J. Timmons Roberts Nikki Demetria Thanos Timm Robert
Environmental degradation in Latin America has become one of the most pressing issues on the international agenda. The volume began to crescendo when space shuttle astronauts photographed five thousand fires on a single night in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondonia in 1985, and grew shrill when rubber tapper Chico Mendes was shot in 1988 trying to stop ranchers from clearing rainforests near his home in Acre. Since the early 80s, we've heard pleas from rock stars, environmental groups and scientists, asking us to focus our attention on environmental destruction in Latin America: oil spills,...
Environmental degradation in Latin America has become one of the most pressing issues on the international agenda. The volume began to crescendo when ...
Environmental degradation in Latin America has become one of the most pressing issues on the international agenda. The volume began to crescendo when space shuttle astronauts photographed five thousand fires on a single night in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondonia in 1985, and grew shrill when rubber tapper Chico Mendes was shot in 1988 trying to stop ranchers from clearing rainforests near his home in Acre. Since the early 80s, we've heard pleas from rock stars, environmental groups and scientists, asking us to focus our attention on environmental destruction in Latin America: oil spills,...
Environmental degradation in Latin America has become one of the most pressing issues on the international agenda. The volume began to crescendo when ...
J. Timmons Roberts Melissa M. Toffolon-Weiss Melissa M. Toffolon-Weiss
Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline describes four cases in Louisiana in which residents were locked in struggles with industry and government representatives over issues of environmental injustice. Roberts and Toffolon-Weiss explain how, at the end of the twentieth century, situations of environmental injustice were created and eventually resolved. The authors show that conflicts do not occur in a vacuum. Rather, one struggle changes policy, trains political actors, activists, and industry representatives, and can have a significant effect on all future struggles.
Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline describes four cases in Louisiana in which residents were locked in struggles with industry and go...
The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building aims to fill a gap in the literature by unearthing the ineffective and unsustainable practices of capacity building by bilateral and multilateral agencies in developing countries in the last decade, the gaps and lacunae in those processes, and the way forward. --
The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building aims to fill a gap in the literature by unearthing the ineffective and unsustainable practice...
From Modernization to Globalization is a reference for scholars, students and development practitioners on the issues of processes of social change and development in the "Third World." It provides carefully excerpted samples from both classic and up-to-date writings in the development literature, short, insightful introductions to each section and a general introduction.
From Modernization to Globalization is a reference for scholars, students and development practitioners on the issues of processes of social ch...
J. Timmons Roberts Melissa M. (University Of Alaska, Anchorage) Toffolon-Weiss
Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline describes four cases in Louisiana in which residents were locked in struggles with industry and government representatives over issues of environmental injustice. Roberts and Toffolon-Weiss explain how, at the end of the twentieth century, situations of environmental injustice were created and eventually resolved. The authors show that conflicts do not occur in a vacuum. Rather, one struggle changes policy, trains political actors, activists, and industry representatives, and can have a significant effect on all future struggles.
Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline describes four cases in Louisiana in which residents were locked in struggles with industry and go...
Latin American countries have increased their influence at the United Nations climate change negotiations and offered potential solutions on coping with global warming. But in the face of competing priorities, sometimes these climate policies are jettisoned, undermined, or simply ignored.
A Fragmented Continent focuses on Latin America's three major blocs at the U.N. climate negotiations and how they attempt to balance climate action with building prosperity. Brazil has reduced its deforestation but continues its drive for economic growth and global recognition. A leftist...
Latin American countries have increased their influence at the United Nations climate change negotiations and offered potential solutions on coping...
Ciplet, David; Roberts, J. Timmons; Khan, Mizan R.
After nearly a quarter century of international negotiations on climate change, we stand at a crossroads. A new set of agreements is likely to fail to prevent the global climate's destabilization. Islands and coastlines face inundation, and widespread drought, flooding, and famine are expected to worsen in the poorest and most vulnerable countries. How did we arrive at an entirely inequitable and scientifically inadequate international response to climate change?
In Power in a Warming World, David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts, and Mizan Khan, bring decades of combined...
After nearly a quarter century of international negotiations on climate change, we stand at a crossroads. A new set of agreements is likely to fail...
