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  • Migrant Health and Resilience

    Transnational Competence in Conflict and Climate Displacement Situations

    by Peter H. Koehn, Phyllis Bo-Yuen Ngai, Diana M. Diaków, Juha I. Uitto ...
    Series series Routledge Global Health Series
    In an era of escalating conflict-induced and climate-induced migration and cross-border interaction, transnational-competence (TC) preparation for displaced persons, members of their host communities, humanitarian responders, and health-care professionals is increasingly critical. Building on insights from those engaged with a range of humanitarian crises and global-justice contexts, along with ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Visioning Higher Education for Contemporary Global Challenges

    In Pursuit of Well-being, Social Justice, and Sustainability

    by Peter H. Koehn, Phyllis Bo-yuen Ngai, Juha I. Uitto ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    Visioning presents a roadmap for university leaders to vitalize higher education in response to global problems. It addresses structural, programmatic, and curricular gaps in ways designed to prepare current and future generations for unfolding socio-ecological challenges.The book introduces five urgent and interconnected global challenges (sustainable development, climate change, migration, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Environmental Evaluation and Global Development Institutions

    A Case Study of the Global Environment Facility

    by Geeta Batra, Juha I. Uitto, Osvaldo N. Feinstein ...
    Series series Advances in Evaluation & Development
    Evaluation is increasingly important for finding sustainable solutions for the people and the planet, based on a systematic analysis of what works, for whom, and under what circumstances, and to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, as they pertain to the environment.This book explores why the Global Environment Facility (GEF) invests in evaluation for accountability ... Read more

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  • Universities and the Sustainable Development Future

    Evaluating Higher-Education Contributions to the 2030 Agenda

    by Peter H. Koehn, Juha I. Uitto ...
    Since the mid-1970s, a series of international declarations that link environment and sustainable development to all aspects of higher learning have been endorsed and signed by universities around the world. Although university involvement in sustainable-development research and outreach has increased substantially, systematic learning from higher-education engagements has been limited ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction

    Edited by Rajib Shaw, Juha I. Uitto ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book focuses on exploring the linkages between natural disasters and sustainable development at the global, regional, and national levels. Disasters and development are closely related, yet the disciplinary silos prevail and there is little communication and cooperation between the disaster management, environment, and development communities. One catastrophic event, such as an earthquake, ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Evaluating Environment in International Development

    Edited by Juha I. Uitto ...
    This book provides novel and in-depth perspectives on evaluating environment and sustainability issues in developing countries.Evaluating Environment in International Development focuses on the approaches and experiences of leading international organizations, not-for-profits, and multilateral and bilateral aid agencies to illustrate how systematic evaluation is an essential tool for providing ... Read more

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  • Transformational Change for People and the Planet

    Evaluating Environment and Development

    Edited by Juha I. Uitto, Geeta Batra ...
    Series series Sustainable Development Goals Series
    This Open Access book deals with the pressing question of how to achieve transformational change that reconciles development with environmental sustainability. It particularly focuses on the role of evaluation in finding sustainable solutions. Environment and development are closely interlinked, as are human health and ecosystem health. The pandemic that began in 2020 demonstrated in no uncertain ... Read more

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  • Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development

    Edited by Juha I. Uitto, Jyotsna Puri, Rob D. van den Berg ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is open access under a Creative Commons license.This authoritative book presents the ever progressing state of the art in evaluating climate change strategies and action. It builds upon a selection of relevant and practical papers and presentations given at the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes ... Read more

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  • Ecosystems and Human Well-Being

    A Manual for Assessment Practitioners

    by Neville Ash, Keisha Garcia, Thomas Tomich, Bhaskar Vira, Monika Zurek, Claire Brown, Hernn Blanco ...
    Designed by a partnership of UN agencies, international scientific organizations, and development agencies, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) is the most extensive study ever of the linkages between the world’s ecosystems and human well-being. The goal of the MA is to establish the scientific basis for actions needed to enhance the contribution of ecosystems to human well-being without ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Who Counts? eBook

    The power of participatory statistics

    Edited by Jeremy Holland ...
    Local people can generate their own numbers and the statistics that result are powerful for themselves and can influence policy. Development practitioners are supporting and facilitating participatory statistics from community-level planning right up to sector and national-level policy processes. Statistics are being generated in the design, monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Cities, Disaster Risk and Adaptation

    by Christine Wamsler ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Worldwide, disasters and climate change pose a serious risk to sustainable urban development, resulting in escalating human and economic costs. Consequently, city authorities and other urban actors face the challenge of integrating risk reduction and adaptation strategies into their work. However, related knowledge and expertise are still scarce and fragmented.Cities, Disaster Risk and Adaptation ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Disaster Resiliency

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Naim Kapucu, Christopher V. Hawkins, Fernando I. Rivera ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy
    Natural disasters in recent years have brought the study of disaster resiliency to the forefront. The importance of community preparedness and sustainability has been underscored by such calamities as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Japanese tsunami in 2011. Natural disasters will inevitably continue to occur, but by understanding the concept of resiliency as well as the factors that lead to it, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD