Reception or Interpretation studies / Audience Theory Books
Practical Action Publishing Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards 3rd
Book SynopsisThe Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) target livestock-owning communities affected by humanitarian crises. Drawing on international evidence-based best practice, LEGS supports practitioners to design and implement emergency responses that protect and rebuild livestock-based livelihoods.
£324.00
Practical Action Publishing Sanitation in Humanitarian Settings
Book SynopsisIn an emergency the collection, treatment and disposal/reuse of human waste is critical to the health, wellbeing and environment of affected populations. This comprehensive manual will guide individuals through all stages of the sanitation chain in a wide range of contexts.
£89.96
Practical Action Publishing Voices of Activists and Academics
Book SynopsisIn each chapter, practitioners and academics from many global contexts share their experiences of being youth activists and working with children and young people in a participatory way, broadly based on rights-based approaches emerging from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
£33.26
Practical Action Publishing Voices of Activists and Academics
Book SynopsisIn each chapter, practitioners and academics from many global contexts share their experiences of being youth activists and working with children and young people in a participatory way, broadly based on rights-based approaches emerging from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
£83.66
Practical Action Publishing Development and Disasters
Book SynopsisGood development could â' and should â' be the driving force for averting disasters by reducing vulnerability. But conversely, in many cases,development itself becomes a major cause of vulnerability and disasters. This new edition describes the complex relationship between disasters and development.
£28.45
Practical Action Publishing Terre Fertile
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£27.50
Practical Action Publishing Tierra Fertil
Book SynopsisEn el mundo hay cerca de 2500 millones de personas, en 500 millones de granjas, dedicadas a la agricultura familiar y a la producción de alimentos a pequeña escala. Su capacidad creativa para cultivar de manera productiva y sostenible con la naturaleza, en lugar de en contra de ella, es tal vez la fuerza más poderosa que se puede desatar para superar los desafíos interrelacionados del hambre, la pobreza, el cambio climático y la degradación ambiental. Esta es la esencia de la agroecología.Numerosos libros e informes detallan las consecuencias negativas de nuestro sistema agrícola industrializado. Muchos también documentan la naturaleza, la viabilidad y los beneficios de la agroecología. Sin embargo, aumentarla expansión de la agroecología y cambiar nuestros sistemas agrícolas y alimentarios sigue siendo un gran desafío. Cómo podemos lograrlo? Tierra Fértil busca responder a esa pregunta basándose en la práctica y la investigación fundamentadas.Este libro nos presenta en su esencia nueve estudios de caso provenientes de diferentes contextos: Brasil, Honduras, Haití, Ecuador, Estados Unidos, Malí, Burkina Faso, Ghana y los Países Bajos. Los estudios de caso describen procesos prácticos, de base y a menudo desafiantes para combinar los elementos de la práctica, la ciencia y el movimiento con el fin de ampliar la agroecología. A partir de estos estudios de caso resumimos lecciones, estrategias y recomendaciones para compartirlas con otros. Este libro presenta ejemplos de organizaciones agricultoras familiares que actúan como agentes de cambio, participando en una innovación agrícola continua, en lugar de ser receptores pasivos y consumidores de insumos. Los vemos contribuyendo a la creación de sistemas agrícolas y alimentarios más saludables, así como a sociedades más democráticas, justas y sostenibles.
£27.50
Practical Action Publishing Untold Stories of Disablement and Displacement
Book SynopsisUntold Stories of Disablement and Displacement provides a compelling look at the authentic experiences of Syrian refugees with disabilities.
£21.80
Practical Action Publishing Minimum Standards for Education
Book SynopsisSince 2004, the INEE Minimum Standards have provided a framework for quality education in emergencies. They have been a key tool for convening education stakeholders around common standards and outcomes.
