Climate-Resilient Development: Participatory solutions from developing countries
ISBN: 9780415820783 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The concept of resilience currently infuses policy debates and public discourse and is promoted as a normative concept in climate policy making by governments, non-governmental organizations, and think-tanks. The book unpicks ideas about Climate Resilient Development as promoted by powerful development policy stakeholders such as the World Bank. It argues that the prescriptions are overwhelmingly technocratic and managerial, and consequently hamper dynamic processes and change. This book critically discusses climate resilient development in the context of current deficiencies of... The concept of resilience currently infuses policy debates and public discourse and is promoted as a normative concept in climate policy making by ... |
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107,95 zł |
Agricultural Input Subsidies: The Recent Malawi Experience
ISBN: 9780199683529 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Agricultural input subsidies have been adopted on a large scale across different African countries in the last few years. However global experience with input subsidies has been mixed, and there is considerable concern that current input subsidies will turn out to be expensive political programmes with very limited development benefits. There is, however, also... This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and...
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510,36 zł |
Toward a New Climate Agreement: Conflict, Resolution and Governance
ISBN: 9780415643795 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climate change is one of the most pressing problems facing the global community. Although most states agree that climate change is occurring and is at least partly the result of humans reliance on fossil fuels, managing a changing global climate is a formidable challenge. Underlying this challenge is the fact that states are sovereign, governed by their own laws and regulations. Sovereignty requires that states address global problems such as climate change on a voluntary basis, by negotiating international agreements. Despite a consensus on the need for global action, many questions... Climate change is one of the most pressing problems facing the global community. Although most states agree that climate change is occurring and is... |
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734,76 zł |
Gender, Mobilities, and Livelihood Transformations: Comparing Indigenous People in China, India, and Laos
ISBN: 9780415813532 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the era of globalization many minority populations are subject to marginalization and expulsion from their traditional habitats due to rapid economic restructuring and changing politico-spatial relations. This book presents an analytical framework for understanding how mobility is an inherent part of such changes. In the era of globalization many minority populations are subject to marginalization and expulsion from their traditional habitats due to rapid eco... |
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481,34 zł |
Mining and Social Transformation in Africa: Mineralizing and Democratizing Trends in Artisanal Production
ISBN: 9780415833707 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After more than three decades of economic malaise, many African countries are experiencing an upsurge in their economic fortunes linked to the booming international market for minerals. Spurred by the shrinking viability of peasant agriculture, rural dwellers have been engaged in a massive search for alternative livelihoods, one of the most lucrative being artisanal mining. While an expanding literature has documented the economic expansion of artisanal mining, this book is the first to probe its societal impact, demonstrating that artisanal mining has the potential to be far more... After more than three decades of economic malaise, many African countries are experiencing an upsurge in their economic fortunes linked to the boom... |
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709,42 zł |
Rural Livelihoods in China: Political Economy in Transition
ISBN: 9780415844673 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent decades, China has undergone rapid economic growth, industrialisation and urbanisation concomitant with deep and extensive structural and social change, profoundly reshaping the country's development landscape and urban-rural relationships. This book applies livelihoods approaches to deepen our understanding of the changes and continuities related to rural livelihoods within the wider context of political economy of development in post-socialist China, bridging the urban and rural scenarios and probing the local, national and global dynamics that have impacted on livelihood, in... In recent decades, China has undergone rapid economic growth, industrialisation and urbanisation concomitant with deep and extensive structural and... |
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709,42 zł |
Internationaler Handel Und Umweltschutz: Zielkonflikte Und Ansatzpunkte Des Interessenausgleichs
ISBN: 9783642631672 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Wechselwirkungen und der Konflikt zwischen Umweltschutz, internationaler Handelspolitik und Handelsliberalisierung werden seit Beginn der 90er Jahre intensiv in Fachkreisen diskutiert. Seit den gewalttatigen Protesten wahrend der Ministerkonferenz in Seattle 1999, die sich gerade aus Furcht vor einem Abbau nationaler Umweltschutzstandards gegen eine weitere Liberalisierung des internationalen Handels richteten, ist die Welthandelsorganisation (WTO) einer breiten Offentlichkeit ein Begriff. Das Buch analysiert den Konflikt zwischen dem Welthandelsystem, der WTO und umweltpolitischen...
Die Wechselwirkungen und der Konflikt zwischen Umweltschutz, internationaler Handelspolitik und Handelsliberalisierung werden seit Beginn der 90er Jah...
