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  • Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa

    by Patience Mutopo, Atakilte Beyene, Hanne Haaland, Festus Boamah, Marie Widengård, Rune Skarstein ...
    Series series Africa Now
    The issue of biofuels has already been much debated, but the focus to date has largely been on Latin America and deforestation - this highly original work breaks fresh ground in looking at the African perspective. Most African governments see biofuels as having the potential to increase agricultural productivity and export incomes and thus strengthen their national economies, improving energy ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Innovative Water Finance in Africa

    Economics and Principles of Financial Innovations for Water Managers

    Edited by Cush Ngonzo Luwesi, Atakilte Beyene ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Water has become increasingly central to addressing multiple development and environmental objectives in the course of climate change. Exploring the multiple dimensions of water governance, policy and management in a holistic way is thus imperative for financial innovations to take place in the water sector. This book constitutes, first of all, a reference document allowing African managers and ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Agricultural Transformation in Ethiopia

    State Policy and Smallholder Farming

    Edited by Atakilte Beyene ...
    Series series Africa Now
    For thousands of years, Ethiopia has depended on its smallholding farmers to provide the bulk of its food needs. But now, such farmers find themselves under threat from environmental degradation, climate change and declining productivity. As a result, smallholder agriculture has increasingly become subsistence-oriented, with many of these farmers trapped in a cycle of poverty. Smallholders have ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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    Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

    by Richard Heinberg ...
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  • Ethical Oil

    The Case for Canada's Oil Sands

    by Ezra Levant ...
    Canada's "no. 1 defender of freedom of speech" and the bestselling author of Shakedown makes the timely and provocative case that when it comes to oil, ethics matter just as much as the economy and the environment.**In 2009, Ezra Levant's bestselling book Shakedownrevealed the corruption of Canada's human rights commissions and was declared the "most important public affairs book of the year." In ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The End of Growth

    Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

    by Richard Heinberg ...
    Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to drop, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization is colliding with non-negotiable, natural limits. Richard ... Read more

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  • The Divide

    Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets

    by Jason Hickel ...
    Global inequality doesn’t just exist; it has been created.More than four billion people—some 60 percent of humanity—live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do with things like climate and geography and culture. It tells us that all we have to do is give a bit of aid here and there to help poor countries ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management

    by Thomas Sterner, Jessica Coria ...
    Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of economic policy instruments in the U.S. and Europe, as well as in rich and poor countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it discusses the design of instruments that can be employed in any country in a ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • Intellectual Property And Development: Lessons From Recent Economic Research

    by Maskus Keith E.; Fink Carsten ...
    International policies towards protecting intellectual property rights have seen profound changes over the past two decades. Rules on how to protect patents, copyright, trademarks and other forms of intellectual property have become a standard component of international trade agreements. Most significantly, during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations (1986-94), members of what is ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Blue Covenant

    The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

    by Maude Barlow ...
    An Inconvenient Truth of water.“Imagine a world in twenty years, in which no substantive progress has been made to provide basic wastewater service in the Third World, or to force industry and industrial agriculture production to stop polluting water systems, or to curb the mass movement of water by pipeline, tanker and other diversion, which will have created huge new swaths of desert." ... Read more

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  • The Great Climate Robbery

    How the Food System Drives Climate Change and What We Can Do About It

    by GRAIN ...
    The Great Climate Robbery connects analysis of the food system to larger issues affecting the planet, and link peoples’ struggles over food to climate change. This book will help readers to understand the ways in which corporations control the food system and provide the analysis needed to challenge this control. ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Finance

    Using the Power of Money to Change the World

    by Molly Scott Cato ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides a detailed yet succinct overview of sustainable finance, with a specific focus on its origins, its policy focus and the practitioner dimension. With fossil fuel companies still attracting investment and subsidy across the world, the book describes how we can reverse these incentives, using the power of finance to tackle the climate and ecological crises. The world of finance is ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD