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Bristol University Press Governing Climate Mobility in Africa
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Edward Elgar Publishing From Microfinance to Middle Class
Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book is a major examination of female entrepreneurship in China and India. It discusses gender inequalities, explores to what extent socio-economic factors determine access to entrepreneurial opportunities, and uses historical and contemporary employment patterns to challenge stereotypes surrounding female entrepreneurship.
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Emerald Publishing Limited Green Technologies and Sustainable Development
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Emerald Publishing Building Strong Communities
Book SynopsisExploring ethical approaches to inclusive development, this book navigates challenges and strategies, empowering readers to foster resilient, equitable communities in the ever evolving 21st century.
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Seagull Books London Ltd Forest Futures Global Representations and Ground
Book SynopsisThe 'Chipko Movement' drew world attention to the struggle over forest rights. Arguing that the hype took control away from local people, this book says that issues of forest control and sustainable forest use have to be seen in the context of concerns about social and economic development, regional autonomy and the futures of the local people.
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Center for Global Development The Rise and Fall of the Department for
Book SynopsisTraces the trajectory of the Department for International Development (DFID) from its origins to its unravelling, distilling timely lessons for government aid institutions in the UK and beyond. Informed by the authors' experiences at DFID and interviews with former ministers and staff, the book offers an insider's view into a unique department.
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Springer Nature Switzerland Narratives of Wellbeing
Book Synopsis1. Interrogating wellbeing through a narrative frame.- 2. Wellbeing in a world of want.- 3. Secularisation, wellness industries, and nonreligious spiritual health care.- 4. Narratives of health and wellness in the construction of place: The case of Palm.- 5. Narrativising spirituality, wellness, and planetary wellbeing.- 6. Uprooting and grounding: Migrant gardeners, urban food cultivation, and cultural wellbeing.- 7. Living through back-to-back public health crises in Samoa: Mutual narrative creation and research practices.- 8. From sickness unto life: How community and belonging can bolster wellbeing during serious illness and end-of-life care.- 9. Uncle Lou turning over': Demedicalising wellbeing through the trans-masculine community archives.- 10. Gutpela sindaun: Narratives of wellbeing in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.- 11. The land is life: Contesting food security and development initiatives through gendered narratives of wellbeing in urban and peri-urban Vanuatu.- 12. Answering the call: Narrative of authenticity, identity, and connection in wellness tourism' advertising.- 13. From magical thinking to being pragmagic': Narratives of wellbeing in health and social care in England.
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United Nations Trade and Development Report 2023
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United Nations World Cities Report 2024
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John Wiley & Sons World Poverty Through a Broader Lens
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United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) The United Nations World Water Development Report
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Springer Modern Dairy Farming and Rural Women in Bangladesh
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Dairy Farming in Bangladesh.- General Description and Background of the Villages.- Women’s Empowerment through Small Scale Dairy Farming.- Involvement in Dairy Farming and Women Empowerment.- Conclusions and Policy Implication.- Assessing the Determinants and Outcomes of Modern Dairy Farming Practices.
