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Book SynopsisMental health has always been a low priority worldwide. Yet more than 650 million people are estimated to meet diagnostic criteria for common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety, with almost three-quarters of that burden in low- and middle-income countries. Nowhere in the world does mental health enjoy parity with physical health. Notwithstanding astonishing medical advancements in treatments for physical illnesses, mental disorder continues to have a startlingly high mortality rate. However, despite its widespread neglect, there is now an emerging international imperative to improve global mental health and wellbeing. The UN's current international development agenda finalised at the end of 2015 contains 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG3, which seeks to ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages. Although much broader in focus than the previous eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the need for worldwide improvement in mentTrade Review'This superb collection of chapters, written by over 30 leading experts around the world including the editor, Laura Davidson, comprehensively surveys mental health in the context of international development. Bringing together a range of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives ….[a] clear message emanating from this book is the inter-connectedness of SDG3 with many of the other SDGs .... [it is] an indispensable and unique tool for what ought to be one of the highest priorities of the SDG era.'—Foreword by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General on the Sustainable Development GoalsTable of ContentsForeword, Jeffrey Sachs, The New UN Health Agenda I: The ImperativeChapter 1Shekhar Saxena and Laura Davidson,The Global Mental Health Imperative and the Role of the World Health Organization within the UN 2030 AgendaChapter 2, Larry Gostin and Laura Davidson, The Rights to Mental Health and DevelopmentII: Economic Perspectives Chapter 3Martin Knapp and Valentina Iemmi, Meeting SDG3: The Role of Economics in Mental Health PolicyChapter 4,Judith Bass, The Relationship between Mental Health and Poverty in LMICsChapter 5,Chris Underhill, Victoria Ngo and Tam Nguyen,Meeting SDG1 and SDG3: Addressing the Link Between Mental Health and Economic Development in VietnamChapter 6,Sean Kidd and Kwame McKenzie, Social entrepreneurship and systems thinking about mental illness in LMICsIII: Demographic and Cultural PerspectivesChapter 7, Joseph D. Calabrese, Understanding Traditional and Other Culture-Based Approaches to Mental Illness in Lower and Middle Income ContextsChapter 8,Carol Vlassoff,Addressing Mental Health from a Gender Perspective: Challenges and Opportunities in Meeting SDG3Chapter 9, Svend Aage Madsen, Men’s Mental Health and Wellbeing: The Global challengeChapter 10, Guglielmo Schinina and Karoline Popp, The Mental Health and Well-being of Migrants in the Context of the 2030 Sustainable Development AgendaChapter 11, Cornelius Ani and Olayinka Omigbodun, The Sustainable Development Goals and Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Low and Middle Income CountriesChapter 12, Stephen J. Bartels, The Global Challenge of Mental Health and Ageing, and Scalable Innovations in Mental Health Services for Older AdultsIV: PolicyChapter 13, Rachel Jenkins, Strengthening Government Policy to Achieve Target 3.4 of SDG3Chapter 14, Aart Hendriks, Mental health, disability rights and equal access to employment: Global challenges in light of the SDGsChapter 15, Dainius Pūras and Julie Hannah, Prioritising Rights-Based Mental Health Care in the 2030 AgendaChapter 16, Giuseppe Raviola, Natural and Humanitarian Disasters, and Mental Health: Lessons from HaitiChapter 17, Peter Lehmann, Paradigm Shift: Treatment Alternatives to Psychiatric Drugs, with Particular Reference to LMICsV: Legal PerspectivesChapter 18, Peter Bartlett,Mental Disability, the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, and the Sustainable Development GoalsChapter 19,David Bilchitz, The Sustainable Development Goals, Psychosocial Disability, and the Meaning of Wellbeing in SDG3: Towards an Approach that Combines the Subjective and ObjectiveChapter 20, Laura Davidson,International Monitoring and Enforcement Mechanisms for Violations of Human Rights in the Global Mental Health ContextChapter 21,Laura Davidson, The Law as Sword and Shield: Realising the Rights of those with Psychosocial Disability Through International, National and Regional Complaints SystemsVI: Country Perspectives Chapter 22, Salam A. Gómez,A Case Study: Colombia, Conflict, and the Peace Process from a User-PerspectiveChapter 23,Amita Danda,Legislating on Mental Health in India to Achieve SDG3Chapter 24,Sharon Primor and Dahlia Virtzberg-RofeBreaking the Restraints: Civil Society’s Struggle to Abolish Human Rights Violations in Israel’s Psychiatric SystemAfterword, Vikram Patel,Joining Up for Our Future in Global Mental Health Index

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Book SynopsisSolar energy is a substantial global industry, one that has generated trade disputes among superpowers, threatened the solvency of large energy companies, and prompted serious reconsideration of electric utility regulation rooted in the 1930s. One of the biggest payoffs from solar's success is not the clean inexpensive electricity it can produce, but the lessons it provides for innovation in other technologies needed to address climate change.Despite the large literature on solar, including analyses of increasingly detailed datasets, the question as to how solar became inexpensive and why it took so long still remains unanswered. Drawing on developments in the US, Japan, Germany, Australia, and China, this book provides a truly comprehensive and international explanation for how solar has become inexpensive. Understanding the reasons for solar's success enables us to take full advantage of solar's potential. It can also teach us how to support other low-carbon Trade Review"The only way to save our planet and protect the climate is a global 100% renewable energy system, and solar energy will be the key component. In this book, Gregory F. Nemet traces the path of solar PV from its beginnings with impressive detail and insight to show that effective climate protection is within reach." -- Hans-Josef Fell, Energy Watch Group, Germany"How Solar Energy Became Cheap provides a comprehensive overview of the long pathway that PV took from a scientific idea to the world’s most inexpensive form of electricity. It shows the central role China has played as well as the international linkages that have been so crucial, and it provides much needed guidance for how we can use the lessons of solar to accelerate innovation in the other climate technologies we will need." -- Peng Zhou, China University of Petroleum, China"Gregory F. Nemet has written a comprehensive and engaging treatise answering a crucial question—how did solar energy get so cheap? For decades, solar energy was a fringe energy source, but a confluence of public policies and private entrepreneurship in a few pioneer countries led solar to become the cheapest, fastest-growing energy source on Earth. Nemet's book provides a theoretically coherent explanation for this phenomenon and distils lessons that other technologies essential for combating climate change will need to follow. The book is peppered with fascinating anecdotes and backed by an impressive breadth of original research." - Varun Sivaram, Chief Technology Officer, ReNew Power, India Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Answer Part 1: Creating a Technology 3. Scientific Origins 4. U.S. Technology Push Part 2: Building a Market 5. Japanese Niche Markets 6. Germany’s Demand Pull Part 3: Making it Cheap 7. Chinese Entrepreneurs 8. Local Learning Part 4: Doing it Again 9. Solar as a Model to Follow 10. Applying the Model 12. Accelerating Innovation

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Book SynopsisThe first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and in 2014 it was halved compared to 1990, and now the goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030. The reduction in poverty is, to a high degree, the consequence of the rapid economic development in a few countries, especially China, but in many countries around the globe poverty is still at a high level and is influencing societiesâ overall development. It is against this background that this Handbook provides an up-to-date analysis and overview of the topic from a large variety of theoretical and methodological angles.Organised into four parts, the Handbook provides knowledge on what poverty is, how it has developed, and what type of policies might be able to succeed in reducing poverty. Part I investigates conceptual issues and relates concepts to peopleâs relative position in society and the understanding of justice. Part II shows how poverty has developed. It combines existing empirical knowledge with regional/national understandings of the issue of poverty. Part III analyses policies and interventions with the aim of reducing or alleviating poverty within a national as well as global context. It includes a variety of countries and examples. Finally, Part IV tells us what can be done about poverty; what instruments are available to end poverty as we know it today.This volume will be an invaluable reference book for students and scholars throughout the social sciences, particularly in sociology, social policy, public policy, development studies, international relations and politics.Table of Contents1. Poverty: Still an Important Issue PART 1: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 2. Absolute Poverty 3. Absolute or Relative? Definitions and the Different Understandings of Poverty 4. Multidimensional Poverty: Whose Poverty Is It? 5. Multidimensional Poverty Across the Life Cycle: The United States as an Empirical Example 6. Preventing Poverty 7. Relative Deprivation and Subjective Social Position 8. The Consequences of Growing Up Poor 9. Social Justice as Parity of Participation 10. Global Poverty: Trends, Measures, and Antidotes 11. The Discourse of Poverty: Structural and Behavioural Approaches in the UK Since 1900 PART 2: POVERTY AROUND THE WORLD AND DEVELOPMENT IN POVERTY 12. Poverty Development in Affluent Welfare States 13. Poverty in Developing Countries, 1990-2016: Some Regional, Temporal, and Income Level Variations 14. What Contributes to a Higher Degree of Voluntarism in China’s Rural Displacement Programs? Poverty Alleviation Resettlement as a Case Study 15. Dynamics of Rural Transformation and Poverty and Inequality in Asia and the Pacific 16. Poverty in Africa 17. Poverty and Social Policy in Latin America: Key Trends since C. 2000 18. Poverty around the World: North America PART 3: POLICIES TOWARDS POVERTY 19. The Working Poor 20. Poverty in Old Age 21. Poverty and Access to Welfare Benefits 22. Coping with Poverty – Life for People 23. Poverty and Crime 24. Taxes and Duties and Impact on Poverty 25. Social Cash Transfers in the Global South: Individualizing Poverty Policies 26. International Migration and Poverty 27. Neoliberalism and Poverty: An Unbreakable Relationship 28. Poverty and Health Inequality 29. Poverty Reduction among Older People through Pensions: A Comparative Analysis 30. Behavioural Public Policy and Poverty 31. Poverty and Family PART 4: THE WAY FORWARD – WHAT WILL INFLUENCE POVERTY IN THE YEARS TO COME? 32. Poverty – It Is Still Here

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Book SynopsisRoutes are arguably the most valuable of airline assets. Although widely practised in the industry, the process of developing air connectivity has drawn very limited academic research. However, this book fills in this knowledge gap.Strategies for Sustainable Air Services Development unwraps the process of decision-making in establishing airlinks from the airlineâs perspective, as well as the roles of various stakeholders including airports, tourism authorities, tourist destination organizations, local investment agencies and regional development agencies. Developed from rigorous academic research and analysis of a myriad of data sources that include interviews, surveys and workshops with industry practitioners, it presents a framework of best practices that will serve as a toolkit and central resource point for industry professionals to initiate and establish airlinks to benefit air travellers and society at large.The first book of its kind, it presents the most compre

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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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Book SynopsisWhen conducting research in developing countries, an ability to negotiate a bewildering array of cultural and logistical obstacles is essential. Overseas Research: A Practical Guide distills essential lessons from scores of students and scholars who have collected data and done fieldwork abroad, including how to prepare for the field, how and where to find funding for oneâs fieldwork, issues of personal safety and security, and myriad logistical and relational issues. By encouraging researchers to think through the challenges of research before they begin it, Overseas Research will help prepare fieldworkers for the practical, logistical, and psychological considerations of very demanding work, help save valuable time, make the most of scarce financial resources, and enhance the quality of the field research. This third edition contains new material on social media, including representation of research subjects/collaborators, studentsâ digital branding and imTrade Review"The authors offer practical advice on navigating the complexities of conducting research abroad. It tackles the challenges posed by diverse cultures, foreign infrastructures, and established norms in a refreshing and digestible way. Your research journeys will benefit from their insights."- Angela Evans, Dean of the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin"Simply indispensable reading for anyone considering conducting research overseas. From planning to execution, from the most basic personal considerations to high-minded professional and intellectual concerns, the book offers concrete, accessible, and indeed practical advice by emergent and experienced scholars from different disciplines on the joys and perils of conducting research abroad."- Carlos J. Vélez-Blasini, Dean of International Programs and Professor of Psychology, Middlebury College"Every researcher should read this book before beginning fieldwork. It’s like having an extended conversation with your advisor, best friend and parents, all wrapped into one. You might not need every piece of advice, but there are suggestions and stories in the book that even the most experienced field researcher can use." - Wendy W. Wolford, Vice Provost for International Affairs and Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsList of Field Narratives List of Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements to the Third Edition 1 Introduction 2 Identifying a Site and Funding Source Site Selection Exploratory Research Trips Language Training Finding Funding Summary 3 Predeparture Preparations Money and Travel Health Housing Packing: What to Bring, What to Leave Family Matters Being LGBTQ+ in the Field Academic Preparations Securing Approvals and Research Clearances 4 Setting Up to Live and Work Becoming Familiar with an Unfamiliar Environment Money and Housing Bureaucratic and Legal Matters With Family in the Field Issues of Identity in Your Daily Experiences Relations with Expatriates Maintaining Your Well-being in the Field Settling in Academically 5 The Logistics of Fieldwork Research Equipment Transportation Research Assistants 6 Safety and Security Matters Personal Safety: The Basics Less Obvious Safety Strategies Gender, Race and Sexual Orientation-based Violence Traffic Keeping Research Equipment and Data Safe 7 The Challenges of the Field Choosing and Cultivating Informants Crosschecking Data Broaching Sensitive Subjects Recording Interviews Managing and Minimizing Your Cultural and Ecological Footprint Giving Back and Maintaining Credibility in the Field 8 Knowing When to Go Home Narrowing the Topic Clearing the Decks Packing Up the Data 9 Pulling It All Together: The Postpartum Organizing Data Beginning (and Completing) the Writing Process Culture Shock 10 Epilogue: It’s Never Over Post-fieldwork Obligations Post-fieldwork Opportunities Selected Bibliography Archival Research Case Study Research and Comparative Method Ethnographic Methods and Qualitative Research on Human Subjects Fieldwork in General Grantswriting Living Abroad Quantitative Methods Research Ethics Study Abroad Survey Research Websites (Blogs, and Other Repositories of Useful Information) Index

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1987. This important and provocative book explains the persistence of hunger, poverty, and the lack of balanced development in many countries and the central role of agriculture in economic development. Most theories of agricultural development are based on the experiences of western Europe and the United States while the two models for successful late development have been Japan and the Soviet Union. This book surveys the evolution of agriculture under colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia and concludes that this long period distorted the development prospects for these areas and retarded the production of food. Under strong state capitalist governments, a few underdeveloped countries have broken the colonial patterns of development. However, other post-revolutionary societies are having far less success because of economic blockades and outside military intervention. While the primary focus of the book is on the short-run problems of inequalityTable of ContentsPreface 1. The Persistence of Hunger 2. Ideological Approaches to World Hunger 3. Agriculture and Economic Development 4. Agriculture and Late Development: Latin America and Africa 5. The European Impact on Asia 6. The Industrial Food System 7. The Unequal Distribution of Population and Foodlands 8. The Loss of Foodland Resources 9. How Much Food Can the World Produce? 10. Developing Food and Agriculture Under Capitalism 11. Alternatives for Underdeveloped Countries 12. Summary and Conclusion

