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Book SynopsisA major challenge in studies of environmental governance is dealing with the diversity of the people involved at multiple levels â villagers, development agents, policy-makers, private resource users and others â and taking seriously their aspirations, conflicts and collaborations. This book examines this challenge in two very disparate parts of our world, exploring what gender-equality, resource management and development mean in real terms for its inhabitants as well as for our environmental futures.Based on participatory research and in-depth fieldwork, Arora-Jonsson studies struggles for local forest management, the making of womenâs groups within them and how the womenâs groups became a threat to mainstream institutions. Insights from India, consistently ranked as one of the most gender-biased countries, are compared with similar situations in the ostensibly gender-equal Sweden. Arora-Jonsson also analyzes how dominant ideas about the environment, development and gender Trade Review'Telling, arguing, and analysing throughout this rich and original work, Seema Arora-Jonsson makes a strong theoretical case “for gender as integral to our analyses in order to be able to meet environmental and developmental challenges”'— Lars Rudebeck, Uppsala University, Development in Practice "Gender, Development and Environmental Governance is indeed an enlightening work in more ways than one. Especially admirable is the élan with which Arora-Jonsson pulls off a seemingly unsustainable project—comparing a highly developed and a developing society... Gender, Development and Environmental Governance is a valuable contribution to the corpus of the theoretical literature on gender and environmental studies and a must read for all gender and environment scholars."— Etee Bahadur, Journal of South Asian Development "The most significant contribution on of this book is its unconventional examination of daily life and informal networks, filtered through a gendered analysis... This is a great effort in undoing the sometimes artificial divide between the North and South. Because of its strengths in analyzing gender dynamics and its comparative nature, this book will be extremely interesting to those interested in issues of environmental governance, development, and gender."— Meenakshi Narayan, Michigan State University, Gendered Perspectives on International DevelopmentTable of Contents1. Introduction: Three Places and a Jigsaw World 2. Crafting New Relations and Theorizing Connections: Gender, Development and Environmental Governance 3. Policy Discourses and Material Places: Forests, Gender and the (Re)making of the Peripheries 4. Environmental Politics on the Ground 5. A Politics of the Possible: Gendered Subjectivities in Collective Organizing 6. Micropolitics of Rural Development and Environmental Governance: Resistance, Maintenance and Outside Intervention 7. Discordant Connections: Discourses on Gender and Grassroots Activism 8. Development Practice and Environmental Governance: Flexible Spaces for Political Action 9. Conclusion: Up-Close in a Jigsaw World: Guideposts from the Present

