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“jess larson”

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  • Performance on Behalf of the Environment

    by Alison Bodkin, Julia Handschuh, Jess Larson, Theresa May, Leila Nadir, Cary Peppermint, Courtney Ryan, Ray Schultz, David Terry, Anne Marie Todd, Barbara Willard, Jason Del Gandio ...
    Human degradation of the environment has been documented by scholars across a range of disciplines: the global temperature of the planet continues to rise, abandoned industrial sites stain once vibrant communities, and questions about the purity of our water and foods linger. In the shadow of these material conditions, concerned citizens have reacted by issuing critiques against careless ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Democratic Decentralisation through a Natural Resource Lens

    Cases from Africa, Asia and Latin America

    Edited by Jesse C. Ribot, Anne M. Larson ...
    This volume queries the state and effect of the global decentralization movement through the study of natural resource decentralizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The case studies presented here use a comparative framework to characterize the degree to which natural resource decentralizations can be said to be taking place and, where possible, to measure their social and environmental ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    The Outdoor Girls in Florida (Unabridged)

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    by Laura Lee HOPE ...
    Narrated by Valerie Seamans, Steve Mccoach, Mercedes Helgeson, Jesse Larson ...

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    4 hours 20 min

    In "The Outdoor Girls in Florida, Or Wintering in the Sunny South", the parents of one of the girls have bought an orange grove in Florida and her companions are invited to visit the place. They do so and take a trip into the wilds of the interior where several unusual things happen .This is the fifth book in the "Outdoor Girls" series. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing.Outlining and explaining core concepts from ‘informal settlements’ to ‘sustainability’, it focuses on the rapid urbanization of developing countries with case studies from Latin ... Read more

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  • Global Migration and Development

    Edited by Ton van Naerssen, Ernst Spaan, Annelies Zoomers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development and Society
    The debate on international migration and development currently focuses on South-North migration, transnationalism, remittances and knowledge transfer. The potential positive role of migration for countries and regions the emigrants originate from has recently been acknowledged by, among others, the World Bank, United Nations Commissions and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). This ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The European Union and International Development

    The Politics of Foreign Aid

    by Maurizio Carbone ...
    Series series Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies
    The European Union is a leading actor in international development, providing more than half of the world’s foreign aid, but also a unique case, combining the characteristics of a bilateral and a multilateral donor. Despite the general acknowledgment that policy coordination substantially improves both the effectiveness of foreign aid and the visibility of the EU in the international arena, Member ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Global Social Policy and Governance

    by Bob Deacon ...
    `This primer on the global politics of social policy … is essential reading for students as well as others seriously interested in improving the human condition. Nuanced and critical, Deacon′s book offers a much needed and constructive guide to the complex supra-national debates over rights, regulation and redistribution impinging on social welfare all over the world′ - Jomo K.S., United Nations ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • The Chrétien Legacy: Politics and Public Policy in Canada

    by Lois Harder,Steve Patten ...
    Contributors include Yasmeen Abu-Laban (Alberta) Caroline Andrew (Ottawa) Gerard W. Boychuk (Waterloo) Kathy Brock (Queen's) Stephen Clarkson (Toronto) David Docherty (Wilfrid Laurier) Alexandra Dobrowolsky (St Mary's) Christina Gabriel (Carleton) Ian Greene (York) Tom Keating (Alberta) Erick Lachapelle (Toronto) Laura MacDonald (Carleton) Michael Murphy (Otago New Zealand) Steve Patten (Alberta) ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • The European Union and the Social Dimension of Globalization

    How the EU Influences the World

    Edited by Jan Orbie, Lisa Tortell ...
    Series series Routledge/GARNET series
    This volume provides a comprehensive account of the European Union’s social role in the world, assessing the EU’s ability to shape the social aspect of globalization from both law and political science perspectives.Focusing explicitly on the EU, the authors address the extent of coherence between the Union’s international social objectives compared with the activities of the International Labour ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Water on Tap

    Rights and Regulation in the Transnational Governance of Urban Water Services

    by Bronwen Morgan ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    In the 1990s and mid-2000s, turbulent political and social protests surrounded the issue of private sector involvement in providing urban water services in both the developed and developing world. Water on Tap explores examples of such conflicts in six national settings (France, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, South Africa and New Zealand), focusing on a central question: how were rights and regulation ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Governance and the Depoliticisation of Development

    Edited by Wil Hout, Richard Robison ...
    Series series Routledge/GARNET series
    This book is about the way ‘governance’ has become the new orthodoxy of development, following earlier failed attempts at building working market economies through policy reform in developing countries.Considering how its proponents define ‘good governance’, the contributors to this volume assess why programmes of governance building in developing countries have proven to be no less problematic ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Geographies of Developing Areas

    The Global South in a Changing World

    by Glyn Williams, Paula Meth, Katie Willis ...
    Geographies of Developing Areas is a thought provoking and accessible introductory text, presenting a fresh view of the Global South that challenges students' pre-conceptions and promotes lively debate. Rather than presenting the Global South as a set of problems, from rapid urbanization to poverty, this book focuses on the diversity of life in the South, and looks at the role the South plays in ... Read more

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