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Book SynopsisManaging Sustainable Tourism tackles the tough issues within the tourism industry, such as impacts on the natural and built environment and concerns for the history, heritage, and culture of local communities to provide answers that produce positive and quality economic growth for the tourism industry. It offers practical policies and plans for fostering harmonious relationships among local communities, the private sector, not-for-profit organizations academic institutions, and governments at all levels, as well as developing management practices and philosophies for the protection of natural, built, and cultural environments while reinforcing positive and orderly economic growth. It also confronts and explains the challenges on the tourism industry with respect to overtourism, climate change and global warming.Since the second edition, there have been many important developments in the field of sustainable tourism, and this third edition presents updated research anTrade Review‘David Edgell has a distinct perspective on tourism. Not only does he recognize the need for sustainability in tourism initiatives, but he also understands the practical side of tourism and its contributions to economic and community development. He is both an academic and a practitioner – a unique combination that makes his work required for the professional in business and government. Managing Sustainable Tourism is a valuable guide for the future.’Dr Karla Hughes, Chancellor, University of Arkansas at Monticello, USA‘Managing Sustainable Tourism is a must read for educators, students, tourism strategists, policy makers, planners, developers, entrepreneurs, and investors. This third edition explores critical issues and trends impacting tourism, the world’s largest industry, while concurrently examining global challenges and opportunities. Through case studies, policy analysis, and management practices, Dr. David Edgell provides multifaceted approaches to managing sustainable tourism that brilliantly bridge theory and practice’Louis D’Amore, Founder and President of the International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT)‘In today’s continually evolving tourism sector, it goes without saying that "Tourism Means Jobs!" and that the industry is a major contributor to the gross domestic product of the countries of the world. In this third edition of his book, Dr. Edgell continues to drive home the fact that sustainable tourism "must be" the foundation of every tourism initiative undertaken.’Toney Watkins, Chairman, President and CEO, The Toney Watkins Company‘The third edition continues to build on the foundation laid in the first two editions of this book as well as Dr. Edgell’s extensive body of tourism policy and planning work. The book contributes to the work of many scholars and practitioners who are trying to make communities throughout the world a better place in which to live and to visit for present and future generations.’ Jason Swanson, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Retailing and Tourism Management, University of Kentucky, USA‘I have had the honor of working with Dr Edgell for the bulk of my career to deliver pioneering and innovative data driven marketing solutions to tourism destinations. Notable efforts included presenting sustainable tourism use cases to the Caribbean Tourism Organization, Kansas Tourism Inquiry data warehouse, and leading-edge use of customs data to rebuild visitation for hurricane ravaged USVI that resulted in significant economic impact and earned us honorary citizen awards. I highly recommend this book and assure you the value you receive will be returned in multiples. I can never repay the debts I owe my mentor Dr. Edgell, he is truly the tourism industry's renaissance man.’Kurtis Ruf, Author of ‘Contemporary Database Marketing’ and Director at Ruf Strategic SolutionsTable of Contents1. A Philosophic Approach to Managing Sustainable Tourism 2. Worldly Travelers and a Sense of the History of Sustainable Tourism 3. Sustainable Tourism Milestones: Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 4. The United Nations Millennium Development Goals and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 5. New Concepts in Sustainable Tourism Practices: Overtourism, Undertourism, Experiential Tourism, Plogging, Climate Change and Global Warming 6. Rural Tourism Development and Sustainability 7. Sustainable Tourism and the Prospects for Peace 8. Policy and Strategic Planning Toward Sustainable Tourism Development 9. Marketing the Sustainable Tourism Product 10. Transformative Leadership and Policies toward Sustainable Tourism 11. Managing Sustainable Tourism in the Twenty-first Century 12. Future World Issues that Will Impact on Managing Sustainable Tourism

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Book SynopsisThis book gives an in-depth analysis of the role of faith in the work of Tearfund, a leading evangelical relief and development NGO that works in over 50 countries worldwide.The study traces the changing ways that faith has shaped and influenced Tearfund's work over the organisation's 50-year history. It shows how Tearfund has consciously grappled with the role of faith in its work and has invested considerable time and energy in developing an intentionally faith-based approach t relief and development that in several ways is quite different to the approaches of secular relief and development NGOs. The book charts the different perspectives and possibilities that were not taken and the internal discussions about theology, development practices, and humanitarian standards that took place as Tearfund worked out for itself what it meant to be a faith-based relief and development organisation. There is a growing academic literature about religion and development, as well as increTrade Review"This highly significant book explores the work of Tearfund over its first 50 years, emerging in the 1960s as a ‘new kind of missionary organisation’, becoming a major development NGO during the 1990s and then reorienting itself as a faith-based development organisation (FBDO) from the mid-2000s onwards. The insightful analysis unpacks the story of where ‘faith’ sits in this history, telling us as much about shifting social attitudes towards the role of religion in the public sphere as the internal dynamics of this important evangelical relief and development organisation. Skilfully researched and highly readable, this book presents an essential addition to the growing literature on religion, development and humanitarianism, and is especially significant as it is one of the very first in-depth studies of an FBDO." -- Emma Tomalin, Professor of Religion and Public Life, University of Leeds, UK."Dena Freeman’s book about Tearfund, the UK’s largest evangelical development organization, is a path-breaking and timely contribution to the burgeoning field of global development studies and the prominent role religion plays in development today. Freeman’s privileged access enabled her to write a unique account, at once honest and empathetic, of Tearfund’s institutional history and the fierce debates that preoccupy staff as they seek to reconcile the antinomy of faith and secularism. More than just the history of an evangelical development organization, this book offers a window onto a history of the contemporary." -- Charles Piot, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, USA."This is a gripping story of ‘development’ and its relationship to mission and evangelism. Through detailed interviews and in-depth archive research, Freeman critically analyses how a Non-Governmental Organisation has come to new understandings of ‘doing development’ over the course of its history, from giving grants to missionaries to carrying out development projects in the 1970s, to campaigning for structural policy change to address poverty and climate change today. The book’s historico-conceptual analysis is peppered with interesting anecdotes about why things happened the way they did, such as how the Jubilee 2000 debt cancellation campaign started and how the Evangelical Alliance embraced social action and care for creation as part of its mission. Freeman shows in a captivating narrative style the creative tension between evangelism and social action. Both are intimately connected but, she argues, have an ‘almost entropic tendency to come apart’. This book will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars and practitioners alike to better understand the connections between faith and development, and the role that faith plays in the work of a major faith-based development NGO." -- Séverine Deneulin, Associate Professor of International Development, University of Bath, UK."This book opens up fascinating insights about ‘development’ in the 20th century: the emergence of ‘faith-based’ approaches, the plural continuities of missionary interventions, and the mainstreaming of development values and processes in the religious and secular sectors alike. Tracing the story of Tearfund, and the many twists and turns in the understanding of its mandate, Freeman adds a brilliant chapter to the story of how the dividing line between religion and secularity has been negotiated within and through Christianity all along. As such, the book pioneers a much-needed connection between the study of World Christianity and the burgeoning field of religion and development." -- Jörg Haustein, Lecturer in World Christianities, Cambridge University, UK."Freeman has written one of the first books in what will hopefully become a trend - deep histories of faith-based humanitarian and development organizations that examine the role of faith in organizational culture. Faith-based organizations are not a neatly defined category and histories of this sort can demonstrate the internal debates and external pressures that lead organizations to define their own parameters. This book is significant not only for those interested in religion and development research (for whom it is a crucial read), but also for those wishing to understand more about non-profit organizations in general." -- Olivia Wilkinson, Director of Research, Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities, Washington DC, USA."By carefully tracing the history of Tearfund and attending to its internal struggles to define what makes Evangelical Christian development interventions different from their secular counterparts, Freeman provides a rich account of the difference Evangelical identity makes for those invested in its meanings and worldviews. Perhaps most significantly, she shows through careful historical and ethnographic research that Evangelical identity does not just happen, but is actively constructed, often through processes of contestation. This is an important work for those wishing to understand how religious identity affects, or doesn’t, international development processes." -- Jill DeTemple, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Southern Methodist University, USATable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Religious and Secular Actors in the Emergence of Humanitarianism and Development Part 1. A New Kind of Missionary Organisation 3. Tearfund’s First Twenty-Five Years, 1968 – 1993 Part 2. Emerging as a Development NGO 4. Tearfund Joins the Mainstream, 1990-2005 5. The Religious Revitalists and the Quest for Transformation 6. The Globalists and the Localists: The Start of Campaigning and Advocacy Part 3. Becoming an FBO 7. Trying to Institutionalise Faith-Based Approaches, 2005 – 2015 8. Mainstreaming Faith-Based Development, 2015 Onwards Part 4. Paradoxes of Faith-Based Development 9. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAll life on Earth has the right to exist, but as we teeter on the verge of a sixth extinction this book discusses why biodiversity matters and why we should care if species go extinct.We are witnessing the largest and fastest rate of extinction in the history of the planet. While the concept of rights is a human one, all plants and animals strive to survive, and this book argues for their rights to continue doing so without being driven into premature extinction by human actions. Acknowledging and describing the practical reasons for conserving biodiversity, this book argues that these should not overshadow the compelling ethical reasons to care about the future of species other than our own. However, the issues are complex. What do we do when faced with an immediate ethical choice where biodiversity rights, animal rights, human rights, economic development and ecosystem survival all get mixed up together? There are seldom hard and fast answers, but thinking about and understanding a variety of points of view will help us make informed trade-offs. Drawing on his vast practical experience, the author presents insightful perspectives and real-world examples with the hope that this book will instigate a much-needed rethink about why and how we practise conservation.This book is essential reading for all those concerned with sustaining our planet, and all who inhabit it, in the face of climate breakdown, biodiversity loss and ecological collapse.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Do species matter? Laying out the case2. The concept of biodiversity3. The concept of rights4. What are biodiversity rights?5. What are the utilitarian arguments for protecting biodiversity?6. Rights in conflict7. Rights in synergy8. What do others say?9. Current protection of biodiversity rights10. Is my way the best way?11. What should our role be now?

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Book SynopsisWritten by a leading geographer of climate, this book offers a unique guide to students and general readers alike for making sense of this profound, far-reaching, and contested idea. It presents climate change as an idea with a past, a present, and a future.In ten carefully crafted chapters, Climate Change offers a synoptic and inter-disciplinary understanding of the idea of climate change from its varied historical and cultural origins; to its construction more recently through scientific endeavour; to the multiple ways in which political, social, and cultural movements in today's world seek to make sense of and act upon it; to the possible futures of climate, however it may be governed and imagined. The central claim of the book is that the full breadth and power of the idea of climate change can only be grasped from a vantage point that embraces the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. This vantage point is what the book offers, written from Trade Review"As with Mike Hulme’s career, this book ranges between the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. In doing so, it offers an interdisciplinary - and explicitly geographical - perspective on the ‘key idea’ of climate change. In 10 thoughtful chapters, Hulme opens up and extends understanding of the ways in which the idea of climate change is mediated through culture and politics. Selected key readings, provocative questions and scholar portraits increase the book’s usability. I look forward to using it in my teaching practice."Saffron O’Neill, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK"Is there a more contemporary ‘key idea’ than climate change? In this compelling overview, Hulme tracks how ideas of climate change have varied in space and time, and across cultural groups. From art to religion, from scepticism to cli-fi, he contextualises (and challenges) the matter-of-factness of a scientific view of climate change. Whether new to the topic or in need of a refresh, both students and senior scholars will find much of value here."Lesley Head, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia"There is no one better qualified than Mike Hulme to explain the past, present and future of climate change in just ten chapters. In clear and engaging prose, Hulme leads us through the many facets of climate change: as a scientific concept, a locus of political debate, and a catalyst for imagined futures."Rebecca Lave, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, Indiana University, USA"Mike Hulme’s ground breaking writings have been the must-read texts on the social meaning of climate from theories of human difference, markers of place (those salubrious climates!) to science and technology studies. His work illuminates the conflicts, meanings, impacts and politics of climate change. By placing the understanding of climate as a socio-cultural as well as a scientific project, Dr. Hulme’s work, always warm, generous and clearly written, has defined what it means to be an interdisciplinary, engaged scholar on a hyper-controversial topic. This magisterial book integrates climate questions through multiple discourses and controversies. Since it is hard to imagine a future without imagining climate change, this volume recasts and clarifies the nature of the debates. I think it is an essential volume for understanding atmospheric disorder, in all the meanings of the term." Susanna B Hecht, Professor, Luskin School of Public Affairs, and Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, USA and Professor, International History, Graduate Institute for Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland"This powerful and important book cogently demonstrates the need to take our ideas about climate change very seriously. Hulme shows the importance of recognizing climate change as a cultural predicament to be addressed through the explicitly performative mobilisation of different and competing values, ideologies, and narratives rather than a problem to be solved through more and better science and technology alone. An essential read."John Robinson, Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, Canada"This is a unique book with a truly interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to the key ideas of climate change, and an all-in-one but concise reading of various ideas about climate change from social sciences, humanities and natural sciences. It is suitable for students and general readers trying to understand the profound climate changes. An innovative contribution of a human geographer to climate change studies!"Weidong Liu, Professor in Economic Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People's Republic of China"What does climate change really mean for diverse communities? In this marvellous book, Mike Hulme explores the multitude of our human experiences of a changing climate. As a leading climate scientist, Hulme takes the reader beyond the science in a confronting, and profoundly enriching way. Building on a lifetime of climate research and the insights of marginalised voices, including indigenous, feminist, artistic, and religious insights, Hulme help us understand what it really means to be alive in a changing climate … to resist, struggle and imagine new futures, expanding our imagination in politically powerful ways."Bronwyn Hayward, Professor of Political Science, University of Canterbury, New Zealand"This book offers the most complete collection of key debates and examples from around the world that epitomizes the multifaceted nature of climate change. Reading it was for me an intellectually stimulating learning curve as Mike Hulme inspiringly reflects upon our personal and social bonds with the matter and idea of climate. Beautifully written, thought-provoking and easily accessible, Climate Change is the ultimate companion, and indeed a profoundly rewarding journey, for scholars of all disciplines."Chaya Vaddhanaphuti, Lecturer, Department of Geography, Chiang Mai University, ThailandTable of ContentsSection 1: Climate Histories, Geographies, and Knowledges 1. Climate and Culture Through History: climate change historicised 2. Climate Change and Science: climate change quantified Section 2: Finding the Meanings of Climate Change 3. Reformed Modernism: climate change assimilated 4. Sceptical Contrarianism: climate change contested 5. Transformative Radicalism: climate change mobilised 6. Subaltern Voices: climate change supplanted 7. Artistic Creativities: climate change reimagined 8. Religious Engagements: climate change transcended Section 3: Climate Change to Come 9. Governing Climate: climate change governed 10. Climate Imaginaries: climate change forever