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention.No country is free from femicide/feminicide, which represents the tip of the iceberg in male violence against women and girls. Therefore, it is crucial and timely to better understand how states and their citizens are experiencing and responding to femicide/feminicide globally. Through the work of internationally recognised feminist and grassroots activists, researchers, and academics from around the world, this handbook offers the first in-depth, global examination of the growing social movement to address femicide and feminicide. It includes the current state of knowledge and the prevalence of femicide/feminicide and its characteristics across countries and world regions, as well as the social and legal responses to these killings. The contributions contained here look at the accomplishments of the past four decades, ongoing challenTable of ContentsForeword by Dubravka Šimonovic, Former Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences (2015-2021)Part 1 Introduction Chapter 1: Femicide and feminicide: A growing global human rights movementAuthors: Myrna Dawson and Saide Mobayed VegaPart 2 Theoretical Understandings and PerspectivesChapter 2: A global archaeology of femi(ni)cideAuthor: Saide Mobayed VegaChapter 3: Femicide and the global political economy Authors: Alison Brysk and Vitória MoreiraChapter 4: Understanding femicide using a global social ecological modelAuthors: Emma Fulu, Victoria Alondra, Xian Warner, Chay Brown and Loksee LeungChapter 5: Femicide and intersectionalityAuthor: Lorena SosaChapter 6: Femicide/feminicide and colonialismAuthors: Paulina García-Del Moral, Dolores Figueroa Romero, Patricia Torres Sandoval, and Laura Hernández PérezChapter 7: Femi[ni]cide and space: Theorising the socio-spatial scripts of femi[ni]cideAuthor: Lorena FuentesChapter 8: Systems of power and femicide: The intersections of race, gender, and extremist violence Authors: Maria N. Scaptura and Brittany E. HayesPart 3 Data and Methodological ConsiderationsChapter 9: Data sources and challenges in addressing femicide and feminicideAuthors: Angelika Zecha, Naeemah Abrahams, Karine Duhamel, Cristina Fabré, Alejandra Otamendi, Alejandra Rios Cazares, Heidi Stöckl, Myrna Dawson, and Saide Mobayed VegaChapter 10: Feminicide data activismCollectif Féminicides Par Compagnons ou Ex Feminizidmap, Kathomi Gatwiri, Counting Dead Women project, Savia Hasanova, Anna Kapushenko, Lyubava Malysheva, Saide Mobayed Vega, Audrey Mugeni, Counting Dead Women project, Rosalind Page, Black Femicide project, Ivonne Ramírez Ramírez, Ellas Tienen Nombre project, Helena Suárez Val, Feminicidio Uruguay project, Dawn Wilcox, Women Count USA: Femicide Accountability project and Aimee Zambrano Ortiz, Monitor de Femicidios project, UtopixChapter 11: Femicide/feminicide observatories and watchesVathsala Illesinghe, Ahora Que Sí Nos Ven, Femi(ni)cide Watch Poland, Feminicidio.net, Observatorio de Feminicidios, Observatorio feminicidios Colombia - Red feminista antimilitarista, Shalva Weil, Myrna Dawson, and Saide Mobayed VegaPart 4 Femicide and Feminicide Across World Regions and CountriesChapter 12: Femicide in AfghanistanAuthors: Mohammad Ibrahim Dariush, Farzana Adell, and Angelika ZechaChapter 13: Femicide in AustraliaAuthors: Patricia Cullen, Jenna Price and Natasha Walker Chapter 14: Feminicide in Brazil Author: Joana PerroneChapter 15: Femicide in CanadaAuthors: Wendy Aujla, Myrna Dawson, Crystal J. Giesbrecht, Nneka MacGregor, Shiva NourpanahChapter 16: Femicide in EuropeAuthors: Marceline Naudi, Monika Schröttle, Elina Kofou, Maria José Magalhães, and Christiana KoutaChapter 17: Femicide in GeorgiaAuthor: Tamar DekanosidzeChapter 18: Femicide in IndiaAuthor: Nishi Mitra vom BergChapter 19: Feminicide in Mexico Authors: Saide