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Palgrave Macmillan Youth Community and Democracy in India Myanmar
Book SynopsisPart I: Voices for Societal Change.- Chapter 1: Youth Movements in Authoritarian Asia: The Responsibility to Protest.- Chapter 2: Rising Up in Thailand: Youth-led Protests and State Repression since 2020.- Chapter 3: As a Karen, I have no Leader: Youth, Conflict, and Generational Change in Hpa-An, Karen State.- Chapter 4: Discarding Objects: The Transition to a Consumer Society and the Littering Problem among the Naga, Northeast India.- Chapter 5: The Limits of Political Situation for Societal Change in Thailand.- Chapter 6: Impact of Climate Change and Anthropogenic Pressure on Agro-based Riverine System: The Lower Floodplain of Ganga, India.- Chapter 7: Ecological Democracy and Environmental Justice: Political Ecology of Disasters in India.- Chapter 8: Highland Community Development and Sustainable Opium Reduction: The Case of Northern Thailand.- Chapter 9: Financial Stability of Microfinance Institutions in the Post-Global Financial Crisis: A Case of South Asia.- Part II: Democratic Struggle and Impact.- Chapter 10: Homo Diplomaticus and the Power of Demos: The Paradox and Progress of Democratic Foreign Policy in the Cold War Thailand.- Chapter 11: What Does it Mean When Burma is a Sideshow in World Politics.- Chapter 12: A Political Marathon With(out) Happy Ending: Poland's Democratization and Conclusions for Burma/Myanmar.- Chapter 13: Ne Win's Burmanization Narratives and the Prospects for Peace in Today's Myanmar.- Chapter 14: The Career Prospects of Sadists: Attrition, Collapse, and Myanmar's Military.- Chapter 15: Myanmar: A Totalitarian State.- Chapter 16: The Ancient Origins of Democracy in India.- Chapter 17: Civil Society Organizations and Their Role in Building Democracy in Myanmar: The Case of the Kachin Women's Association Thailand.- Chapter 18: Rethinking: Foreign Aid and Democratic Dilemma.
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Oxford University Press, USA Poverty Dynamics Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Book SynopsisThis book looks at poverty dynamics, or how individual experiences of poverty and wellbeing change over time. It includes work from anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and political scientists and combines qualitative and quantitative research approaches to help deepen our understanding of why some people remain poor while others escape.Table of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION ; 1. Poverty Dynamics: Measurement and Understanding from an Interdisciplinary Perspective ; PART II: POVERTY DYNAMICS: POVERTY MEASUREMENT AND ASSESSMENT ; 2. Chronic Poverty and All That: The Measurement of Poverty Over Time ; 3. A Class of Chronic Poverty Measures ; 4. Measuring Chronic Non-Income Poverty ; 5. The Construction of an Asset Index Measuring Asset Accumulation in Ecuador ; 6. Looking Forward: Theory-Based Measures of Chronic Poverty and Vulnerability ; 7. Exploring Poverty Dynamics from Life History Interviews in Bangladesh ; 8. Subjective Assessments, Participatory Methods and Poverty Dynamics: The Stages of Progress Method ; PART III: EXPLANATORY FRAMEWORKS FOR UNDERSTANDING POVERTY DYNAMICS ; 9. Bringing Politics Back into Poverty Analysis: Why Understanding of Social Relations Matters More for Policy on Chronic Poverty than Measurement ; 10. Poverty Measurement Blues: Beyond 'Q-Squared' Approaches to Understanding Chronic Poverty in South Africa ; 11. When Endowments and Opportunities Don't Match: Understanding Chronic Poverty ; 12. Investments, Bequeaths, and Public Policy: Intergenerational Asset Transfers and the Escape From Poverty ; 13. Questioning the Power of Resilience: Are Children Up To the Task of Disrupting the Transmission of Poverty? ; 14. The Social Distribution of Sanctioned Harm: Thinking Through Chronic Poverty, Durable Poverty and Destitution ; 15. Toward an Economic Sociology of Chronic Poverty: Enhancing the Rigour and Relevance of Social Theory
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Oxford University Press MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY MEASUREMENT C
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Trade Regime and Economic Growth Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis The Companion to Development Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding Human Ecology