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Book SynopsisWritten by a leading geographer of climate, this book offers a unique guide to students and general readers alike for making sense of this profound, far-reaching, and contested idea. It presents climate change as an idea with a past, a present, and a future.In ten carefully crafted chapters, Climate Change offers a synoptic and inter-disciplinary understanding of the idea of climate change from its varied historical and cultural origins; to its construction more recently through scientific endeavour; to the multiple ways in which political, social, and cultural movements in todayâs world seek to make sense of and act upon it; to the possible futures of climate, however it may be governed and imagined. The central claim of the book is that the full breadth and power of the idea of climate change can only be grasped from a vantage point that embraces the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. This vantage point is what the book offers, written from the perspective of a geographer whose career work on climate change has drawn across the full range of academic disciplines. The book highlights the work of leading geographers in relation to climate change; examples, illustrations, and case study boxes are drawn from different cultures around the world, and questions are posed for use in class discussions.The book is written as a student text, suitable for disciplinary and inter-disciplinary undergraduate and graduate courses that embrace climate change from within social science and humanities disciplines. Science students studying climate change on inter-disciplinary programmes will also benefit from reading it, as too will the general reader looking for a fresh and distinctive account of climate change.Trade Review"As with Mike Hulme’s career, this book ranges between the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. In doing so, it offers an interdisciplinary - and explicitly geographical - perspective on the ‘key idea’ of climate change. In 10 thoughtful chapters, Hulme opens up and extends understanding of the ways in which the idea of climate change is mediated through culture and politics. Selected key readings, provocative questions and scholar portraits increase the book’s usability. I look forward to using it in my teaching practice."Saffron O’Neill, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK"Is there a more contemporary ‘key idea’ than climate change? In this compelling overview, Hulme tracks how ideas of climate change have varied in space and time, and across cultural groups. From art to religion, from scepticism to cli-fi, he contextualises (and challenges) the matter-of-factness of a scientific view of climate change. Whether new to the topic or in need of a refresh, both students and senior scholars will find much of value here."Lesley Head, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia"There is no one better qualified than Mike Hulme to explain the past, present and future of climate change in just ten chapters. In clear and engaging prose, Hulme leads us through the many facets of climate change: as a scientific concept, a locus of political debate, and a catalyst for imagined futures."Rebecca Lave, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, Indiana University, USA"Mike Hulme’s ground breaking writings have been the must-read texts on the social meaning of climate from theories of human difference, markers of place (those salubrious climates!) to science and technology studies. His work illuminates the conflicts, meanings, impacts and politics of climate change. By placing the understanding of climate as a socio-cultural as well as a scientific project, Dr. Hulme’s work, always warm, generous and clearly written, has defined what it means to be an interdisciplinary, engaged scholar on a hyper-controversial topic. This magisterial book integrates climate questions through multiple discourses and controversies. Since it is hard to imagine a future without imagining climate change, this volume recasts and clarifies the nature of the debates. I think it is an essential volume for understanding atmospheric disorder, in all the meanings of the term." Susanna B Hecht, Professor, Luskin School of Public Affairs, and Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, USA and Professor, International History, Graduate Institute for Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland"This powerful and important book cogently demonstrates the need to take our ideas about climate change very seriously. Hulme shows the importance of recognizing climate change as a cultural predicament to be addressed through the explicitly performative mobilisation of different and competing values, ideologies, and narratives rather than a problem to be solved through more and better science and technology alone. An essential read."John Robinson, Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, Canada"This is a unique book with a truly interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to the key ideas of climate change, and an all-in-one but concise reading of various ideas about climate change from social sciences, humanities and natural sciences. It is suitable for students and general readers trying to understand the profound climate changes. An innovative contribution of a human geographer to climate change studies!"Weidong Liu, Professor in Economic Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People's Republic of China"What does climate change really mean for diverse communities? In this marvellous book, Mike Hulme explores the multitude of our human experiences of a changing climate. As a leading climate scientist, Hulme takes the reader beyond the science in a confronting, and profoundly enriching way. Building on a lifetime of climate research and the insights of marginalised voices, including indigenous, feminist, artistic, and religious insights, Hulme help us understand what it really means to be alive in a changing climate … to resist, struggle and imagine new futures, expanding our imagination in politically powerful ways."Bronwyn Hayward, Professor of Political Science, University of Canterbury, New Zealand"This book offers the most complete collection of key debates and examples from around the world that epitomizes the multifaceted nature of climate change. Reading it was for me an intellectually stimulating learning curve as Mike Hulme inspiringly reflects upon our personal and social bonds with the matter and idea of climate. Beautifully written, thought-provoking and easily accessible, Climate Change is the ultimate companion, and indeed a profoundly rewarding journey, for scholars of all disciplines."Chaya Vaddhanaphuti, Lecturer, Department of Geography, Chiang Mai University, ThailandTable of ContentsSection 1: Climate Histories, Geographies, and Knowledges 1. Climate and Culture Through History: climate change historicised 2. Climate Change and Science: climate change quantified Section 2: Finding the Meanings of Climate Change 3. Reformed Modernism: climate change assimilated 4. Sceptical Contrarianism: climate change contested 5. Transformative Radicalism: climate change mobilised 6. Subaltern Voices: climate change supplanted 7. Artistic Creativities: climate change reimagined 8. Religious Engagements: climate change transcended Section 3: Climate Change to Come 9. Governing Climate: climate change governed 10. Climate Imaginaries: climate change forever

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that to fully grasp the decision-making of politicians and political actors in developing countries, we must first understand how politicians finance their campaigns for officeand to whom they are indebted and expected to repay.Political Financing in Developing Countries focuses on Ghana in depth, a country often held up as an example of a successful, two-party democracy with regular party changes in government. However, it is unlikely that candidates and political parties are wealthy enough to finance the increasing costs of campaigns and constituent demands, and successful democratic outcomes could be masking a system that actually hinders development progress. Drawing on nearly 200 interviews and extensive fieldwork, this book posits that political funds are extracted by an iron square of politicians, bureaucrats, construction contractors, and political-party chairs which rigs the procurement of local-development projects to generate kickbacks. The Trade Review"Joseph Luna’s book is an invaluable aid to policy professionals, academics and development planning practitioners to understand the problem of public policy and corruption. It is evidence-based and combines empirical knowledge with in-depth theoretical and historical knowledge. It is a required reading for academics, policy makers as well as students." — Kwame A. Ninsin, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Ghana"This is an exceptional contribution to the study of political financing. Luna unpicks the dynamic interactions among key players with impressive analytical precision, deftly applying game theory and collective action models to examine his cases. He tells a story that will resonate with scholars of political corruption and clientelism everywhere, yet also illuminates several features of low-resource contexts which amplify the usual pressures on political actors. The book is also a gripping read, fluently written and rich with the personalities and narratives of the protagonists." — Elizabeth Dávid-Barrett, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Corruption, University of Sussex, UK"This is a very timely book and the author has done a tremendous job of synthesizing a large amount of both theoretical and empirical evidence. I very much enjoyed reading this book. It shows the innovative ways party politicians circumvent the procurement rules to promote party politics at the grassroots. What interests me most is the author’s analysis of the ‘Iron Square’ of political finance in Ghana. The ‘Iron Square’ represented by bureaucrats, party chairs, contractors and MMDCEs (politicians) is significant and may be applicable to other African democracies. Certainly, this book a relevant addition to the growing body of knowledge on political financing in Africa’s electoral democracies. It is a must read for any student of party politics in Africa and beyond." – George M. Bob-Milliar, Department of History and Political Studies, KNUST-Kumasi, GhanaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Two Puzzles in Politics 1. Politicians, Bureaucrats, Contractors, and Chairs 2. The Iron Square of Political Finance 3. Diversification, Kinship, and Failed Public Goods Conclusion: Towards Antiheroes and Machine-Guided Development

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on analysing how legal systems set the terms for interactions between human beings and plants. The story that the book recounts is one of experimental lawmaking in Ecuador, a country where over the past decade, governmental officials and civil society advocates have attempted to reconfigure how human individuals and institutions relate to nature, by following an eco-centric approach to lawmaking. In doing so, Ecuadorian legislators, administrators, and judges have taken seriously the ontologies of non-human entities, including plants, through a process that has required the continuous navigation of tensions with certain logics that pervade conventional legal regimes. The book endeavours to disrupt these conventional assumptions and approaches to lawmaking by taking seriously alternative strategies to reconstitute interactions between people and plants. In doing so, the book argues in favour of an ecological turn in laws that govern vegetal life. The aTable of ContentsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction A Note on Methodology Structure of the Book and Chapter Summaries Part 1: Conventional Approaches to the Governance of Human-Plant InteractionsChapter 1. Taking Plants Seriously in Law 1.1. Challenging the Epistemology of Plants 1.2. Recognising Nature as a Subject with Rights 1.3. Eco-centric Ecuador: Constitutional Protections for Pachamama 1.4. Towards an "Ecological Turn" in Law Chapter 2. Turning Plants into Intellectual Property 2.1. Plants as Inventions 2.2. The Emergence of Systems for Plant Breeders’ Rights 2.3. Alternatives to the Plant Breeders’ Rights Model of Intellectual Property for Plants Chapter 3. Universalising an Instrumental Approach to Plants in Law 3.1. The Contraction of Policy Space for Intellectual Property Lawmaking 3.2. The Expansion of UPOV as Explained by Free Trade Agreements Chapter 4. The Logic of Plant Genetic Resources 4.1. The End of the Common Heritage Approach 4.2. The Emergence of the Global Biodiversity Treaties 4.3. The Instrumental, Economic, and Proprietary Logics of Plant Genetic Resources Part 2: Experimenting with an Eco-Centric Approach: An Ecuadorian StoryChapter 5. Reconfiguring Intellectual Property in Ecuador 5.1. The Ingenios Act: Intellectual Property Meets Sumak Kawsay 5.2. The Making of the Ingenios Act 5.3. The Aspirations of the Ingenios Act 5.4. The New Institutionalism of the Ingenios Act 5.5. The Ingenios Act: Reimagination or Recapitulation? Chapter 6. The Ecuadorian Approach to Intellectual Property for Plants 6.1. The Reconstitution of the Plant Variety in the Ingenios Act 6.2. The Limits of Intellectual Property for Plants in the Ingenios Act Chapter 7. Alternatives to Conventional Legal Imaginaries for Human-Plant Interactions 7.1. Seed Law as an Alternative to Intellectual Property 7.2. Traditional Knowledge Protection as an Alternative to Intellectual Property 7.3. Food Sovereignty as an Alternative to Intellectual Property Chapter 8. Lessons from the Ecuadorian Experiment with an Ecological Turn in Lawmaking 8.1. Pachamama Goes to Court: Adjudicating the Rights of Nature 8.2. What the Rights of Nature Jurisprudence Means for Plants 8.3. Lessons from Eco-Centric Experiments in Lawmaking BibliographyAppendix I: Tables Appendix II: Figures

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates falsified economic performance of global economies when the environment is not recognised as a capital, and when the ecosystem is overlooked towards sustainable development.Seck begins with an analysis of standard macroeconomic framework and policy practice. He argues, with reference to environmental accounting literature, that environmental capital must form an integral component of economic measurement. This paves the way for an alternative environmental-macroeconomics framework for policy analysis that promotes sustainable development. The book demonstrates how environmental capital can be measured with reference to select OECD countries and provides a methodology for analysing how macroeconomic goals are related to a steady-state economy. Seck then concludes with a summary of the conflict between current economic growth and ecosystem preservation, and outlines possible policy improvements and directions for research.Rethinking Sustainable

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Book Synopsis  This second edition of Development Economics: Theory and Practice continues to provide students and practitioners with the perspectives and tools they need to think analytically and critically about the current major economic development issues in the world. Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet identify seven key dimensions of developmentgrowth, poverty, vulnerability, inequality, basic needs, sustainability, and quality of lifeand use them to structure the contents of the text. The book gives a historical perspective on the evolution of thought in development. It uses theory and empirical analysis to present readers with a full picture of how development works, how its successes and failures can be assessed, and how alternatives can be introduced. The authors demonstrate how diagnostics, design of programs and policies, and impact evaluation can be used to seek new solutions to the suffering and violence caused by development failures. In the second edTrade ReviewPraise for the first edition: "This is a great book that fills many gaps in the existing textbook options, including rich material coming out of the RCT revolution, while sustaining depth on the classic questions in development." — Samuel Bazzi, Professor of Economics at Boston University, USA."Overall, I strongly recommend using this textbook for economic development. It is rich with material, examples, and case studies. It includes extensive discussions on data and studies using the randomized control trial approach, which is widely used in development research nowadays." — Rotua Lumbantobing, Assistant Professor of Economics at Western Connecticut State University, USA Table of Contents1. What is Development? Indicators and Issues; 2. The State of Development; 3. History of Thought in Development Economics; 4. Impact Evaluation of Development Policies and Programs; 5. Poverty and Vulnerability Analysis; 6. Inequality and Inequity; 7. International Trade and Industrialization Strategies; 8. Explaining Economic Growth: The Macro Level; 9. Exchange Rate Policies and Development; 10. The Economics of Farm Households; 11. Population and Development; 12. Labor and Migration; 13. Financial Services for The Poor; 14. Social Programs and Targeting; 15. Sustainable Development and The Environment; 16 Common Property Resources and Determinants of Cooperation; 17. Human Capital: Education and Health; 18. Agriculture for Development; 19. Development Aid and Its Effectiveness; 20. Institutional Innovations and Development; 21. Political Economy and The Role of The State

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Book SynopsisEcological Restoration and Environmental Change presents an introduction to the practice of renewing and restoring degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment.The book addresses and challenges key issues which question the core values of the science and practice of restoration ecology. The author explains that the process of restoration has always been defined by human choices and examines the development of restoration practice, to describe different models of restoration with respect to balancing ecological benefit and cultural value. He develops ways to balance more actively these differing areas of concern while planning restorations. This new edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect changes in the field and the new challenges posed to restoration ecology in the face of the rapid pace of climate change. With strong coverage of North and South American, Europe, and Australia, this new edition has been expanded to also address indigenous perspectives and restoration projects in Africa, the Pacific Islands, and Asia. It places special emphasis on the need for restorationists to appreciate and understand the intricacies of planning and managing restorations in novel ecosystems. Lastly, it provides a critique of the new restoration standards published by the Society for Ecological Restoration in 2019.This book is essential reading for students on restoration ecology and conservation courses, as well as professionals and practitioners working on restoration projects.Table of Contents You can’t not choose How did we get here? A brief history of ecological restoration Restoration is an active choice Climate change: is the rapid pace and magnitude a bridge too far for ecological restoration? Novel ecosystems: a new wrinkle for ecological restoration Renewed restoration: building a middle path toward a restored Earth Building the restored future: making the renewal happen

