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Cities, Networks, and Global Environmental Governance: Spaces of Innovation, Places of Leadership
ISBN: 9780415537513 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a result of global dynamics - the increasing interconnection of people and places - innovations in global environmental governance haved altered the role of cities in shaping the future of the planet. This book is a timely study of the importance of these social transformations in our increasingly global and urban world.
As a result of global dynamics - the increasing interconnection of people and places - innovations in global environmental governance haved altered th...
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Dilemmas, Challenges, and Ethics of Humanitarian Action: Reflections on Médecins Sans Frontières' Perception Project
ISBN: 9780773540859 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the ethical issues involved in providing humanitarian aid? What is the real impact of humanitarian groups? Medecins Sans Frontieres sought to answer these questions in the Perception Project, a study that spanned four years and more than ten countries. MSF interviewed close to 7,000 people in order to understand the ways that patients, populations, authorities, and communities perceive the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization's principles and medical practices. While the quality of its medical action is renowned and praised, MSF struggles with the ability to respond to crises, the...
What are the ethical issues involved in providing humanitarian aid? What is the real impact of humanitarian groups? Medecins Sans Frontieres sought to...
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Dilemmas, Challenges, and Ethics of Humanitarian Action: Reflections on Médecins Sans Frontières' Perception Project
ISBN: 9780773540866 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the ethical issues involved in providing humanitarian aid? What is the real impact of humanitarian groups? Medecins Sans Frontieres sought to answer these questions in the Perception Project, a study that spanned four years and more than ten countries. MSF interviewed close to 7,000 people in order to understand the ways that patients, populations, authorities, and communities perceive the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization's principles and medical practices. While the quality of its medical action is renowned and praised, MSF struggles with the ability to respond to crises, the...
What are the ethical issues involved in providing humanitarian aid? What is the real impact of humanitarian groups? Medecins Sans Frontieres sought to...
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106,83 |
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Limits to Freedom of Association of Civil Society Organizations in Latin America: Comparative view and special case study of Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuad
ISBN: 9781475023329 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Freedom of association is not a matter of good will or special concession from any government; it is a duty. Freedom of association is a fundamental human right embodied in labor movements, freedom of expression, democracy, and among other international instruments ratified by the States. Countries in Latin America have been limiting this fundamental right. This comparative study review the limits to Freedom of Association in "Alba" countries with a comparative view with the rest of the region.
Freedom of association is not a matter of good will or special concession from any government; it is a duty. Freedom of association is a fundamental h...
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39,91 |
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Your Mark On The World: Stories of service that show us how to give more with a purpose without giving up what's most important.
ISBN: 9781478239697 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Your Mark On The World combines inspiring stories of ordinary people doing remarkable things to make the world a better place with practical advice to empower anyone to give more to a cause (charity, non-profit or social venture) without giving up a career or family. The inspiring stories include: Botevy's life and death struggle through Pol Pot's killing fields that led her ultimately to create an orphanage in Phnom Penh. Rick's personal crusade to cure cystic fibrosis to ensure that his two afflicted grandchildren will attend his funeral and not the other way around. The eight-member Smith...
Your Mark On The World combines inspiring stories of ordinary people doing remarkable things to make the world a better place with practical advice to...
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59,66 |
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Online Collaborative Learning
ISBN: 9781937570217 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Perhaps, never before in the history of humankind has there been a period of such expansive, social, cultural and institutional change on a global scale as there is today. In this book, the author provides a detailed view on how non-governmental organizations can use information technology, online collaboration, and a plethora of web-based services and tools to attain their goals more effectively. The book combines practical advice with background information about strategic challenges which NGOs face in pursuance of their mission. It introduces to digital cultures and technologies and...
Perhaps, never before in the history of humankind has there been a period of such expansive, social, cultural and institutional change on a global sca...
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67,05 |
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The Rise of Japanese NGOs: Activism from Above
ISBN: 9780415690294 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past two decades, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have exploded in number and emerged as a new force in international and transnational politics. Why, however, do some countries nonetheless have more active NGO sectors than others? Using the case of Japan, this book uncovers patterns of convergence and divergence in levels of activism across industrialized countries and offers a two-level political explanation for the rise of NGOs as a global phenomenon. The author argues that activism has been cultivated from "above" and shows the ways in which political structures and... Over the past two decades, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have exploded in number and emerged as a new force in international and transnatio... |
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Building a Better International NGO : Greater Than the Sum of the Parts?
ISBN: 9781565495821 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The increasing complexity and interdependence of international NGOs has brought to the surface concerns not only about performance but about the structural aspects of NGO management at a practical level in the quest for performance maximization. This brief guidebook offers five different--although complementary--essays that address key questions about NGO management. Topics covered include organizational models, core competencies, NGO organizational structure options, the impact of new IT technologies on performance, and ways to operationalize strategic planning. While directly geared toward...
The increasing complexity and interdependence of international NGOs has brought to the surface concerns not only about performance but about the struc...
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247,75 |
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Building a Better International NGO : Greater Than the Sum of the Parts?
