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Book Synopsis'A compelling contribution to our evolving understanding of the links between trade, aid and security � and what the international community needs to do to ensure peace and development in the world.' Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme 'For far too long the international community ahs stood by while countries around the world descend into conflict and anarchy. We need to understand how we can engage more effectively with fragile and failing states. Trade, Aid and Security is an important step in this direction.' Jan Pronk, Special Representative of the UN General Secretary in Sudan and Former Minister of Development and the Environment, The Netherlands. 'As we begin to contemplate what the post-Iraq world will look like it is vital that we reflect on the limits of the utility of hard power and the importance that development can play in avoiding failed states before they fail, preventing conflicts and more successfully re-building states. This timely book makes a most important contribution to that process.' Lord Paddy Ashdown, UN High Representative for Boznia and Herzegovina, 2002 � 2006 Leader of UK Liberal Democrat Party, 1988 � 1999 'As UN Special Representative to the Great Lakes Region of Africa I have seen the devastating impact of the trade in �conflict resources� with my own eyes. Amongst much else, this book shows how different trade and aid politics can tackle the trade in conflict resources and make a real contribution to secure societies. It is essential reading.' Mohamed Sahnoun, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Central and East Africa. Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur. All resonate loudly on the international stage, exposing and illustrating the intractable links between global security, control over naturals resources � be it oil, water, timber or 'conflict diamonds' � and the manipulation of foreign aid and international trade policy. This volume, written by leading authorities from across the globe, introduces the linkages between trade, aid and security, and exposes how inappropriate or misused trade and aid policy can and do undermine security and contribute to violence and the disintegration of national states. On a practical level they demonstrate how six key areas of trade and aid policy can be used to help forge stability and security, reduce the likelihood of armed conflict, and assist economic and political recovery in our war-torn world.Trade Review'This book presents a remarkable analysis of the multiple linkages between aid, trade and security and provides thoughtful alternatives to current ways aid is delivered and trade regulated... highly recommended to practitioners and researchers working on issues related to aid conditionality.' Natural Resources ForumTable of ContentsIntroduction: Trade, Aid and Security: An Agenda for Peace and Development * Designing Conflict-sensitive Trade Policy * Developing Conflict-sensitive Aid: The Relationship between Aid and Conflict * Promoting 'Good' Governance through Trade and Aid: Instruments of Coercion or Vehicles of Communication? * Building Markets for Conflict-free Goods * Promoting Conflict-sensitive Business in Fragile States: Redressing Skewed Incentives * Managing Revenues from Natural Resources and Aid * Conclusion: Prospects for Peace and Progress *

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2008, La Faim et la Sant is a valuable contribution to the field of Environment and Sustainability.Trade Review'La faim et la sant� s'appuie sur une exp�rience pragmatique longue de plusieurs d�cennies, acquise dans le cadre de la r�duction des 'urgences alimentaires' et des efforts visant � rompre le cercle vicieux de la pauvret� et de la maladie.' Paul Farmer, Docteur en m�decine, Harvard Medical School et Partners in Health 'La faim et la sant� s'appuie sur une exp�rience pragmatique longue de plusieurs d�cennies, acquise dans le cadre de la r�duction des 'urgences alimentaires' et des efforts visant � rompre le cercle vicieux de la pauvret� et de la maladie. Il fournit - aux nations ainsi qu'aux organismes normatifs internationaux qui cherchent � r�aliser les objectifs du Mill�naire pour le d�veloppement - des recommandations solidement fond�es pour l'�laboration des politiques qu'il faudra mettre en oeuvre ... Nous sommes extr�mement redevables � ceux qui ont r�dig� La faim et la sant� et � ceux qui y ont contribu�. Que ce rapport, et les engagements �crits pris en faveur du commerce �quitable, de la r�forme agraire et de l'am�lioration des pratiques agricoles, soient pour nous tous une 'feuille de route', dont le respect nous permettra de faire en sorte que la faim au XXIe si�cle soit per�ue, premi�rement, comme une obsc�nit� et, deuxi�mement, comme une maladie mondiale que nous sommes d'ores et d�j� en mesure de gu�rir.' Paul Farmer, Docteur en m�decine, Harvard Medical School et Partners in Health 'Si la mondialisation apporte des possibilit�s sans pr�c�dent d'acc�der � la richesse, elle creuse aussi le foss� entre ceux qui jouissent avec dignit� de leur plein droit � la vie et ceux qui en sont priv�s. Le PAM compte plus de personnel intervenant dans les r�gions du monde touch�es par des crises que toute autre organisation. Fruit de l'exp�rience sur le terrain, ce rapport d�montre sans �quivoque que la faim, la maladie et la pauvret� sont inextricablement li�es. Qui plus est, il prouve qu'il existe des solutions pratiques � cette face inacceptable du d�veloppement. Il s'agit d'une lecture essentielle pour quiconque travaille aupr�s des populations marginalis�es, que ce soit dans les quartiers d�sh�rit�s du Nord ou dans les zones de conflit du Sud.' Peter Walker, Titulaire de la chaire Irwin H. Rosenberg de nutrition et s�curit� humaine, �cole Friedman des sciences et politiques de la nutrition, Universit� TuftsTable of ContentsLe Programme alimentaire mondial des Nations Unies -- Remerciements -- Avant-propos -- Note d'introduction -- Preface -- APERCU GENERAL -- PREMIERE PARTIE: LA FAIM ET LA SAMt DANS LE MONDE -- Introduction -- 1.1 La faim, la sante et le bien-etre -- Intermezzo 1: Description generate des carences en micronutriments -- 1.2 Quelles sont les personnes les plus vulnerables? -- Intermezzo 2: Les femmes et I'elimination de la faim - un lien inextricable -- 1.3 Suivi des OMD relatifs a la faim et a la sante -- 1.4 Accelerer les progres en faisant les bons choix -- Intermezzo 3: La faim et la maladie dans les situations de crise -- DEUXIEME PARTIE: LA DfzNUTRITION ET LA MALADIE - LEURS EFFETS TOUT AU LONG DU -- CYCLE DE LA VIE -- 2.1 La denutrition et la maladie: un lien etroit -- 2.2 Examen plus approfondi de la denutrition et de la maladie -- Intermezzo 4: Le sida et la faim - enjeux et actions -- Intermezzo 5: L'aide alimentaire et le traitement de la tuberculose -- Intermezzo 6: La transition nutritionnelle en Amerique latine - I'experience du Programme du Conseil national chilien des jardins d'enfants -- 2.3 Menaces emergentes -- TROISIEME PARTIE: LE DEVELOPPEMENT NATIONAL - ENGAGEMENTS ET CHOIX POLITIQUES -- 3.1 La faim nuit au developpement humain -- 3.2 Des solutions efficaces -- Intermezzo 7: Les Sprinkles - un moyen novateur et economiquement efficace de fournir des micronutriments aux enfants -- 3.3 Les bons choix politiques -- Intermezzo 8: Partenariats visant a eradiquer la denutrition infantile en Amerique latine et -- aux CaraTbes -- Intermezzo 9: De la recherche a Taction -- QUATRIEME PARTIE: LA MARCHE A SUIVRE - VERS UN MONDE LIB£r£ DE LA FAIM -- 4.1 La marche a suivre: dix actions cles -- Intermezzo 10: Priorite a la nutrition en ThaTlande -- CINQUIEME PARTIE: RECUEIL DE REFERENCES -- Apergu - notes techniques -- Tableau 1 - A quoi ressemble un monde en proie a la faim? -- Tableau 2 - Combien de personnes souffrent de la faim tout au long de leur vie? -- Tableau 3 - A quoi ressemble un monde en proie a la maladie? -- Tableau 4 - Combien de personnes souffrent de la maladie durant leur vie? -- Tableau 5 - Qui est menace par la faim et la maladie dans les situations de crise? -- Tableau 6a - Combien de personnes souffrent de la faim invisible et de maladies infantiles?. . -- Tableau 6b - Combien de personnes souffrent de maladies infectieuses? -- Tableau 7 - Combien de personnes sont touchees par des catastrophes naturelles? -- Tableau 8 - Quelles solutions existent-t-il pour lutter contre la faim et la maladie? -- Tableau 9 - Quelles ressources sont consacrees a la reduction de la faim et de la maladie? -- Tableau 10 - Progres accomplis dans la realisation des OMD d'ici 2015 -- SIXIEME PARTIE: ANNEXES -- Sigles et abreviations -- Glossaire -- Bibliographie -- Notes -- Etablissement des couts des solutions essentielles -- Methodologie de cartographie.

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Book SynopsisWith the deadline for achieving the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) less than a decade away, the uneven progress is raising important questions about the ability of the international community to 'scale up' its efforts to finance the goals. Securing adequate financing for development has thus become the most pressing issue of the development agenda. This groundbreaking volume, by leading development economists and practitioners, addresses the central concern for policymakers involved in long term planning for the MDGs: how to create 'fiscal space' for the MDGs and strengthen domestic resource mobilization for human development, while ensuring long-term sustainability and freedom from reliance on aid. By looking at the evidence with fresh perspectives, the authors present a novel approach by which fiscal policy can be made to work for the poor, for the long term. Published with UNDP and Revenue Watch.Trade Review'This book makes a very important contribution to answering the question of how to increase fiscal space in developing countries with a view to achieving the MDGs. The solid analytical contribution is complemented by a number of country case studies that yield valuable empirical findings.' Jaime Ros, Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame and Faculty Fellow at the Helen Kellogg Institute of International StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Investing in Development: The Millennium Development Goals, Aid and Sustainable Capital Accumulation 2. Fiscal Space for What? Analytical Issues from a Human Development Perspective 3. Fiscal Space for Public Investment: Towards a Human Development Approach 4. The Fiscal Space Conjecture: Theoretical Reflections 5. Understanding Fiscal Expansions 6. A Review of Four Case Studies on Fiscal Space: Morocco, Senegal, Thailand and Venezuela 7. Guaranteeing Fiscal Space for Human Development in Morocco 8. Securing Fiscal Space for the Millennium Development Goals in Senegal 9. The Fiscal Space of Thailand: An Historical Analysis 10. Plenty of Room? Fiscal Space in a Resource-Abundant Economy: The Case of Venezuela Appendix: Selected Economic Indicators (2006) for Morocco, Senegal, Thailand and Venezuela

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Book SynopsisThe integration of development and climate objectives is increasingly recognized as significant in research and policy making. In practice, some development aims, such as poverty alleviation, enhancing energy security and access or improving health, also have potential climate benefits. The challenge is to find a broadly applicable range of effective policies and actions that realize development objectives and at the same time result in real climate benefits. This special issue of the Climate Policy journal focuses on new evidence that identifies options for action, examining how development strategies, policies and decisions can be made more sustainable by integrating climate change considerations and overcoming the barriers that hinder implementation. It also explores what lessons exist for policy at the national and international level and looks at how promising options for local policies can be scaled-up through international initiatives. It also examines how international policy frameworks can create the conditions for integrated development and climate policies. The outcomes provide useful contributions to sustainable development planning on issues such as poverty reduction, rural development, disaster preparedness, energy and transport as well as to the discussions at national and international level regarding next steps to deal with climate change.Table of ContentsIntegrating Development and Climate Policies * Integrating Development and Climate Policies: National and International Benefits * Methods for Quantifying Benefits of Sustainable Development Policies and Measures (SD-PAMs) * Bilateral and Multilateral Financial Assistance for the Energy Sector of Developing Countries * Financing the Integration of Climate Change Mitigation into Development * Adaptation and the Poor: Development, Resilience and Transition * Adapting Development Cooperation to Adapt to Climate Change * Climate Adaptation from a Poverty Perspective * Sustainable Development and Climate Change: Lessons from Country Studies * Brazilian Transport Initiatives with GHG Reductions as a Co-benefit

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Book SynopsisIt is widely accepted that sustainability has an inescapable social component, but companies find it very hard to understand and measure their social impacts. Why is this? This book, by noted CSR practitioner, consultant and educator Adrian Henriques, provides the first coherent approach to identifying, understanding, measuring and accounting for corporate social impact. Beginning with an analysis of the nature of corporate social impact and the role of the stakeholder, the complex relationship of social impact to economic and environmental impacts is explored. This naturally leads to an examination of the contribution which social impact makes to business practice, profitability and ultimately to global sustainability. The second part of the book assesses the theory and practise of some of the critical measures of social impact which have been developed to date. This includes Social Return on Investment (SROI), local economic impact (LM3) and social capital as well as more established techniques. . It also explores new approaches such as 'social footprinting'. This is rounded out by presentation of a social accounting framework and how this can operate in parallel to standard financial accounting procedures. This volume provides a clear, digestible and practical roadmap for companies wishing to take responsibility for their role in society and improve their internal and external performance.Trade Review'Adrian Henriques has done it again ... Clear and well-written, the text will stimulate and challenge practitioners, students, policy-makers and academics.' Professor R.H. Gray, Director of The Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research, School of Management, The Gateway University of St Andrews 'There may be a temptation to blame the corporate sector for many of the world's problems, but ultimately it's a split of responsibility between the life style choices of individual consumers, the state and the corporation. To address this subject Adrian Henriques reviews an array of methods to try and measure the social outcome of individual companies in an attempt to answer the frequently asked question 'What's a company for?'' Dr Chris Tuppen, BT Director of Sustainable Development 'In developing policy and standards for business activity, social impact has long been the disadvantaged sibling of environmental and economic impacts of companies. Henriques goes a long way toward rectifying this disparity by providing rich and varied perspectives on the definition, measurement and assessment of the social footprint of commercial activity Along the way, he takes us well beyond the boundaries of conventional CSR, raises fundamental questions about the purpose of the corporation, and challenges both companies and stakeholders to rethink their interdependency in new and provocative ways.' Allen L. White, Co-Founder, Global Reporting Initiative; Senior Fellow, Tellus Institute 'Adrian Henriques has done it again. He has taken a refreshingly novel angle on an important issue in need of urgent attention. This much-needed attempt to move on from much of the staleness in the CSR debate is broad and wide-ranging. Clear and well-written, the text will stimulate and challenge practitioners, students, policy-makers and academics. My guess is that my personal reaction of positive response and outraged disagreement in roughly equal measure will be a fairly common one: in this regard it succeeds masterfully in advancing this debate in a challenging manner.' Professor R.H. Gray, Director of The Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research, School of Management, The Gateway University of St Andrews 'As we cannot stretch the surface of the planet, we cannot extend time. Space and time are the ultimate physical ingredients to anything we do. Measuring, therefore, our time footprint (or social footprint) becomes a key ingredient for any sustainability assessment, and I am thrilled that Adrian Henriques is exploring the time dimension as a metric for social impact.' Mathis Wackernagel, Global Footprint Network PresidentTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Social Purpose of Companies 3. Complicity and the Sexual Exploitation of Children - a case study 4. Sustainability's Social Side 5. Thinking like a Stakeholder 6. The Voice of the Stakeholder 7. Sociological Impacts 8. Signs of Impact 9. Reporting Social Impact 10. Measuring Economic Impact 11. Investing in Impact 12. Social Footprint 13. Accounting for Social Impact 14. The Elusiveness of the Social Revisited Appendix I - Market Research Appendix II - Analysis of GRI Social Indicators Appendix III - SROI Case Study Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis topic is central to contemporary concerns for more sustainable agricultural development. This is a well-written and clear book, with excellent data, tables and illustrations, addressing issues of water use, climate change, poverty and small farmers. The authors are highly respected and complement each other's acknowledged international expertise.' Professor Jules Pretty, University of Essex, UK 'This useful guide shows that there is great potential for increasing the productive capacity of smallholder farms in the drylands via a range of water management techniques, from the simple to the more complex. Providing a theoretical grounding and a practical guide, Water and cereals in the drylands will appeal to workers on-location as well as students, researchers and policymakers.' New Agriculturalist Cereals are by far the most important source of food throughout the world, either directly for human consumption or indirectly in the form of animal feed for livestock products consumed as food. With world population set to rise to nine billion by 2050, there is an urgent need to examine ways to increase cereal production. Indeed recently the future of cereal production and consumption has been complicated by rising energy prices and the economics of biofuels, which are competing for the use of cereals. One way to increase cereal production is by the more effective use of marginal dryland areas. This book reviews the potential for increased cereal production in drylands across the world, from the USA, Australia and Southern Europe to Asia and Africa. It describes how improved water conservation, water harvesting and investment options can contribute to this, and suggests policies for the more efficient use of existing natural resources in order to lessen the dependence of agriculture on further irrigation development.Trade Review'Would be well used to inform the discussion in scientific papers.' Blair M. McKenzie, Cambridge University Press, 2009. '[The book] describes how improved water conservation, water harvesting and investment options can contribute to ths, and suggests policies for the more efficient use of existing natural resources in order to lessen the dependence of agriculture on futher irrigation development.' Biotechnology, Agronomy Society and Environment, 2009.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction 1: Drylands, People and Land Use 2: Cereal Production in Drylands 3: Enhancing Cereal Production in Drylands 4: Social and Economic Aspects of Dryland Investment 5: Wider Issues of Water in Drylands Conclusions Bibliography Annexes Index

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Book SynopsisThe international development community invests billions of dollars to improve organisational capacity. But real-life practice is poorly understood and undervalued as a distinct professional domain. Written by practitioners, this innovative publication is designed to make capacity development more professional and increasingly effective in achieving development goals. Practical illustrations draw on experiences from the civic, government and private sectors. A central theme is to understand capacity as more than something internal to organisations. This book shows how capacity also stems from connections between different types of actor and the levels in society at which they operate. The content is crafted for a broad audience of practitioners in capacity development: consultants, managers, front-line workers, trainers, facilitators, leaders, advisors, programme staff, activists, and funding agencies. Published with SNVTrade Review'To improve results, business would often take an 'organisational development' perspective. But this approach is less well established for development challenges usually involving multiple actors. This volume will go a long way to closing this gap by helping development professionals craft practical strategies for long-term improvement.' Peter Senge, Director of the Center for Organizational Learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management, author of The Fifth Discipline 'Here is a wealth of practical experience, amplified by a style and format that makes everything clear and accessible. It is a carefully crafted piece of work that will be recognized as a benchmark resource for this critical area of development challenges.' Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, former CEO of Civicus 'Through reflection on individual stories this book illustrates what works, why and how. It is a source of inspiration for those who want to increase the return on the billions invested yearly in this area.' Koos Richelle, Director General EuropeAid Cooperation Office, European Commission 'In linking the local and international, this book is an essential resource for every capacity development practitioner.' Chiku Malunga, Malawian capacity development practitioner, author on African organisational development 'Provides essential approaches for empowering local actors to create their own solutions, while dealing with their wider relationships. A vital contribution to achieving effectiveness and scale in a time when the paradigm of top-down policy solutions has simply not delivered.' Herman Wijffels, co-chair of World Connectors, former Netherlands representative at the World Bank 'Capacity development is one of the defining ideas within contemporary international development and stems from the conviction and experience that addressing social, economic and environmental issues calls for greater capabilities in society in individual human capital, in communities, groups, organisations, sectors and institutions...The practitioners through their own experience and understanding of capacity present a profile of methods, concepts, competencies and common challenges. ' Organiser Weekly 'The diversity of experience offered in this volume is one of its major strengths and as such the book is a very useful source of inspiration for CD practitioners looking for cases paralleling their current efforts.' Lars Udsholt, Capacity in DevelopmentTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Perspectives on Capacity Multiple Dimensions Multiple Actors Multiple Levels Part II: Establishing Your Practice Advisers' Roles Thematic and Change Expertise Ownership, Authority and Conflict Whose Values Count? Organizational Development as a Source 'Reading' Situations Dialogue Part III: Working with Connections Institutions, Power and Politics Public Accountability Micro-Macro Gap Working with Value Chains Engaging with Community Based Organizations Leadership Development Knowledge Networking Part IV: Improving on Results Measuring Capacity Development Time Matters Self-Reflection Accountability and Learning Part V: Looking Ahead Taking Stock Capacity Development Market? What Next?