Mobayed Vega, Sonia M. Frías, Fabiola de Lachica Huerta, and Aleida Luján-PineloChapter 20: Femicide in Palestinian SocietyAuthors: Rafah Anabtawi, Iman Jabbour, and Abeer BakerChapter 21: Femicide in Russian Federation Authors: Ksenia Meshkova and Lyubava MalyshevaChapter 22: Femicide in South AfricaAuthors: Nechama Brodie, Shanaaz Mathews, and Naeemah AbrahamsChapter 23: Femicide in Sub-Saharan Africa Authors: Emmanuel Rohn and Eric Y. TenkorangChapter 24: Femicide in TurkeyAuthors: Ceyda Ulukaya and Büşra Yalçınöz UçanChapter 25: Femicide in the United KingdomAuthor: Karen Ingala SmithChapter 26: Femicide in the United StatesAuthors: Jill Theresa Messing, Millan A. AbiNader, Jesenia Pizarro, April M. Zeoli, Em Loerzel, Tricia Bent-Goodley, and Jacquelyn CampbellPart 5 Understanding Femicide and Feminicide Subtypes and Contexts Chapter 27: Intimate femicide/intimate partner femicide Authors: Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate, Jude McCulloch, and JaneMaree MaherChapter 28: Population control and sex-selective abortion in China and India: A feminist critique of criminalisationAuthors: Navtej Purewal and Lisa EklundChapter 29: Systemic sexual feminicide: Colonial scars in bodies and territoriesAuthor: Julia Estela Monárrez FragosoChapter 30: ‘Honour’-based femicideAuthor: Aisha K. GillChapter 31: Femigenocide Authors: Rita Laura Segato and Lívia VitentiChapter 32: Sex work feminicide and the making of #SayHerName campaign by SWEAT in South AfricaAuthor: Phoebe Kisubi MbasalakiChapter 33: Armed conflict femicideAuthor: Anna Alvazzi del FrateChapter 34: Femicide in the context of gang-related violence in El Salvador Authors: Silvia Ivette Juárez Barrios and Erika J. Rojas OspinaChapter 35: Continuities and discontinuities between the concepts of feminicide and transfeminicide in MexicoAuthors: Sayak Valencia and Liliana FalcónChapter 36: Femi(ni)cide as war as femi(ni)cide: Violence and justice-seeking beyond bordersAuthor: Dilar DirikPart 6 Legal Responses to Femicide and Feminicide Chapter 37: Femicide and legislationAuthor: Patsilí Toledo VásquezChapter 38: Femicide and transnational lawAuthors: Isabel López Padilla and Helene SaadounChapter 39: Investigating femicide/feminicide: The Latin American model protocol Authors: Françoise Roth, Mariela Labozzeta and Agustina RodríguezChapter 40: Femicide and the "heat of passion" criminal doctrineAuthor: Hava Dayan Chapter 41: State accountability and feminicide Authors: Cecilia Menjívar and Leydy Diossa-JimenezPart 7 Social Responses to Femicide and Feminicide Chapter 42: Colonial femicide: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada Author: Robyn BourgeoisChapter 43: Witnessing across borders: Truth-telling about feminicides in México and the MMIWG2S in Canada and the U.S.Author: Cynthia BejaranoChapter 44: North American necropolitics and gender: On #BlackLivesMatter and Black femicideAuthor: Shatema ThreadcraftChapter 45: Femicide, digital activism, and the #NiUnaMenos in ArgentinaAuthors: Francesca Belotti, Francesca Comunello and Consuelo CorradiChapter 46: Dissident memories: Feminicide, memorialisation, and the fight against state cruelty Author: Elva Orozco MendozaPart 8 Where to go from here in Research, Policy, and Practice Chapter 47: Latin American standardisation of data on feminicide Authors: Silvana Fumega and María Esther CervantesChapter 48: Human-centered computing and feminicide counterdata science Author: Catherine D’IgnazioChapter 49: Male perpetrators’ accounts of femicide: A global systematic review Authors: Dabney P. Evans, Martín Hernán Di Marco, Subasri Narasimhan, Melanie Maino Vieytes, Autumn Curran, and Mia S. WhiteChapter 50: Changing media representations of femicide as primary prevention Authors: Jordan Fairbairn, Ciara Boyd, Yasmin Jiwani, and Myrna Dawson

