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  • Science Makes the World Go Round

    Successful Scientific Knowledge Transfer for the Environment

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Researchers in the environmental sciences are often frustrated because actors involved with practice do not follow their advice. This is the starting point of this book, which describes a new model for scientific knowledge transfer called RIU, for Research, Integration and Utilization. This model sees the factors needed for knowledge transfer as being state-of-the-art research and the effective, ... Read more

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  • Power Dynamics in African Forests

    The Politics of Global Sustainability

    Edited by Symphorien Ongolo, Max Krott ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations
    This book addresses historical perspectives and contemporary challenges of the politics of forestland governance and the related sustainability crisis in Africa.It focusses on the power dynamics between key actors involved in the governance of forest-related resources either for their exploitation or with regards to biodiversity conservation policies promoted at international arenas. The book ... Read more

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    IMISCOE Regional Reader

    Edited by Joseph Kofi Teye ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access Regional Reader examines the dynamics and impacts of international migration within and from West Africa. The book presents key theoretical perspectives and empirical findings on historical trends, geographical patterns, drivers and socio-economic impacts of both voluntary and involuntary migration in West Africa, a region that is characterised by high level of mixed migration ... Read more

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  • Privatizing Water

    Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis

    by Karen Bakker ...
    Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower costs than governments; opponents questioned the risks involved in delegating control over a life-sustaining resource to for-profit companies. Private-sector activity was most concentrated—and contested—in large cities ... Read more

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  • Governance for Justice and Environmental Sustainability

    Lessons across Natural Resource Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Edited by Merle Sowman, Rachel Wynberg ...
    Understanding the governance of complex social-ecological systems is vital in a world faced with rapid environmental change, conflicts over dwindling natural resources, stark disparities between rich and poor and the crises of sustainability. Improved understanding is also essential to promote governance approaches that are underpinned by justice and equity principles and that aim to reduce ... Read more

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  • Canadian Parties in Transition, Fifth Edition

    Edited by Alain-G Gagnon, Brian Tanguay ...
    The fifth edition of Canadian Parties in Transition continues and enriches the work of earlier editions in bringing together a highly respected group of scholars to offer a comprehensive account of the development of party politics in Canada.The book addresses the origin and the evolution of the Canadian party system and discusses how that system has been impacted by regionalism, brokerage ... Read more

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  • The Atlas of Environmental Migration

    As climate change and extreme weather events increasingly threaten traditional landscapes and livelihoods of entire communities the need to study its impact on human migration and population displacement has never been greater.The Atlas of Environmental Migration is the first illustrated publication mapping this complex phenomenon. It clarifies terminology and concepts, draws a typology of ... Read more

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  • Climate Change, Forests and REDD

    Lessons for Institutional Design

    Series series Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
    A search for new methods for dealing with climate change led to the identification of forest maintenance as a potential policy option that could cost-effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with the development of measures for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). This book explores how an analysis of past forest governance patterns from the global through to ... Read more

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  • IDRC

    40 Years of Ideas, Innovation, and Impact

    The book focuses on the International Development Research Centre as a unique institution that has funded research in the developing South—research proposed and undertaken by Southern researchers—and how, as a result, it has had tremendous impact despite a relatively small budget. The IDRC is much better known in the developing South than in Canada; in many of the roughly 150 countries in which it ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing

    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    This handbook provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of global land and resource grabbing.Global land and resource grabbing has become an increasingly prominent topic in academic circles, among development practitioners, human rights advocates, and in policy arenas. The Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing sustains this intellectual momentum by advancing methodological, ... Read more

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  • Trading Fish, Saving Fish

    The Interaction between Regimes in International Law

    Series Book 76 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Numerous international legal regimes now seek to address the global depletion of fish stocks, and increasingly their activities overlap. The relevant laws were developed at different times by different groups of states. They are motivated by divergent economic approaches, influenced by disparate non-state actors, and implemented by separate institutions such as the World Trade Organization and the ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Climate Change, Migration and Human Rights

    Law and Policy Perspectives

    Series series Routledge Studies in Environmental Migration, Displacement and Resettlement
    Climate Change already having serious impacts on the lives of millions of people across the world. These impacts are not only ecological, but also social, economic and legal. Among the most significant of such impacts is climate change-induced migration. The implications of this on human rights raise pressing questions, which require serious scholarly reflection.Drawing together experts in this ... Read more

    $68.99 USD