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Book SynopsisBased on the 'soft path' approach to the energy sector, a transition is now under way to a soft path for water. This approach starts by ensuring that ecosystem needs for water are satisfied and then undertakes a radical approach to reducing human uses of water by economic and social incentives, including open decision-making, water markets and equitable pricing, and the application of super-efficient technology, all applied in ways that avoid jeopardizing quality of life. The soft path for water is therefore a management strategy that frees up water by curbing water waste. Making the Most of the Water We Have is the first to present and apply the water soft path approach. It has three aims: to bring to a wider audience the concept and the potential of water soft paths to demonstrate that soft path analysis is analytical and practical, and not just 'eco-dreaming' to indicate that soft paths are not only conceptually attractive but that they can be made economically and politically feasible. Includes a tool kit for planners and other practitioners. Published with POLIS Project and Friends of the EarthTrade Review'This book looks ahead to provide the context within which to consider our use and management of water as we enter an increasingly uncertain future.' Dr. David Suzuki, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, author, broadcaster 'The book provides a timely review of how political economies worldwide have been introducing soft path approaches. It is immensely strengthened by authors who introduced the idea to the water sector and diffused it among water scientists, engineers and planners.' From the Foreword by Professor J A [Tony] Allan, King's College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK 'It is the first book to present a comprehensive view of the soft path and focuses on water solutions, not just technologies but also analysis methods and governance. The importance of this book is its vision and attempt to persuade readers - stakeholders, educators, the media, NGOs, and water managers - to adhere to the soft path paradigm.' Water International 'Making the Most of the Water We Have lays out the key ingredients of a water soft path (WSP) in plain language. It makes its case with some really fine writing, especially in the first four chapters...The real achievement of this book is that it offers details regarding soft path water planning possibilities for rich nations and poor nations alike.' Robert Paehlke, Critical Policy StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Why a Water Soft Path, and Why Now Part 1: Water Soft Paths as Human Vision 2. Avoiding the Perfect Storm: Weathering Climate Change by Following its Effects on Water Resources 3. In the Beginning: Soft Energy Paths 4. Getting it Right: Misconceptions About the Soft Path 5. Practising Ecological Governance: The Case for the Soft Path for Water 6. Water Policy in Canada: Changing Course for the Soft Path Part 2: Water Soft Paths as Analytical Method 7. Getting Quantitative: The Canadian Water Soft Path Studies 8. Turning Principles into Practice: The WSP Scenario Builder 9. Thinking Beyond Pipes and Pumps: Water Soft Paths at the Urban Scale 10. WSP Analysis at a Watershed Scale 11. WSP Analysis at a Provincial Scale Part 3: Water Soft Paths as Planning Tool 12. Removing Institutional Barriers to Water Soft Paths: - Challenges and Opportunities 13. Pushing the Boundaries: Shifting Water Soft Paths Philosophy towards Hard Policy in Municipal Water Management 14. Green Buildings and Urban Space 15. Water Soft Path Thinking in the United States 16. Water Soft Path Thinking in Other Developed Economies – A. England B. The European Union C. Australia 17. Water Soft Path Thinking in Developing Countries – A. South Africa B. India C. Middle East and North Africa. Conclusion 18. A Water Future Different from the Past. Annex: How to Create A Soft Path Plan For Water. Index

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Book SynopsisAimed at undergraduates and post-graduates in the social sciences, as well as development practitioners, this textbook provides an introduction to the human development and capability approach; it also clarifies key concepts and fosters debate on a number of critical issues. The book offers new perspectives on a wide range of topics, which include the conceptualisation and measurement of well-being and inequality; the role of markets and economic growth in promoting development; the importance of democracy and public debate; culture and religion; health; equality and justice; and the connections between social and economic policy in addressing poverty and inequality. Case studies from across the world are used to illustrate concepts and highlight the relevance of the approach in addressing contemporary development challenges. A set of questions accompanies each chapter for seminar discussion to help readers assimilate central points and apply the approach to diverse realities. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the human development and capability approach for students and practitioners world-wide.Trade Review'This book is essential reading for all those who wish to understand the Human Development and Capability approach to development. It both explains and advances thought on this important and increasingly influential perspective.' Frances Stewart, President, Human Development and Capability Association 'One of the most important influences of the human development approach has been through educational and teaching at all levels. In this tradition, it is great to see this new volume, which provides excellent academic foundations in ways that are accessible for a wide range of potential audiences.' Jeni Klugman, Director and Lead Author of the Human Development Report 'As poverty reduction has become the predominant objective of socio-economic development, the human development and capabilities approach provides the best methodological path to its achievement. The present volume is a major contribution towards operationalizing this approach.' Erik Thorbecke, H.E. Babcock Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Graduate School Professor and former Director of the Program on Comparative Economic Development, Cornell University 'A commendable pioneering effort, which... represents an invaluable guide for all those interested in learning about a new, if still controversial, perspective on development.' Gustav Ranis, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 'a success...represents an excellent introduction to a would-be new paradigm that is currently in the ascendancy..represents an invaluable guide for all those interested in learning about a new, if still controversial, perspective on development.' Gustav Ranis, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2010.Table of ContentsIntroductory Note Part I: Concepts 1. A Normative Framework for Development 2. The Human Development and Capability Approach 3. Ideas Related to Human Development Part II: Topics 4. Economic Growth 5. Equality and Justice 6. Measurement 7. Institutions, Markets and Economic Development 8. Democracy and Political Participation 9. Education 10. Health 11. Culture and Religion Part III: Policy 12. Public Policy Analysis 13. Policy Case Studies Appendix 1: A Human Development Pedagogy Appendix 2: Pictures

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Book SynopsisThere is now considerable unanimity that international organizations such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization (WTO), Bretton Woods Institutions and the international economic architecture need to be reformed in order to achieve greater democratic governance to tackle the myriad of challenges facing the world. Written by leading members of the international community under the auspices of the World Forum of Civil Society Networks - UBUNTU, this book provides a diverse and rich resource on all aspects of the reform of international organizations. The book introduces the reader to the main organizations of the international multilateral system, presents proposals for reform and provides an analysis of the political action required to achieve global democratic governance. Trade Review'Neither 'business as usual' nor the 'status quo ante' are acceptable options. This UBUNTU book makes an important contribution to informing the increasingly urgent debate around creating the conditions for a much more just, democratic and sustainable world.' Jomo Kwame Sundaram, UN Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development. 'Reforming international institutions is an idea whose time has come, and the UBUNTU Forum is well placed to keep the momentum going. Its approach is inclusive, non-confrontational, and most likely to convince political leaders, senior officials from international organizations and civil society activists to work together to achieve a common goal: a safer, healthier, better world, for all to enjoy and leave to their children.' C cile Molinier, Director, UNDP Office in Geneva. 'This incredible ensemble of influential global citizens tells us how to fix our broken or obsolete institutions and systems...Certainly worth a read for any outraged or aspiring good global citizen.' Ramesh Singh, Chief Executive, ActionAid International. '...provides a comprehensive overview of the current reform discussions and their history, as well as an array of suggestions.' Christoph Schwarte, Staff Lawyer, Foundation for International Environmental Law and DevelopmentTable of ContentsPart A. The World Campaign: Context and stages 1. By way of introduction: The World Forum of Civil Society Networks - UBUNTU, Democratic Worldwide Governance and the World Campaign for In-Depth Reform of the System of International Institutions 2. The World Campaign for In-Depth Reform of the System of International Institutions Part B. Analysis 3. Analysis of the evolution of the proposals for the Reform of the System of International Institutions 4. World Democratic Governance 5. The 2006 war in Lebanon and the role of the United Nations Part C. The Proposals - In General 6. Proposals for the Reform of the System of International Institutions. Future Scenarios 7. Proposals for the Reform of the System of International Institutions to make another world possible - The London Declaration' 8. Reforming the UN and other International Institutions Part D. The Proposals - Arranged by Themes 9. Concerning two international conferences, two different yet complementary momentums for progress along the analytical and propositive path towards the in-depth reform of our international institutions 10. Proposals for a new architecture for the system of international institutions for democratic worldwide governance 11. Proposals on reforming the General Assembly of the UN and the World Parliament 12. Proposals on institutional reforms for peace, disarmament, security for people, global justice and human rights 13. Proposals on institutional reforms for world social, environmental and economic wellbeing; or the dialectics of development, the environment, finance, and trade 14. An 'Open Letter to the new Secretary-General of the UN: Mr Ban Ki-moon'1 and the three broad issues in a process of in-depth reform of the system of international institutions 15. A multi-actor socio-political, global movement for global democratic governance

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Book SynopsisHunger and Markets is the third volume of the UN World Food Programme's World Hunger Series - created to help promote a better understanding of the choices confronting leaders as they work to fight hunger. It appears at a crucial time, with food prices at high levels, a severe global financial crisis and vulnerable households around the world endangering their future health, education and productivity by reducing both the quality and the quantity of their food intake. Hunger and Markets explores the complex and multifaceted interactions between the availability of and access to food and the operations of markets. The structure and dynamics of food markets and the threats and opportunities markets generate are crucial for the access to food for billions of people. Markets are also critical in averting or mitigating food shortages and hunger by adjusting to shocks, reducing vulnerability and coping with crises. Whether markets help or harm the hungry poor is a function of markets' institutions, infrastructure and policies. This volume analyzes the workings of markets in order to identify the sources of market failures in addressing hunger and malnutrition, and to highlight the ways in which they can be improved. The report sets out the ways in which programme design and policy formulation can build on the strengths of markets to prevent possible negative effects, and will be essential reading for all those involved in the fight against world hunger. Published with World Food ProgrammeTable of ContentsPart I: Setting the Stage 1. Hunger 2. Markets 3. High Food Prices: Trends, Causes and Impacts Part II: Analysis 4. Households, Hunger and Markets 5. Access to Markets 6 .Availability of and Access to Nutritious Food 7. Vulnerability, Risk and Markets 8. Markets in Emergencies Part III: Actions and the Way Forward 9. Making Markets Work for the Hungry Poor and Supplementing Them Where Necessary 10. The Way Forward: Ten Priority Actions to Help Markets Break the Hunger-Poverty Trap Part IV: Resource Compendium Notes Part V: Annexes