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Book SynopsisThis book reflects on the continuing expansion of extractive forms of capitalist development into new territories in Latin America, and the resistance movements that are trying to combat the ecological and social destruction that follows.Latin American development models continue to prioritise extractivism: the intensive exploitation and exportation of nature in its primary commodity form. This constant expansion of the extractive frontier into new territories leads to forms of place-based resistance, negotiation and struggle in which competing territorial projects and claims are at stake. This book uncovers the underlying trends and dynamics of these âterritorialities in disputeâ, and the socio- ecological resistance movements that are emerging as marginalized communities struggle to reclaim their territorial rights and defend and protect their right of access to the global commons. A focus on territorialities in dispute renders visible the unsustainable expansion of extractivist territories and opens up new horizons to learn from these processes and to consider post-extractivist/post-development imaginings of another world and alternate futures â as well as the challenges to their realisation.This book will be of interest to both students and researchers in the fields of international development, political ecology, critical geography, social anthropology as well as to activists engaged in socio-ecological/eco-territorial movements.

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Book SynopsisAid sector staff work in some of the world's most challenging environments, from conflict zones to sites of natural disaster and refugee camps. For a long time, the aid worker was typified by the lone white male, flying from place to place and seeing his family during the holidays. But now, as the world changes and the sector diversifies, how can family life be reconciled with the challenges and travel commitments of this particularly difficult career? This book delves deep into these challenges, exposing the problems that persist and pointing a path for organisations to adopt a more human-centred, staff-centred, parent-centred, feminist approach to humanitarian and development work. Drawing on the author's own experiences as an aid worker, as well as extensive original interviews and desk research, the book looks at the challenges faced by those who aspire to a family life, from finding a partner who is willing and able to live in the same location, to dating in difficult coTrade ReviewThe Humanitarian Parent is a watershed addition to the discourse about what it means to be human and purposeful in the humanitarian sector. Hietanen left no stone unturned. The Humanitarian Parent provides a provocative glimpse into what are at once the deeply personal and yet systemic contradictions, paradoxes and intersectionality of parenting in the humanitarian sector.Lucy Ellis, Founder of AidMamas, the global community of mothers in the humanitarian and international development sectorThe Humanitarian Parent is an important contribution for its critique of the organizational culture in the humanitarian sector through a feminist lens and neo-colonial lens. Through its honest and very relatable anecdotes, it is a moving and genuine conversation around the ‘perfect’ humanitarian vis a vis the needs of the affected community, and if appealing to traditional humanitarian archetypes weighs down efforts of fostering genuine progress in the sector.Dr Jessica Hazelwood, Humanitarian Expert This book was so much needed! And it is urgent for all of us to read it. Merit describes the struggle of many of us, parents in the humanitarian field, with depth and empathy, with a broad perspective that, while it acknowledges privileges and advantages of many of us, it bring us together on the challenges we face when becoming parents. Virginia Perez, Chief of Program, UN. Mother of two If you work in the humanitarian or development sector, you need to read this book, irrespective of whether you have children or not. Merit Hietanen depicts compellingly the dire need for a more feminist, anti-colonial, and overall more humane working culture and offers insights into getting there.Liisa Ketolainen, Specialist in gender equality and international relationsIn The Humanitarian Parent, the author explores the realities faced by individuals working in theaid sector, challenging the traditional narrative of a male-dominated field. Drawing on personalexperiences and research, the book sheds light on the complex dynamics of balancingprofessional responsibilities with parenthood. It highlights the increasing presence of womenand mothers in the aid sector, while acknowledging the unique challenges they face. The bookalso addresses the lack of support for working mothers and the impact of cultural norms onwomen’s ability to balance work and family life. Overall, The Humanitarian Parent offers valuableinsights into the intersection of gender, parenthood, and humanitarian work, emphasizing theimportance of supporting gender equality and family-friendly policies in the workplace. Mays Nawayseh, Humanitarian Specialist, MotherMany of us, humanitarians, will recognise bits of our own life on the pages of the Merit’s book The Humanitarian Parent. It will be interesting for humanitarian parents and equally to those who have yet to discover how the humanitarian lifestyle impacts (or often replaces) every single other aspect of human existence. I particularly appreciate the deep dive into the diversity of struggles among the humanitarian workers: not all challenges and people are the same, but all are equally valid. Yuliya Chykol'ba, Humanitarian Mine Action Specialist and co-host of the Ukraine series in the Trumanitarian podcastThe Humanitarian Parent has captured an intimate and detailed account of the challenges and impact aid work has on the family life of staff in the sector. It offers a mosaic of complex and contrasting experiences, with numerous observations and arguments that countless people in the field will be able to relate to and commiserate with, as well as insight for those considering a career in aid work – noting that priorities often change over time and the importance of better understanding the consequences of decisions and sacrifices as it reflects across cultures and genders. Through this book I believe Merit Hietanen provides readers with a sense of fellowship within a community that has too often struggled in seclusion when it comes to matters of the family and work balance. I am grateful to Merit for her efforts in articulating with such clarity feelings and conditions I have struggled to frame and understand when weighing career aspirations against my own role as a husband and father.Teddy Leposky, Operations Officer, UNHCR UkraineTable of ContentsIntroductionPART IThe humanitarian workplace and what it does to parents1 The work culture in a humanitarian workplace2 Why is change necessary and how do we get there?PART IIFor the ones thinking about having children3 Making a decision about having children4 Childless not by choice and how to get out of itPART IIILife of a parent in the aid sector5 Mothers who work on national contracts6 LGBTQIA+ parents7 Single mothers8 Trailing spouses or unemployed aid workers9 Fathers10 The humanitarian nannies: the dependency of aid parents on domestic staffPART IVA sector in change: where do we go next?11 What have policies given us?12 Making humanitarian contexts more compatible with parenthood13 Parental leave: where are we and where should we go?14 Office hours and flexible working arrangements: what needs to change?Epilogue

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Book SynopsisTrade Unions and Regions: Better Work, Experimentation, and Regional Governance is about the place of workers and their unions in the modern world. It addresses current challenges for unions working in regions and the experiments that may take place at this level of governance. The book addresses pressing questions concerned with the conditions for better work and a humane society. The focus is on the capacities of unions to address questions relating to regional governance, in both supranational and sub-national regions. It examines workers and their unions in a variety of contexts: multinationals, industries, workplaces, and communities. The authors address the experiments that can be initiated by unions, governments, or employers and the ways in which collective organisations engage to address these matters in regional contexts. The analysis takes as a starting point the fracturing and divisions evident in various regions, in Australia, Canada, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, and

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Book SynopsisGlobalizations from Below uses a Constructivist International Relations approach that emphasizes the centrality of normative power to analyze and compare the four globalizations from below.'These are: (1) the counter-hegemonic globalization represented by the movement of movements' of alter-globalization transnational social activists, who try to put an end to the Neoliberal nature of the Western-centered globalization from above'; (2) the non-hegemonic globalization enacted by ant traders' that are part of the transnational informal economy; (3) the partially similar Chinese-centered globalization, whose entrepreneurial migrants are strongly influenced and instrumentalized by the Chinese state; and (4) the first wave globalization from below' that paralleled (and outlived) the 18701914 globalization from above.' This book identifies their common features and uses them to define the concept of globalization from below' as a set of socio-economic or socio-political pr