£225.00
Practical Action Publishing Reflecting Forewords
Book SynopsisReflecting Forewords is an unashamedly ambitious book. Full of lessons from the past that are relevant for the future, it is a compilation of inspiring forewords from books written by Robert Chambers; one of the most influential and prolific scholars to write about participation, poverty, and knowledge in development studies. Tessa Lewin, Robert's colleague and an experienced practitioner and researcher, has worked with Robert to weave together the forewords alongside a series of reflections from other practitioners and scholars in the field. In our world of dramatic unforeseeable change, Reflecting Forewords seeks to draw lessons and present insights that should not be ephemeral, but can contribute on a lasting way to policy, practice and research in the rest of our 21st century. Readers will draw their own conclusions. The orientation is forward-looking into our unpredictable future, stressing the need to be alert, in touch, nimble, and guided by reflexivity. This curated collection of resurfaced gems will inspire development professionals, teachers and graduate students of development studies, policymakers, historians of development thinking and practice, activists, and all those who are concerned with a better life for all.
£23.70
Practical Action Publishing Reflecting Forewords
Book SynopsisReflecting Forewords is an unashamedly ambitious book. Full of lessons from the past that are relevant for the future, it is a compilation of inspiring forewords from books written by Robert Chambers; one of the most influential and prolific scholars to write about participation, poverty, and knowledge in development studies. Tessa Lewin, Robert's colleague and an experienced practitioner and researcher, has worked with Robert to weave together the forewords alongside a series of reflections from other practitioners and scholars in the field. In our world of dramatic unforeseeable change, Reflecting Forewords seeks to draw lessons and present insights that should not be ephemeral, but can contribute on a lasting way to policy, practice and research in the rest of our 21st century. Readers will draw their own conclusions. The orientation is forward-looking into our unpredictable future, stressing the need to be alert, in touch, nimble, and guided by reflexivity. This curated collection of resurfaced gems will inspire development professionals, teachers and graduate students of development studies, policymakers, historians of development thinking and practice, activists, and all those who are concerned with a better life for all.
£56.66
Practical Action Publishing 10 Lessons in Localization
Book SynopsisThis book presents ten lessons on localisation from the authorâs 25 year career to date, working in and on NGOs in the development, humanitarian and climate sectors.
£22.75
Practical Action Publishing Under Development
Book SynopsisArmed with a university degree, the Boy Scout's solemn oath and a snakebite kit which he left on the plane, Ian Smillie set out more than 50 years ago to confront ignorance, want and war. He taught at a remote school in Sierra Leone, was an aid administrator in Nigeria during the Biafran War and for a time he knew more about cement than anyone else in Bangladesh.In his travels as a writer, consultant and teacher, he had encounters with Graham Greene, Wole Soyinka, James Baldwin, the Queen and the Butcher of Beijing'. He was instrumental in the campaign to halt blood diamonds, and he was the first witness at the war crimes trial of Liberian warlord Charles Taylor. Smillie's story moves from war-torn Bosnia, the Khyber Pass and a Paul McCartney quest in Moscow, to a just-before-9/11 meeting at the Bin Laden-obsessed CIA headquarters in Langley.This is a memoir about development: personal development, the development of ideas and understanding, rights and justice, war and peace, poverty and prosperity. It''s about one of the greatest imperatives of our time: the drive to end global poverty and why, despite exaggerated claims to the contrary, it isn't working. Bill Clinton called one of his books about international development insightful' and of another, The Economist said, Read Smillie if you want something constructive.'
£18.95
Practical Action Publishing Under Development
Book SynopsisThis is a memoir about development: personal development, the development of ideas and understanding, rights and justice, war and peace, poverty and prosperity. It's about one of the greatest imperatives of our time: the drive to end global poverty and why, despite exaggerated claims to the contrary, it isnât working.
£44.96
Practical Action Publishing Sustaining and Scaling Up Community Managed Water
Book SynopsisThis book examines the performance and limitations of the Community-based water management (CBWM) model through the case study of the Water and Sanitation Extension Programme (WASEP), a successful community-managed scheme that has delivered clean piped drinking water to over 450 mainly rural settlements in Gilgit-Baltistan, Northern Pakistan.
£24.65
Practical Action Publishing Climate Change and Threatened Communities
£38.66
Practical Action Publishing The Congress of the Disappeared
Book SynopsisThis novella traces a line from the state violence of Brazilâs military dictatorship to the genocide and slavery of the colonial period in Latin America. It calls for us to rescue the victims from historical oblivion, giving them a voice, and the impunity granted to the perpetrators of an ongoing crime.
