment of the collective can conjure quantifiable brand value, the capacity of the brand itself to enchant is increasingly the dominant mode with which to produce—and consume—collectivity."—Sasha Newell, author of The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption, and Citizenshio in Côte d'IvoireTable of ContentsEditorial NoteIntroduction: Ethnicity, Inc., Revisited / George Paul Meiu, Jean Comaroff, and John L. Comaroff1. On Branding, Belonging, and the Violence of a Phallic Imaginary: The Maasai Warrior in Kenya Tourism. / George Paul Meiu2. The Scarce and the Sacred: Managing Afterlives and Branding the Derivative in Post-Soviet Buddhism (Inc). / Tatiana Chudakova3. Ethnicity as Potential: Abundance, Competition, and the Limits of Development in Andean Peru's Colca Valley. / Eric Hirsch4. Warriors Incorporated: The Militarization of Fijian Identity in the Era of Neoliberal Warfare. / Simon May5. Story, Brand, or Share? Bafokeng, Inc. and the 2010 FIFA World Cup. / Susan E. Cook6. The Hunter Hype: Producing 'Local Culture' as Particularity in Mali. / Dorothea E. Schulz7. The Affective Potentialities and Politics of Ethnicity, Inc. in Restructuring Nepal: Social Science, Sovereignty, and Signification. / Sara Shneiderman8. Cultural Commodification in Global Contexts: Australian Indigeneity, Inequality, and Militarization in the Twenty-first Century. / Eve Darian-SmithList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is a vibrant follow-up on the Comaroffs' Ethnicity, Inc. (2009), further unfolding the full riches of the idea of a growing 'incorporation' of ethnicity. It highlights that in the meantime ethnicity's commoditization and the branding of belonging have developed to new heights, but with startlingly variable results. Through a comparison of different trajectories—from the counter-productive celebration of dot-painting by Australian Aborigines, to Samburu beach-boys in Kenya violently defending their status as sexual icons, to ethnicity-as-(apparent)-abundance among Peruvian peasants—this collection manages to chart the uncertainties of identity and the increasingly enigmatic role of culture in a neoliberal world."—Peter Geschiere, author of The Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship, and Exclusion in Africa and Europ"Just over a decade after the publication of Ethnicity, Inc., the heady cocktail of commoditization, culture, and corporation originally modelled there has only further entangled itself in global social processes. This stunning new collection traces myriad extensions and analogs of ethnocommodities within contemporary late capitalism, while courageously exploring the limits of the model in places where the economic logic of ethnic distinction is muddled by pan-regional identities, nation-branding, and economies of violence. As these authors deftly demonstrate, even as the Durkheimian enchantment of the collective can conjure quantifiable brand value, the capacity of the brand itself to enchant is increasingly the dominant mode with which to produce—and consume—collectivity."—Sasha Newell, author of The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption, and Citizenshio in Côte d'IvoireTable of ContentsEditorial NoteIntroduction: Ethnicity, Inc., Revisited / George Paul Meiu, Jean Comaroff, and John L. Comaroff1. On Branding, Belonging, and the Violence of a Phallic Imaginary: The Maasai Warrior in Kenya Tourism. / George Paul Meiu2. The Scarce and the Sacred: Managing Afterlives and Branding the Derivative in Post-Soviet Buddhism (Inc). / Tatiana Chudakova3. Ethnicity as Potential: Abundance, Competition, and the Limits of Development in Andean Peru's Colca Valley. / Eric Hirsch4. Warriors Incorporated: The Militarization of Fijian Identity in the Era of Neoliberal Warfare. / Simon May5. Story, Brand, or Share? Bafokeng, Inc. and the 2010 FIFA World Cup. / Susan E. Cook6. The Hunter Hype: Producing 'Local Culture' as Particularity in Mali. / Dorothea E. Schulz7. The Affective Potentialities and Politics of Ethnicity, Inc. in Restructuring Nepal: Social Science, Sovereignty, and Signification. / Sara Shneiderman8. Cultural Commodification in Global Contexts: Australian Indigeneity, Inequality, and Militarization in the Twenty-first Century. / Eve Darian-SmithList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBeyond Coloniality is, unsurprisingly, a superbly well-informed and complex book. Forthright in tone and urgent in message, it is also remarkably engaging, and Kamugisha does his scholarly job of identifying important lacunae and unpaid debts in the existing literature on Caribbean thought. * Social Text *Aaron Kamugisha's Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition, represents the radical dimension of the black nationalist tradition. * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *Most absorbing is the book's critical assessment of how certain theories and metanarratives are inadequate to address the current realities of political-cultural discord in the contemporary Caribbean. * Small Axe.net *Kamugisha moves with great skill between the more specific discourses of the state, the middle class, tradition and modernity, and his close readings of members of the Caribbean intellectual tradition. -- Paget Henry * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsPreface1. Beyond Caribbean Coloniality2. The Contemporary as Absurdity: Denials of Citizenship in the Caribbean Postcolony3. Caribbean Racial States4. A Jamesian Poiesis? C.L.R. James's New Society and Caribbean Freedom5. The Caribbean Beyond: Reading Sylvia Wynter on Freedom and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition6. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between people, street animals, and rabies in urban India. Incorporates epidemiological goals within anthropological frameworks to investigate the ways in which people come into contact with animals and create favorable conditions for the rabies virus to flourish.Trade Review“In this fascinating, accessible, and well-written text, Nadal considers various conceptualizations of rabies in India and the multidimensional challenges involved in controlling viral transmission within a One Health framework.”—D. A. Brass Choice“This is one of the best ethnographies on human-nonhuman relationships I have read.”—Sushrut Jadhav,founding editor of Anthropology & Medicine“A truly original book and a fascinating read.”—Harlan Weaver Medical Anthropology QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Viral Connections1. Humans2. Food in the Middle3. Dogs4. Macaques5. Cows6. Living with RabiesConclusion: Interspecies CamaraderieReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental Management: Issues and Solutions has grown from a series of seminars on environmental management organized by the UNEP Environmental Education and Training Unit with input from some 25 governments of developing countries. This volume is a compilation of presentations made at these seminars by over 50 specialist authors from all over the world, and by participants who are executives and key cadres in ministries or organizations from a wide range of developing countries concerned with the environment. Looking at the foundations and policies of sustainable development, the book describes the principles and processes of ecosystems and the basic environmental management tools, including funding possibilities, that are required for environmental management, particularly in developing countries. Thus, covering the basic concepts and principles, together with the tools necessary for such management, a wide range of issues of environmental concern are discussed, with an eye on howTable of ContentsPartial table of contents: SOME FOUNDATIONS OF AND POLICIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. Human Ecology and Environment Ethics (L. Dangana & S.Tropp). Environmental Awareness, Education and Training (M. Atchia, etal.). ECOSYSTEMS: PROCESSES, PROBLEMS AND STRATEGIES. Efforts to Combat Land Degradation (T. Maukonen). Genetic Resources (H. Zedan). CASE STUDIES ON ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT. A Brief Overview of Forests (R. Olembo). The Built-Up Ecosystems (N. Gebremedhin). The Global Environmental Monitoring Systems (GEMS) (M.Gwynne). The Role of Law in Environmental Management at the National Level(I. Rummel-Bulska). The Global Environmental Facility (GEF) (M. Pyhala). Toxic Chemical: The UNEP International Register (J.Huismans). Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis superb, concise dictionary comprises over 2,000 entries defining terms and concepts relating to environmental planning, management, conservation and sustainable development.Table of ContentsIntroduction Key Terms and Concepts: A User's Guide A-Z Dictionary Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisEven in the late 20th Century, there remains a complex web of spatial inter-relationships linking port cities and coastal zones. Cityports, Coastal Zones and Regional Change brings together seventeen authors to explore aspects of these inter-relationships.Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: Ports, Cities and Coastal Zones: Competition and Change in aMultimodal Environment (B. Hoyle). THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE UK. Cityport Development and Regional Change: Lessons from the Clyde(A. Dawson). ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES. Oil Industry Restructuring and Its Environmental Consequences inthe Coastal Zone (S. Harcombe & D. Pinder). ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION IN DEVELOPING AREAS. Balkan Transport and Cityport Development in an Era of Uncertainty(D. Hall). Cityports and Coastal Zones in Contemporary Africa: Mombasa and theIndian Ocean Facade of Kenya (B. Hoyle). INTERMODALISM, MIDAs AND MULTIMODALISM. Fixed Links and Short Sea Crossings (R. Knowles). Combined Transport in Italy: The Case of the Quadrante Europa,Verona (C. Robiglio). PLANNING STRATEGIES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE. Cityports, Coastal Zones and Sustainable Development (A.Vallega). Index.

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