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an introduction to sustainable aquaculture practices, focusing on how we develop social, economic and environmental resilience.Aquaculture has seen phenomenal worldwide growth in the past 50 years, and many people view it as the best solution for the provision of high-quality protein to feed the world''s growing population. This new edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect new developments in the field and includes new case studies. Focusing on developing more sustainable aquaculture practices and aquatic food systems, the book provides a toolbox of approaches to support widespread adoption and appropriate adaptation of regenerating aquaculture strategies, ensuring that it has practical relevance for both students and professionals. Drawing on a range of case studies from around the world, the book shows where progress, in terms of developing ecologically sound and socially responsible forms of aquaculture, has been made. The book is based on e

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook provides the knowledge needed to design and deploy proactive construction project procurement and delivery systems based on essentials while addressing emerging construction industry imperatives in order to boost overall performance.Section 1 of the Handbook provides an overview, while Section 2 provides the fundamentals with fresh insights into the building blocks and trends in performance-linked procurement and delivery, including procurement strategies and commercial priorities, project briefs and management plans, design management, stakeholder management, risk management, ethics and professionalism, team building, information and knowledge management, digital aids, conflict, claims and dispute management, collaborative contracting, relationship-based teamworking and linking to built asset management.Section 3 explores and expands on specific trends, including sub-contractor selection, Building Information Modelling (BIM) in p

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Book SynopsisThe fourth edition of Teaching Culture and Psychology (previously Cross-Cultural Explorations) provides an array of carefully designed instructor resources and student activities that support the construction and implementation of courses on culture and psychology.Revised and expanded from previous editions, the book enables instructors to use selected activities appropriate for their course structure. Part One explores a variety of pedagogical challenges involved in teaching about culture and psychology and details specific strategies for addressing these challenges. Part Two (instructor resources) and Part Three (student handouts) center around 90 activities designed to encourage students to think critically about the role of culture in a wide range of psychology content areas. These activities are based on current and classic cross-cultural research and take the form of case studies, self-administered scales, mini-experiments, database search assignments, a

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Book SynopsisThis important new textbook provides a concise and practice-oriented introduction to the workings of the humanitarian sector and the key contemporary debates surrounding it.The number of people around the world in need of humanitarian action and protection is at its highest figure in decades; yet at the same time, the humanitarian system is facing numerous problems and undergoing fundamental reforms. This book invites us to tackle these challenges head on, addressing the increasing complexity of humanitarian crises and the implications for humanitarian principles and standards as well as the management of humanitarian projects. Expansive in scope, the book covers: The sectorâs historical foundations and the need to decolonise The main types of crises and sectors of humanitarian response State and non-state actors and institutions The key rules, norms, and project management approaches Key trends and challenges, including access, innovation, and anticipation The book also covers important debates on localisation, inclusive programming, and the decolonisation of the humanitarian system. This exciting new textbook will be an important read for students looking for a comprehensive introduction, as well as for practitioners wanting to stimulate critical thinking and enhance their practical skills.

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Book SynopsisFully revised and updated in its third edition, this timely book brings together the study of conflict and war and the problems surrounding the economic development of developing societies that are most prone to experiencing problems in moving on after war.The book does so by reflecting on the issues surrounding war as it unfolds and after it has (in principle) ended', within the context of the history, present-day problems and future prospects. The book aims to highlight the possibilities, successes and failures of past and present policies that bring development' to countries and peoples that want to be more involved in deciding their own futures after conflict and war, and often find themselves subject to what can be seen as arbitrary and even alien ways of thinking and acting by institutions in which they theoretically have membership and agency but often do not in practice. The case studies have been fully updated to reflect changes and developments since the second edit

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Book SynopsisThis volume represents the latest research in cultural anthropology on an ascendant and globalizing China, covering the many different dimensions of China's ascendancy both within China itself and beyond.It focuses not only on the real and perceived successes of China in the past four decades, but also on the difficulties, tensions, and dangers that have emerged as a result of rapid economic development: class polarization, state expansion, psychological distress, and environmental degradation. Including contributions by some of the most well-known cultural anthropologists of China, as well as rising innovative younger scholars, this book documents and analyzes China's multifaceted transformations in the modern eraboth within Chinese society and in Chinese relations with the outside world. It features the unique perspective of anthropology, with its on-the-ground deep cultural immersion through long-term fieldwork, coupled with a macrolevel global perspective, a strong histor