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Book SynopsisHunger and Markets is the third volume of the UN World Food Programme's World Hunger Series - created to help promote a better understanding of the choices confronting leaders as they work to fight hunger. It appears at a crucial time, with food prices at high levels, a severe global financial crisis and vulnerable households around the world endangering their future health, education and productivity by reducing both the quality and the quantity of their food intake. Hunger and Markets explores the complex and multifaceted interactions between the availability of and access to food and the operations of markets. The structure and dynamics of food markets and the threats and opportunities markets generate are crucial for the access to food for billions of people. Markets are also critical in averting or mitigating food shortages and hunger by adjusting to shocks, reducing vulnerability and coping with crises. Whether markets help or harm the hungry poor is a function of markets' institutions, infrastructure and policies. This volume analyzes the workings of markets in order to identify the sources of market failures in addressing hunger and malnutrition, and to highlight the ways in which they can be improved. The report sets out the ways in which programme design and policy formulation can build on the strengths of markets to prevent possible negative effects, and will be essential reading for all those involved in the fight against world hunger. Published with World Food ProgrammeTable of ContentsPart I: Setting the Stage 1. Hunger 2. Markets 3. High Food Prices: Trends, Causes and Impacts Part II: Analysis 4. Households, Hunger and Markets 5. Access to Markets 6 .Availability of and Access to Nutritious Food 7. Vulnerability, Risk and Markets 8. Markets in Emergencies Part III: Actions and the Way Forward 9. Making Markets Work for the Hungry Poor and Supplementing Them Where Necessary 10. The Way Forward: Ten Priority Actions to Help Markets Break the Hunger-Poverty Trap Part IV: Resource Compendium Notes Part V: Annexes

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Book SynopsisThe United Nations World Water Development Report, published every three years, is a comprehensive review providing an authoritative picture of the state of the world's freshwater resources. It offers best practices as well as in-depth theoretical analyses to help stimulate ideas and actions for better stewardship in the water sector. It is the only report of its kind, resulting from the collaboration and contributions of the 26 UN agencies, commissions, program, funds, secretariats and conventions that have a significant role in addressing global water concerns. The news media are full of talk of crises - in climate change, energy and food and troubled financial markets. These crises are linked to each other and to water resources management. Unresolved, they may lead to increasing political insecurity and conflict. Water is required to meet our fundamental needs and rising living standards and to sustain our planet‘s fragile ecosystems. Pressures on the resource come from a growing and mobile population, social and cultural change, economic development and technological change. Adding complexity and risk is climate change, with impacts on the resource as well as on the sources of pressure on water. The challenges, though substantial, are not insurmountable. The Report shows how some countries have responded. Progress in providing drinking water is heartening, with the Millennium Development Goal target on track in most regions. But other areas remain unaddressed, and after decades of inaction, the problems in water systems are enormous and will worsen if left unattended. Leaders in the water sector can inform decisions outside their domain and manage water resources to achieve agreed socioeconomic objectives and environmental integrity. Leaders in government, the private sector and civil society determine these objectives and allocate human and financial resources to meet them. Recognizing this responsibility, they must act now! Two volume set: 336Trade Review'Most important guidelines for the whole freshwater crises debate.' Sherkin CommentTable of ContentsReport Contents: Foreword by Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations Foreword by Ko chiro Matsuura, Director-General, United Nations Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organization Preface Acknowledgements Overview of Key Messages Water in a Changing World 1. Getting out of the Box - Linking Water to Decisions for Sustainable Development Part I: Understanding What Drives the Pressures on Water 2. Demographic, Economic and Social Drivers 3. Technological Innovation 4. Policies, Laws and Finance 5. Climate Change and Possible Futures Part II: Using Water 6. Water's Many Benefits 7. Evolution of Water Use 8. Impacts of Water Use on Water Systems and the Environment 9. Managing Competition for Water and the Pressure on Ecosystems Part III: State of the Resource 10. The Earth's Natural Water Cycles 11. Changes in the Global Water Cycle 12. Evolving Hazards - and Emerging Opportunities 13. Bridging the Observational Gap Part IV: Responses and Choices 14. Options inside the Water Box 15. Options from Beyond the Water Box 16. The Way Forward Appendix 1: World Water Development Report Indicators Appendix 2: Water-Related Goals and Objectives of Major Conferences and Forums, 1972-Present Abbreviations, Data Notes and Units of Measure List of Boxes, Figures, Maps and Tables Index Case Studies Contents: Foreword Overview Section 1: Africa Cameroon Sudan Swaziland Tunisia Zambia Section 2: Asia and the Pacific Bangladesh China: the Yellow River basin Pacific islands Pakistan: the Cholistan desert Republic of Korea: the Han River basin Sri Lanka: the Walawe River basin Uzbekistan: the Aral Sea basin Section 3: Europe and North America Estonia Finland and the Russian Federation: the Vuoksi River basin Italy: the Po River basin The Netherlands Spain: the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country Turkey: Istanbul Section 4: Latin America and the Caribbean Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay: La Plata River basin Brazil and Uruguay: Lake Mer n basin

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Book SynopsisThe United Nations World Water Development Report, published every three years, is a comprehensive review providing an authoritative picture of the state of the world's freshwater resources. It offers best practices as well as in-depth theoretical analyses to help stimulate ideas and actions for better stewardship in the water sector. It is the only report of its kind, resulting from the collaboration and contributions of the 26 UN agencies, commissions, program, funds, secretariats and conventions that have a significant role in addressing global water concerns. The news media are full of talk of crises - in climate change, energy and food and troubled financial markets. These crises are linked to each other and to water resources management. Unresolved, they may lead to increasing political insecurity and conflict. Water is required to meet our fundamental needs and rising living standards and to sustain our planet‘s fragile ecosystems. Pressures on the resource come from a growing and mobile population, social and cultural change, economic development and technological change. Adding complexity and risk is climate change, with impacts on the resource as well as on the sources of pressure on water. The challenges, though substantial, are not insurmountable. The Report shows how some countries have responded. Progress in providing drinking water is heartening, with the Millennium Development Goal target on track in most regions. But other areas remain unaddressed, and after decades of inaction, the problems in water systems are enormous and will worsen if left unattended. Leaders in the water sector can inform decisions outside their domain and manage water resources to achieve agreed socioeconomic objectives and environmental integrity. Leaders in government, the private sector and civil society determine these objectives and allocate human and financial resources to meet them. Recognizing this responsibility, they must act now! Two volume set: 336Trade Review'Most important guidelines for the whole freshwater crises debate.' Sherkin CommentTable of ContentsReport Contents: Foreword by Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations Foreword by Ko chiro Matsuura, Director-General, United Nations Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organization Preface Acknowledgements Overview of Key Messages Water in a Changing World 1. Getting out of the Box - Linking Water to Decisions for Sustainable Development Part I: Understanding What Drives the Pressures on Water 2. Demographic, Economic and Social Drivers 3. Technological Innovation 4. Policies, Laws and Finance 5. Climate Change and Possible Futures Part II: Using Water 6. Water's Many Benefits 7. Evolution of Water Use 8. Impacts of Water Use on Water Systems and the Environment 9. Managing Competition for Water and the Pressure on Ecosystems Part III: State of the Resource 10. The Earth's Natural Water Cycles 11. Changes in the Global Water Cycle 12. Evolving Hazards - and Emerging Opportunities 13. Bridging the Observational Gap Part IV: Responses and Choices 14. Options inside the Water Box 15. Options from Beyond the Water Box 16. The Way Forward Appendix 1: World Water Development Report Indicators Appendix 2: Water-Related Goals and Objectives of Major Conferences and Forums, 1972-Present Abbreviations, Data Notes and Units of Measure List of Boxes, Figures, Maps and Tables Index Case Studies Contents: Foreword Overview Section 1: Africa Cameroon Sudan Swaziland Tunisia Zambia Section 2: Asia and the Pacific Bangladesh China: the Yellow River basin Pacific islands Pakistan: the Cholistan desert Republic of Korea: the Han River basin Sri Lanka: the Walawe River basin Uzbekistan: the Aral Sea basin Section 3: Europe and North America Estonia Finland and the Russian Federation: the Vuoksi River basin Italy: the Po River basin The Netherlands Spain: the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country Turkey: Istanbul Section 4: Latin America and the Caribbean Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay: La Plata River basin Brazil and Uruguay: Lake Mer n basin