£14.20
Practical Action Publishing Backyard Bankers
Book SynopsisLearn how groups of migrants and refugees creatively pool resources to first surviveâputting food on the tableâthen thrive as they expand their businesses and invest in real estate. From modest set-ups in Iowa to intricate systems in Boston, grassroots money clubs drive immigrant success through thrift, accountability, and smart lending.
£24.65
Practical Action Publishing NatureBased Solutions for Climate Resilience in
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£27.20
Practical Action Publishing Young and Female
Book SynopsisWomenâs roles in sustaining and the revival of farming are indispensable. Based on research in Canada, China, India and Indonesia, the book offers a global perspective on young womenâs pathways into farming.
£30.35
Practical Action Publishing The INGO Problem
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£31.46
Practical Action Publishing Minimum Standards for Education
Book SynopsisSince 2004, the INEE Minimum Standards have provided a framework for quality education in emergencies. They have been a key tool for convening education stakeholders around common standards and outcomes.
£23.70
Practical Action Publishing Normes pour lappui aux moyens dexistence en
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£16.10
Practical Action Publishing Normas para el apoyo a los medios de subsistencia
Book SynopsisEn todo el mundo, millones de personas vulnerables a crisis dependen en gran medida de la producciÃn de cultivos para apoyar sus medios de subsistencia.
£16.10
UCL Press Urban Transformations in Sierra Leone
Book SynopsisBrings together research from different sectors that offers a significant contribution to knowledge on Freetown, Sierra Leone, and demonstrates the potential of transdisciplinary work. With a population of over one million, Freetown, Sierra Leone faces serious challenges with service provisions, housing, infrastructure, employment, and climate change. In 2015, the Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre (SLURC) was established to address these challenges through research, capacity building, and advocacy. Urban Transformations in Sierra Leone shares SLURC?s progress, articulating its key findings and reflections on the partnerships it helped enable.
£41.26
UCL Press Lahore in Motion
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£23.75
Four Courts Press Ltd Killester
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£14.95
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers Garbocracy
Book SynopsisTapping into our own shadows, waste becomes a source of self-knowledge for a species at risk of self-annihilation. This book is a must read to raise consciousness in the era of the Anthropocene. Inspiring. Timely. Original.(Francesca Ferrando, author of The Art of Being Posthuman) In this provocative and socially engaged book, garbage becomes a kaleidoscope through which Sayan Dey invites us to view contemporary Indian society. Through the fertile concept of "garbocracy," the author unveils the embodiment of power and oppression within the organization of space, communities, and knowledge. The book emphasizes the need to liberate ourselves not only from the garbage dumped everywhere but also from the logic that organizes the division between purity and dirt, waste and worth.(Marco Armiero, ICREA Research Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona, author of Wasteocene: Stories from the Global Dump) The book titled Garbocracy: Towards a Great Human Collapse engages with how the accumulation and disposal of garbage in India is motivated by diverse social, cultural, political, economic, communal, caste, religious and various other factors. The disgusting experiences generated by the sight and the stink of garbage is not only physical in nature, but psychological, neurological, structural, institutional, tangible and intangible in nature. To elaborate further, on the one side the improper disposal of garbage in the public places generate varied health issues and on the other hand it impacts the social, cultural, political, and economic state of individuals and communities. With respect to these perspectives, the aim of this book is to unfold how the various socio-politically motivated patterns and intensions of disposing garbage in India, gradually convert the heaps of garbage into authoritative entities that govern the habitual thinking, behaving and acting patterns of the humans.
£43.20
Verso Thirst
Book SynopsisTwo billion people worldwide are without access to safe water. But solutions are hard to come by when causes are not clearly defined. In a whirlwind tour of global water insecurity, one of the world’s leading experts on water politics chronicles the massive impact of climate change; the insatiable water demands of industry and agriculture; and the widespread lack of state investment in infrastructure. Filippo Menga focuses in particular on the high priests of global developmentalism - celebrities, CEOs, and sustainability directors - who have emerged as some of the loudest voices about water issues while offering few tangible solutions. Thirst shows that if humanity is to escape the deadlock that bedevils access to clean water, it has to reconsider both its faith in the market and its relationship with nature.