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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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Book SynopsisThe Vulnerable Humanitarian challenges the prevalence of stress and burnout culture within the aid sector, laying bare the issues of power, agency, security and wellbeing that continue to trouble organisations and staff. Engaging and insightful, this book illustrates the problematic and unrealistic expectations of aid workers through the archetype of the perfect humanitarian, and considers why burnout is so endemic, yet so rarely acknowledged, within aid organisations. The book provides practical means through which staff and managers can reflect upon and discuss damaging organisational cultures and behaviours, and develop a more inclusive and caring work environment. Drawing on original academic research and interviews with national and international aid workers and development experts, the book proposes a feminist, anti-racist and decolonial agenda in challenging oppressive systems and structures within the sector. With extensive professional experience as an aid wTrade Review"This book belongs to the library of every humanitarian. This is not just because they will find it interesting but because it is a book most of us have been long waiting for. Gemma manages to masterfully bring together two seemingly incompatible worlds. First, she forces readers to expose themselves to the many painful truths about our sector. She then goes on to share concrete advice on how we can actually transform it into a space that is more inclusive, safer and that puts care at the very centre of it, not only for the communities we work with but for our humanitarian colleagues as well."Serap Altinisik, Head of Office, Plan International EU Office"This book puts into words what many of us in the sector struggle with: the conflicts between purpose and pragmatism, empowering others at the expense of our own wellbeing and the moments of despair when the structural inequalities perpetuated by the aid sector just seem too big to fix. But Gemma Houldey also sketches a way forward: If we re-define vulnerability as the starting point for dismantling some of the harmful practises, we have the opportunity to move forward – with more accountability, honesty and authenticity. She also unpacks how Feminist Leadership can support this process of collective healing and re-inventing the aid sector. Both academics and practitioners will find food for thought and concrete ideas in this book."Helene Wolf, Executive Director, FAIR SHARE of Women Leaders "A powerfully written and illuminating book that lifts the lid on the struggle of burnout and how we navigate our way out of it - a must read."Yasmin Khan, food and travel writer, broadcaster and author"Perhaps a book 70 years in its making, it is heartfelt to know that the self-reflection of aid workers and the unmet power of their emotional needs can be examined. Not only the physical toll or emotional labour of this work, but also the need to address privilege within a global context of mental health justice, is an urgency for us all. The boldness of ‘The Vulnerable Humanitarian’ is precisely this. It is resolute as a demand and understanding that there is an exchange to be made for those in the aid sector who can exercise choice and an impact that shapes the choices others rarely get to make. The author shares her own heartfelt reasoning behind the book and draws consistently on the imbalances that often unknowingly and knowingly evoke harm in aid policy, and a continuation of an out-dated aid industry. Searching for decolonized narratives is of course a given but the depth of research exceeding personal comfort and indeed pain is a gift. Not given lightly the ‘Vulnerable Humanitarian’ deserves core reading and is an act of global solidarity for anyone coming to terms with their own trauma and the choices it may later prevent. As for the wider aid sector, choosing to proactively face this reality is yet to be determined, but faced it inevitably will be." Atif Choudhury, Co-founder and CEO of Diversity and Ability (D&A) and Zaytoun CiC "For far too long, and while humanitarians haggle with an increasingly polarised world and with their own position in it, the self-inflicted image of the tough humanitarian remains one of the bigger neglected risks to those whose calling is helping others in distress.By addressing this directly and unflinchingly, Gemma Houldey targets mental health issues affecting humanitarians – and not only as a mental health issue in itself, but also in how it relates to inclusion and to standing against supremacy and discrimination. This a much needed step towards a humanitarianism for the future."Tammam Aloudat, MD. MpH., Managing Director of the Global Health Centre., The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva"A fascinating overview of the pathology of international aid as we do it today. Gemma's book is particularly valuable for its distinct understanding of national and international humanitarians, and for the organizational policies and therapies she suggests to help aid workers be better, and so feel better too."Dr Hugo Slim, Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford and formerly Head of Policy at the International Committee of the Red CrossTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Deconstructing Stress and Wellbeing in the Aid Sector 1. The Perfect Humanitarian 2. Stress? What Stress? 3.Wellbeing Part II: Creating Healthy, Inclusive Work Environments 4. Making Wellbeing Inclusive and Central to Aid Practice 5. Assessing your Organisational Culture 6. Welcoming the Vulnerable Humanitarian Concluding Reflections

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Book SynopsisThe Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies provides an up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the field, challenging mainstream development discourse and the assumptions that underlie it.Critical development studies lays bare the economic, political, social, and environmental crises that characterise the current global capitalist system, proposing instead systemic change and different pathways for moving beyond capitalism into a new world of genuine progress where economic and social justice and ecological integrity prevail. In this book, the authors challenge market-driven, neoliberal development agendas, incorporating analyses of class, gender, race, and the dynamics of uneven capitalist development. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition includes: â 18 new chapters, including on topics such as philanthrocapitalism, race, the energy transition, Indigenous resistance and resilience, and global health â Expanded global coverTrade Review'In this updated and expanded edition across over forty chapters, this volume is the "go to" source for scholars and students of critical development studies. It provides the highest levels of scholarship and knowledge around the history, content and scope of the field with relevance for challenging and posing contemporary policy and activism.'Ben Fine, Emeritus Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK'Given the aspirations for social, economic and climate justice, the need for critical, interdisciplinary knowledge that points us toward bold alternatives has never been greater. This Essential Guide offers an invaluable resource in this regard. Its chronicling of the trajectory of development studies will be particularly useful to contemporary scholars to see their ideas in a historical context.'Ananya Mukherjee Reed, Professor, Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada; Co-editor, Canadian Journal of Development Studies'The second edition of The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies offers a theoretically sophisticated, comprehensive and highly accessible guide to the growing field of international development studies from a critical perspective. It is critical in two senses: critical of mainstream development thought, while at the same time scrutinising popular ideas on alternatives. It will be an indispensable guide for academic researchers (students and senior scholars) as well as activists and development policy practitioners.'Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Professor of Agrarian Studies, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), the Netherlands'We have not reached the end of history but the story of progress, its errors and criticisms, is the most important one in social science. Here critical development scholars have both charted and navigated an extensive archipelago of ideas to produce this guide. This updated and expanded edition covers many crucial debates and is indispensable.'Barbara Harriss-White, FAcSS, Emeritus Professor and Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University, UKTable of ContentsCritical Development Studies: An Introduction 1. Introduction to Critical Development Studies: Four Characteristics with Illustrations from Seven Decades Part 1: History as Development 2. Unravelling the Canvas of History Part 2: Thinking Critically about Development 3. Critical Development Theory: Results and Prospects 4. Race in/and Development 5. Development Theory: The Latin American Pivot 6. Postdevelopment and Other Critiques of Development 7. Feminist Contributions to Critical Development Studies Part 3: System Dynamics: Capitalism, Imperialism, Development, and Globalisation 8. Capitalism and Crises 9. Development, Capitalism, Imperialism, Globalisation: A Tale of Four Concepts 10. Globalisation Versus Development: Beyond Dualism 11. Philanthrocapitalism and Development 12. The Migration-Development Nexus in the Neoliberal Era Part 4: Policy Configurations for Development 13. The Post-Washington Consensus 14. International Cooperation for Development 15. The Developmental State, Globalisation, and Structural Transformations 16. Local Economic Development, Microcredit, and Financial Inclusion Part 5: Inside the BRICS 17. Brazil: Development Strategies and Peripheral Conditions 18. India: Critical Issues of a ‘Tortuous Transition’ 19. Interrogating the China Model of Development 20. South Africa: An Economy of Extremes Part 6: Poverty, Inequalities, and Development Dynamics 21. Development: Class Matters 22. The Dynamics of Poverty Production: A Political Economy Perspective for the SDGs Era 23. Poverty Analysis through a Gender Lens 24. Women, Work, and Gender Inequalities: With Illustrations from Cambodia and China 25. Health Inequalities and Development in a Global Context Part 7: Capitalism, Labour and the State 26. Labour and Development 27. The Triangle of Underdevelopment: Technology, Patents, and Monopoly 28. The Making of the New Chinese Working Class 29. Labour and Development in Latin America 30. Class and State Formation in the Gulf Arab States Part 8: Dynamics of Agrarian Change and Urban Development 31. Contemporary Dynamics of Agrarian Change 32. Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions 33. Urban Development in the Global South 34. Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism Part 9: Development, Climate Change, and the Environment 35. Eco-Marxist Lenses for Viewing Human-Nature Relations 36. Climate Change and Development 37. The Energy Transition and the Global South 38. The Political Economy of Extractivism in North Africa Part 10: Resistances and Alternatives 39. Understanding the Rise of the Far Right, and what to do about it 40. Rural Dispossession and Resistance in Asia and Africa 41. Extractive Capitalism and the Resistance in Latin America 42. Colonialism’s Miasmas: Indigenous Resistance and Resilience 43. Workers’ Control and Self-Management 44. Communitarian Revolutions: Ecological Economics from Below Conclusion 45. Moving towards Another World: Possibilities and Pitfalls

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Book SynopsisBuddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking explores a radical new conception of business and management. It is grounded on the reconnection of humans with nature as the new competitive advantage for living organizations and entrepreneurs that aspire to regenerate the economy and drive a positive impact on the planet, in the context of the Anthropocene. Organizations today struggle in finding a balance between maximizing profits and generating value for their stakeholders, the environment and the society at large. This happens in a paradigm shift characterized by unprecedented levels of exponential change and the emergence of disruptive technologies. Adaptability, thus, is becoming the new business imperative. How can, then, entrepreneurs and organizations constantly adapt and, at the same time, design the sustainable futures they'd like?This book uniquely explores the benefits of applying Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking to sustainable management. Grounded in TaTrade Review"Addressing the core challenges of our time means to create pathways for transformation. Creating these pathways means to deepen our capacity for systems thinking. And to do that we can return to some of the earliest sources of holistic systems thinking: Taoism and Buddhism. In this fascinating book, Josep M. Coll takes us on a journey from the frontline of transformation for sustainability to the origins of Buddhist and Taoist thought. Highly recommended!"Otto Scharmer, Senior Lecturer, MIT; Founding Chair, Presencing Institute; author, Theory U"Transformation: what it is, why it matters, how to achieve it, and meaningfully evaluate it. That's the territory of this book. Systems understandings can propel transformation, but to do so must cut through the cacophonous demands for more rigorous methods to pursue the challenge of engaging in more rigorous thinking. Drawing on ancient and enduring wisdom, this book illuminates the pathway to sustainability where what is at stake is nothing less than the future of humanity on Earth." Michael Q. Patton, founder of Utilization-Focused Evaluation, author of Blue Marble Evaluation and former president of the American Evaluation Association "Professor Coll is an intriguing and reflective author who incites a quiet yet formidable revolution in his articulation of the complex challenges facing the global economy. The book is not only insightful on the destruction greed and unchecked interests that have wreaked on our planet but hopeful in the need for spiritual reconciliation as the path to healing the most perplexing challenges of poverty, climate change and inequality. The author is exceptionally thoughtful in his articulation of bringing together Buddhist-Taoist thinking with more traditional theories of economic development that can truly lead to the equitable growth and prosperity needed to revolutionize our approach and engaging with our Universe more harmoniously. A must read for any economist, development professional, politician or humanist."Laila Baker, Regional Director of the United Nations Development Coordination Office, Arab States"Coll’s groundbreaking book builds a solid bridge for you to connect the inexplicable and impenetrable world of Eastern philosophies with the wicked and vexatious challenges of sustainable management. From Chapter Five, you can ride on his Zen Business Wheel to roam back inside the mysterious domain of Taoism and Buddhism and forward to apply its wisdoms to your triple business bottom lines, principles, and practices. With this new book, you no longer will feel that sustainable management is akin to teenage sex: everyone talks about doing it; everyone thinks everyone else is doing it; but no one is doing it well." Yuwei Shi, Academic Director, Blue Pioneers Program at University of California, Santa Cruz"This book argues that emerging economies contribute to global economic growth, bringing a wealth of wisdom that is essential to fix capitalism. From a business and holistic management perspective, Coll’s new book explores a novel interpretation and enlightening application of Eastern systemic philosophies to build a more conscious, harmonious, regenerative and inclusive economy in turbulent times."Lourdes Casanova, Director of Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell University, S.C. Johnson School of Management"This book takes a fascinating journey by building a new approach to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western management disciplines. This journey brilliantly explores the application of Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking into sustainable business management, and it does so in very practical ways. We are experiencing how our business system is vulnerable and unable to effectively respond to unforeseeable events like the COVID-19 crisis. In this book, Prof. Coll’s new systematical approach brings not only new management principles but a set of indispensable and essential management tools to guide and transform organizations through more sustainable daily business practices in both the private and public sectors."Jung-Hoon Lee, Chair of Smart City Committee of Seoul Metropolitan Government and Professor of Technology and Innovation at Yonsei University "As an Asian business academic trained in the West, I found "Buddhist & Taoist Systems Thinking" to be an eye-opening and original book that explains why Asian companies have succeeded in global markets while retaining their cultural characteristics. Succinctly exposed, the many tenets that many Asian cultures have adhered to for thousands of years can be learned and applied effectively to business practice. In the Oscar-winning Korean film Parasite, the main character asks "You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan." If you read this book, you can understand why that dictum is important especially in the turbulent times that we live in today." Dae-Ryun Chang, Professor of Marketing, Yonsei School of Business, author of Mastering Noon Nopi: The Art & Science of Marketing in Asia, former president of the Korean Marketing Association"What if the deepest guidance for leaders set on business systemic change toward sustainability does not come from Western-based management theories? What if, instead of looking outside for inspiration, we look inside ourselves? Could the ancient teachings from Taoism and Zen Buddhism be applied to squaring the circle of creating a harmonious, value-driven, purposeful, equitable and sustainable society? With this book, you are about to find out. Drawing from perennial wisdom, Coll proposes a brand-new set of sustainable management principles and methods that allow us to reconnect with our nature and thereby to regenerate our business and society."Carles Navarro, Managing Director and Country Cluster Head Iberia BASFTable of ContentsIntroduction: the consciousness gap 1. The emergence of the new business paradigm: from the ego-system to the eco-system 2. TAO 4.0: adaptive thinking amidst exponential change and complexity 3. The quest for balance and harmony: the Yin–Yang and the Five Elements 4. T-Qualia, a bio-logic of learning for transformation: the Eastern systems approach to the process of knowing 5. The Zen Business model: from metaphysics to sustainable management 6. Building the Gaia organization: principles and practices 7. Designing the Gaia startup: practical guidelines 8. Managing abundance beyond the triple bottom line 9. Business mindfulness: evaluation for systems transformation

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Book SynopsisCoordinated, well-functioning institutions are crucial for tackling environmental challenges like climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, and resource overuse. This book presents case studies from around the world to showcase how different socio-political institutions interact to influence environmental management outcomes in complex, polycentric institutional settings. Collectively, the cases emphasize the importance of unpacking interactional complexity through an improved understanding of cross-scalar, cross-cultural, and cross-functional institutional interactions. By encouraging practitioners to reflect on these three dimensions, this book identifies key considerations for designing innovative institutional coordination mechanisms in support of sustainable environmental management.

