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  • Strengthening the Environmental Dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific Tool Compendium

    by Asian Development Bank, United Nations, United Nations Environment Programme ...
    The Asian Development Bank (ADB), in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), prepared this tool compendium to help address the issues, challenges, and barriers faced by developing countries from Asia and the Pacific in the successful implementation of the environmental dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The tools presented here can help ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Global Environment Outlook 2000

    by United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) ...
    Series series Sustainable Development Set
    'The continued poverty of the majority of the planet's inhabitants and excessive consumption by the minority are the two major causes of environmental degradation The present course is unsustainable and postponing action is no longer an option. Inspired political leadership and intense cooperation across all regions and sectors will be needed to put both existing and new policy instruments to work ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Encountering Development

    The Making and Unmaking of the Third World

    by Arturo Escobar ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Living Constitution

    by David A. Strauss ...
    Series series Inalienable Rights
    Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once remarked that the theory of an evolving, "living" Constitution effectively "rendered the Constitution useless." He wanted a "dead Constitution," he joked, arguing it must be interpreted as the framers originally understood it. In The Living Constitution, leading constitutional scholar David Strauss forcefully argues against the claims of Scalia, Clarence ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Hidden Hunger

    Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods

    by Aya Hirata Kimura ...
    For decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need. In the 1990s, the international food policy community turned its focus to the "hidden hunger" of micronutrient deficiencies, a problem that resulted in two scientific solutions: fortification, the addition of nutrients to processed foods, and biofortification, the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Sustainable Development Goals in the Asian Context

    Edited by Jan Servaes ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book presents research that focuses on Sustainable Development in Asia. Chapters are extended works of papers presented at Communication/Culture and The Sustainable Development Goals (CCSDG): Challenges for a New Generation, an international conference held in Chiang Mai University in December 2015. The chapters address assessments of Millennium Development Goals in several Asian countries ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Living within a Fair Share Ecological Footprint

    Edited by Robert Vale, Brenda Vale ...
    According to many authorities the impact of humanity on the earth is already overshooting the earth’s capacity to supply humanity’s needs. This is an unsustainable position. This book does not focus on the problem but on the solution, by showing what it is like to live within a fair earth share ecological footprint.The authors describe numerical methods used to calculate this, concentrating on low ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • English and Development

    Policy, Pedagogy and Globalization

    Edited by Elizabeth J. Erling, Philip Seargeant ...
    Series Book 17 - Critical Language and Literacy Studies
    This book investigates the relationship between English and personal and national development, as this is both discursively promoted (particularly through language policy) and practically realized in developing societies. It addresses the effects that the increased use of English and the promotion of English-language education are having in developmental contexts, and their impact on broader ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Havana Habit

    by Gustavo Perez Firmat ...
    Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the U.S. coast. Yet the island’s influences on America’s cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained.In the engaging and wide-ranging Havana Habit, writer and scholar Gustavo Pérez Firmat probes the importance of Havana, and of greater Cuba, in the cultural history of the United States. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • World in Crisis

    Populations in Danger at the End of the 20th Century

    by Mécins Sans Frontiès/Doctors Without Borders ...
    The tragedies of war, famine, disease and poverty continue to dominate our headlines. Faced with such tragedy, the politics, ethics, even the economics of humanitarian aid are becoming more complex. The role of relief agencies, the political will of the West, the reponsibilities of the international community for war crimes and human rights - these are all issues at the heart of contemporary ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Alternative Irrigation

    The Promise of Runoff Agriculture

    by Christopher J Barrow ...
    An introduction to runoff agriculture - a form of agricultural irrigation - this text describes how the use of surface and subsurface water, often overlooked and wasted, enables both small farmers and commercial agriculturists to improve yields and the security of harvest, even in harsh and remote environments. The text introduces the techniques and strategies, as well as the challenges and the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Microfinance, Rights and Global Justice

    Edited by Tom Sorell, Luis Cabrera ...
    Microfinance - the practice of providing small loans to promote entrepreneurial activity among those with few financial assets - is increasingly seen as a sustainable means of aiding the global poor. Perhaps its most influential advocate, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, has claimed that there is a human right to microfinance, given its potential for poverty alleviation. This book directs critical ... Read more

    $98.39 USD