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Book SynopsisIn the last decade biodiversity loss and persistent poverty in developing countries have been recognised as major international problems that require urgent attention. However, the nature and scale of the links between these two problems, and between efforts to address them, has been the subject of much heated debate. Understanding the different elements of this debate is critical if we are to move towards constructive solutions. This Reader provides a guide to, and commentary on, the different strands of the current conservation-poverty debate through a selection of key readings from both the conservation and development literature including policy documents, journal articles and reports. The breadth of material will help readers, including both students and professionals, to locate current debates within their wider contexts. Among the areas of debate covered are: ' The lack of attention to biodiversity concerns in international development policy ' The social implications of protectionist conservation policy ' The roles and responsibilities of conservation NGOs towards local communities ' The links between climate change, biodiversity and poverty reduction, and in particular the implication of discussions around reduced emissions from deforestation (REDD) as a climate change mitigation strategy.Trade Review'We are at the threshold of an exciting but fraught new paradigm that compels conservation NGOs to shift from the notion that nature must be protected from people, to embracing the realization that natural systems must be conserved for people. This timely and important book is a must read for all who are ready to explore and examine the challenging new frontier that links conservation with human well-being.' – Steve McCormick, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, USA 'Biodiversity provides essential goods and services that people everywhere - above all poor people -- depend on. And it helps people cope with change and manage risk. Yet too often development erodes biodiversity, and too often conservation has been promoted without engaging poor people and without caring for their needs and rights. This book provides a valuable toolkit that will assist all those seeking to eradicate poverty, conserve biodiversity, and manage the trade-offs between these fundamental goals.' – David Cooper, Secretariat, Convention on Biological Diversity 'This book provides a stark reminder that one group's biosphere is another group's backyard. The rich biodiversity of our forests, coasts, and grasslands stands in contrast with the poverty of the people living there. The plants, people, and animals in these landscapes are inextricably connected. In this outstanding reader leading experts describe and debate those connections. No easy answers here, but who said life was simple. This is definitely worth the read.' – David Kaimowitz, Ford Foundation 'The collection of writings thoroughly explains the complex relationships between conservation and poverty reduction. It is possible to imagine motivated and careful readers to become well enough informed after finishing this book to work in the field or want to.' – Crosslands: Bulletin on Business, Law and the Environment 'The editors have drawn together a galaxy of authors who bring expertise on all aspects of biodiversity loss, conservation, poverty and its alleviation. In fact the book may be regarded as a manual on these two subjects with a wealth of references, experiences and perspectives.' – Professor John Hodges, AGRI 'The breadth of material will help readers, including students and professionals, to locate current debates within their wider contexts.' – Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment. "The editors (Dilys Roe and Joanna Elliot) have carefully structured the Reader to cover a range of important issues and provide a clear and helpful commentary on the individual articles ... Many of the articles are thought provoking and likely to stimulate renewed discussion on the difficult questions that confront those interested in the topic" – Toby Hodgkin, Experimental AgricultureTable of Contents1. Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction: An Introduction to the Debate Part I: Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction - Where, How and Why? Editors' Introduction 2. Biodiversity Conservation and the Eradication of Poverty 3.Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction: Landscapes, People and Power 4. Poverty, Development and Biodiversity Conservation: Shooting in the Dark? 5. Livelihoods, Forests and Conservation in Developing Countries: An Overview Part II: Conservation's Place in International Development Editors' Introduction 6. Integrating the Rio Conventions into Development Co-operation 7. Wildlife and Poverty Study 8. Striking a Balance: Ensuring Conservation's Place on the International Biodiversity Assistance Agenda 9. Report of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group of Review of Implementation of the Convention 10. Contested Relationships between Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Alleviation 11. Poverty and Conservation: The New Century's 'Peasant Question?' 12. Making Poverty Reduction Irreversible: Development Implications of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Part III: Conservation Policy and Protectionism Editors' Introduction 13. Protected Areas and Poverty - The Linkages and How to Address Them 14. Conservation Policy and Indigenous Peoples 15. The Role of Protected Areas in Conserving Biodiversity and Sustaining Local Livelihoods. 16. Eviction for Conservation: A Global Overview 17. Political Ecology and the Costs and Benefits of Protected Areas 18. A Property Rights Approach to Understanding Human Displacement from Protected Areas: The Case of Marine Protected Areas Part IV: Conservation NGOs and Poor People Editors' Introduction 19. Two Agendas on Amazon Development 20. International Conservation Organisations and the Fate of Local Tropical Forest Conservation Initiatives 21. A Challenge to Conservationists 22. Conservation, Development and Poverty Alleviation: Time for a Change in Attitudes 23. Conserving What and for Whom? Why Conservation Should Help Meet Basic Needs in the Tropics 24. Disentangling the Links between Conservation and Poverty Reduction in Practice Part V: New Developments: Ecosystem Services, Carbon and Climate Change Editors' Introduction 25. Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Current State and Trends 26. Selling Out on Nature (and letters in response) 27. Payments for Environmental Services and the Poor: Concepts and Preliminary Evidence 28. Climate, Carbon, Conservation and Communities 29. Protecting the Future: Carbon, Forests, Protected Areas and Local Livelihoods 30. Seeing REDD? Forests, Climate Change Mitigation the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Part VI: Moving Beyond the Debate - The Need for Conservation-poverty Partnerships Editors' Introduction 31. Partnerships for Conservation and Poverty Reduction 32. Common Ground between Anthropology and Conservation Biology 33. Thinking Like a Human: Social Science and the Two Cultures Problem

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Book SynopsisAlthough climate change affects everybody it is not gender neutral. It has significant social impacts and magnifies existing inequalities such as the disparity between women and men in their vulnerability and ability to cope with this global phenomenon. This new textbook, edited by one of the authors of the seminal Women and the Environment in the Third World: Alliance for the Future (1988) which first exposed the links between environmental degradation and unequal impacts on women, provides a comprehensive introduction to gender aspects of climate change. Over 35 authors have contributed to the book. It starts with a short history of the thinking and practice around gender and sustainable development over the past decades. Next it provides a theoretical framework for analyzing climate change manifestations and policies from the perspective of gender and human security. Drawing on new research, the actual and potential effects of climate change on gender equality and women's vulnerabilities are examined, both in rural and urban contexts. This is illustrated with a rich range of case studies from all over the world and valuable lessons are drawn from these real experiences. Too often women are primarily seen as victims of climate change, and their positive roles as agents of change and contributors to livelihood strategies are neglected. The book disputes this characterization and provides many examples of how women around the world organize and build resilience and adapt to climate change and the role they are playing in climate change mitigation. The final section looks at how far gender mainstreaming in climate mitigation and adaptation has advanced, the policy frameworks in place and how we can move from policy to effective action. Accompanied by a wide range of references and key resources, this book provides students and professionals with an essential, comprehensive introduction to the gender aspects of climate change.Trade Review'This book gives a profound and informative introduction and presents a wide range of case studies that will inform and inspire scholars, policymakers, advisors and students about the relevance of the interlinkages between gender and climate change. Moreover, it guides us towards appropriate policies and calls us to action.' Dr. Nafis Sadik, Former Head of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS Asia and Pacific 'The book Gender and Climate Change: An Introduction brings together a wide range of perspectives, insights and experiences from women and men from all around the world on the nexus between gender and climate change...IUCN's active involvement in gender mainstreaming and capacity building in environment and climate change will certainly benefit from this rich publication.' Julia Marton-Lef vre, Director-General , International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)Table of ContentsForeword Testimony 1. Introduction: Exploring Gender, Environment and Climate Change Part I THE ANALYSIS 2. Gender, Environment and Climate Change: understanding the linkages 3. Climate Change, Human Security and Gender Case 3.1 Climate Change and Women's Voices from India 4. Cities, Climate Change and Gender: A Brief Overview Case 4.1 Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases by Informal Waste Recyclers in Delhi, India Case 4.2 Gender Mainstreaming in the Climate Change Response of Sorsogon City, the Philippines Part II REALITIES ON THE GROUND 5.2 Gender Dimensions, Climate Change and Food Security of Farmers in Andhra Pradesh, India 5.3 The Gender Impact of Climate Change in Nigeria 5.4 Gendered Vulnerability to Climate Change in Limpopo Province, South Africa 5.5 Gender Perspectives in Adaptation Strategies: the Case of Pintadas Solar in the Semi-Arid Region of Brazil 5.6 Climate Change and Indigenous Women in Colombia 5.7 Gender Aspects of Climate Change in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region 5.8 Women at Work: Mitigation Opportunities at the Intersection of Reproductive Justice and Climate Justice Part III STRATEGIES AND ACTION 6. Establishing the Linkages between Gender and Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Lorena Aguilar, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Costa Rica 7. Climate Change and Gender: Policies in Place 8. Why More Attention to Gender and Class Can Help Combat Climate Change and Poverty 9. Women Organizing for a Healthy Climate 9.1 Climate Justice through Energy and Gender Justice: Strengthening Gender Equality in Accessing Sustainable Energy in the EECCA region 9.2 National Federation of Women's Institutes: Women Organizing for a Healthy Climate 9.3 Women and the Environmental justice Movement in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria 10. Epilogue: From Divergence towards Convergence 10.1 Gender-disaggregated Data for Assessing the Impact of Climate Change 10.2 Gender and Climate Information: A Case Study from Limpopo Province, South Africa Index

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Book SynopsisCurrent urban planning systems are not equipped to deal with the major urban challenges of the twenty-first century, including effects of climate change, resource depletion and economic instability, plus continued rapid urbanization with its negative consequences such as poverty, slums and urban informality. These planning systems have also, to a large extent, failed to meaningfully involve and accommodate the ways of life of communities and other stakeholders in the planning of urban areas, thus contributing to the problems of spatial marginalization and exclusion. It is clear that urban planning needs to be reconsidered and revitalized for a sustainable urban future. Planning Sustainable Cities reviews the major challenges currently facing cities and towns all over the world, the emergence and spread of modern urban planning and the effectiveness of current approaches. More importantly, it identifies innovative urban planning approaches and practices that are more responsive to current and future challenges of urbanization. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date global assessment of human settlements conditions and trends. It is an essential reference for researchers, academics, public authorities and civil society organizations all over the world. Preceding issues of the report have addressed such topics as Cities in a Globalizing World, The Challenge of Slums, Financing Urban Shelter and Enhancing Urban Safety and Security.Trade Review"This report documents many effective and equitable examples of sustainable urbanization that are helping to define a new role for urban planning. I commend its information and analysis to all who are interested in promoting economically productive, environmentally safe and socially inclusive towns and cities." From the Foreword by BAN KI-MOON, Secretary-General, United Nations "Today's Books put Planning Sustainable Cities on the 'A-List!'" Kelly Spann, Today's Books. "This will be invaluable to anyone seeking a comprehensive review of global problems in this field." Library Journal, May 2010"A great reference book." Built Environment "This book is of interest of those who are interested in promoting sustainable process, and is particularly useful in pointing out new directions and in providing recent effective and equitable examples." Lia Maria Dias Bezerra, University of Brasilia,Urban Research and Practice"This is a most useful survey of urban planning worldwide. It is thought provoking and persuasive." Manjusha Misra, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, International Journal of Environmental StudiesTable of ContentsPart I: Challenges and Context 1. Urban Challenges and the Need to Revisit Urban Planning 2. Understanding the Diversity of Urban Contexts Part II: Global Trends: The Urban Planning Process (Procedural) 3. The Emergence and Spread of Contemporary Urban Planning 4. The Institutional and Regulatory Framework for Planning 5. Planning, Participation and Politics Part III: Global Trends: The Content Of Urban Plans (Substantive) 6. Bridging the Green and Brown Agendas 7. Planning and Informality 8. Planning, Spatial Structure of Cities and Provision of Infrastructure Part IV: Global Trends: Monitoring, Evaluation And Education 9. The Monitoring and Evaluation of Urban Plans 10. Planning Education Part V: Future Policy Directions 11. Towards a New Role for Urban Planning Part VI: Statistical Annex