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Book SynopsisThe Environmental Impact of Cities assesses the environmental impact that comes from cities and their inhabitants, demonstrating that our current political and economic systems are not environmentally sustainable because they are designed for endless growth in a system which is finite. It is already well documented that political, economic and social forces are capable of shaping cities and their expansion, retraction, gentrification, re-population, industrialisation or de-industrialisation. However, the links between these political and economic forces and the environmental impact they have on urban areas have yet to be numerically presented. As a result, it is not clear how our cities are affecting the environment, meaning it is currently impossible to relate their economic, political and social systems to their environmental performance. This book examines a broad selection of cities covering a wide range of political systems, geography, cultural backgrounds and pTable of ContentsPart 1: The Impact of Cities 1. The Cities 2. Calculating the Ecological Footprint 3. Food 4. Energy 5. Transport 6. Consumer goods 7. The built environment 8. Urban Policies Part 2:Influences on living in cities 9. Environmental death by democracy 10. Capitalism 11. Population—the elephant in the room 12. The internet 13. Icons in the cities 14. Pandemic 15. Living in cities

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Book SynopsisThis edited book provides a contemporary, critical and thought-provoking analysis of the internal and external threats to Western multilateral development finance in the twenty-first century. It draws on the expertise of scholars with a range of backgrounds providing a critical exploration of the neoliberal multilateral development aid.The contributions focus on how Western institutions have historically dominated development aid, and juxtapose this hegemony with the recent challenges from right-wing populist and the Beijing Consensus ideologies and practices. This book argues that the rise of right-wing populism has brought internal challenges to traditional powers within the multilateral development system. External challenges arise from the influence of China and regional development banks by providing alternatives to established Western dominated aid sources and architecture. From this vantagepoint, Rethinking Multilateralism in Foreign Aid puts forward new ideas Trade Review"This is an excellent book. It is thoroughly discussing current challenges to the multilateral aid system and its international financial institutions. The rising multipolarity of the global order and the dawn of right wing populism in western liberal democracies have brought the long-established architecture of multilateral development financing into jeopardy. The contention between ‘Washington Consensus’ and ‘Beijing Consensus’ - and their respective institutions and narratives - is analysed by a number of knowledgeable authors." – Professor. Dr. Matthias Rompel, Honorary Professor at Giessen University and Director at the German International Cooperation Agency GIZ"A strong analytical and a timely case study in an important, but clearly under-researched IR theory field. The authors were bold enough to question many deeply rooted perceptions about how multilateralism is related to neoliberalism. The book is a major contribution to our understanding of what an efficient multilateral international assistance should mean in the XXI century." – Andrey Kortunov, Director General, Russian International Affairs Council, and President, New Eurasia Foundation "Neoliberalism has been the archetype of development finance for the past four decades, a trajectory that is now increasingly overshadowed by the long reach of China’s economic ascendancy. Jakupec, Kelly, and Makuwira have assembled a timely and vital contribution that encourages us to reconsider the multilateral foreign aid paradigm as global hegemony shifts to the Far East." - Professor Simon Springer, Head of Discipline for Geography and Environmental Studies and Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Newcastle, AustraliaTable of Contents1. Multilateralism and Development Aid: Concepts and Practices Viktor Jakupec, Max Kelly and Jonathan Makuwira 2. Multilateralism, global development: unpacking the megatrends Max Kelly and Jonathan Makuwira 3. Populism and the New World Order Michel de Percy 4. Revisiting Truman Version of Development and Eurafrica Project of Underdeveloping Africa Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni & Busani Mpofu 5. Seventy-Five Years of Financing and Advising Development: Perspectives on Work of the Bretton Woods Institutions and Chequered Africa’s Development Charles H.B. Mphande 6.The Washington Consensus and Global Civil Society: The Road Traversed Jonathan Makuwira 7. Shifts in international development aid and its impact on economic growth Maneka Jayasinghe, Saroja Selvanathan, and Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan 8. Development Banks: Washington Consensus, Beijing Consensus or Banking Consensus? Adrian Robert Bazbauers and Susan Engel 9. Rethinking Global Financial Architecture: The Case Of Brics New Development Bank Tafadzwa Chitenderu and Ronney Ncwadi 10. The ADB and AIIB: Cooperation, Competition and Contestation Kearrin Sims 11. The World Bank’s Resilience Discourse: Reactive Environmental Norm Diffusion and the Crisis of Global Climate Governance Peter Ferguson 12. Challenging the hegemony of the Washington Consensus: The development potential of BRICS ‘from below’ Janet Cherry 13. Multilateral Foreign Aid and the shadow of Cold War II Viktor Jakupec 14. A new 'New' multilateralism, in a contemporary development context Max Kelly and John McKay 15. Competing Multilateralisms and Development Aid under Scrutiny Jonathan Makuwira, Max Kelly and Viktor Jakupec

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Book SynopsisA detailed examination of the Korean development model from its urban dimension, evaluating its sociopolitical contexts and implications for international development cooperation.There is an increasing tendency to use the development experience of Asian countries as a reference point for other countries in the Global South. Korea's condensed urbanization and industrialization, accompanied by the expansion of new cities and industrial complexes across the country, have become one such model, even if the fruits of such development may not have been equitably shared across geographies and generations. The chapters in this book critically reassess the Korean urban development experience from regional policy to new town development, demonstrating how these policy experiences were deeply rooted in Korea's socioeconomic environment and discussing what can be learned from them when applying them in other developmental contexts.This book will be of great interest to scholars anTable of Contents1. Introduction: Reconsidering the Korean Urban Development Experience for International Cooperation Part I: Outlining the Urban Transformation of Korea 2. Transformations in the Governance of Urban and Regional Planning in Korea: From (Neo-)Developmentalism to Civic Democracy, 1965–2020 3. Korea’s Regional Development Policy: Understanding Its Context and Drawing Implications for International Development Cooperation 4. Urban Transformation with ‘Korean Style’: Lessons from Property-based Urban Development 5. From Commodities to Community Engagement: Localities and Urban Development in Seoul, Korea Part II: Modeling the Korean Urban Development Experience 6. Export Urbanism: Asian Emerging Donors and the Politics of Urban Development Knowledge Sharing 7. A Multitude of Models: Transferring Knowledge of the Korean Development Experience 8. International Urban Development Leadership: Singapore, China and South Korea Compared Part III: Policies and Institutions of the Korean Urban Development 9. Exporting New City Developments? From New Towns to Smart Cities 10. Housing Policy and Urban Redevelopment in Contemporary Korea 11. Land Development Schemes in South Korea: Background, Structure and Outcome 12. Knowledge-Policy Nexus: Policy Research Institutes and the Urban Development Regime in Korea 13. Engines for Development: Public Development Corporations and Their Role in Urban Development in Korea

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This book provides an insight into the historical changes and present-day circumstances that have influenced, and continue to influence, the development and future of civil society.Civil society organisations (CSOs) play a crucial role in international development, however their impact on policy and practice is limited by a range of shifts across their political, social and financial landscapes. Barriers to Effective Civil Society Organisations is divided into three parts addressing each of these shifts in turn, and places particular emphasis on civil society actors linked not only by political constraints, but also by ethnic and cultural diversities that are crucial markers of political and social identity. This book draws on case studies from across Latin America, Africa, MENA and Ireland to highlight how CSOs in these countries are shaped by, and react to, shifting challenges. Reflecting on solutions for the sector, the authors provide an understanding of the variou

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Book SynopsisThe book examines the theory and practice of law and development. It introduces the General Theory of Law and Development, an innovative approach which explains the mechanisms by which law impacts development. This book analyzes the process of economic development in South Korea, South Africa, and the United States from legal and institutional perspectives. The book also explains why the concept of development is not only relevant to developing countries but to developed economies as well. The new edition includes five new chapters addressing the relationships between law and economic development in several key areas, including property rights, political governance, business transactions, state industrial promotion, and international trade and development.Trade Review"Yong-Shik Lee is moving the study of law and development to a new paradigm which more fully takes on board the insights of institutional economics along with a growing awareness of the issue of state capacity. He understandably has much to say about the East Asian model but his focus is not confined to this important case. He takes a close look at South Africa after the end of Apartheid and, strikingly, examines the contemporary US through a developmental lens. The reader will find much to enjoy and to learn from in this book." Dr. Simon Deakin, Professor of Law, University of Cambridge"This book is a very well-written, ambitious and thought-provoking account and treatment of a very complex topic. The theory captures central elements of what makes up the connection between law and development."Dr. Philipp Dann, Professor of Law, Humboldt University"With this new book Yong-Shik Lee has succeeded in providing scholars and students with a robust and insightful analytical framework to re-launch Law and Development as an exciting field of academic research and study. Prof. Lee adopts a universal approach that enables his framework to be used as an analytical framework to discuss the issues related to social and economic inequality and development in developing and developed countries. This is an essential book for both scholars of law and development studies and policy makers."Dr. Faizel Ismail, Former Ambassador of South Africa to the World Trade Organization"If you are looking for a comprehensive and insightful introduction to the very complex subject of the many roles of formal legal institutions in economic growth and social and political development, Y.S. Lee’s Law and Development: Theory and Practice more than fits the bill. It manages to present both the conventional wisdom and its critics’ attacks fairly and with no resort to caricature, an essential but seldom achieved goal of every introduction to complicated legal fields."Professor Frank Upham, Professor of Law, New York University "This rewarding and important book is comprehensive, knowledgeable and deep. It arrives at insightful and new propositions on the role of formal and informal law and the role of government for economic development. Also, the author’s intimate knowledge about East Asia leads the reader to a much better understanding of government’s potential role for development. This includes not only governmental investor protection if formal law is weak but also a public oversight and steering of private investment. Both generated high and lasting economic growth for low income countries."Dr. Hans-Bernd Schäfer, Professor of Law, Bucerius Law School"The first and second editions of this excellent book have re-opened the theory behind Law and Development, providing renewed impetus for a new generation of interdisciplinary scholars to work systematically in addressing and having an impact upon global poverty, and not just in the so-called Global South. Comprehensive in scope, analytical in approach and clear in exposition, Prof. Lee gives food for thought for students, scholars, activists and policy makers. Drawing upon comparative historical data from the East and the West, this expanded second edition clarifies the importance of prioritising political stability in achieving successful development outcomes. An important work, likely to be a reference for some time to come."Dr. Salim Farrar, Centre for Asian and Pacific Law, Sydney Law School.Table of ContentsPart I. Law and Development in Theory 1. Introduction: What Is Law and Development? 2. Evolution of Law and Development 3. General Theory of Law and Development Part II. Law and Development in Practice 4. Law and Development in South Korea 5. Law and Development in South Africa 6. Application of the Law and Development Approach in the United States 7. Law Reform Projects and Analytical Law and Development Model Part III. Law and Development Analysis 8. Property Rights and Economic Development 9. Political Governance, Law, and Economic Development 10. Legal Frameworks for Business Transactions and Economic Development 11. State Industrial Promotion 12. International Legal Frameworks: Trade and Development 13. Conclusion. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSocial entrepreneurship and impact investing contribute to a more inclusive capitalism and bring innovative solutions to global challenges, such as fighting poverty and protecting planet earth. This book offers practical advice on how to best integrate entrepreneurship and capital for impact and innovation by using elea's philanthropic investing approach to fight absolute poverty with entrepreneurial means as an example. Written by two leading experts, the book summarizes insights from elea's 15-year pioneering journey, from creating an investment organization, choosing purposeful themes, and sourcing opportunities, to partnering with entrepreneurs for impact creation. This includes suggestions on how to lead impact enterprises in such areas as developing strategies, plans, and models; building effective teams and organizations; managing resources; and handling crises. Using real-life examples, this is valuable reading for entrepreneurs, investors, executives, philanthropistsTrade Review"elea’s innovative approach reinforces convergence across corporations, investment organizations, and entrepreneurs toward social impact and meaningful purpose. Its lessons are valuable for corporate executives as they realize strategies that benefit societies." Paul Polman, Chair of IMAGINE, former Unilever CEO" ‘The elea Way’ shows how to mobilize capital for social impact by reshaping market-based models. It contributes to harnessing the efforts of complementary actors, such as investors, entrepreneurs, response agencies, and governments, who have the people most affected by poverty and crisis in mind." Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross"This book is a rare opportunity to gain insight into the mind of an experienced impact investor. elea’s connectedness with our team, which goes far beyond its contribution of financial capital, has been instrumental on our path as impact entrepreneurs, particularly when facing the Global Covid-19 Crisis." Divya Vasant, Amazi Founder and CEO "elea’s pioneering combination of impact investing and philanthropy inspires both private and public-sector initiatives for economic development. Its ethical foundation in liberalism and its values of inclusive capitalism are hallmarks of Swiss identity." Ignazio Cassis, Swiss Federal Councillor - Minister for Foreign Affairs "IMD is delighted to host the elea Center for Social Innovation. The elea Way will help in the development of thoughtful and ethical leaders broadening their horizons toward new forms of capitalism and deepening their understanding that they can do well by doing good". Jean-Francois Manzoni, IMD President"elea’s innovative approach reinforces convergence across corporations, investment organizations, and entrepreneurs toward social impact and meaningful purpose. Its lessons are valuable for corporate executives as they realize strategies that benefit societies." Paul Polman, Chair of IMAGINE, former Unilever CEO"The elea Way shows how to mobilize capital for social impact by reshaping market-based models. It contributes to harnessing the efforts of complementary actors, such as investors, entrepreneurs, response agencies, and governments, who have the people most affected by poverty and crisis in mind." Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross"This book is a rare opportunity to gain insight into the mind of an experienced impact investor. elea’s connectedness with our team, which goes far beyond its contribution of financial capital, has been instrumental on our path as impact entrepreneurs, particularly when facing the Global Covid-19 Crisis." Divya Vasant, Amazi Founder and CEO "elea’s pioneering combination of impact investing and philanthropy inspires both private and public-sector initiatives for economic development. Its ethical foundation in liberalism and its values of inclusive capitalism are hallmarks of Swiss identity." Ignazio Cassis, Swiss Federal Councillor - Minister for Foreign Affairs "IMD is delighted to host the elea Center for Social Innovation. The elea Way will help in the development of thoughtful and ethical leaders broadening their horizons toward new forms of capitalism and deepening their understanding that they can do well by doing good." Jean-Francois Manzoni, IMD PresidentTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reinventing Capitalism 1. Searching For Enterpreneurial Qualities 2. Impact Investing on the Rise 3. elea’s Foundation and Operating Model 4. elea’s Investment Focus 5. Building and Leading an Impact Enterprise 6. Sustaining Impact and Innovation