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Book SynopsisFocussing on the greening of imperialisms and empires, Empires of Sustainability analyses the shift around the world from denial of the environmental crisis to action to prevent catastrophe, and the resulting implications.Evidence of this shift is clear in widespread and purposeful social change which is gathering momentum. The book explains how globalisation accelerated us towards the crisis, and today, even as its own legitimacy is being questioned, is evolving through solutions and responses to it. Looking ahead and as the environmental crisis worsens, two possible futures are discerned and explored. One is that through universal actions to save the planet, shaped by interweaving political and economic forces, the hegemony of globalisation is restored, albeit in a green form. The other is that the world reorganises into competing spheres of influence, with politics, economics and the environment interwoven differently in each case. In these ways, we face the prospec

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the geopoliticisation of foreign aid in recent years, against a background of global overarching crises such as climate change, conflict, Covid-19, economic crisis, energy shortages and migration.Foreign aid has historically been understood as assisting both with the development objectives of the recipients and with the trade and geopolitical interests of the donors. In the first decades of the 21st century, however, this balance has been shifted by a series of complex global challenges. This book argues that donors have now moved towards framing aid as a geopolitical instrument, wherein aid can be given or withheld based on power or political intent, thus imposing the donor's specific values and norms. This book provides an in-depth analysis of this weaponisation of foreign aid within a framework of global disruption and ultimately concludes that the world is at a tipping point towards a new socio-political world order.Asking important questions

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Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Inclusive Healthcare Design is a comprehensive guide to the design and facilitation of safe, healthy, equitable, and inclusive healthcare settings across a variety of scales. The book informs healthcare professionals, healthcare administrators, planners, designers in the healthcare sector, design students, and faculty about best practices and considerations for inclusive design.The primary theme for the book is design for all considering the design of healthcare spaces through the lenses of inclusivity and social equity. Part 1 presents the reader with an overview of the variety of locations and types of healthcare settings. Part 2 provides a comprehensive overview of the principles of equitable and inclusive healthcare design and considers how these principles can be applied to the range of settings laid out in Part 1. The authors consider inclusivity-supportive infrastructure in primary and ancillary spaces within healthcare settings. Par

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Book SynopsisThis handbook provides an authoritative multidisciplinary overview of contemporary African international migration. It endeavours to present a single source of reference on issues such as migration history, trends, migrant profiles, narratives, migration-development nexus, migration governance, diasporas, impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, among others.The handbook assembles a multidisciplinary contributor team of distinguished and upcoming Africanist scholars, practitioners, researchers, and policy experts both inside and outside Africa to contribute their perspectives on contemporary African migration. It attempts to address some of the following pertinent questions: What drives contemporary migration in Africa? How are its patterns and trends evolving? What is the architecture of migration governance in Africa? How do migration, diaspora engagement and development play out in Africa? What are the future trajectories of African migration? The handbook is a valuable resource for practitioners, politicians, researchers, university students, and academics interested in studying and understanding contemporary African migration.

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the major policy, economic and financial issues encountered in global forest carbon.The global forest sector is expected to play a major role in achieving the Paris Agreement's temperature targets. Therefore, there is an urgent need to explore practical and promising solutions to the challenges facing carbon accounting and policy assessment as the global community undertakes forest sector actionsincluding the widely known REDD+ initiative. This book demonstrates how vital it is that we identify appropriate perspectives and formulate approaches to address these challenges in an integrated and effective manner. In doing so, it addresses many of the major issues, including the differential potentials for carbon sequestration within various forest ecosystems as well as for storage within a variety of harvested wood products, the joint production of timber and carbon, and the measurement and impact of forest carbon offsets and credits, results-based payments, a

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Book SynopsisGlobal trends favor balanced development, integrating socio-economic and environmental aspects. Sustainable development, emphasized by international organizations and the UN''s Sustainable Development Goals, has evolved into Industry 5.0. Unlike Industry 4.0, Industry 5.0 prioritizes social justice and sustainable development, focusing on human-centricity, ecological balance, and resilience. It advocates for circular processes, reduced waste, and lowered environmental impact. The transition to a green economy requires bottom-up efforts from eco-entrepreneurs. In the era of knowledge-based economies, enterprises emphasize sustainable development, including the transition to Sustainable Human Resource Management (SHRM). SHRM combines sustainability with a soft approach to human resources, fostering trust, teamwork, and employee commitment. However, literature on SHRM lacks a universally accepted definition. This monograph aims to bridge gaps through theoretical and empirical

