This title offers a comparative overview of international and national experiences of the avian influenza response over the past decade. The book analyses the underlying politics of policy in the response, highlighting lessons and implications for national and international institutions.
This title offers a comparative overview of international and national experiences of the avian influenza response over the past decade. The book anal...
This book tells the story of development studies in practice over the last fifty years through the work of one remarkable individual, Robert Chambers. His work has taken him from being a colonial officer in Kenya through training and managing large rural development projects to a fundamental critique of top-down development and the championing of participatory approaches. The contributors eloquently demonstrate how he has been at the centre of major shifts in development thinking and practice over this period, popularising terms that are now at the centre of the development lexicon such as...
This book tells the story of development studies in practice over the last fifty years through the work of one remarkable individual, Robert Chambe...
This text argues that, while we should not ignore the profound difficulties of creating secure livelihoods in the Greater Horn of Africa, there is much to be learned from development successes, large and small.
This text argues that, while we should not ignore the profound difficulties of creating secure livelihoods in the Greater Horn of Africa, there is muc...
This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what? Who does what? Who gets what? And what do they do with the surplus wealth? It also addresses the emergent social and political relations in the biofuel complex and, given the impacts on natural resources and sustainability, engages with questions about people-environment interactions. At the same...
This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based...
Multiple 'green transformations' are required if humanity is to live sustainably on planet Earth. Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes the current challenge different, and especially urgent. It examines how green transformations must take place in the context of the particular moments of capitalist development, and in relation to particular alliances. The role of the state is emphasised, both in terms of the type of incentives required to make green transformations politically feasible and the way states must take a developmental role in financing innovation and...
Multiple 'green transformations' are required if humanity is to live sustainably on planet Earth. Recalling past transformations, this book examine...
Multiple 'green transformations' are required if humanity is to live sustainably on planet Earth. Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes the current challenge different, and especially urgent. It examines how green transformations must take place in the context of the particular moments of capitalist development, and in relation to particular alliances. The role of the state is emphasised, both in terms of the type of incentives required to make green transformations politically feasible and the way states must take a developmental role in financing innovation and...
Multiple 'green transformations' are required if humanity is to live sustainably on planet Earth. Recalling past transformations, this book examine...
Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projects across the world, designed to conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks in order to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and offset emissions elsewhere. Exploring a set of new empirical case studies, Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa examines how these projects are unfolding, their effects, and who is gaining and losing. Situating forest carbon approaches as part of more general moves to address environmental problems by attaching market values to...
Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projects across the world, designed to co...
This study draws together 17 cases from African, Asian and Latin American settings to ask: To what extent and in what ways do 'green grabs' constitute new forms of appropriation of nature? How and when do appropriations on the ground emerge out of circulations of green capital. Are the ecologies, landscapes and livelihoods gaining or losing?
This study draws together 17 cases from African, Asian and Latin American settings to ask: To what extent and in what ways do 'green grabs' constitute...