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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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Book SynopsisThe Power of New Urban Tourism explores new forms of tourism in urban areas with their social, political, cultural, architectural and economic implications. By investigating various showcases of New Urban Tourism within its social and spatial frames, the book offers insights into power relations and connections between tourism and cityscapes in various socio-spatial settings around the world.Contributors to the volume show how urban space has become a battleground between local residents and visitors, with changing perceptions of tourists as co-users of public and private urban spaces and as influencers of the local economies. This includes different roles of digital platforms as resources for access to the city and touristic opportunities as well as ways to organise and express protest or shifting representations of urban space. With contemporary cases from a wide disciplinary spectrum, the contributors investigate the power of New Urban Tourism in Africa, Asia, theTable of Contents1. The Power of New Urban Tourism: An Introduction. Part I: Consuming the City: New Urban Tourism in Urban Centres and Metropolitan Peripheries. 2. Bohemia and the New Urban Tourism. 3. "Tourist Platformisation": New Urban Tourism in Milan. 4. Peer-to-Peer Tourist Accommodation and its Impact on the Local Housing Market in Berlin Neighbourhoods. 5. Redefining a Mature Destination as a Low-Cost Neighbourhood: Relations Between Socio-Spatial Segregation in Torremolinos and Urban Tourism in Malaga, Spain. 6. Tourism in a Peripheral Territory in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon: The Case of Almada. Part II: Protest and Frictions: Contesting New Urban Tourism. 7. Sustaining a Political System: New Urban Tourism in Cuba and Related Conflicts. 8. Embattled Consumptionscape of Tourism: Networked Urban Contention Against Inbound Tourist Shoppers in Hong Kong. 9. Between Political Protest and Tourism Gentrification: Impacts of New Urban Tourism in Hamburg’s Schanzenviertel. 10. The Empty Boxes of Venice: Overtourism—Conflicts, Politicisation and Activism. 11. Powerful Ways of (not) Knowing New Urban Tourism Conflicts: Thin Problematisation as Limitation for Tourism Governance in Berlin. Part III: Representations and Identities: Hopes and Challenges for New Urban Tourism. 12. Shock of the New: The Rhetoric of Global Urban Tourism in the Rebuild of Christchurch, New Zealand. 13. New Urban Tourism in the Post-Conflict City: Sharing Experiences of Violence and Peace in West Belfast. 14. The Race, Class and Gender of Websites: Marketing and Mythologising Urban Africa Online. 15. New Urban Tourism and the Right to Complain: Tourism as a Catchall for Urban Problems. 16. Science Driven Mobility as a Form of New Urban Tourism: Insights from Student and Research Internationalisation in Lund, Sweden. Part IV: Concluding Remarks. 17. So, what is new about New Urban Tourism?

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses sustainability within the facility management industry. However, it is not another anthology of so-called best practices and the seemingly endless range of certification schemes. It is also not a (marketing) guide on how to communicate high-pitched sustainability ambitions to potential customers to increase (short-term) market share.Instead, this book is based on the realisation that most facility management businesses and departments actually find it hard to truly integrate sustainability into their strategies, tactics and day-to-day operations in a coherent way. It is also based on the reference point that sustainable development cannot be realised only through technological advancements and new procedures; it requires new behavioural patterns of people. Not only of your own employees, as a supplier or department, but also of those for whom you design, stage and manage optimal workplace experiences. Those patterns will not emerge from nowheTrade Review"Many applications of sustainability to facilities are focused on a ‘bolt-on’ perspective rather than looking at sustainability through a lens that integrates people, place, and process. This book does it better than any published to date." - Theodore J., Weidner, Ph.D., PE, RA, NCARB, Purdue University"This book provides a refreshingly aspirational look at facilities management. It shows how a sustainable approach demands a radical rethink of what is possible." - Dr Eddy Finch, consultant and Former Editor of Facilities Management'Many applications of sustainability to facilities are focused on a ‘bolt-on’ perspective rather than looking at sustainability through a lens that integrates people, place, and process. This book does it better than any published to date.'- Theodore J., Weidner, Ph.D., PE, RA, NCARB, Purdue University'This book provides a refreshingly aspirational look at facilities management. It shows how a sustainable approach demands a radical rethink of what is possible.' - Dr Eddy Finch, consultant and former Editor of Facilities ManagementTable of Contents1. SUSTAINABILITY, FACILITIES AND WORKPLACE MANAGEMENT 2. TECHNOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR 3. PEOPLE AND SUSTAINABILITY 4. IDENTITY AND SUSTAINABILITY 5. LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS AND SUSTAINABILITY 6. SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODEL LOGIC AND COMPETENCIES

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Book SynopsisThis book provides humanitarian practitioners and policy makers with a manual for how to apply foresight and strategy in their work. Drawing on extensive research, the book demonstrates in practical terms how embedding futures-focused thinking into practice can help humanitarian actors to enhance their impact and fit for the future. The book provides readers with a step-by-step guide to an innovative combination of tools and methods tested and refined over the course of several years. However, it also goes beyond this, by grounding the approach within the broader ambition of making humanitarian action more effective. Overall, the analytical and strategic processes outlined in this book will accompany a decision maker through every stage of creating a robust, agile and impactful long-term strategy. This accessible guide will be an essential point of reference for practitioners and decision makers in the humanitarian ecosystem, as well as students studying humanitarian Trade Review"As a Global South leader committed to community-led structural change, I highly recommend this book to my colleagues as well as to anyone seeking a comprehensive understanding of the humanitarian sector. The historical background, the contextual framework and the strategic planning tools that it provides are invaluable to practitioners interested in making a meaningful and systemic impact." Marie-Rose Romain Murphy, Co-Founder of ESPWA and The Haiti Community Foundation; and President of RMC-Romain Murphy Consulting, USA"The authors artfully combine foresight theory and practical tools for designing and implementing effective aid programmes. Fundamental reading for both aid theorists and practitioners interested in innovation and transformative change, and an essential playbook for making humanitarian aid both immediately impactful and future-ready." Christina Bennett, CEO Start Network, UK"I welcome this new book by Michel Maietta and Eilidh Kennedy. It is truly easy to understand and follow, and more importantly, use. They give a gift of relevance and accessibility. Clearly, a text and process all can benefit from, that can help create a transformed tomorrow." Sohail Inayatullah, Unesco Chair in Futures Studies, IIUM, Malaysia; and Professor, Tamkang University, Taiwan"The humanitarian ecosystem faces a period of real disruption. To help humanitarian actors succeed and seize the opportunity for transformation, the authors offer a pioneering and exciting toolbox mixing structural analysis, scenarios and strategic planning. For the humanitarian sector, this book will become a key reference for both practitioners and researchers."Philippe Ryfman, Honorary Professor, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, France; and researcher and lawyer specialising on the humanitarian sector and NGOs "The flexibility of the approaches outlined in this book ensure its relevance for all actors involved in development work, particularly LGBTI – often left behind. The guidance for how to implement strategic foresight projects virtually makes it all the more pertinent in a post-Covid19 world."Vincent Kyabayinze, Director, East Africa Visual Artists (EAVA Artists); and LGBTI activist, Uganda"Thoughtful, insightful and practical book; essential reading for aid and development professionals in the ever-changing world." Anika Krstic, Country Director, Plan International, Sudan"The manual you have in your hands gives you the keys to foundational strategic foresight approaches and methods adapted for humanitarian actors. Using these approaches you can create transformative narratives and build resilient strategies with communities. Eilidh and Michel have tested, piloted and implemented these tools in multiple settings, combining high professional standards with accessibility and commitment." François Bourse, Director of studies, Futuribles, France"The use of foresight methodology for strategic planning involving our local partners was instrumental for us as an ecosystem of actors to be impactful in a very dynamic operational context! I am really happy to see the toolkit is coming to the public domain for wider use and adoption in the humanitarian sector." Nipin Gangadharan, Country Director, Action Against Hunger BangladeshTable of Contents1. Strategic foresight for transformation 2. Embracing uncertainty with foresight 3. Developing a strategy for effective change 4. A toolkit for humanitarian action

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Book SynopsisAcademic interest in cycling has burgeoned in recent years with significant literature relating to the health and environmental benefits of cycling, the necessity for cycle-specific infrastructure, and the embodied experiences of cycling.Based upon primary research in a variety of contexts such as London, Shanghai and Taipei, this book demonstrates that recent developments in urban cycling policy and practice are closely linked to broader processes of capital accumulation. It argues that cycling is increasingly caught up in discourses around smart cities that emphasise technological solutions to environmental problems and neoliberal ideas on individual responsibility and bio-political conduct, which only results in solutions that prioritise those who are already mobile. Accordingly, the central argument of the book is not that the popularisation of cycling is inherently bad, but that the manner in which cycling is being popularised gives cause for social and environmental conTable of Contents1. Cycling toward sustainability? 2. Towards a political-economy of cycling 3. Making up the (productive) cycling subject: excluding the ‘non-standard’ user in cycle infrastructure design 4. Extracting surplus value from mobility: cycling policy and practice in London (UK) as a mode of political-economic and bio-political governance 5. Economising ‘trick’ cycling on London’s South Bank: culture-led regeneration, spectacle and ‘entertailing’ 6. Building the Taiwanese mobilityscape: an actor-network account of the journey from Bicycle Kingdom to Cycling Paradise 7. Transport solution or vehicle for surveillance capitalism? A case study of Dockless Public Bike Sharing (PBSS2.0) in Shanghai 8. Conclusions: where do we go from here?

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for gender and development policy making and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. Specifically, it provides critical reviews and appraisals of the current state of gender and development and considers future trends. It includes theoretical and practical approaches as well as empirical studies. The international reach and scope of the Handbook and the contributorsâ experiences allow engagement with and reflection upon these bridging and linking themes, as well as the examining the politics and policy of how we think about and practice gender and development.Organized into eight inter-related sections, the Handbook contains over 50 contributions from leading scholars, looking at conceptual and theoretical approaches, environmental resources, poverty and families, women and health related services, migration and mobility, the effect of civil and international conflict, and international economies and development. This Handbook provides a wealth of interdisciplinary information and will appeal to students and practitioners in Geography, Development Studies, Gender Studies and related disciplines.Trade Review"The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development is a comprehensive - and excellent - addition to contemporary scholarship in the field of gender and development (GAD). It provides a substantial compendium of individual articles gathered into eight thematic chapters, and covering a broad range of substantive, theoretical and conceptual issues pertaining to gender analyses of development in global contexts. The editors, themselves very experienced academics and authors in this area, have gathered together valuable contributions from both well-known scholars and from newer voices from all over the world to compile this collection." – Gender & Development, Suzanne Clisby, University of Hull, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: The making of the field- concepts and case studies. Part II: Environmental resources- production and protection. Part III: Population- poverty and patriarchy. Part IV: Health and services- survival and society. Part V: Mobilities- services and spaces. Part VI: Conflict and post-conflict- victims or victors? Part VII: Economics- empowerment and enrichment. Part VIII: Development organizations- people and institutions

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Book SynopsisIn today''s world, towns and cities dynamically develop over time and that''s why urban regeneration is a widely experienced phenomenon. How can Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) create necessary conditions for the development of these phenomena? What is the role that BIDs have in entrepreneurial urbanism, supporting SMEs, city marketing and city branding? These are questions examined in this volume, in an effort to provide an extensive analysis of business improvement districts. Enriched with an analysis of various case studies, including South Africa, Ontario, Tokyo, Barcelona, Slovenia and with an in-field analysis of a cultural heritage site, Korca, Albania, the book analyses the importance, benefits, and impacts of this kind of organization. It highlights the social, economic and ecologic challenges to the historic city markets today, which led to their rapid stagnancy. This book offers a practical and structured guide of the concept of Business Improvement DistrictsTable of Contents1. The multi-facet nature of innovation. 2. A literature review on the Business Improvement District. 3. A short analysis of the different models of BIDs. 4. Case Studies. 5. A study of Tourism Improvement District in Albania.