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Book SynopsisPopulation growth, reproductive health and reproductive rights are amongst the most pressing issues facing governments and the international community. Since the world's governments agreed for the first time on far-reaching and enlightened population policies at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, a good deal of progress has been made on these issues, but major challenges remain. This fully updated edition of Creating a New Consensus on Population charts international progress on efforts to address population and development, reproductive health, reproductive rights, religion, contraception and the empowerment of women. Historical coverage includes the lead up process to the ICPD, the conference itself and the global consensus and the ICPD Programme of Action that resulted. The book then turns to how population issues have developed over the past decade and a half including follow-up and implementation at the international level by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and other UN agencies and organizations. Key international events are covered including the 1999 ICPD+5, Millennium Summit 2000, ICPD+10 and the 2005 MDG+5 as well as relevant regional events. The book also examines the reorientation of policies and programmes and implementation at national levels across the world. Crucially, it looks at emerging issues and partnerships including the increasing role of NGOs, women's groups, youth groups, foundations, public-private partnerships and other non-state stakeholders. Written by Jyoti Shankar Singh, former ICPD Executive Coordinator, this is the definitive account of how the international community has engaged with population issues and policies and it offers insight into both the ongoing challenges as well as how an international consensus can be forged on crucial global issues. It is essential reading for all those involved in population, health and development issues and policies world-wide.Trade Review'No one interested in the field of the population issue and reproductive health should miss this important book. This is the right moment for an update' Dr. Nicolaas Biegman, Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN, 1992-1997 'Fifteen years ago, the international community agreed on a vision for achieving population stabilization and sustainable development through universal access to family planning and reproductive health; gender equality in education, and fulfillment of the rights of women and men to economic, social and environmental security. Jyoti Singh played an instrumental role in organizing the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). In this book, Dr. Singh reminds us that the ICPD's promise remains valid, but unfulfilled, and details how the world can overcome the barriers that stubbornly persist, especially for women. Senator Timothy E. Wirth, US Under-Secretary of State, 1995-1997; President, UN Foundation 'Jyoti Shankar Singh in this revised edition not only reminds and updates us on the ICPD process but takes us through the intriguing journey of 'The Politics of Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights and Women's Empowerment,' as he aptly puts it. This book is recommended reading for all - from politicians and planners to professionals and field workers.It is comprehensive and forward looking while objective and frank in addressing the challenges, constraints and realities of implementing the Cairo consensus. I sincerely hope that Jyoti Singh will continue his efforts to map the process as countries strive to achieve the ICPD and MDG goals by 2015' Dr. Raj Karim, Regional Director, International Planned Parenthood Federation, East and South East Asia and Oceania Region,Kuala Lumput, MalaysiaTable of Contents1. Bucharest, Mexico and Cairo 2. From Family Planning to Reproductive Health 3. Population and Development 4. The Empowerment of Women 5. Partnership with the Non-Governmental Sector 6. Mobilizing Resources for Population Programmes 7. The Cairo Agenda and the International Community 8. Institutional Response 9. Implementing the Cairo Agenda Notes And References Bibliography Appendix 1: Chronology of Major Events Relating to International Conference on Population and Development

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Book SynopsisA decade and a half since the Philippines embarked on a major program of decentralization, the authors of this book have undertaken a detailed examination of all aspects of the nation's regional dynamics and policies. Their analysis extends to comparable experiences in East Asia, particularly China and Indonesia. The lessons of this book are relevant not only for an audience interested in the Philippines - a large developing nation with a population soon to exceed 100 million people - but also for many other developing countries now embarking on decentralization programs. The book therefore has broad international appeal.The contributors focus on three main issues: Centre-region relations. While the decentralization program in the Philippines has been reasonably successful, they argue there is an urgent need for a clear, predictable, and stable regulatory environment that governs centre-region administrative and financial relations. Infrastructure. This is arguably the most important policy tool in shaping regional development patterns, yet decision-makers are rarely able to develop these investments on the basis of a coherent and integrated policy framework. The conflict in Mindanao. This deep and protracted conflict must be resolved for the benefit of the local and national population. This enlightening and topical book will appeal to postgraduate students of economic development, regional development/science, rural development, and Asian Studies. It will also attract the interest of researchers and practitioners in international development agencies, NGOs, and policymakers and legislators in developing countries.Trade Review'Balisacan and Hill have assembled several excellent contributions. . . The editors and contributing authors of this book document the story of regional development in great detail. . . with analytical clarity and a pleasing uniformity of style, making for a readable and very coherent volume overall. . . It is a must-read for all students of that country's economy, and for all who seek to understand better the regional implications of growth, policy, and devolution in low-income economies.' -- Ian Coxhead, The Developing Economies'Arsenio Balisacan and Hal Hill have edited a must-read volume of 13 essays that extract the results and relevant lessons of Philippine regional development amid decentralization and globalization.' -- Roberto de Vera, Journal of Regional Science'By focusing on a systematic analysis of the regional dimension, Professors Arsenio Balisacan and Hal Hill (with the help of other economists) succeed in presenting a definitive update of Philippine regional economic developments. This work is an indispensable sequel and complement to their earlier work on Philippine economic problems, which focused on national economic issues.' -- Gerardo P. Sicat, University of the Philippines'This volume integrates four of the "hottest" themes in current development debates - globalization, decentralization, inequality and governance. By combining a broad East Asian perspective on these four topics with a deep analysis of the Philippines experience, the editors get the very best out of their comparative research framework. This is not your typical edited volume, with only an occasional gem amongst the filler - the entire volume really holds together. Hill and Balisacan have clearly exercised a firm analytical and editorial hand, demonstrating, as does the analysis in the book, that firm, competent central leadership is crucial for decentralization to work.' -- Peter Timmer, Center for Global Development, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface The Philippine Regions, 1987 The Philippine Regions, 2003 1. The Philippines and Regional Development Hal Hill, Arsenio M. Balisacan and Sharon Faye A. Piza PART I: EAST ASIA AND BEYOND 2. Globalization, Geography and Regional Policy John Weiss 3. Regional Development: Analytical and Policy Issues Hal Hill 4. The East Asian Experience: The People’s Republic of China Ligang Song 5. The East Asian Experience: Indonesia Budy P. Resosudarmo and Yogi Vidyattama PART II: THE PHILIPPINES 6. Local Politics and Local Economy Emmanuel S. de Dios 7. The Quality of Local Governance and Development under Decentralization Joseph J. Capuno 8. Regional Labour Markets and Economic Development in the Philippines Emmanuel F. Esguerra and Chris Manning 9. Decentralization and the Financing of Regional Development Rosario G. Manasan 10. Infrastructure and Regional Growth Gilberto M. Llanto 11. Development of the Rural Non-farm Sector in the Philippines and Lessons from the East Asian Experience Jonna P. Estudillo, Tetsushi Sonobe and Keijiro Otsuka 12. Regional Responses to Trade Liberalization and Economic Decentralization Gwendolyn R. Tecson 13. Local Growth and Poverty Reduction Arsenio M. Balisacan References Index

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Book SynopsisThe transfer of new, economically useful knowledge from universities to the regional economy has recently attracted the attention of academics, professionals and policymakers alike. This book focuses on three issues at the centre of current research: the geography of academic knowledge transfers, the mechanisms of these transfers with regard to academic entrepreneurship and graduate mobility, and policy experience in university-based regional economic development. The expert contributors provide state-of-the-art overviews of the field, reviewing and outlining important advancements in theory, empirics and policy analysis. Importantly, the book includes unique case studies of university-based development in three lagging regions of Asia, Europe and North America to illustrate individual experiences. This timely and highly original book will be warmly welcomed by academics, students and researchers focusing on regional science, the economics of innovation, economic growth and technological change. Policymakers involved with regional development and innovation will also find much to interest them in this book.Trade Review'. . . this book contains a number of excellent chapters worthwhile reading. Therefore we would like to warmly recommend it to scholars as well as to students with an interest in this promising research field.' -- Roland Andersson and Mats Wilhelmsson, Papers in Regional Science'This is a valuable book for those interested in understanding the university's interactions with national and regional economic life; and many of the ideas it presents are capable of further, and productive, development.' -- Paul Temple, London Review of Education'. . . the studies of these experienced and well-known authors highlight almost all of the important parts of the themes indicated by the title.' -- Acta OeconomicaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Attila Varga PART I: SETTING THE SCENE: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK AND KNOWLEDGE INVENTORY IN THEORY, EMPIRICS AND POLICY 2. What We Know and What We Don’t Know About the Regional Economic Impacts of Universities Harvey A. Goldstein 3. Jaffe-Feldman-Varga: The Search for Knowledge Spillovers Zoltán J. Ács 4. Detecting University-Industry Synergies: A Comparison of Two Approaches in Applied Cluster Analysis Edward Feser PART II: THE GEOGRAPHY OF ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE TRANSFERS: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 5. The Role of Higher Education and University R&D for Industrial R&D Location Martin Andersson, Urban Gråsjö and Charlie Karlsson 6. Internationalization and Regional Embedding of Scientific Research in the Netherlands Roderik Ponds, Frank van Oort and Koen Frenken 7. Academic Knowledge Transfers and the Structure of International Research Networks Attila Varga and Andrea Parag PART III: KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER MECHANISMS: ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND GRADUATE MOBILITY 8. Academic Entrepreneurs: Critical Issues and Lessons for Europe Chiara Franzoni and Francesco Lissoni 9. Firm Formation and Economic Development: What Drives Academic Spin-offs to Success or Failure? Knut Koschatzky and Joachim Hemer 10. On the Economics of University Ranking Lists: Intuitive Remarks on Intuitive Comparisons Ádám Török 11. Product Differentiation or Spatial Monopoly? The Market Areas of Austrian Universities in Business Education Gunther Maier 12. Higher Education, Graduate Migration and Regional Dynamism in Great Britain Alessandra Faggian, Philip McCann and Stephen Sheppard PART IV: UNIVERSITY-BASED REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: THE EXPERIENCE OF LAGGING AREAS IN ASIA, EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA 13. Barriers Against the Transfer of Knowledge between Universities and Industry in Newly-Industrialised Countries: An Analysis of University-Industry Linkages in Thailand Daniel Schiller, Björn Mildahn and Javier Revilla Diez 14. Knowledge-based Local Economic Development for Enhancing Competitiveness in Lagging Areas of Europe: The Case of the University of Szeged Imre Lengyel 15. The Care and Feeding of High-growth Businesses in Rural Areas: The Role of Universities Hugh D. Sherman, William B. Lamb and Kevin Aspegren Index