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138,45 zł |
Chancen Erneuerbarer Energieträger: Mögliche Beiträge Und Beschäftigungseffekte
ISBN: 9783642635946 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Autoren betrachten in diesem Buch die Chancen erneuerbarer Energietrager auf dem Energiemarkt unter verschiedenen Aspekten. Anhand von Beispielen wird u.a. das Potential erneuerbarer Energietrager im Verbund mit der konventionellen Energieversorgung untersucht, es werden die damit verbundenen Kosten ausgewiesen sowie daraus resultierende Arbeitsmarkteffekte analysiert. In diesem Zusammenhang pladieren die Autoren fur eine ausgewogenere volkswirtschaftliche Betrachtungsweise, die nicht nur die mit einem verstarkten Ausbau ressourcenschonender Energien verbundenen positiven...
Die Autoren betrachten in diesem Buch die Chancen erneuerbarer Energietrager auf dem Energiemarkt unter verschiedenen Aspekten. Anhand von Beispielen ...
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218,68 zł |
Bodenbelastungen Durch Luftschadstoffe: Perspektiven Eines Umweltpolitischen Handlungsfeldes
ISBN: 9783642638077 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Versauerung von Boden ist eines der zentralen Themen einer an Nachhaltigkeit orientierten Umwelt- und Wirtschaftspolitik. Wirksame Umweltentlastungen konnen hier nur durch Massnahmen in so unterschiedlichen Bereichen wie Energiewirtschaft, Verkehr und Landwirtschaft erzielt werden. Das Buch bietet neben einer detaillierten Analyse von Emissionsverlauf und -struktur der wichtigsten Schadstoffe zunachst einen umfangreichen Uberblick zu den notwendigen Emissionsminderungen. Anschliessend werden die bisher in Deutschland sowie auf internationaler Ebene ergriffenen politischen Instrumente zur...
Die Versauerung von Boden ist eines der zentralen Themen einer an Nachhaltigkeit orientierten Umwelt- und Wirtschaftspolitik. Wirksame Umweltentlastun...
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218,68 zł |
Index Numbers: Essays in Honour of Sten Malmquist
ISBN: 9789401060356 / Angielski / Miękka / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Professor Sten Malmquist constructed the Malmquist quantity index and in doing so developed a distance function defined on a consumption space. This function is the consumer analog to the Shephard input distance function of producers and is used in ratio form to define the quantity index. This volume contains new contributions based on Malmquist's work nearly 50 years ago and provides modern perspectives on the value of this research.
Professor Sten Malmquist constructed the Malmquist quantity index and in doing so developed a distance function defined on a consumption space. This f...
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585,00 zł |
Determining the Value of Non-Marketed Goods: Economic, Psychological, and Policy Relevant Aspects of Contingent Valuation Methods
ISBN: 9789401062558 / Angielski / Miękka / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contingent valuation (CV) measures what is called passive use value or existence value. The CV method has been used to measure the benefits of environmental policy actions. CV measures of economic value rely on choice. In CV studies, choices are posed to people in surveys; analysts then use the responses to these choice questions to construct monetary measures of value. The specific mechanism used to elicit respondents' choices can take a variety of forms, including asking survey respondents whether they would purchase, vote, or pay for a program or some other well-defined object of choice....
Contingent valuation (CV) measures what is called passive use value or existence value. The CV method has been used to measure the benefits of environ...
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Global Resources: Conflict and Cooperation
ISBN: 9780230360501 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This EU-funded project examines the dynamics of conflict, collaboration and competition in relation to access to oil, gas and minerals. It involves 12 different institutions from across the EU and examines oil, gas and other minerals - spanning geology, technology studies, sociology, economics and political science.
This EU-funded project examines the dynamics of conflict, collaboration and competition in relation to access to oil, gas and minerals. It involves 12...
