Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Urban Poverty and Climate Change
Life in the slums of Asia, Africa and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book deepens the understanding of the broader processes that shape and mediate the responses to climate change of poor urban households and communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Representing an important contribution to the evolution of more effective pro-poor climate change policies...
Democratization and Memories of Violence
Ethnic minority rights movements in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Ethnic minority communities make claims for cultural rights from states in different ways depending on how governments include them in policies and practices of accommodation or assimilation. However, institutional explanations don’t tell the whole story, as individuals and communities also protest,...
People, Aid and Institutions in Socio-economic Recovery
Facing Fragilities
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
An estimated 2 billion people live in countries affected by fragility, conflict and violence. Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in these areas, and governments and international agencies seek avenues to enable socio-economic recovery and to support people as they try to rebuild their lives...
Ecological Modernisation and Environmental Compliance
The Garments Industry in Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Economic development that is environmentally, socially and ethically sound is at the forefront of contemporary debates all over the world. This is especially relevant to international trade where goods manufactured in least developed countries (LDCs) are being exported to developed countries (DCs)...
Statelessness and Citizenship
Camps and the Creation of Political Space
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
What does it mean to be a citizen? In depth research with a stateless population in Bangladesh has revealed that, despite liberal theory’s reductive vision, the limits of political community are not set in stone. The Urdu-speaking population in Bangladesh exemplify some of the key problems facing...
Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises
Everyday Politics of Crisis Response
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse – are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. In reality, there are many continuities and discontinuities between crisis and normality. What...
Hungry People and Empty Lands
An Essay on Population Problems and International Tensions
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
First published in 1954, this reissue deals with the problem of international tensions arising from demographic and fertility differences, with special reference to such heavily populated Asian countries as China, Japan and India.
by Hans R. Herren, Sue Coles
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
"A world with enough food for all, produced by healthy people in a healthy environment.” That is the vision of Hans R. Herren and his foundation Biovision. The foundation is active in the development, dissemination and application of ecological methods in Africa, with a focus on preparing information....
HIV and East Africa
Thirty Years in the Shadow of an Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
By tracing the shadow of the epidemic over the last 30 years in Uganda and more broadly in the region, HIV and East Africa investigates the impact of the epidemic on people’s lives and livelihoods, placing the epidemic within the context of the social, political and economic changes that have occurred...
Adapting to Climate Uncertainty in African Agriculture
Narratives and knowledge politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Future climatic and agro-ecological changes in Africa are uncertain and associated with high degrees of spatial and temporal variability and this change is differently simulated within divergent climate-crop models and in controlled crop breeding stations. Furthermore, uncertainty emerges in local...
Peacebuilding in Crisis
Rethinking Paradigms and Practices of Transnational Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
The 1990s saw a constant increase in international peace missions, predominantly led by the United Nations, whose mandates were more and more extended to implement societal and political transformations in post-conflict societies. However, in many cases these missions did not meet the high expectations...
Environmental Change and the World's Futures
Ecologies, ontologies and mythologies
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Climate change and ecological instability have the potential to disrupt human societies and their futures. Cultural, social and ethical life in all societies is directed towards a future that can never be observed, and never be directly acted upon, and yet is always interacting with us. Thinking and...
by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
This book offers a comprehensive action plan for complete and permanent eradication of poverty. It suggests only evolutionary changes, not any drastic coercive measures, such as nationalization. The Government will initiate the process but will not have a major role in its implementation.
The major...
by Ferris Eanfar
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
**HUMANITY EVOLVES AT THE SPEED OF JUSTICE. **This is a book about justice and the technologies, systems, and public policies that are necessary to achieve justice. Humanity's technology is evolving at an exponential rate, but our laws and cultural norms evolve at the speed of justice. The speed...