Book SynopsisUnderstanding Human Ecology offers a coherent conceptual framework for human ecology a clear approach for understanding the many systems we are part of and for how we frame and understand the problems we face. Blending natural, social, and cognitive sciences with dynamical systems theory, this key text offers systems approaches that are accessible to all, from the undergraduate student to policymakers and practitioners across government, business, and community.In the first edition, road-tested and refined over a decade of teaching and workshops, the authors built a clear, inspiring, and important framework for anyone approaching the management of complex problems and the transition to sustainability. Fully updated for the second edition, the book now goes further in using systems-thinking principles to explain fundamental processes of change in socialecological systems. Revised case examples provide a working application of these principles, whilst a new discussionTrade Review"Human ecology is a critical transdisciplinary approach to creating a better, more sustainable world. We cannot achieve this goal without integrating the study and management of human societies and the rest of nature as tightly interconnected dynamic systems. This valuable book points the way." Robert Costanza, Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London, UK, and Editor in Chief of The Anthropocene Review"Understanding Human Ecology by Dyball and Newell is an important book for human ecology and sustainability. The book’s success, from the first to this current edition, is based on a three-fold feature: wide-ranging application of the systems-based transdisciplinary model to critical social–ecological systems of food, health, and livelihoods; far-reaching contexts of cases from the Asia Pacific and Europe; transdisciplinary alignment of theory, concepts and application that makes it accessible not only to academics but also to sustainability and development practitioners including policymakers."Jennifer Marie S. Amparo, Associate Professor, College of Human Ecology, University of the Philippines Los Baños, The Philippines"A central challenge for enhancing human wellbeing is to establish a sustainable society in harmony with nature across all regions of the world. Integrating rigorous research, education, and policymaking to meet this challenge is urgently needed. Understanding Human Ecology provides an insightful guide to how this might be achieved."Kazuhiko Takeuchi, President, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan"Understanding Human Ecology provides a coherent and lucid discussion of the topic, is user-friendly for university students (a rarity for a textbook), and makes clear connections to key issues such as sustainability, food security, and ethical issues of justice and fairness in environmental planning that are of serious and urgent concern. I consider it a foundational book in the field."Annie Booth, Professor Environmental & Sustainability Studies, University of North British Columbia, Canada"It is time to move beyond the simplistic approaches of cause–effect logic and the triple bottom line that typify many attempts to meet the sustainability challenge. This timely textbook brings the powerful approach of systems thinking to the most pressing, seemingly intractable problems that face humanity in the twenty-first century." Will Steffen, Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University"From the Prologue to the concluding chapters, this work has resonated with my students in both introductory and graduate-level classes. Dyball and Newell use a mix of anecdotes, historical references, and scientific research to weave a narrative that captivates the reader and addresses why human ecology is needed, what it is, and how it can be applied. A perfect text to help students understand a most complex topic."Kenneth E. Hill, Provost, College of the Atlantic, USA"Understanding Human Ecology by Dyball and Newell provides a novel and transdisciplinary framework for understanding sustainability. This ‘must-read’ book explains why people have historically made such a mess of the environment and provides a convincing case for why we must and can switch from a paradigm of limitless growth to one of ethical living, content with sufficiency."Terry Chapin, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA, and Past President, Ecological Society of America"This important book helps to elucidate the interplay between planetary change and human health, with profound implications for our understanding of the dynamics of contemporary health problems such as the global obesity epidemic and pandemic infectious diseases." Anthony Capon, Director, Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Australia"Understanding Human Ecology provides a sophisticated yet accessible discussion of the complex systems driving human health and wellbeing in the past, present, and for the future. The authors present methods that can be applied by those interested in the diverse settings of physical, psychosocial, and socioeconomic sectors. Such attempts of analysis and integration often require interdisciplinary skills, however, these authors have paid great attention to the techniques of communication necessary to ensure the effective use of the concepts by a wide-ranging audience from policy workers, researchers, and the public."Ivan Hanigan, Senior Lecturer in Climate Change and Health, School of Population Health, Curtin University, Australia"Understanding Human Ecology provides an accessible introduction to the field and to the essential tool of systems analysis. It is an invaluable resource for teachers in human ecology and sustainability science as it reveals how individual everyday experiences and dilemmas are rooted in wider human–environment relations, and helps students appreciate the importance of systemic and historical perspectives on ‘how did we get to this?’ – and equally important, ‘where can we go from here?’"Ellinor Isgren, Lecturer in Human Ecology, Department of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden"Human ecology is a critical transdisciplinary approach to creating a better, more sustainable world. We cannot achieve this goal without integrating the study and management of human societies and the rest of nature as tightly interconnected dynamic systems. This valuable book points the way." Robert Costanza, Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London, UK, and Editor in Chief of The Anthropocene Review"Understanding Human Ecology by Dyball and Newell is an important book for human ecology and sustainability. The book’s success, from the first to this current edition, is based on a three-fold feature: wide-ranging application of the systems-based transdisciplinary model to critical social–ecological systems of food, health, and livelihoods; far-reaching contexts of cases from the Asia Pacific and Europe; transdisciplinary alignment of theory, concepts and application that makes it accessible not only to academics but also to sustainability and development practitioners including policymakers."Jennifer Marie S. Amparo, Associate Professor, College of Human Ecology, University of the Philippines Los Baños, The Philippines"A central challenge for enhancing human wellbeing is to establish a sustainable society in harmony with nature across all regions of the world. Integrating rigorous research, education, and policymaking to meet this challenge is urgently needed. Understanding Human Ecology provides an insightful guide to how this might be achieved."Kazuhiko Takeuchi, President, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan"Understanding Human Ecology provides a coherent and lucid discussion of the topic, is user-friendly for university students (a rarity for a textbook), and makes clear connections to key issues such as sustainability, food security, and ethical issues of justice and fairness in environmental planning that are of serious and urgent concern. I consider it a foundational book in the field."Annie Booth, Professor Environmental & Sustainability Studies, University of North British Columbia, Canada"It is time to move beyond the simplistic approaches of cause–effect logic and the triple bottom line that typify many attempts to meet the sustainability challenge. This timely textbook brings the powerful approach of systems thinking to the most pressing, seemingly intractable problems that face humanity in the twenty-first century." Will Steffen, Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University"From the Prologue to the concluding chapters, this work has resonated with my students in both introductory and graduate-level classes. Dyball and Newell use a mix of anecdotes, historical references, and scientific research to weave a narrative that captivates the reader and addresses why human ecology is needed, what it is, and how it can be applied. A perfect text to help students understand a most complex topic."Kenneth E. Hill, Provost, College of the Atlantic, USA"Understanding Human Ecology by Dyball and Newell provides a novel and transdisciplinary framework for understanding sustainability. This ‘must-read’ book explains why people have historically made such a mess of the environment and provides a convincing case for why we must and can switch from a paradigm of limitless growth to one of ethical living, content with sufficiency."Terry Chapin, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA, and Past President, Ecological Society of America"This important book helps to elucidate the interplay between planetary change and human health, with profound implications for our understanding of the dynamics of contemporary health problems such as the global obesity epidemic and pandemic infectious diseases." Anthony Capon, Director, Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Australia"Understanding Human Ecology provides a sophisticated yet accessible discussion of the complex systems driving human health and wellbeing in the past, present, and for the future. The authors present methods that can be applied by those interested in the diverse settings of physical, psychosocial, and socioeconomic sectors. Such attempts of analysis and integration often require interdisciplinary skills, however, these authors have paid great attention to the techniques of communication necessary to ensure the effective use of the concepts by a wide-ranging audience from policy workers, researchers, and the public."Ivan Hanigan, Senior Lecturer in Climate Change and Health, School of Population Health, Curtin University, Australia"Understanding Human Ecology provides an accessible introduction to the field and to the essential tool of systems analysis. It is an invaluable resource for teachers in human ecology and sustainability science as it reveals how individual everyday experiences and dilemmas are rooted in wider human–environment relations, and helps students appreciate the importance of systemic and historical perspectives on ‘how did we get to this?’ – and equally important, ‘where can we go from here?’"Ellinor Isgren, Lecturer in Human Ecology, Department of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, SwedenTable of ContentsPrologue: six impossible things before breakfast PART I: The challenge 1. Human ecology: an evolving perspective 2. Dynamics of conflict and change in the Snowy Mountains PART II: Building shared understanding 3. Thinking together 4. System dynamics I: stocks and flows 5. System dynamics II: feedback 6. Systems and sustainability 7. Toward a shared theoretical framework PART III: Living in the Anthropocene 8. Paradigms: ideas that change the world 9. Living well in the Anthropocene 10. Consumers and global food systems 11. Stewards of a full Earth Epilogue: six possible things before dinner
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Taylor & Francis Rebuilding the American Town
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Library Editions Aid
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Natural Resource Governance in Africa
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Indigenous Intergenerational Resilience
Book SynopsisThis book argues that there is a need to develop greater indigenous-led intergenerational resilience in order to meet the challenges posed by contemporary crises of climate change, cultural clashes, and adversity.In today's media, the climate crisis is kept largely separate and distinct from the violent cultural clashes unfolding on the grounds of religion and migration, but each is similarly symptomatic of the erasure of the human connection to place and the accompanying tensions between generations and cultures. This book argues that both forms of crisis are intimately related, under-scored and driven by the structures of white supremacism which at their most immediate and visible, manifest as the discipline of black bodies, and at more fundamental and far-reaching proportions, are about the power, privilege and patterns of thinking associated with but no longer exclusive to white people. In the face of such crisis, it is essential to bring the experience and wisdom Table of ContentsChapter 1: Indigenous-led intergenerational resilience: The work of the "now" Chapter 2: The cultural and generational dimensions of climate and ecological crisis Chapter 3: Paradigms of resurgence and intergenerational resilience Chapter 4: Rongoā Māori as a generative response to the crises of our times Chapter 5: Ko ngā Pūrāko ō Tūrangawaewae—Stories of finding the places where we can be powerful Chapter 6: A global decolonial praxis of sustainability—Undoing epistemic violences through critical pedagogies of place Chapter 7: The dish with one spoon: Rehonoring an ancient treaty Chapter 8: The whakapapa (genealogy) of all things
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Taylor & Francis Ltd International Studies
This book provides a much-needed classroom text in international studies that is genuinely interdisciplinary in its approach. International Studies focuses specifically on five core disciplines; history, geography, anthropology, political science and economics, and describes them in relation to one another, as well as their individual and collective contributions to the study of global issues. The expert authors also emphasize the continuing importance of area studies within an interdisciplinary and global framework, applying its interdisciplinary framework to substantive issues in seven regions: Europe, East Asia and the Pacific, South and Central Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and North America. This new edition has been completely updated and substantially revised with two new chapters on Media, Sovereignty and Cybersecurity and Sustainable Development.This disciplinary and regional combination offers a useful and co
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Why States Matter in Economic Development
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chinas Pension System
Since 1978, when China started remaking its economy, it has also embarked on an unparalleled effort at remaking its pension system to accommodate its hybrid economic model. This book tells the story of how China has managed to build a national pension system that now covers most of its population and what this system holds for its future.This book covers the following topics: evolution of Chinese pension system to its current form; benefit design, financing, and governance of current pension system; challenges facing the pension system, especially the looming funding shortage due to accelerating population ageing; solutions to the challenges; and lessons learned from the Chinese experience. Due to the fragmentation of pension system among 31 mainland provinces, we also select three provinces as case studies to help readers gain a richer understanding of how economic and geographic diversity has created disparity in pension benefit design and financing between provinces and wi
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Taylor & Francis Research Methods for Rural Criminologists
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Taylor & Francis Transitional Justice and SocioEconomic Harm
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Taylor & Francis Reimagining Labor for a Sustainable Future
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Taylor & Francis Sustainability and Teacher Education in India
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Geographies of Food and Power
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the production and consumption of food, suitable for use in undergraduate classrooms, either at the intermediate or advanced level. It takes an intersectional approach to difference and power and approaches standard subjects in the geography of food with a fresh perspective focusing on inequality, uneven production and legacies of colonialism. The book also focuses on places and regions often overlooked in conventional narratives, such as the Americas in the domestication of plants. The topics covered in the textbook include: descriptions and analyses of food systems histories of agricultural development with a focus on the roles of different regions major commodities such as meat, grains and produce with a focus on the place of production contemporary challenges in the food system, including labor, disasters/conflict and climate change reTrade Review"This is the geography textbook for the class I always wished I’d taken, progressing from introductory concepts to sophisticated analysis over the arc of a semester. With terrific suggestions for supplementary reading, watching, and discussion, Amy Trauger’s Geographies of Food and Power is set to become a classic foundation for generations of geographers." Raj Patel, Research Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, USA. "Geographies of Food and Power makes a critical contribution to ongoing debates about the historical and contemporary structures of our food system along with the social and environmental implications. Using an intersectional lens, Trauger introduces several concepts and theoretical perspectives to reveal challenges and point to promising pathways forward. This is an essential text for students of geography and food studies along with anyone interested in just and sustainable food futures." Charles Z. Levkoe, Canada Research Chair in Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems, Lakehead University, Canada. Table of ContentsPart 1: Food and Power Chapter 1 – The Geographies of Food Chapter 2 – Geography and Power Part 2: Food for Thought Chapter 3 – The Origins of Food Chapter 4 – The Nexus of Production and Consumption Chapter 5 – Food System Contradictions Chapter 6 – The Right to Food Part 3: What We Eat Chapter 7 – Produce: Fruits and Vegetables Chapter 8 – Seeds: Grains, Pulses and Nuts Chapter 9 – Protein: Meat, Fish, Dairy and Eggs Chapter 10 – Tropical Commodities: Beverages, Fruits, Sugar and Spices Chapter 11 – Not Food: Ingredients and Additives Part 4: Challenges in the Global Food System Chapter 12 – Labor Chapter 13 – Conflict and Disasters Chapter 14 – Climate Change Chapter 15 – The Future of Food
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Taylor & Francis Migration and Populism in Bulgaria
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The New Famines
Book SynopsisThe recent occurrences of famine in Ethiopia and Southern Africa have propelled this key issue back into the public arena for the first time since 1984, as once again it becomes a priority - not only for lesser developed countries but also for the international community. Exploring the paradox that is the persistence of famine in the contemporary world, this book looks at the way the nature of famine is changing in the face of globalization and shifting geo-political forces.The book challenges perceived wisdom about the causes of famine and analyzes the worst cases of recent years including close analysis of food scarcity in North Korea, Ethiopia, Sudan and Malawi and less well known cases in Madagascar, Iraq and Bosnia. With fresh conceptual frameworks and analytical tools, major theoretical constructs which have previously been applied to analyze famines (such as the ''democracy ends famine'' argument, Sen's ''entitlement approach'' and the ''complex politicalTable of Contents1. Introduction: From ‘Old Famines’ to ‘New Famines’ 2. Famine Scales: Towards an Instrumental Definition of ‘Famine’ 3. The Criminalization of Mass Starvations: From Natural Disaster to Crime Against Humanity 4. Sen’s Entitlement Approach: Critiques and Counter-Critiques 5. AIDS, Hunger and Destitution: Theory and Evidence for the ‘New Variant Famines’ Hypothesis in Africa 6. Pre-Modern, Modern and Postmodern Famine in Iraq: 1990-2003 7. Malawi’s First Famine: 2001-2 8. An Atypical Urban Famine: Antananarivo, Madagascar 1985-6 9. North Korea as a ‘New’ Famine 10. Why Do Famines Persist in the Horn of Africa? Ethiopia: 1999-2003 11. Increased Rural Vulnerability in the Era of Globalization: Conflict and Famine in Sudan during the 1990s 12. Why Are There No Longer ‘War Famines’ in Contemporary Europe? The Case of the Besieged Areas of Bosnia: 1992-5 13. Is Democracy the Answer? Famine Prevention in Two Indian States 14. Can GM Crops Prevent Famine in Africa? 15. Priority Regimes and Famine
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