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This book showcases the diversity of ways in which urban residents from varying cultural contexts view, interact, engage with and give meaning to urban nature, aiming to counterbalance the dominance of Western depictions and values of urban nature and design. Urban nature has up to now largely been defined, planned and managed in a way that is heavily dominated by Western understandings, values and appreciations, which has spread through colonialism and globalisation. As cities increasingly represent a diversity of cultures, and urban nature is being increasingly recognised as contributing to residents'' wellbeing, belonging and overall quality of life, it is important to consider the numerous ways in which urban nature is understood and appreciated. This collection of case studies includes examples from Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and reflects on the multi-dimensional aspects of engagements with urban nature through a biocultural diversity lens. The chapte

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Book SynopsisIndia Migration Report 2020 examines how migration surveys operate to collect, analyse and bring to life socio-economic issues in social science research. With a focus on the strategies and the importance of information collected by Kerala Migration Surveys since 1998, the volume: Explores the effect of male migration on women left behind; attitudes of male migrants within households; the role of transnational migration and it effect on attitudes towards women; Investigates consumption of remittances and their utilization; asset accumulation and changing economic statuses of households; financial inclusion of migrants and migration strategies during times of crises like the Kerala floods of 2018; Highlights the twenty-year experience of the Kerala Migration Surveys, how its model has been adapted in various states and led to the proposed large-scale India Migration Survey; and Explores issues of migration politics and governance,Table of Contents1. Large Scale Migration Surveys: Replication of Kerala Model of Migration Surveys to India Migration Survey 2024 2. Keeping up with Kerala’s Joneses 3. Remittances, Health Expenditure and Demand for Health Care Services 4. Remittances and asset accumulation among the left behind households 5. Impact of Male Migrants, and their return, on Women Left-Behind 6. Socio-Economic Dynamics of Gulf Migration: A Panel Data Analysis 7. Why do Migrants Transfer Money? Motivations of Remittance from Emigrants 8. Reintegration and future plans of return migrants 9. Emigration and its Effect on the Labour Force Participation of Women in the Left-behind Household 10. Transnational Migration and Gender Attitudes: An Exploratory Analysis 11. Labour Migration: Decision to Migrate and Choice of Destination 12. Keralan in Circulation: Field Observations from Kerala and Dubai 13. The Alcohol Paradox: Revisiting the Kerala Model of Development 14. Financial cost of international migration from South India: What does data spanning three decades tell us? 15. Exploitative or ethical? Understanding the labour recruitment practices in the 21st century from Kerala 16. Remittances and Overseas Migrants Economic Shocks: Evidence from Kerala’s Recipient Households after 2008 global crisis 17. Cultural Production of Narratives as Counter-Archives In Kerala Gulf Migration Studies 18. Migration and Asset Accumulation in South India: Comparing Gains to Internal and International Migration from Kerala 19. Tracing the changing Economic status of Kerala households: The KMS Experience 20. The Janus-faced dilemma of Migration as Adaptation: The impact of rapid-onset floods on labour migration in Kerala, 2018 21. Climate Change, Migration and Development: The Aftermath of the 2018 Floods in Kerala 22. Impact of Migration on Financial Inclusion and local financial system 23. International Migration and Global Diplomacy 24. Emigration Governance in India 25. Empowerment of Female Return Migrant Initiatives in Indonesia: Lessons for India

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This book analyzes contemporary changes in immigration and integration policy in the wake of populism and rise of right-wing parties across the world. It examines how, in the face of substantial migratory flows, rising security concerns regarding immigration, and a refugee crisis of unprecedented levels, member states of the European Union have responded by calling for restrictive immigration policies, border patrolling, and intensified integration programs. Focusing on Denmark and Sweden, the volume employs a unified theoretical framework to look at how internal political debates, institutional patterns, constitutional frameworks, and political competition are key to a systematic explanation of immigration and integration policy changes in Europe.This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of migration and diaspora studies, public policy, politics and international relations, sociology, and social anthropology, as well as government officials, th

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the joys and occasional frustrations of a development economist working for the United Nations.From 1982 to 2000 Richard Jolly worked in senior positions in UNICEF and UNDP on assignments that were innovative, for the UN, the countries concerned and for development. The book analyses his experiences as Deputy Director of UNICEF, Principal Coordinator and co-author of UNDP's widely acclaimed Human Development Report and a community development officer in Kenya, as well as his involvement in the UN and country mission to Zambia and ILO employment missions to Colombia, Sri Lanka and Kenya. It shows what the UN can achieve when there is strong leadership at central and field levels, together with decentralized approaches. Jolly's experiences lead him to conclude there are in fact three UNs: the formal UN of governments; the second UN comprising UN staff members, often the source of initiatives and action; and the third UN of NGOs, experts, conTable of ContentsIntroduction 1.UN development- more pioneering and professional than generally realized 2.Early Life, One Life-Changing Event and Four People 3.Discovering development -Baringo, Kenya 4.Cuba – close-up to the revolution and the Cuban missile crisis 5.Education, UNESCO and ECA 6.Zambia – My first UN mission in the heady days of African Independence 7.Applied Economics in Cambridge and in oil-rich Abu Dhabi 8.ILO and the IDS- employment policy in Colombia, Sri Lanka and Kenya 9.UNICEF -global goals and lessons of successful implementation 10.UNICEF Economists and children 11.UNDP and Human Development 12.UN Ideas that Changed the World 13.The Third UN and the North-South Roundtable 14.Final Words

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the joys and occasional frustrations of a development economist working for the United Nations.From 1982 to 2000 Richard Jolly worked in senior positions in UNICEF and UNDP on assignments that were innovative, for the UN, the countries concerned and for development. The book analyses his experiences as Deputy Director of UNICEF, Principal Coordinator and co-author of UNDP's widely acclaimed Human Development Report and a community development officer in Kenya, as well as his involvement in the UN and country mission to Zambia and ILO employment missions to Colombia, Sri Lanka and Kenya. It shows what the UN can achieve when there is strong leadership at central and field levels, together with decentralized approaches. Jolly's experiences lead him to conclude there are in fact three UNs: the formal UN of governments; the second UN comprising UN staff members, often the source of initiatives and action; and the third UN of NGOs, experts, conTable of ContentsIntroduction 1.UN development- more pioneering and professional than generally realized 2.Early Life, One Life-Changing Event and Four People 3.Discovering development -Baringo, Kenya 4.Cuba – close-up to the revolution and the Cuban missile crisis 5.Education, UNESCO and ECA 6.Zambia – My first UN mission in the heady days of African Independence 7.Applied Economics in Cambridge and in oil-rich Abu Dhabi 8.ILO and the IDS- employment policy in Colombia, Sri Lanka and Kenya 9.UNICEF -global goals and lessons of successful implementation 10.UNICEF Economists and children 11.UNDP and Human Development 12.UN Ideas that Changed the World 13.The Third UN and the North-South Roundtable 14.Final Words

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Book SynopsisThis book develops an integrated perspective on the practices and politics of making knowledge work in inclusive development and innovation. While debates about development and innovation commonly appeal to the authority of academic researchers, many current approaches emphasise the plurality of actors with relevant expertise for addressing livelihood challenges. Adopting an action-oriented and reflexive approach, this volume explores the variety of ways in which knowledge works, paying particular attention to dilemmas and controversies. The six parts of the book address the complex interplay of knowledge and politics, starting with the need for knowledge integration in the first part and decolonial perspectives on the politics of knowledge integration in the second part. The following three parts focus on the practices of inclusive development and innovation through three major themes of learning for transformative change, evidence, and digitisation. The final part ofTrade Review"Development pathways are plural and political, as is the knowledge that shapes and contributes to them. Not shirking from the real difficulties and conundra of including diverse perspectives amidst complex dynamics, and deftly weaving theory and practice through a host of real-world examples, this volume helps chart the way. A thoughtful and robust contribution to the burgeoning literature on knowledge in/for development that contests some of its most treasured assumptions." - Melissa Leach, Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, UK"The view that development in the modern world is knowledge driven does not explain the disparities in development across continents, countries and communities. There is contestation around what form of knowledge is essential for inclusive development. Knowledge is not universal and neither are the processes of its generation and application neutral. This book inspires reconstruction of valid knowledge for and rethinking the concept of inclusive development." - Paul Kibwika, Associate Professor, Department of Extension and Innovation Studies, Makerere University, UgandaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Making knowledge work differently: The politics of knowledge in inclusive development and innovation, David Ludwig, Cees Leeuwis, Birgit K. Boogaard, Phil Macnaghten Part I Crossing Epistemic Boundaries Chapter 1: Making transdisciplinarity work: An epistemology of inclusive development and innovation, David Ludwig and Birgit K. Boogaard Chapter 2: Making knowledge from below, Senna Middelveld, Harro Maat, and Phil Macnaghten Chapter 3: A transdisciplinary perspective on gender mainstreaming in international development: the case of the CGIAR, Diana E. Lopez and David Ludwig Part II Decolonizing Knowledge Integration Chapter 4: A systemic approach to the decolonization of knowledge: implications for scholars of development studies, Sarah Cummings, Nyamwaya Munthali and Peter Shapland Chapter 5: How the elite capture critique is used to legitimize top-down control of development resources, Peter Shapland, Annemarie van Paassen and Conny Almekinders Chapter 6: ‘Development’ perspectives from the Global South: Learning from Ubuntu and Buen Vivir philosophies, Birgit K. Boogaard and Dorine van Norren Part III Learning for Transformative Change: Creating Space for Diversity and Dialogues Chapter 7: Learning and change in and through action-oriented research, Barbara van Mierlo, Annemarie van Paassen, Rico Lie, Elias Damtew, and Loes Witteveen Chapter 8: Towards design principles for diversity sensitive learning, Rico Lie, Birgit K. Boogaard, and Loes Witteveen Chapter 9: Learning from histories of gender and racial segregation in agricultural education and extension worldwide, Margreet van der Burg Part IV Rethinking Evidence in Development Chapter 10: Theorizing theories of change in international development: What counts as evidence, Katarzyna Cieslik and Cees Leeuwis Chapter 11: The politics of evidence-based advocacy by civil society organizations, Margit van Wessel Part V Negotiating Technological Change and Digitalization Chapter 12: A problematization of inclusion and exclusion: Trade-offs and nuances in the digitalization of African agriculture, Mariette McCampbell, Kelly Rijswijk, Hannah Wilson, and Laurens Klerkx Chapter 13: Responsibly designing digital agriculture services under uncertainty in the Global South: The case of Esoko-Ghan, Andy Bonaventure Nyamekye, Laurens Klerkx, and Art Dewulf Chapter 14: Mobilising knowledge sharing in the Agricultural Advisory System: The Case of ICT-facilitated Plant Doctor Chat Groups, Šarūnas Jomantas, Nyamwaya Munthali, Annemarie van Paassen, Conny Almekinders, Anna Wood, Christina Aloki, Birgitta Oppong-Mensah, Willis Ochilo, and Dannie Romney Part VI Governing Knowledge and Innovation Chapter 15: Making dialogue work: Responsible innovation and gene editing, Phil Macnaghten, Esha Shah and David Ludwig Chapter 16: Making knowledge work in practice: an integrative methodology for researching performance in global commodity chains and local food market, Sietze Vellema, Faustina Obeng Adomaa and Mirjam Schoonhoven Chapter 17: The conundrum of articulating societal knowledge and technology demand, Cees Leeuwis

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Book SynopsisWith the sustainability emergency, businesses can no longer give priority to commercial interests (and financial gains) and close their eyes to societal and environmental interests. We need a new, higher perspective to close the gap. We need to formulate a new business logic and a sustainable value creation method for sustainable business, for their customers and society that is, all business stakeholders, as well as the planet. This book will do just that. This book presents the insights gained from action research with leading companies across the world to discover a comprehensive method that works: a practical framework for CEO and business leaders who want to lead their organization along the sustainability transition. Building on the latest insights from science, summarized as the systems view of life, the book identifies six principles that provide a new leadership lens on how to understand the changes taking place in business. Based on these insights, the book offers Trade Review Voted one of the Top Compassionate Leadership Books for 2022 by the Center for Compassionate Leadership: "Tideman is a compelling visionary. He recognizes the depth of need for systems change, for transformation. Triple Value Leadership offers an ambitious and achievable prescription to match the scale of the challenge our species faces today. Read this book and change the world for the better.""Triple Value Leadership is cutting-edge in explaining why investing in sustainability is also an investment in future business performance, including strong financial performance. Sander and his team have researched and compiled a practical guide, one that challenges wrong-minded trade-off thinking by demonstrating clearly how the interests of the planet, society and business can be completely aligned."Alan Jope, CEO, Unilever"Triple Value Leadership is about the groundbreaking mindshift that is needed to prepare business for the new normal. Tideman brilliantly discloses the essentials of how to include human, social and natural capital in tomorrow’s leadership. Visionary, inspiring, and importantly, very practical!"Volkert Engelsman, CEO, Eosta BV"This is a much-needed book that makes you pause and think about your own and your company’s leadership. Sander Tideman describes with clarity how to lead with compassion and putting it into action with profound logic. He invites us to challenge our thinking and makes connections to known leadership approaches. Also, the book is layered with leadership examples, human capital insights and contemplative practices. We are reminded that our mindset drive our actions and people will follow leaders and companies with purpose."Annemieke van der Werff, HR Consultant, former CHRO MUFG Union Bank N.A., Global HR Executive HSBC Holdings PLC and former CHRO ABN AMRO North America & LaSalle Bank Corporation“Sander Tideman has been a long-standing, prolific, thinker about leadership in the corporate sector. This book brings together in a coherent and inspiring manner the key elements of a new paradigm that allow business leaders to positively contribute to society. The book introduces relevant frames and presents illustrative cases that help corporate leaders to develop a badly needed new approach to value creation. The book presents excellent insights on how to deal with the most important challenges of the coming decade. It formulates leadership skills that will help companies to navigate an increasingly complex, volatile and ambiguous world, while at the same time – most importantly - contributing to society. This book is highly recommended.” Rob van Tulder, Professor, Business Society Management and Academic Director of Partnerships Resource Centre (PrC), Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University "Triple Value Leadership is right on target about the necessary evolution to a regenerative economy. Tideman’s consistent and coherent thoughts and words reflect his life-long focus on good leadership, his personal experience throughout cultures and continents and his deep belief that one can succeed at multiple levels, the self, the team, the world. Essential reading to navigate the disruptive years ahead of us."Marcello Palazzi, Co-Founder, B Lab Europe, NOW Partners, B for Good Leaders"Sander Tideman has written a profound book with Triple Value Leadership. Right at the intersection of business, leadership and sustainability, it sheds light on all the outdated ways we think about business and provides new ways of thinking about how we need to lead in order to face today’s challenges. It should become a must read for all leaders."Dr Matthias Birk, Adjunct Associate Professor for Leadership at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service; Global Director of Partner Development at White & Case LLP"Triple Value Leadership by Sander Tideman is very relevant for any leader of an organization willing to make positive societal impact. The book helps to clarify the dilemmas at various levels of complexity that we face when developing and implementing sustainability strategy. It provides accessible and easy-to-apply suggestions to realize a sustainable value creation strategy in which there is win-win for business, clients and society. The book is an impressive piece of work and a joy to read."Wendy de Jong, CEO, Oost NL - East Netherlands Development Agency"To align the interests of business, society and the planet, we need to become sustainability warriors, and this requires a groundbreaking mind-shift for most of us. Grounded in first hand experience, filled with inspiring stories and practical tools, Triple Value Leadership talks to the mind, the heart and the soul. It takes a deep and compassionate approach to supporting companies and their leaders in the journey towards Triple Value Creation. That it is also a well written book that leaves the reader grateful and energized is very much the cherry on the cake!"Laurence Debroux, Non Executive Board Member, Novo Nordisk, Exor, Juventus, Kite Inisghts, HEC Business School; and former CFO, Heineken, JCDecaux, Sanofi"Triple Value Leadership invites us to look directly at how we’ve been constructing our way of working in modern times and then guides us to transform "business as usual" into a new, science-informed, systems-based way of finding a win-win-win approach that will benefit organizations, customers, and our larger society. Sander Tideman has created a concise and incisive exploration of what our contemporary culture needs to shift from a narrow, individual focus toward a broader, systems-wide view in which stakeholders, shareholders, and our human and natural environments can all prosper. Built on a solid science of how groups and the mind function, this important book provides a timely roadmap for how we can build a world with purpose in which all may benefit and flourish." Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., New York Times bestselling author, Clinical Professor, UCLA School of Medicine, Executive Director, Mindsight InstituteTriple Value Leadership is an inspiring and concise book on sustainable leadership, based on sound research. It highlights practical examples of companies and leaders who successfully combine solid financial results with a positive impact on our planet and society and avoid huge, costly mistakes. Food for thought for those who want to take sustainable leadership to the next level, for themselves, their organization or our system as a whole."Hans Reus, Managing Director, Russell Reynolds Associates "A magnificent achievement packed full of wonderfully integrated models, ideas, and applications. Sander Tideman provides a robust and compelling guide to the why what, and how of sustainable business. Triple Value Leadership is informative, wise, and practical." Nathalie Hourihan, Independent writer and researcher; acting Chief Knowledge Officer for Mobius Executive Leadership; previously Organizational Behaviour Knowledge Expert for McKinsey & Company"In his new book, Triple Value Leadership, Sander Tideman offers the most visionary, science-based and accessible approach to our current global crisis of leadership available. His critique of the outmoded model and mindset of business as usual is as comprehensive as it is stunningly clear. Yet even more stunning is the radical solution he offers in his model of sustainable business and leadership—Triple Value Creation—grounded in the new science of complex adaptive systems. The final tour de force that makes this book the only guide out there equal to the unprecedented challenges of our age is the way it integrates Tideman’s big picture solution with detailed success stories of sustainable businesses as well as a practical roadmap for the six key changes in mindset and capacity that will allow leaders to deliver the sustainable future of Triple Value Creation."Joseph Loizzo, MD, Founder, Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science and co-author of Boundless LeadershipTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: WHY? Why do we need a new approach to value creation? 1: The challenges facing the business world 2: The Growth Triangle: The outdated Value Creation Model 3: The paradigm shift in science: The Living systems view Part 2: WHAT? What is the new approach to value creation? 4: Toward a Systems View of Value Creation – Six Shifts 5: The New Business Perspective on Value Creation 6: The Triple Value Creation Measurement Model Part 3: How? How can leaders execute the new value creation approach? 7: Leadership – How to develop the sustainability mindset 8. The TVC Systems Mindset 9: Dealing with Complexity:The Systems Mindset in Action