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Book SynopsisMost governments attempt to target resources directly at the poor through a variety of measures including food and credit subsidies, job creation schemes and basic health and education projects. These measures are usually classified as being either promotional (to help raise welfare in the long term), or protectional (to support the poor in times of adverse shocks). However, for many Asian countries the reality of these poverty targeting measures has proved disappointing. Following a comprehensive overview by the editor, this book offers a detailed assessment of the results of directly channelling resources to the poor and extensively discusses the experience of five Asian countries - India, Indonesia, the People's Republic of China, the Philippines and Thailand. The authors demonstrate how in many cases these targeting measures have failed due to their high cost and errors of both undercoverage (where many of the poor are excluded) and leakage (when many of the better-off also benefit from these schemes). The authors conclude that whilst poverty targeting remains a critically important objective, past targeting errors must not be forgotten and improved methods of both identifying and reaching the poor must be implemented. Written by leading experts in the field and including analysis of original country surveys, this seminal text documents clearly the operation and success of aid schemes in Asia. This book will make a worthy addition to the literature on development, poverty reduction, social welfare and Asian studies. It will also be an important source of reference for academics and students of economic development, aid practitioners, government officials and development NGOs.Trade Review'This book is a "must read" for researchers and students interested in poverty, poverty reduction, social welfare and development. It provides systematic and comparative studies on the design features, achievements and problems of targeting, set against specific national contexts. The economic focus of the analysis is balanced with sections on the political economy of targeting and management aspects (administrative systems and incentives). While the considerable variations between targeting mechanisms, schemes and contexts demonstrate the difficulties of blanket policy prescriptions, the book presents a fascinating conclusion. Rather than continuing the debate about universal versus targeted approaches, it proposes that a mixed approach might be best: the "broad" targeting of basic services such as primary education and health care combined with the "narrow" targeting of social protection schemes for the very poor.' -- David Hulme, University of Manchester, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface Maps 1. Experiences with Poverty Targeting in Asia: An Overview John Weiss 2. Poverty Targeting in India Pradeep Srivastava 3. Poverty Targeting in Indonesia Ari A. Perdana and John Maxwell 4. Poverty Targeting in the People’s Republic of China Wang Sangui 5. Poverty Targeting in Thailand Peter Warr and Isra Sarntisart 6. Poverty Targeting in the Philippines Arsenio Balisacan and Rosemarie Edillon 7. Micro-finance and Poverty Reduction in Asia John Weiss, Heather Montgomery and Elvira Kurmanalieva Index

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Book SynopsisThe development of competitive agro-industries is crucial for creating employment and income opportunities as well as enhancing the demand for farm products. However, in order to avoid adverse effects to vulnerable countries and people, sound policies and strategies for fostering agro-industries are needed. This book has been developed from a meeting of policy makers, governments, UN technical agencies and agro-industry specialists. It addresses the strategies and actions required for improving agro-industrial competitiveness in ways that can contribute to broad-based economic development and poverty reduction. This book is a co-publication with FAO and UNIDOTable of Contents1: Introduction 2: Building the political case for agro-industries and agribusiness in developing countries 3: Agro-industry trends, patterns and development impacts 4: Technologies shaping the future 5: Enabling environments for competitive agro-industries 6: Business models that are inclusive of small farmers 7: Corporate social responsibility for agro-industries development 8: Annexes A: Alain de janvry's plenary address on "agriculture for development - implications for agro-industries"

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Book SynopsisVegetables are a significant component of agricultural farming systems in Africa and have recently moved into the focus of research organizations, development partners and policy makers. Beyond income generating opportunities for producers, vegetable production for domestic and export markets is an important driver for growth due to employment opportunities in production, processing and trade. Providing the latest socioeconomic research methodologies alongside empirical examples, this volume explores the potential for vegetable production to alleviate poverty, the impact of food production standards on various stakeholders, an assessment of markets and marketing potential for different crops and advanced economic approaches to production.Table of Contents1: An Overview 2: Theoretical Concepts for Socio-economic Research of Vegetables in Africa 3: Framework for economic impact assessment of production standards and empirical evidence 4: The Impact of Food Safety Standards on Rural Household Welfare 5: The Impact of Compliance to GlobalGAP Standards on Small and Large Kenyan Export Vegetable-producing Farms 6: Food Production Standards and Farm Worker Welfare in Kenya 7: Group Culture and Smallholder Participation in Value Chains: French Beans in Kenya 8: Export Vegetable Supply Chains and Rural Households in Senegal 9: Comparative Assessment of the Marketing Structure and Price Behaviour of Three Staple Vegetables in Lusaka, Zambia 10: Value Chains and Regional Trade in East Africa: The Case of Vegetables in Kenya and Tanzania 11: Supply Chains for Indigenous Vegetables in Urban and Peri-urban Areas of Uganda and Kenya: A Gendered Perspective 12: Private Voluntary Standards, Co-investment and Inclusive Business 13: An Approach to Strengthening Vegetable Value Chains in East Africa: Potential for Spillovers 14: Challenges for Economic Impact Assessment of Classical Biological Control in Kenya and Tanzania 15: Indirect and External Costs of Pesticide Use in the Vegetable Sub-sector in Kenya 16: Integrated Pest Management Training and Information Flow among Smallholder Horticulture Farmers in Kenya

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Book SynopsisAuthored by an experienced agriculturalist with substantial field experience in developing countries, this book adds to the literature on food security by proposing practical measures for improving plant-based food security in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Covering issues affecting food security, the book discusses ways of measuring farmers' resources, strategies for action, and an analysis of the challenges and problems faced, concluding with a discussion of ways in which stakeholders could work better together.Table of ContentsI: Introduction 1: Defining the Food Security Problem 2: Evaluating the Resources of Small-scale and Subsistence Farmers 3: Alternative Approaches Examined 4: The Need for a Participatory Approach 5: Researching the Situation to Define Strategies 6: Challenges Presented by Natural and Man-made Factors 7: The Competition for Resources for Food Production 8: Monitoring Intervention Strategies in Different Farming Systems 9: Small-scale and Subsistence Farmers' Households and Selected Farming Systems 10: Liaison of International, National and Local Agencies II: Conclusion I: Introduction 1: Defining the Food Security Problem 2: Evaluating the Resources of Small-scale and Subsistence Farmers 3: Alternative Approaches Examined 4: The Need for a Participatory Approach 5: Researching the Situation to Define Strategies 6: Challenges Presented by Natural and Man-made Factors 7: The Competition for Resources for Food Production 8: Monitoring Intervention Strategies in Different Farming Systems 9: Small-scale and Subsistence Farmers' Households and Selected Farming Systems 10: Liaison of International, National and Local Agencies 11: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAfrica is a 'theme park' for Western tourists to experience untouched wilderness, untamed nature, and truly 'authentic' cultures, where the hosts, too, are part of a discourse about the 'other' and ourselves, about wildness, danger and roots. Tourism is important for Africa: international tourist arrivals to Africa continue to grow, income from tourism is crucial to national economies, and tourism investments are considered among the most profitable. This edited volumedeals with the interaction of local communities with tourists coming into their areas and villages. Based upon a common theoretical approach, fourteen cases of African tourism are discussed which involve direct contact between 'hosts' and 'guests'. The viewpoint throughout is from the side of the locals, establishing how the processes of interaction shape each small scale destination. Crucial in Africa is the fact that the large majority of tourism is game oriented and the interaction between locals and visitors is very much 'tainted' by this fact. Central is the notion of the tourist bubble - the infrastructure that is generated locally (and internationally) for hosting tourists, as it is this institutional interface that tends to impact on the local society and culture, not the tourists themselves directly. The examples come from all over Africa, from the Sahara to the Eastern Cape, and from Kenyato Ghana. All contributions are based upon original fieldwork. Walter van Beek is professor of anthropology at Tilburg University and Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden; Annette Schmidt is curatorof the African department at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, and is an archaeologist with a long experience in cultural management projects.Trade ReviewHighly recommended. * AFRICA AFFAIRS *A welcome addition to the growing field of tourism research in Africa [which will] provide insights for policy-makers to further consider the benefit-sharing formulas in host-guest relations in Africa, especially when aiming for poverty reduction by utilising the tourism industry as a tool. * JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM *This collection of insightful essays on tourism in Africa makes a major contribution to the literature. . Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsForeword - Valene Smith African dynamics of cultural tourism - Walter E A Van Beek African dynamics of cultural tourism - PART I Culture, Identity & Tourism - Annette M. Schmidt To dance or not to dance: Dogon masks as a tourist arena - Walter E A Van Beek Semiotics & the political economy of tourism in the Sahara - Georg Klute 'How much for Kunta Kinte?!' Sites of memory & diasporan encounters in West Africa - Kim C. Warren 'How much for Kunta Kinte?!' Sites of memory & diasporan encounters in West Africa - Elizabeth MacGonagle Imitating heritage tourism: a virtual tour of Sekhukhuneland, South Africa - PART II At the Fringe of the Parks - Ineke van Kessel Hosts & guests: stereotypes & myths of international tourism in the Okavango Delta, Botswana - Joseph Mbaiwa Kom 'n bietjie kuier: Kalahari dreaming with the Khomani San - Kate Finlay and Shanade Barnabas Treesleeper camp: a case study of community tourism in Tsintsabis, Namibia - Stasja Koot 'The lion has become a cow': the Maasai hunting paradox - Vanessa Wijngaarden The organization of hypocrisy? Juxtaposing tourists & farm dwellers in game farming in South Africa - Shirley Brooks The organization of hypocrisy? Juxtaposing tourists & farm dwellers in game farming in South Africa - Marja Spierenburg The organization of hypocrisy? Juxtaposing tourists & farm dwellers in game farming in South Africa - PART III Intensive Contact - Harry Wels Backpacking in Africa - Ton van Egmond 'I'm not a tourist. I'm a volunteer': tourism, development & international volunteerism in Ghana - Eiliadh Swan Becoming 'real African kings & queens': chieftaincy, culture & tourism in Ghana - Marijke Steegstra Sex trade & tourism in Kenya: close encounters between the hosts & the hosted - Wanjohi Kibicho Host-guest encounters in a Gambian 'love' bubble - Lucy McCombes Afterword. Trouble in the bubble: comparing African tourism with the Andes trail - Annelou Ypeij