£16.14
Berghahn Books What Now
Book SynopsisBased on extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken since 2006, the book addresses some of the most topical aspects of remote Aboriginal life in Australia. This includes the role of kinship and family, relationships to land and sea, and cross-cultural relations with non-Aboriginal residents. There is also extensive treatment of contemporary issues relating to alcohol consumption, violence and the impact of systemic ill health. This richly detailed portrayal provides a nuanced account of everyday endurance and social intensity on Mornington Island.
£26.55
Berghahn Books This Land Is Not For Sale
Book SynopsisAlthough violent conflict has declined in northern Uganda, tensions and mistrust concerning land have increased. Residents try to deal with acquisitions by investors and exclusions from forests and wildlife reserves. Land wrangles among neighbours and relatives are widespread. The growing commodification of land challenges ideals of entrustment for future generations. Using extended case studies, collaborating researchers analyze the principles and practices that shape access to land. Contributors examine the multiplicity of land claims, the nature of transactions and the management of conflicts. They show how access to land is governed through intimate relations of gender, generation and belonging.
£15.15
Berghahn Books Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples
Book SynopsisThe second edition of this remarkable volume updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation. The contributors to this book examine the interface between conservation and indigenous communities who are forced to move or settle elsewhere to accommodate environmental policies and biodiversity concerns. The case studies investigate successful and not so successful community-managed projects in Africa, the Middle East, South and SouthEastern Asia, Australia and Latin America.
£96.30
Berghahn Books Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples
Book SynopsisThe second edition of this remarkable volume updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation. The contributors to this book examine the interface between conservation and indigenous communities who are forced to move or settle elsewhere to accommodate environmental policies and biodiversity concerns. The case studies investigate successful and not so successful community-managed projects in Africa, the Middle East, South and SouthEastern Asia, Australia and Latin America.
£32.40
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.
£42.75
Emerald Publishing Limited Rural Social Infrastructure Development in India
Book SynopsisIndia, despite being largely rural, has struggled to maintain an adequate social infrastructure in its rural regions due to insufficient need-based development interventions, low public spending, limited market reach and a lack of individual contributions. Examining recent policy changes that are seeking to tackle these issues, Rural Social Infrastructure Development in India advocates for transformative change against the backdrop of poverty intervention and contemporary development discourse.Delving into a transformative journey focused on inclusive housing development and financial strategies, M Mahadeva celebrates and critically analyses milestones achieved in uplifting marginalised rural populations in India. Dissecting secondary data from official Indian authorities, the author scrutinises housing poverty, amenities deprivation and financial exclusion at both national and regional levels. Focusing on impactful programs like PMAY and PMJDY, chapters illuminate t
£71.25
Berghahn Books Capitalism and Catastrophe
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£80.10
Taylor & Francis Strategies for Sustainability Latin America
Book SynopsisIUCN- The World Conservation Union Founded in 1948 The World Conservation Union brings together States government agencies and a diverse range of non-governmental organisations in a unique world partnership over 800 members in all, spread across some 136 countries. As a Union IUCN seeks to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources to equitable and ecological sustainable. The World Conservation Union builds on the strengths of its members, Networks and partners to enhance their capacity and to support global alliances to safeguard natural resources at local, regional and global levels. The Strategies For Sustainability Programme. The Strategies For Sustainably Program of IUCN works to strengthen strategic planning, policy and implementation skills aimed at sustainability development at global, national and local levels. Working with networks of strategy practitioners from member governments, partner institutions and NGOs the programme assists in the conceptual development and analysis of experience of strategies, the development of a range of strategic planning and action planning skills and improved methods of assessing human and ecosystem well being. Originally published in 1996
£33.25
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.
