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  • Building Capabilities for Earth System Governance

    by Jochen Prantl, Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau, Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue, Joana Castro Pereira, Thais Lemos Ribeiro, Eduardo Viola ...
    Series series Elements in Earth System Governance
    This Element develops a new Strategic Capabilities Framework for studying and steering complex socio-ecological systems. It is driven by the central question of what are the most essential capabilities that ought to be fostered for addressing the fundamental 21st Century environmental challenges and Earth system transformations. The author's objective is to innovate transformative ideas toward ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Brazil in the Geopolitics of Amazonia and Antarctica

    by Adriana Marcos Vivoni, Andrei Polejack, Andrés Zarankin, Carina Costa de Oliveira, Carlos Alfredo Lazary Teixeira, Everton Vieira Vargas, Gilberto Fernando Fisch, Jose Antonio Marengo Orsini, Luiz Henrique Rosa, Marcia Bezerra, Maria Lucia Marques da Fonseca, Rodrigo Augusto Lima de Medeiros, Carlos Henrique Rubens Tomé Silva, Flávio Helmold Macieira, Leandra Regina Gonçalves, Luiz Octávio Gavião, Paulo E.A.S. Câmara ...
    The book presents a comprehensive and original analysis from a Brazilian perspective of both traditional and emerging topics related to the so-called “El Dorados of the 21st century”: Amazonia and Antarctica. By gathering distinguished scholars, the resulting set of high-level findings, stemming from multiple epistemological standpoints, provides important and innovative insights into the wide ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Sustainability Challenges of Brazilian Agriculture

    Governance, Inclusion, and Innovation

    Edited by Niels Søndergaard, Camila Dias de Sá, Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    With contributions from a wide range of thematic areas, this book provides a diverse perspective on the contemporary environmental challenges of Brazilian agriculture. Assessing existing experiences of governance interventions, implementation of inclusive and sustainable production practices, as well as technical innovations, this edited volume presents the reader with a nuanced perspective on ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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    How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

    by Leah Thomas ...
    From the 2022 TIME100 Next honoree and the activist who coined the term comes a primer on intersectional environmentalism for the next generation of activists looking to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change.The Intersectional Environmentalist examines the inextricable link between environmentalism, racism, and privilege, and promotes awareness of the fundamental truth that we ... Read more

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  • Poor People's Knowledge: Promoting Intellectual Property In Developing Countries

    by World Bank; Finger J. Michael; Schuler Philip ...
    How can we help poor people earn more from their knowledge-rather than from their sweat and muscle alone? This book is about increasing the earnings of poor people in poor countries from their innovation, knowledge, and creative skills. Case studies look at the African music industry; traditional crafts and ways to prevent counterfeit crafts designs; the activities of fair trade organizations; ... Read more

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  • Untamed Urbanisms

    Edited by Adriana Allen, Andrea Lampis, Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based ... Read more

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  • Knowledge for Governance

    Edited by Johannes Glückler, Gary Herrigel, Michael Handke ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book focuses on theoretical and empirical intersections between governance, knowledge and space from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions elucidate how knowledge is a prerequisite as well as a driver of governance efficacy, and conversely, how governance affects the creation and use of knowledge and innovation in geographical context. Scholars from the fields of ... Read more

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  • Fixing the Climate

    Strategies for an Uncertain World

    by Charles F. Sabel, David G. Victor ...
    Solving the global climate crisis through local partnerships and experimentationGlobal climate diplomacy—from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement—is not working. Despite decades of sustained negotiations by world leaders, the climate crisis continues to worsen. The solution is within our grasp—but we will not achieve it through top-down global treaties or grand bargains among nations.Charles ... Read more

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  • Transgovernance

    Advancing Sustainability Governance

    Edited by Louis Meuleman ...
    ‘Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance’ analyses the question what recent and ongoing changes in the relations between politics, science and media – together characterized as the emergence of a knowledge democracy – may imply for governance for sustainable development, on global and other levels of societal decision making, and the other way around: How can the discussion on ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity

    Lessons from Cuba

    by Julia Wright ...
    When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: that of Cuba in the 1990s. Based on the first and - up till now - only systematic and empirical study to come out of Cuba on this topic, this book examines how the nation successfully headed off its own food crisis after the ... Read more

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  • Strengthening European Climate Policy

    Governance Recommendations from Innovative Interdisciplinary Collaborations

    Edited by Ester Galende Sánchez, Alevgul H. Sorman, Violeta Cabello, Sara Heidenreich, Christian A. Klöckner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open-access book foregrounds 10 novel collaborations between the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines, for strengthening European climate policy.Part of a three-volume collection covering climate, energy, and mobility policy. ... Read more

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  • Competitiveness And Growth In Brazilian Cities: Local Policies And Actions For Innovation

    by Zhang Ming ...
    The book contributes to answering the questions raised by mayors, governors, and federal government officials in Brazil: "What can cities do to improve economic performance and create jobs?" The question is approached through a review of theories and policy options for city competitiveness, preliminary benchmarking of Brazilian cities.The book concludes that to become and stay competitive, cities ... Read more

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