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  • Reconsidering Resilience in African Pastoralism

    Towards a Relational and Contextual Approach

    Edited by Shinya Konaka, Greta Semplici, Peter D Little ...
    What does resilience mean? This is a question frequently asked and one that this book challenges and turns on its head. This book interrogates the increasingly overused concept of resilience by examining its application to a series of case studies focused on pastoralists in Africa. Through anthropological approaches, the book prioritises the localisation of resilience in context and practice; how ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lands At Risk In The Third World

    Local-level Perspectives

    by Peter D. Little ...
    This book presents case studies highlighting social, economic, political, and biological dimensions of environmental degradation in the Third World. It uses local data to examine, test, and refine larger explanatory models and theories. . ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Economic and Political Reform in Africa

    Anthropological Perspectives

    by Peter D. Little ...
    What are the local effects of major economic and political reforms in Africa? How have globalized pro-market and pro-democracy reforms impacted local economics and communities? Examining case studies from The Gambia, Ghana, Mozambique, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia, Peter D. Little shows how rural farmers and others respond to complex agendas of governments, development agencies, and non ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Commodities and Globalization

    Anthropological Perspectives

    by Peter D. Little, Jane L. Collins, Winifred Creamer, Catherine S. Dolan, Stuart Plattner, Nicole Polier, Bruce D. Roberts, Mitchell S. Rothman0, Lois Stanford1, M Priscilla Stone2, Gabriela Vargas-Cetina3, Bob White4, Randy Ziegenhorn5 ...
    Series series Monographs in Economic Anthropology Series
    TodayOs growing fascination with flows of people, commodities, technology, capital, images and ideas across national and other boundaries poses fresh theoretical and methodological challenges to anthropology. Commodities offer a particularly useful window on globalization because they, unlike electronically conveyed capital, transport cultural messages. These ideological or symbolic transfers are ... Read more

    $34.09 USD

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    How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

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  • Blue Gold

    The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water

    by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke ...
    "Probably the most eloquent call to arms we're likely to hear about the politics of water" ( The Globe and Mail , Toronto).In this "chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis," Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy ( In These Times). Our ... Read more

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  • Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    "How to build a more just world and save the planet....We should all heed Brown's advice."—Bill ClintonIn this updated edition of the landmark Plan B, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first-century civilization. The world faces many environmental trends of disruption and decline, including rising temperatures and spreading water shortage. In addition to these looming ... Read more

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  • Water

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    Water is our planet’s most precious resource. It is required by every living thing, yet a huge proportion of the world’s population struggles to access clean water daily. Agriculture, aquaculture, industry, and energy all depend on it - yet its provision and safety engender widespread conflict; battles likely to intensify as threats to freshwater abundance and quality, such as climate change, ... Read more

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  • Adapting Cities to Climate Change

    Understanding and Addressing the Development Challenges

    Edited by David Dodman, Jane Bicknell, David Satterthwaite ...
    Series series Earthscan Climate
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    Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use

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    Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning and degradation of farmland. These areas, home to hundreds of millions of people, face unique problems and need distinctive and ... Read more

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  • Water, Peace, and War

    Confronting the Global Water Crisis

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  • Our Forest, Your Ecosystem, Their Timber

    Communities, Conservation, and the State in Community-Based Forest Management

    by Nicholas Menzies ...
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