£22.50
Sphere Association The Sphere Handbook
Book SynopsisThe Sphere Project is an initiative to determine and promote standards by which the global community responds to the plight of people affected by disasters. The new edition of the Sphere Projectâs Handbook updates the qualitative and quantitative indicators and guidance notes and improves the overall structure and consistency of the text.
£324.00
Sphere Association El Manual Esfera
Book SynopsisEl Manual Esfera presenta un enfoque basado en principios para abordar la calidad y la rendiciÃn de cuentas en las respuestas humanitarias. Traduce a la prÃctica la convicciÃn fundamental de Esfera de que todas las personas afectadas por desastres o conflictos tienen derecho a una vida con dignidad y a recibir asistencia humanitaria.
£324.00
Sphere Association The Sphere Handbook Arabic
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£324.00
Scribe Publications We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky
Book SynopsisA deeply reported work of journalism that explores the promises and perils of global microfinance, told through the eyes of those who work in small-scale lending and of women borrowers in Sierra Leone, West Africa. In the mid-1970s, Muhammad Yunus, an American-trained Bangladeshi economist, met a poor female stoolmaker who needed money to expand her business. In an act known as the beginning of microfinance, Yunus lent $27 to 42 women, hoping small credit would help them to pull themselves out of poverty. Soon, Yunus's Grameen Bank was born and, very small but often high-interest loans for poor people took off. In 2006, Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work on anti-poverty lending. But there's a problem with this story. There are mounting concerns that these small loans are as likely to bury poor people in debt as they are to pull them from poverty, with borrowers facing consequences such as jail time and forced land sales. Hundreds have even reportedl
£17.09
Trans Pacific Press Indigenous Peoples and Forests
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£58.31
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.
£16.10
Center for Global Development The Rise and Fall of the Department for
Book SynopsisWhen Boris Johnson announced the creation of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in June 2020, he signalled the dissolution of the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) after nearly 25 years. DFID had a stellar international reputation, a respected body of expertise, and an impressive record improving lives. The Rise and Fall of the Department for International Development traces DFID's trajectory from its origins to its unravelling, distilling timely lessons for government aid institutions in the UK and beyond. DFID's lifespan coincided with a period of remarkable progress in human well-being. Rise and Fall describes DFID's role in securing these gains through an unwavering focus on its mandate to reduce poverty, under Conservative and Labour governments alike. It explains how the capture of the Conservative Party by its right-wing factions led to DFID's closure, a move now widely viewed as a mistake, and offers proposals for the next government as it def
£10.40
Springer International Publishing AG Emerging Dynamics in the Provision of Private
Book Synopsis?This edited book examines the private higher education (PHE) sector in African countries. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers, postgraduate students, policy makers, analysts and development partners interested in African higher education and PHE in particular.
£131.62
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.
£103.99
Springer International Publishing AG The CPEC and SDGs in Pakistan
Book SynopsisThe China-Pakistan-Economic Corridor (CPEC) is the flagship project of Belt and Road Initiative by China. This project has attracted much of the focus and attention owing to its geostrategic significance where it connects China with Pakistan through the strategic port of Gwader and through a network of road and rail connection, henceforth improving China's and Pakistan's outreach in the Asian, African and European markets. This study takes a new direction and examines the development of CPEC projects across Pakistan by choosing six projects in both rural and urban areas and their impact on the daily lives of people as reflected in three crucial Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) encapsulated by the United Nationsgood health and wellbeing, inclusive and equitable quality education, and decent work and economic growth (SDGs 3, 4, and 8, respectively).This is a new approach used to study the impact of the CPEC beyond geopolitics and for the common people in Pakistan who are directly or indirectly affected by various CPEC projects. This is under studied aspect of the literature on CPEC and this monograph adequately fills the gap in literature. The study takes a deep dive into 6 CPEC projects i.e., Sahiwal Coal Power Plant, Orange Line Metro Train, Lahore, Rasahkai Special Economic Zone, Peshawar-D.I.Khan Motorway, Kohala Hydro Power Project and Neelum-Jehlum Power project to understand how these projects have affected the lives of common people through their impact on SDGs 3,4 and 8. For the first time people's centric approach has been adopted to evaluate the development impacts of the CPEC.
£30.37
