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Human Health and Forests: A Global Overview of Issues, Practice and Policy
ISBN: 9780415848879 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hundreds of millions of people live and work in forests across the world. One vital aspect of their lives, yet largely unexamined, is the challenge of protecting and enhancing the unique relationship between the health of forests and the health of people. This book, written for a broad audience, is the first comprehensive introduction to the issues surrounding the health of people living in and around forests, particularly in Asia, South America and Africa. Part one is a set of synthesis chapters, addressing policy, public health, environmental conservation and ecological perspectives on...
Hundreds of millions of people live and work in forests across the world. One vital aspect of their lives, yet largely unexamined, is the challenge of...
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Strategies for National Sustainable Development: A Handbook for Their Planning and Implementation
ISBN: 9780415850865 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The IUCN Strategies for Sustainable Development Handbook Series This handbook is one in a series being produced by IUCN and its partners to assist countries and communities implement Agenda 21, the action programme of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. The series will include handbooks on national strategies for sustainable development, local strategies, assessing progress towards sustainability, biodiversity action plans, .involving indigenous peoples, and on integrating population and resource use planning; and regular companion volumes of case studies addressing...
The IUCN Strategies for Sustainable Development Handbook Series This handbook is one in a series being produced by IUCN and its partners to assist co...
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The Reality of Aid 1996: An independent review of international aid
ISBN: 9780415851480 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Should be on the shelf of any academic, student, NGO activist or politician with an interest in aid issues. It should also be required reading for donor agency officials' Development and Change 'As accessible as it is comprehensive? has established itself as a reliable 'watchdog' for anyone interested in this important aspect of international relations' ORBIT Despite commitments to eradicate poverty, 21 of the world's richest nations have slashed their aid to the world's poorest countries to just 0.3% of GNP, its lowest level for more than 20 years. In real terms, aid in 1994 was below the...
'Should be on the shelf of any academic, student, NGO activist or politician with an interest in aid issues. It should also be required reading for do...
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Women and the Environment in the Third World: Alliance for the Future
ISBN: 9780415852159 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'This book ...should be issued to grass-root organisations everywhere' Doris Lessing, The New Scientist 'It is must reading for government planners, environmentalists and the ordinary layman' Asia Week Women in the Third World play the major role in managing natural resources. They are also the first and hardest hit by environmental mismanagement, yet they are neither consulted nor taken into account by development strategists. lrene Dankelman and Joan Davidson provide a clear account of the problems faced by women in the management of land, water, forests, energy and human settlements. They...
'This book ...should be issued to grass-root organisations everywhere' Doris Lessing, The New Scientist 'It is must reading for government planners, e...
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Sustainable Sanitation for All: Experiences, Challenges and Innovations
ISBN: 9781853399275 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainable Sanitation for All describes the landscape of sustainability of CLTS as it is now, and reflects on key aspects, challenges, innovations and insights around sustainability for the future. It clarifies a future research agenda and gaps in current knowledge, and makes recommendations on policy and practice.
Sustainable Sanitation for All describes the landscape of sustainability of CLTS as it is now, and reflects on key aspects, challenges, innovat...
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Negotiating Knowledge: Evidence and Experience in Development Ngos
ISBN: 9781853399251 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Negotiating Knowledge draws on a diversity of scholarly and practitioner research across three continents, and a number of case study civil society organizations, operating within local, national, and global spheres, to illuminate these challenges for practitioners, scholars, donors and policy-makers.
Negotiating Knowledge draws on a diversity of scholarly and practitioner research across three continents, and a number of case study civil soc...
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Negotiating Knowledge: Evidence and Experience in Development Ngos
ISBN: 9781853399268 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Negotiating Knowledge draws on a diversity of scholarly and practitioner research across three continents, and a number of case study civil society organizations, operating within local, national, and global spheres, to illuminate these challenges for practitioners, scholars, donors and policy-makers.
Negotiating Knowledge draws on a diversity of scholarly and practitioner research across three continents, and a number of case study civil soc...
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Rethink, Retool, Reboot: Technology as If People and Planet Mattered
ISBN: 9781853399046 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Technology underpins human development. We need it to provide the very basics of a minimum standard of life - food, water, shelter, health and education. But a significant proportion of the world's population do not have these basics today. And while a fifth of the world's population lacks access to technologies fundamental to a basic standard of living, unfettered use of technology by those who have it brings its own problems - including pollution, global warming and threats to the sustainable future of humanity. So why are we so slow to address these issues? Why is it that the drivers of...
Technology underpins human development. We need it to provide the very basics of a minimum standard of life - food, water, shelter, health and educati...
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Know India - Culture, Places and Much More
ISBN: 9781533031594 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every culture is valuable to that particular population largely for emotional and territorial reasons. But the significance of Indian culture is that it is a scientific process towards human liberation and well-being. No other culture has looked at a human being with as much depth and understanding as this culture has. No other culture has looked at it as a science and created methods to evolve a person into his ultimate nature. We know if you do certain things, this will happen to a human being. To put it very bluntly, I would say we have technologies as to how to manufacture an enlightened...