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Book SynopsisFoundations of Social Entrepreneurship presents definitions of social entrepreneurship, explains its benefits and challenges, describes the components of an ecosystem of support, and presents practical tools to approach social entrepreneurial projects. It is designed to be easily approachable by anyone without prior in-depth knowledge of the subject. The book is divided into two parts; the first provides readers with theoretical foundations to understand the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship, its different interpretations, the context in which it developed, and its socio-economic function. The second part of the book covers what it takes to create and manage a social entrepreneurial initiative. Pedagogical features are incorporated throughout to aid learning. They include summary tables, international case studies of social entrepreneurs from both developed and emerging economies, as well as suggested exercises and examples of how the tools presented are Table of ContentsList of figuresList of tablesAbout the authorAcknowledgements IntroductionPART 1 – Theoretical foundations of social entrepreneurship1. Introduction to social entrepreneurship 2. Social entrepreneurship and social change 3. Characteristics of social entrepreneurship 4. The social entrepreneurship ecosystem 5. The present and future of social entrepreneurship PART 2 – Practical foundations of social entrepreneurship6. Identifying an opportunity for social entrepreneurship7. Developing a social entrepreneurial idea 8. From developing to implementing a social entrepreneurial idea9. Creating strong foundations for social entrepreneurial organisations10. Funding and growing social entrepreneurial organisations11. Measuring impact Appendix – Case study: MayamikoGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFoundations of Social Entrepreneurship presents definitions of social entrepreneurship, explains its benefits and challenges, describes the components of an ecosystem of support, and presents practical tools to approach social entrepreneurial projects. It is designed to be easily approachable by anyone without prior in-depth knowledge of the subject. The book is divided into two parts; the first provides readers with theoretical foundations to understand the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship, its different interpretations, the context in which it developed, and its socio-economic function. The second part of the book covers what it takes to create and manage a social entrepreneurial initiative. Pedagogical features are incorporated throughout to aid learning. They include summary tables, international case studies of social entrepreneurs from both developed and emerging economies, as well as suggested exercises and examples of how the tools presented are Table of ContentsList of figuresList of tablesAbout the authorAcknowledgements IntroductionPART 1 – Theoretical foundations of social entrepreneurship1. Introduction to social entrepreneurship 2. Social entrepreneurship and social change 3. Characteristics of social entrepreneurship 4. The social entrepreneurship ecosystem 5. The present and future of social entrepreneurship PART 2 – Practical foundations of social entrepreneurship6. Identifying an opportunity for social entrepreneurship7. Developing a social entrepreneurial idea 8. From developing to implementing a social entrepreneurial idea9. Creating strong foundations for social entrepreneurial organisations10. Funding and growing social entrepreneurial organisations11. Measuring impact Appendix – Case study: MayamikoGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a robust theoretical and empirical exploration of the interrelationship between economic neoliberalism and international development. Putting the experiences of developing and transitional economies centre stage, the book investigates how their economic policies compare with the nature of economic liberalism during and after the significant economic reforms which took place from the mid-1980s. Beginning with two chapters which provide an introduction to the concept of economic neoliberalism, the second section focuses on its application to practice', and the book moves on to country/regional case studies, taken from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Latin America, China, and Eastern Europe. The book closes with some concluding remarks summarising some of the principal findings.Bringing together a wealth of expertise, this book clarifies controversial economic and political issues which have been significantly misunderstood in public discourse, and as sTrade Review"A clear and pragmatic primer on the ideological underpinning of a major – and often dominant – strand of economic thought. Both the conceptual analysis and the country-level applications will help students and policy-makers plot their way through the many challenges which lie in wait." -- Simon Maxwell CBE, Former President, Development Studies Association of the UK and Ireland"Much has been written about the experience of neoliberal economic policies in developing countries, including previous work by contributors to this volume, but this is a valuable addition. This book provides a ‘one stop shop’ overview and reflection covering the concepts, application and experiences that will be useful to researchers and students of development studies." -- Oliver Morrissey, Professor of Development Economics, University of Nottingham, UK"This book brings together an impressive group of experts to make a clear and focussed point, that the market-oriented approach to development policy is dysfunctional and ineffective. It should appeal to the informed citizen as well as serve as a basic reference work." -- John Weeks, John Weeks, formerly Professor Emeritus, SOAS University of London and Progressive Economy Forum (John Weeks passed away in late-July 2020)Table of ContentsPart 1: Introductory 1. Introduction 2. How Did Economic Neoliberalism Become Mainstream? Part 2: Neoliberalism and Economic Policy 3. Privatisation in Developing Countries 4. Neoliberalism, Macro-Economic Policy and Development5. Neoliberalism and Trade Policy 6. Neoliberalism and Manufacturing Sector Development Part 3: Country Experience 7. Economic Neoliberalism and African Development 8. Liberalised Trade Policy with State Commitment to Growth 9. Economic Neoliberalism in Latin America 10. Neoliberalism and Economic Policymaking in Contemporary China 11. The Polish Transition to Capitalism Part 4: Conclusion 12. Concluding Remarks

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies is the first comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of Indigenous scholarship. The book is ambitious in scope, ranging across disciplines and national boundaries, with particular reference to the lived conditions of Indigenous peoples in the first world. The contributors are all themselves Indigenous scholars who provide critical understandings of indigeneity in relation to ontology (ways of being), epistemology (ways of knowing), and axiology (ways of doing) with a view to providing insights into how Indigenous peoples and communities engage and examine the worlds in which they are immersed. Sections include:â Indigenous Sovereignty â Indigeneity in the 21st Century â Indigenous Epistemologies â The Field of Indigenous Studies â Global Indigeneity This handbook contributes to the re-centring of Indigenous knowledges, providing material and ideational analysesTrade Review"Featuring important contributions by leading scholars in the field, this volume is an indispensable intervention into the field of Critical Indigenous Studies and a must-read for understanding its empirical, theoretical, and methodological scaffolding." -- Jeani O’Brien, University of Minnesota, USA"With a stellar editorial team, this extraordinary collection offers a much-needed state-of-the-field: Critical Indigenous Studies at its best, in a global frame. With thematic sections that showcase rich intellectual diversity, these outstanding essays are all well researched, conceptually innovative, and brilliantly theorized - yet, also accessible. This volume is essential reading!" -- J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Professor of American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University, USA"This handbook, edited by international leading scholars in the field, will be an essential resource for the academy and for Indigenous communities. It's a unique and powerful collection of the most influential Indigenous scholars, and will be a must-have for students, researchers and scholars." -- Larissa Behrendt, Director of Research and Academic Programs, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney, Australia"This book is very much welcomed. Given that Indigenous scholars are researching, developing curriculum, and trying to engage in meaningful and respectful partnerships with Indigenous communities in Australia, the USA, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere, a collection such as this has never been more important or timely. The Handbook is edited by esteemed Indigenous scholars, and contains works by leading and emerging critical Indigenous scholars and thought leaders. The handbook will be a source of reference, theory, explanation, challenge, and inspiration, and I am excited by the prospect of its influence in the hands of my colleagues and students." -- Bronwyn Fredericks, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement), The University of Queensland, Australia"A crucial reference work for the international, interdisciplinary field of Indigenous scholars within and outside the academy, the Handbook is more than a catalogue of critical thought and practice up to the present moment – it offers deeply thoughtful glimpses into dynamic Indigenous futures." -- K. Tsianina Lomawaima (Creek), Arizona State University, USATable of ContentsList of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction PART 1 Disciplinary knowledge and epistemology 1 The institutional and intellectual trajectories of Indigenous Studies in North America: Harnessing the ‘NAISA Effect’ 2 Ricochet: It’s not where you land; it’s how far you fly 3 Multi-generational Indigenous feminisms: From F word to what IFs 4 Against crisis epistemology 5 Matariki and the decolonisation of time 6 Indigenous women writers in unexpected places 7 Critical Indigenous methodology and the problems of history: Love and death beyond boundaries in Victorian British Columbia 8 Decolonising psychology: Self-determination and social and emotional well-being 9 Colours of creation PART 2 Indigenous theory and method 10 The emperor’s ‘new’ materialisms: Indigenous materialisms and disciplinary colonialism 11 Intimate encounters Aboriginal labour stories and the violence of the colonial archive 12 Māku Anō e Hanga Tōku Nei Whare: I myself shall build my house 13 On the politics of Indigenous translation: Listening to Indigenous peoples in and on their own terms 14 Auntie’s bundle: Conversation and research methodologies with Knowledge Gifter Sherry Copenace 15 When nothingness revokes certainty: A Māori speculation 16 Vital earth/vibrant earthworks/living earthworks vocabularies 17 "To be a good relative means being a good relative to everyone": Indigenous feminisms is for everyone 18 ‘Objectivity’ and repatriation: Pulling on the colonisers’ tale PART 3 Sovereignty 19 Incommensurable sovereignties: Indigenous ontology matters 20 Mana Māori motuhake: Māori concepts and practices of sovereignty 21 He Aliʻi Ka ʻĀina, Ua Mau Kona Ea: Land is the chief, long may she reign 22 Relational accountability in Indigenous governance: Navigating the doctrine of distrust in the Osage Nation 23 Ellos Deatnu and post-state Indigenous feminist sovereignty 24 Striking back: The 1980s Aboriginal art movement and the performativity of sovereignty 25 Communality as everyday Indigenous sovereignty in Oaxaca, Mexico 26 American Indian sovereignty versus the United States PART 4 Political economies, ecologies, and technologies 27 A story about the time we had a global pandemic and how it affected my life and work as a critical Indigenous scholar 28 Once were Maoists: Third World currents in Fourth World anticolonialism, Vancouver, 1967–1975 29 Resurgent kinships: Indigenous relations of well-being vs. humanitarian health economies 30 Indigenous environmental justice: Towards an ethical and sustainable future 31 Diverse Indigenous environmental identities: Māori resource management innovations 32 The ski or the wheel?: Foregrounding Sámi technological Innovation in the Arctic region and challenging its invisibility in the history of humanity 33 The Indigenous digital footprint PART 5 Bodies, performance, and praxis 34 Identity is a poor substitute for relating: Genetic ancestry, critical polyamory, property, and relations 35 Indigeneity and performance 36 Indigenous insistence on film 37 The politics of language in Indigenous cinema 38 Entangled histories and transformative futures: Indigenous sport in the 21st century 39 Raranga as healing methodology: Body, place, and making 40 Becoming knowledgeable: Indigenous embodied praxis 41 Nyuragil – playing the ‘game’ 42 Academic and STEM success: Pathways to Indigenous sovereignty 43 Aboriginal child as knowledge producer: Bringing into dialogue Indigenist epistemologies and culturally responsive pedagogies for schooling

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Book SynopsisThis book documents the experiences, development, and prospects of the construction industry in numerous developing countries. It will provide a strong base of reference for countries looking to improve their construction industries as part of their wider economic development programme.The opening chapter presents a strategic overview of the contents of the book, and each country-specific chapter is structured to consider the legal and policy frameworks, administrative infrastructure and procedures, and implementation mechanisms, as well as the experiences, current activities, and future plans and programmes with respect to construction industry development in each country. The concluding chapter looks forward and considers the implications of future trends for the construction industries in developing countries and the actions which will be required to address them. Chapters cover: India, Singapore, Chile, South Africa, Tanzania, Malaysia, Botswana, Ghana, Uganda, Indonesia,Table of Contents1. Construction Industry Development - General Introduction 2. The Construction Industry in Botswana: Its Context, Challenges and Developments 3. The Performance of the Chilean Construction Industry: Programmes, Initiatives, Achievements and Challenges 4. Construction Industry Development in China 5. The Croatian Construction Industry - Its Challenges and Achievements 6. Improving the Performance of the Eswatini Construction Industry 7. Construction Industry Developments in Ghana 8. Indian Construction Industry: Programmes, Initiatives, Achievements and Challenges 9. Improving the Performance of Indonesia's Construction Industry 10. Construction Industry Development in Malaysia 11. Construction Industry in Singapore 12. The South African Construction Industry: Programmes, Initiatives, Achievements and Challenges 13. Construction Industry Development in Tanzania 14. Improving the Performance of Uganda's Construction Industry 15. Construction Industry Development - Where To From Here?

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