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Book SynopsisExamines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and faltering trajectories of social mobility. Across Africa today, as development activities animate novel forms of governance, new social actors are emerging, among them the volunteer. Yet, where work and resources are limited, volunteer practices have repercussions that raise contentious ethical issues. What has been the real impact of volunteers economically, politically and in society? The interdisciplinary experts in this collection examine the practices of volunteers - both international and local - and ideologies of volunteerism. They show the significance of volunteerism to processes of social and economic transformation, and political projects of national development and citizenship, as well as to individual aspirations in African societies. These case studies - from South Africa, Lesotho, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Sierra Leone and Malawi - examine everyday experiences of volunteerism and trajectories of voluntary work, trace its broaderhistorical, political and economic implications, and situate African experiences of voluntary labour within global exchanges and networks of resources, ideas and political technologies. Offering insights into changing configurations of work, citizenship, development and social mobility, the authors offer new perspectives on the relations between labour, identity and social value in Africa. Ruth Prince is Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology at the University of Oslo; with her co-author Wenzel Geissler, she won the 2010 Amaury Talbot Prize for their book The Land is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya. Hannah Brown is a lecturer in Anthropology at Durham University.Trade ReviewVolunteer Economies is [.] an informative, recommended read that will serve an eclectic academic, practitioner and policy audience. * LUCAS *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The politics and ethics of voluntary labour in Africa - Ruth Prince and Hannah Brown Part 1: Citizenship & Civic Participation The many uses of moral magnetism: Volunteer caregiving and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa - Christopher James Colvin The civics of urban malaria vector control: Grassroots and breeding places in Dar es Salaam - Ann H. Kelly The civics of urban malaria vector control: Grassroots and breeding places in Dar es Salaam - Prosper Chaki PART 2: Unequal Economies The purchase of volunteerism: Uses and meanings of money in Lesotho's development sector - Ståle Wig Positions and possibilities in volunteering for transnational medical research in Lusaka - Birgitte Bruun PART 3: Hosts and Guests Doing good while they can: International volunteers, development and politics in early independence Tanzania - Michael Jennings Hosting gazes: Clinical volunteer tourism and hospital hospitality in Tanzania - Noelle Sullivan Beneath the spin: Moral complexity and rhetorical simplicity in "global health" volunteering - Claire L. Wendland Beneath the spin: Moral complexity and rhetorical simplicity in "global health" volunteering - Susan L. Erikson Beneath the spin: Moral complexity and rhetorical simplicity in "global health" volunteering - Noelle Sullivan PART 4: Moral Journeys A third mode of engagement with the excluded other: Student volunteers from an elite boarding school in Kenya - Bjørn Hallstein Holte Undoing apartheid legacies?: Volunteering as repentance and politics by other means - Thomas G. Kirsch Epilogue: Ebola and the vulnerable volunteer

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Book SynopsisExamines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and faltering trajectories of social mobility. Across Africa today, as development activities animate novel forms of governance, new social actors are emerging, among them the volunteer. Yet, where work and resources are limited, volunteer practices have repercussions that raise contentious ethical issues. What has been the real impact of volunteers economically, politically and in society? The interdisciplinary experts in this collection examine the practices of volunteers - both international and local - and ideologies of volunteerism. They show the significance of volunteerism to processes of social and economic transformation, and political projects of national development and citizenship, as well as to individual aspirations in African societies. These case studies - from South Africa, Lesotho, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Sierra Leone and Malawi - examine everyday experiences of volunteerism and trajectories of voluntary work, trace its broaderhistorical, political and economic implications, and situate African experiences of voluntary labour within global exchanges and networks of resources, ideas and political technologies. Offering insights into changing configurations of work, citizenship, development and social mobility, the authors offer new perspectives on the relations between labour, identity and social value in Africa. Ruth Prince is Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology at the University of Oslo; with her co-author Wenzel Geissler, she won the 2010 Amaury Talbot Prize for their book The Land is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya. Hannah Brown is a lecturer in Anthropology at Durham University.Trade Review[T]he volume's diverse depictions of voluntary labour is one of its greatest strengths. Asking the reader to consider 'voluntourists' alongside low-income individuals who rely on clinical trials to access healthcare challenges the reader's own conceptions of moral economic activity as well as the basic definition of the word 'volunteer'. * AFRICA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The politics and ethics of voluntary labour in Africa by Ruth Prince and Hannah Brown - PART 1: Citizenship and Civic Participation? The civics of urban malaria vector control: Grassroots and breeding places in Dar es Salaam by Ann Kelly and Prosper Chaki The many uses of moral magnetism: Volunteer caregiving and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa by Christopher J. Colvin - PART 2: Unequal Economies The purchase of volunteerism: Uses and meanings of money in Lesotho's development sector by Ståle Wig Volunteering in transnational medical research in Lusaka by Birgitte Bruun - PART 3: Hosts and Guests Doing good while they can: International volunteers, development and politics in early independence Tanzania by Michael Jennings Beneath the spin: Moral complexity and rhetorical simplicity in "global health" volunteering by Claire Wendland, Susan L. Erikson and Noelle Sullivan Hosting gazes: Clinical volunteer tourism and hospital hospitality in Tanzania by Noelle Sullivan - PART 4: Moral Journeys A third mode of engagement with the excluded other: Student volunteers from an elite boarding school in Kenya by Bjørn Hallstein Holte Volunteering as repentance by Thomas G. Kirsch Epilogue: Ebola and the Vulnerable Volunteer by Peter Redfield

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Book SynopsisA detailed examination of the nature of post-conflict society and youth violence, with important implications for peacebuilding and post-conflict recovery. High youth unemployment is seen as a major issue across Africa and globally, not solely as a source of concern for economic development, but as a threat to social stability and a challenge to fragile peace. In countries emerging from civil war in particular, it is identified as a key indicator for likelihood of relapse. But what do we really know about how lack of work shapes political identities and motivates youth violence? Drawing on rich empirical dataabout young people on the margins of the informal economy in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, in the wake of its civil war (1991-2002), this book moves beyond reductive portrayals of unemployed youth as "ticking bombs" to show how labour market experiences influence them towards political mobilisation. The author argues that violence is not inherent to unemployment, but that the impact of joblessness on political activism is mediated by social factors and the specific nature of the post-war political economy. For Freetown's youth, labour market exclusion is seen to have implications for social status, identities and social relations, ultimately keeping them in exploitative patterns of dependence. This in turn shapes their political subjectivities and claims on the state, and structures the opportunities and constraints to their collective action. Luisa Enria is a Lecturer in International Development at the University of Bath, where she also holds an ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellowship for the project "States of Emergency: Citizenship in Times of Crisis in Sierra Leone".Table of ContentsIntroduction Labour and Networks in the Making of Modern Sierra Leone Urban Microcosms: Defining Work at the Margins of the City "They Don't Even See Us as People": The Social Life of Labour Markets Associations, Citizenship Claims and the Political Imagination Love and Betrayal: The Moral Economy of Political Violence Conclusion: From Ticking Bombs to a Politics of Work The Ebola Epilogue: Chronic Crisis, Youth and the State

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Book SynopsisGrassroots researchers examine the barriers and ways of implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in Africa. Many have praised the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), first adopted by the UN in 2006, as a revolutionary step towards disability rights in Africa. But how real is the progress towards equality for persons with physical disabilities, mental health difficulties, blindness, deafness or albinism? What are the barriers to the CRPD's successful implementation on the continent, and how might we enforce inclusiveness and equality among those disadvantaged? This book brings together the findings of researchers in Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa to offer grassroots' perspectives on the challenges and possibilities of achieving disability rights under the CRPD. Challenging the generally optimistic view presented to date, the contributors provide evidence-based trenchant critiques of the Convention, highlight the ways in which disability rights are interpreted in varying contexts and with different disabilities, and examine particular issues in relation to children and women. Finally, the contributors suggest ways of moving forward and achieving disability rights in Africa.Trade Review[I]mportant, panoramic volume. Highly Recommended. -- CHOICE MAGAZINETable of ContentsIntroduction Jeff Grischow & Magnus Mfoafo-M'Carthy 1 Framing Disability Rights within African Human Rights Movements Bonny Ibhawoh 2 Legislation as a Care institution? The CRPD and Rights of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities in South Africa Charlotte Capri 3 Examining the Implementation of Inclusive Education in Zimbabwe Tsitsi Chataika & Lincoln Hlatywayo 4 Barriers to the Implementation of Education Article 24 of the CPRD in Kenya Billian Otundo 5 A Disabled Disability Movement: The Paradox of Participation in Uganda Herbert Muyinda & Susan Reynolds Whyte 6 Implementation of the CPRD in Ethiopia: Grassroots Perspectives from the University of Gondar Community-Based Rehabilitation Programme Mikyas Abera 7 Knowledge and Utilization of the CRPD and Persons with Disabilities Act 715 of Ghana among Deaf People Wisdom Kwadwo Mprah & Juventus Duorinaah 8 CRPD Article 6 - Vulnerabilities of Women with Disabilities: Recommendations for the Disability Movement and Other Stakeholders in Ghana Augustina Naami & Joana Okine 9 Assessing the benefits of the CRPD in Cameroon: The Experience of Persons with Disabilities in the Buea Municipality Wisdom Kwadwo Mprah, Maxwell Peprah Opoku & Bernard Nsaidzedze Sakah 10African Ontology, Albinism and Human Rights Elvis Imafidon Conclusion Jeff Grischow & Magnus Mfoafo-M'Carthy

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