Every culture is valuable to that particular population largely for emotional and territorial reasons. But the significance of Indian culture is that ...
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Better Ways to Achieve Good Governance in Nigeria: : A Critical Look at Governance in Nigeria
ISBN: 9780994534774 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Orderly Entrepreneur: Youth, Education, and Governance in Rwanda
ISBN: 9780804799850 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first generation of children born after Rwanda's 1994 genocide is just now reaching maturity, setting aside their school uniforms to take up adult roles in Rwandan society and the economy. At the same time, Rwanda's post-war government has begun to shrug off international aid as it pursues an increasingly independent path of business-friendly yet strongly state-regulated social and economic development. The Orderly Entrepreneur tells the story of a new Rwanda now at the vanguard among developing countries, emulating the policies of Singapore, Korea, and China, and devoutly...
The first generation of children born after Rwanda's 1994 genocide is just now reaching maturity, setting aside their school uniforms to take up adult...
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The Orderly Entrepreneur: Youth, Education, and Governance in Rwanda
ISBN: 9780804797979 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first generation of children born after Rwanda's 1994 genocide is just now reaching maturity, setting aside their school uniforms to take up adult roles in Rwandan society and the economy. At the same time, Rwanda's post-war government has begun to shrug off international aid as it pursues an increasingly independent path of business-friendly yet strongly state-regulated social and economic development. The Orderly Entrepreneur tells the story of a new Rwanda now at the vanguard among developing countries, emulating the policies of Singapore, Korea, and China, and devoutly... The first generation of children born after Rwanda's 1994 genocide is just now reaching maturity, setting aside their school uniforms to take up ad... |
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Children and the Capability Approach
ISBN: 9781349329984 / Angielski / Miękka / 353 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring a wide variety of case studies and developmental issues from a capability perspective, this book is an original contribution to both development and children's studies that raises a strong case for placing children's issues at the core of human development.
Exploring a wide variety of case studies and developmental issues from a capability perspective, this book is an original contribution to both develop...
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Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies
ISBN: 9781349335329 / Angielski / Miękka / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume studies the relation between globalization and inequalities in emerging societies by linking Area and Global Studies, aiming at a new theory of inequality beyond the nation state and beyond Eurocentrism.
This volume studies the relation between globalization and inequalities in emerging societies by linking Area and Global Studies, aiming at a new theo...
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Representing India: Ethnic Diversity and the Governance of Public Institutions
ISBN: 9781349540594 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a study of how ethnic diversity is represented in public institutions in India, and how politics manages ethnic inequalities. New data on representational patterns in parliament cover the diversity of caste, tribe and religion. Material disadvantage is central to ethnic and cultural inequality as social and economic inequalities overlap.
This is a study of how ethnic diversity is represented in public institutions in India, and how politics manages ethnic inequalities. New data on repr...
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Evaluation of the Role of Undp in Supporting National Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals
ISBN: 9789211263770 / Angielski / Miękka / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An independent thematic evaluation conducted by the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2014. The evaluation focuses on the tools and initiatives provided by UNDP in support of government and civil society efforts to fulfil the Goals.
An independent thematic evaluation conducted by the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2014. Th...
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Capitalism: A Ghost Story
ISBN: 9781608463855 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country s 100 richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India s gross domestic product.
From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishi... |
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Nigeria Beyond Divorce. Amalgamation in Perspective
ISBN: 9789788431343 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most Nigerians, when they talk about Nigeria, will always refer to her with bubbling jingoism as giant of Africa or our great nation, Nigeria but fail to ask giant of what? Goodness or Evil? Productivity or Consumption? Success or Failure? Meritocracy or Mediocrity? Hollowness or Substance? Capturing the "mood of the nation" this book offers diagnosis on the country which are broad-based, instructive and well presented. Part I outlines the developmental stages of Nigeria while Part II gives an in depth diagnosis of the major problems besetting Nigeria, following Part III gives examples of...
Most Nigerians, when they talk about Nigeria, will always refer to her with bubbling jingoism as giant of Africa or our great nation, Nigeria but fail...
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Feminists in Development Organizations: Change from the Margins
ISBN: 9781853398056 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. * The personal stories in this book, one of the outcomes of the original project, show that these feminists are 'tempered radicals' seeking a succession of small wins that cumulatively over time they hope may reduce inequity and promote social justice.
* The authors hope that there will be greater understanding from those on the -outside-, enabling more effective alliances to be built between feminists in different spaces, to foster greater change within international development bureaucracies and beyond. Every day, in international development organizations feminists... * The personal stories in this book, one of the outcomes of the original project, show that these feminists are 'tempered radicals' seeking a successi...
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Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies: International Agendas and African Contexts
ISBN: 9781138019522 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text brings together a unique blend of researchers, civil society and community activists all working on different aspects of conflict sexual violence on the African continent. The contributions included here offer a detailed reading of the social and political climate within which some patterns of sexual violence unfold, and the increased policy and institutional responses shaping post-conflict environments.
This text brings together a unique blend of researchers, civil society and community activists all working on different aspects of conflict sexual vio...
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