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“roberto lenton”

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  • Confronting Water Insecurity

    Global Institutions and the Transformation of Water Science, Policy, and Practice

    by Roberto L. Lenton ...
    Confronting Water Insecurity provides an account of the role of multilateral cooperation and global institutions in transforming science, policy, and practice for water security from 1945 to 2024, a period characterized by significant disparities in water security between low- and high-income countries, ever-rising water use, and growing concerns about the harms of climate change and other ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Integrated Water Resources Management in Practice

    Better Water Management for Development

    Edited by Roberto Lenton, Mike Muller ...
    Better water management will be crucial if we are to meet many of the key challenges of this century - feeding the worlds growing population and reducing poverty, meeting water and sanitation needs, protecting vital ecosystems, all while adapting to climate change. The approach known as Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is widely recognized as the best way forward, but is poorly ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    In July 2011, South Sudan was granted independence and became the world's newest country. Yet just two-and-a-half years after this momentous decision, the country was in the grips of renewed civil war and political strife. Hilde F. Johnson served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan from July 2011 until July 2014 ... Read more

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  • Does Foreign Aid Really Work?

    by Roger C. Riddell ...
    Foreign aid is now a $100bn business and is expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? Other attempts to answer these important questions have been dominated by a focus on the impact of official aid provided by governments. But today possibly as much as 30 percent of aid is provided by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and over 10 ... Read more

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  • Fast Fashion

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    by Andrew Brooks ...
    Fast Fashion: A cut from Clothing Poverty marks the two-year anniversary of the disastrous collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh on 24 April 2013.Featuring a new introduction along with a chapter from the previously published Clothing Poverty: The hidden world of fast fashion and second-hand clothes, Andrew Brooks stitches together the events of the Rana Plaza tragedy with the hidden ... Read more

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  • India

    A Portrait

    by Patrick French ...
    A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul.Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this dazzlingly panoramic book, ... Read more

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  • Ethics of Global Development

    Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy

    by David A. Crocker ...
    Poverty, inequality, violence, environmental degradation, and tyranny continue to afflict the world. Ethics of Global Development offers a moral reflection on the ends and means of local, national, and global efforts to overcome these five scourges. After emphasizing the role of ethics in development studies, policy-making, and practice, David A. Crocker analyzes and evaluates Amartya Sen's ... Read more

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  • Out of the Mainstream

    Water Rights, Politics and Identity

    Edited by Rutgerd Boelens, David Getches, Armando Guevara-Gil ...
    Water is not only a source of life and culture. It is also a source of power, conflicting interests and identity battles. Rights to materially access, culturally organize and politically control water resources are poorly understood by mainstream scientific approaches and hardly addressed by current normative frameworks. These issues become even more challenging when law and policy-makers and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Sustainable Development of Rice and Water Resources in Mainland Southeast Asia and Mekong River Basin

    by Tuyet L. Cosslett, Patrick D. Cosslett ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book highlights rice and water resources security in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam – countries that share the international Mekong River, which is a source of both regional cooperation and conflict. It discusses the topography, population, economy, rice production and rice trade of these four riparian countries, and analyses the impacts of climate change, El Nino and La Nina, and the ... Read more

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  • Colonial Mentality in Africa

    by Nkuzi Michael Nnam ...
    Intended for a broad audience, Colonial Mentality in Africa explores the lingering effects of colonization in present day Africa. Despite the independence of all African nations from their former colonizers mental slavery still persists. This new work explores the social climate of Africa and the thriving "colonial mentality". The book explores issues such as matriarchy, religion, tradition and ... Read more

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  • Water Policy in the Philippines

    Issues, Initiatives, and Prospects

    Edited by Agnes C. Rola, Juan M. Pulhin, Rosalie Arcala Hall ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book describes challenges in the policy and practices of the various water sectors in the Philippines that have led to water conflicts. Such conflicts arise in the nature of rural-urban competition, trans-administrative boundary issues, and inconsistencies between customary and state rules, and even within state rules. Using inter-, multi- and trans-disciplinary approaches, and analysing from ... Read more

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  • Landscapes of Fear

    Understanding Impunity in India

    Edited by Patrick Hoenig, Navsharan Singh ...
    Drawing on the findings of a comparative research project, this volume tackles a set of intricate questions about the workings of impunity in India. How do victims of abuse and survivors of sexual violence end up being denied justice? What do those on the margins—those with the wrong sex, wrong identity markers, wrong political leanings— tell us about violence by state and non-state actors ... Read more

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