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Book SynopsisSocial Structure Adaptation to COVID-19 offers global, interdisciplinary perspectives that examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the development trajectory of schools, public health, the workforce, and technology adoption. It explores social themes in society, economy, policy, and culture and draws on a social framework to describe key functions of societal adaptation to the pandemic.Edited by Suresh Nanwani and William Loxley, the volume is grounded in the study of system components and their objectives to improve overall well-being given the ill effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Chapters explore interconnected social networks and how sectors restructured themselves to stabilize or transform society. International contributors from 20 countries offer case studies that highlight key themes including personal connectivity, societal equality, well-being, big data, and national resilience. They predict how impactful the pandemic might be in reshaping the future an

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Book SynopsisFeaturing the latest research by Brazilian-based scholars previously inaccessible to an English-speaking audience, this book is a timely, authoritative, multidisciplinary overview of social policies in Brazil during the Temer austerity and the Bolsonaro populist presidencies. The breadth of policies studied herein provides clues on the political agenda, preferences, and strategies during this tumultuous period in Brazil's history.Divided into four parts, Part I is a conceptualization: it brings basic understanding of Brazilian social policies, explains the trajectory of the Brazil political landscape, including the growth of a populist right-wing movement, the economic crisis and the increase in poverty and inequality in Brazil prior, and the threat to democracy brought about by the disinformation ecosystem. Part II discusses social security, social assistance, conditional cash transfers, and healthcare. Part III analyzes the neoliberal strategies to social investment policie

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Book SynopsisFor a company, managing its social and environmental performance is no longer just a matter of reducing its impact; it must also be able to assess its contribution to resolving or aggravating social and environmental problems. This book argues that the current work on accounting for sustainability has not yet given organisations a tool to integrate their performance within the planetary and social framework that conveys actual planetary and social budgets, and that business organisations lack the possibility to go beyond incremental performance measurement.It offers an inâdepth examination of multiâcapital accounting, which has already been integrated within the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and will follow on from sustainability reporting. The LIFTS model (Limits and Foundations Towards Sustainability Accounting Model) used in this book combines various scientific and practical contributions to develop budgets for environmental impacts and social obligations o

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Book SynopsisAmong several contesting views about the purpose of development and how progress should be evaluated, human rights and capabilities (or human development) stand out as two approaches that are concerned first and foremost with the well-being of individuals, their freedom, dignity and empowerment. These two approaches contrast sharply with the dominant development frameworks that emphasize economic growth as the essential objective. Though human rights and capabilities share these common commitment to human priorities, they are distinct concepts and fields that have developed separately. The aim of this volume is to explore the relationship between them in order to enhance the understanding of both as theoretical paradigms, as public policy frameworks and as approaches to development.The book includes contributions from some of the leading scholars in the two fields of capabilities approach and human rights. It covers the essential aspects of this relationship: addressinTable of ContentsForeword Amartya Sen Chapter 1. Introduction: The Capability approach and human rights Polly Vizard, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Diane Elson Chapter 2. Capabilities, Entitlements, Rights: Supplementation and Critique Martha Nussbaum Chapter 3. Responsible Pluralism, Capabilities and Human Rights Jay Drydyck Chapter 4. Economics and Human Rights: A Non-Conversation Sanjay Reddy Chapter 5. The Metrics of Human Rights:Complementarities of the Human Development and Capabilities Approach Sakiko Fukuda-Parr Chapter 6. ‘Operationalising’ the capability approach as a basis for equality and human rights monitoring in 21st century Britain Tania Burchardt and Polly Vizard Chapter 7. Millennium Development Goals and human rights: Far away, so close? Simone Cecchini and Francesco Notti Chapter 8. Right to information and local governance institutions: An exploration P.B. Anand Chapter 9. Financial Regulation, Capabilities and human Rights in the US Financial Crisis: the Case of Housing Radhika Balakrishnan, Diane Elson, and James Heintz Chapter 10. Towards a Human Rights Accountability Index Philip Alston Chapter 11. Poverty and Human Rights: Building on the Capability Approach Siddiqur Rahman Osmani