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194,97 zł |
Overdressed
ISBN: 9781591846543 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Overdressed does for T-shirts and leggings what Fast Food Nation did for burgers and fries.-
--Katha Pollitt Cheap fashion has fundamentally changed the way most Americans dress. Stores ranging from discounters like Target to traditional chains like JCPenny now offer the newest trends at unprecedentedly low prices. And we have little reason to keep wearing and repairing the clothes we already own when styles change so fast and it's cheaper to just buy more. Cline sets out to uncover the true nature of the cheap fashion juggernaut. What are we doing with... -Overdressed does for T-shirts and leggings what Fast Food Nation did for burgers and fries.-
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77,30 zł |
Transport, Climate Change and the City
ISBN: 9780415660020 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainable mobility has long been sought after in cities around the world, particularly in industrialised countries, but also increasingly in the emerging cities in Asia. Progress however appears difficult to make as the private car, still largely fuelled by petrol or diesel, remains the mainstream mode of use. Transport is the key sector where carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions seem difficult to reduce. " Transport, Climate Change and the City" seeks to develop achievable and low transport CO2 emission futures in a range of international case studies, including in London, Oxfordshire,... Sustainable mobility has long been sought after in cities around the world, particularly in industrialised countries, but also increasingly in the ... |
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709,42 zł |
Intimate Economies of Development: Mobility, Sexuality and Health in Asia
ISBN: 9780415817738 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aspirations, desires, opportunism and exploitation are seldom considered as fundamental elements of donor-driven development as it impacts on the lives of people in poor countries. Yet, alongside structural interventions, emotional or affective engagements are central to processes of social change and the making of selves for those caught up in development s slipstream. " Intimate Economies of Development" lays bare the ways that culture, sexuality and health are inevitably and inseparably linked to material economies within trajectories of modernization in the Greater Mekong... Aspirations, desires, opportunism and exploitation are seldom considered as fundamental elements of donor-driven development as it impacts on the l... |
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456,00 zł |
Implementing Sustainability in Higher Education: Learning in an Age of Transformation
ISBN: 9780415833745 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the transformation towards sustainability is a societal learning process, education in general and higher education in particular have become the place in which future key agents of change are educated. This book asks how we can equip students and scholars with the capabilities to contribute to a more sustainable future, and the higher education curriculum can be changed in a way to facilitate the paradigm shift needed. Across the globe, a rising number of higher education institutions and academics are responding to these questions by transforming their own teaching and learning and their...
As the transformation towards sustainability is a societal learning process, education in general and higher education in particular have become the p...
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734,76 zł |
Urban Waste and Sanitation Services for Sustainable Development: Harnessing Social and Technical Diversity in East Africa
ISBN: 9780415833776 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urban sanitation and solid waste sectors are under significant pressure in East Africa due to the lack of competent institutional capacity and the growth of the region's urban population. This book presents and applies an original analytical approach to assess the existing socio-technical mixtures of waste and sanitation systems and to ensure wider access, increase flexibility and ecological sustainability. It shows how the problem is not the current diversity in waste and sanitation infrastructures and services and variety of types and scales of technology, of formal and informal sector... Urban sanitation and solid waste sectors are under significant pressure in East Africa due to the lack of competent institutional capacity and the ... |
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709,42 zł |
Confronting Land and Property Problems for Peace
ISBN: 9780415855853 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection clarifies the background of land and property problems in conflict-affected settings, and explores appropriate policy measures for peace-building. While land and property problems exist in any society, they can be particularly exacerbated in conflict-affected settings - characterized by unstable security, weak governance, loss of proper documentation as well as the return of refugees and Internally Displaced Persons. Unless these problems are properly addressed, they can destabilize fragile political order and hinder economic recovery. Although tackling land and property... This collection clarifies the background of land and property problems in conflict-affected settings, and explores appropriate policy measures for ... |
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506,73 zł |
Economic Incentives for Marine and Coastal Conservation: Prospects, Challenges and Policy Implications
ISBN: 9780415855976 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marine and coastal resources provide millions of people with their livelihoods, such as fishing and tourism, and a range of critical additional ecosystem services, from biodiversity and culture to carbon storage and flood protection. Yet across the world, these resources are fast-diminishing under the weight of pollution, land clearance, coastal development, overfishing, natural disasters and climate change. This book shows how economic instruments can be used to incentivize the conservation of marine and coastal resources. It is shown that traditional approaches to halt the decline... Marine and coastal resources provide millions of people with their livelihoods, such as fishing and tourism, and a range of critical additional eco... |
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658,75 zł |
Non-Timber Forest Products in the Global Context
ISBN: 9783642267550 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive, global synthesis of current knowledge on the potential and challenges associated with the multiple roles, use, management and marketing of non-timber forest products (NTFPs). There has been considerable research and policy effort surrounding NTFPs over the last two and half decades. The book explores the evolution of sentiments regarding the potential of NTFPs in promoting options for sustainable multi-purpose forest management, income generation and poverty alleviation. Based on a critical analysis of the debates and discourses it employs a systematic... This book provides a comprehensive, global synthesis of current knowledge on the potential and challenges associated with the multiple roles, use, ... |
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585,00 zł |