ISBN: 9781565495838 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The increasing complexity and interdependence of international NGOs has brought to the surface concerns not only about performance but about the structural aspects of NGO management at a practical level in the quest for performance maximization. This brief guidebook offers five different--although complementary--essays that address key questions about NGO management. Topics covered include organizational models, core competencies, NGO organizational structure options, the impact of new IT technologies on performance, and ways to operationalize strategic planning. While directly geared toward...
The increasing complexity and interdependence of international NGOs has brought to the surface concerns not only about performance but about the struc...
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Development Tourism: Lessons from Cuba
ISBN: 9780754675426 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tourism in Cuba - described by Fidel Castro as 'the evil we have to have' - has been regarded both with ambivalence, and as a crucial aspect of development and poverty alleviation. The result is a remarkable approach to tourism, one which often compels tourists to become agents of development through solidarity. Drawing on her experiences of working in an NGO in Cuba, the author uses a multi-sited ethnographic approach to investigate tourism motivations and experiences, and to examine the very nature of development. Her analysis covers a wide range of issues including social change,...
Tourism in Cuba - described by Fidel Castro as 'the evil we have to have' - has been regarded both with ambivalence, and as a crucial aspect of develo...
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Democracy Assistance from the Third Wave: Polish Engagement in Belarus and Ukraine
ISBN: 9780822962717 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The role of Western NGOs in the transition of postcommunist nations to democracy has been well documented. In this study, Paulina Pospieszna follows a different trajectory, examining the role of a former aid recipient (Poland), newly democratic itself, and its efforts to aid democratic transitions in the neighboring states of Belarus and Ukraine.
Belarus is widely regarded as the most authoritarian state in the region, while Ukraine is witnessing a slow, if often troubled, democratic consolidation. Each state presents a different set of challenges to outside agencies. As Pospieszna shows,... The role of Western NGOs in the transition of postcommunist nations to democracy has been well documented. In this study, Paulina Pospieszna follows a...
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250,31 |
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Creating Community Cohesion: Religion, Media and Multiculturalism
ISBN: 9780230236455 / Angielski / Twarda / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using approaches from sociology, media and religious studies, David Herbert compares recent public controversies involving or implicating religion in the UK (England and Northern Ireland), the Netherlands and France.
Using approaches from sociology, media and religious studies, David Herbert compares recent public controversies involving or implicating religion in ...
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201,24 |
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Environmentalism, Resistance and Solidarity: The Politics of Friends of the Earth International
ISBN: 9780230250352 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing from a rich mix of survey data, interviews, and access to internal meetings, Brian Doherty and Timothy Doyle show how FoEI has developed a distinctive environmentalism, which allows for the differences in context between regions and across the North-South divide.
Drawing from a rich mix of survey data, interviews, and access to internal meetings, Brian Doherty and Timothy Doyle show how FoEI has developed a dis...
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201,24 |
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South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics
ISBN: 9780230360624 / Angielski / Twarda / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. South Africa has the world's largest number of people living with HIV. This book offers a history of AIDS activism in South Africa from its origins in gay and anti-apartheid activism to the formation and consolidation of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), including its central role in the global HIV treatment access movement.
South Africa has the world's largest number of people living with HIV. This book offers a history of AIDS activism in South Africa from its origins in...
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201,24 |
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The World Health Organization (Who)
ISBN: 9780415370134 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The World Health Organization (WHO), as the United Nations agency for health, has been at the centre of international health cooperation. This book analyzes the WHO's role in international cooperation, examining its structures, programmes and individuals.
The World Health Organization (WHO), as the United Nations agency for health, has been at the centre of international health cooperation. This book an...
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184,55 |
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Religions and Development
ISBN: 9780415613507 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past 5 or so years there has been a noticeable shift within development policy, practice and research to include religion as a relevant factor. While in practice religious traditions have contributed much to various sorts of 'development' work, until very recently this has tended to be ignored by major international development players. This book presents, explains and critically evaluates different sorts of literature from a range of disciplines that are relevant to thinking about the relationships between religions and development.
Over the past 5 or so years there has been a noticeable shift within development policy, practice and research to include religion as a relevant facto...
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203,98 |
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The International Organization for Standardization (Iso): Global Governance Through Voluntary Consensus
ISBN: 9780415774284 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), a large nongovernmental, global regulatory network whose scope and influence rivals that of the UN system. It explores the ISO's role as a facilitator of essential economic infrastructure and the implication of ISO techniques for a much wider realm of global governance.
A study of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), a large nongovernmental, global regulatory network whose scope and influence riva...
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194,26 |
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Collective Action in Organizations: Interaction and Engagement in an Era of Technological Change
ISBN: 9780521191722 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging the notion that digital media render traditional, formal organizations irrelevant, this book offers a new theory of collective action and organizing. Based on extensive surveys and interviews with members of three influential and distinctive organizations in the United States - The American Legion, AARP, and MoveOn - the authors reconceptualize collective action as a phenomenon in which technology enhances people s ability to cross boundaries in order to interact with one another and engage with organizations. By developing a theory of Collective Action Space, Bimber, Flanagin,...
Challenging the notion that digital media render traditional, formal organizations irrelevant, this book offers a new theory of collective action and ...
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351,47 |
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In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism
ISBN: 9780691158563 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
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558,65 |
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In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism
ISBN: 9780691158570 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
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