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Book SynopsisBringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, The City as Target provides a sustained and critical response to the relationship between the concept of targeting (in its many forms) and notions of understanding, imagining and shaping the urban. Among the many spatial and graphic terms used to describe cities in urban studies, the word target is rarely encountered. Though equally spatial, it differs from these others by implying some motive force, and, more than that, a force with some intentionality. To target is to aim, to project, and ultimately to impact. It suggests a space of violence, or at least action, or movement resulting in displacement, which most other terms do not. In that sense it is useful, underused, and perhaps revelatory. Rather than approach the city as simply a site of growth, processes, and developments, the contributors to this volume treat it as the recipient of attentions. The work draws on a wide variety of geographicTable of Contents1. Cities as Targets Ryan Bishop, Gregory Clancey, and John Phillips 2. ‘But with Malice Aforethought’: Cities and the Natural History of Hatred Nigel Thrift 3. Targeting the Imaginist City John Armitage 4. The Refugee War Eyal Weizman 5. Theme Park Archipelago: Convergences of War, Simulation and Entertainment in Urban Targeting Steve Graham 6. Empire or Imperialism: Implications for a "New" Politics of Resistance Pal Ahluwalia 7 . The City-as-Target: Targeting the City Verena Andermatt Conley 8. Tokyo: Water, Earthquake, and Island Universe Suzuki Hiroyuki 9. Vast Clearings: Emergency, Technology, and American De-Urbanization, 1930-1945 Gregory Clancey 10. Concealment and Exposure: Imagining London after the Great Fire Li Shiqiao 11. Moscow: Fortress City Irina Aristarkhova 12. Ars Memoria and Unbombing Tjebbe van Tijen 13. London: The Imperial Target Rajeev Patke 14. : Keizu to Nendaiki: Making and Erasing History in Tsukuba Science City at the Edge of Empire Sharon Traweek 15. The City and the Economy of "Losing": Targeting Competitive Bodies in an Era of Global Competition Robbie Goh 16. The Absorptive Assemblage Jordan Crandall 17. "The Target is the People": Representations of the Village in Modernization and National Security Doctrine Nick Cullather

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Book SynopsisThe concept of resilience currently infuses policy debates and public discourse, and is promoted as a normative concept in climate policy making by governments, non-governmental organizations, and think-tanks. This book critically discusses climate-resilient development in the context of current deficiencies of multilateral climate management strategies and processes. It analyses innovative climate policy options at national, (inter-)regional, and local levels from a mainly Southern perspective, thus contributing to the topical debate on alternative climate governance and resilient development models. Case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America give a ground-level view of how ideas from resilience could be used to inform and guide more radical development and particularly how these ideas might help to rethink the notion of ''progress'' in the light of environmental, social, economic, and cultural changes at multiple scales, from local to global. It integrates theory andTrade Review"...the book offers a variety of highly empirical and broad thinking chapters that offer both localized examples and expansive visions of climate-resilient development. It offers valuable information for students and analysts seeking examples of climate-related challenges. " - Tim Forsyth, Progress in Development Studies, London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction 1. Why This Book? Why Now? 2. Finding a Panacea? An Introduction into Climate-Resilient Development Part II: The Contribution of Local, Regional, and National Approaches to Climate-Resilient Development, or What Good Practices Can Be Disseminated or Mainstreamed? 3. Shaping Strategies: Factors and Actors in Climate Change Adaptation, 4. Climate Change Adaptation: International Policy and Field Reality in Benin, 5. Building Community-Based Institutions in the Western Orissa Rural Livelihoods Project (WORLP) for Green Development), 6.How Good Are Good Practices? Demystifying Community-Based Disaster Risk Management in Mozambique 7.Making a Difference through Integrated Natural Resource Management Programmes (INRM): The Role of KNUST University in Ghana Part III: Climate-Resilient Development, Innovation, and Best Practice – How to Reform and Bypass Inefficiencies in the International Climate Regime 8.Green Gold versus Black Gold – Climate Change, Development and the Yasuní-ITT Initiative: An Alternative Way Forward? 9. Developing Economies in the Current Climate Change Regime – New Prospects for Resilience and Sustainability? The Case of CDM Projects in Asia 10. Does the Right Hand Know What the Left Hand is Doing? Similar Problem, Opposing Remedies – A Comparison of the Montreal Protocol and UNFCCC 11.Interregional Climate Cooperation: EU-China Relations as a Success Story? 12. How to Bypass Multilateral Gridlocks – Resilient Climate Change Management and Efficient Multi-Level Climate Politics Bottom-up Part IV: The Way Forward to Climate-Resilient Development 12.Conclusions for Research and Policy Agendas

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