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  • Localization

    A Global Manifesto

    by Colin Hines ...
    Localization is a manifesto to unite all those who recognize the importance of cultural, social and ecological diversity for our future - and who do not aspire to a monolithic global consumer culture. It is a passionate and persuasive polemic, challenging the claims that we have to be 'internationally competitive' to survive and describing the destructive consequences of globalization. This book ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Transport Policy: Learning Lessons from History

    by Colin Divall, Julian Hine ...
    Series series Transport and Society
    The key aim of this volume is to demonstrate ways in which an understanding of history can be used to inform present-day transport and mobility policies. This is not to say that history repeats itself, or that every contemporary transport dilemma has an historical counterpart: rather, the contributors to this book argue that in many contexts of transport planning a better understanding of the ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

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    How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations

    by Michael L. Ross ...
    Explaining—and solving—the oil curse in the developing worldCountries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be fixed? In this groundbreaking analysis, Michael L. Ross looks at how developing nations are shaped by their mineral wealth—and how they can turn oil from a ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Land's End

    Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier

    by Tania Murray Li ...
    Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders who privatized their common land to plant a boom crop, cacao. Spurred by the hope of ending their poverty and isolation, some prospered, while others lost their land and struggled to sustain their families. Yet the ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • The Land Grabbers

    The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth

    by Fred Pearce ...
    How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheiks, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food shortages or eager to profit from them, the world’s wealthiest and most acquisitive countries, corporations, and individuals have been buying and leasing vast tracts of land around the world ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The 2030 Spike

    Countdown to Global Catastrophe

    by Colin Mason ...
    The clock is relentlessly ticking!Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization.Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new ... Read more

    $56.33 CAD

  • Governance for Sustainable Development

    A Foundation for the Future

    by Georgina Ayre, Rosalie Callway ...
    As the process of globalization continues and power imbalances between decision-making institutions become increasingly apparent, the need for a critical assessment of the way in which we manage our interaction with the natural environment becomes ever more urgent. Good governance was identified at the World Summit on Sustainable Development as a critical factor for ensuring successful sustainable ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Commercial Airplane Design Principles

    by Pasquale M. Sforza ...
    Commercial Airplane Design Principles is a succinct, focused text covering all the information required at the preliminary stage of aircraft design: initial sizing and weight estimation, fuselage design, engine selection, aerodynamic analysis, stability and control, drag estimation, performance analysis, and economic analysis. The text places emphasis on making informed choices from an array of ... Read more

    $88.79 CAD

  • The Rise and Fall of Emerging Powers

    Globalisation, US Power and the Global North-South Divide

    by Ray Kiely ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book critically examines the argument that the Global South has risen in recent years, that its rise has intensified since the 2008 financial crisis, and that this in turn has hastened the decline of the West and the US in particular. Drawing on critical theories of international relations and development, Kiely puts the rise into context and shows how the factors that aided the rise of the ... Read more

    $63.49 CAD

  • Planning for Coexistence?

    Recognizing Indigenous rights through land-use planning in Canada and Australia

    by Libby Porter, Janice Barry ...
    Planning is becoming one of the key battlegrounds for Indigenous people to negotiate meaningful articulation of their sovereign territorial and political rights, reigniting the essential tension that lies at the heart of Indigenous-settler relations. But what actually happens in the planning contact zone - when Indigenous demands for recognition of coexisting political authority over territory ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • The Case Against the Global Economy

    And for a Turn Towards Localization

    Edited by Jerry Mander ...
    The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy, its consequences for jobs, democracy, human well-being and cultural diversity, and its impact on the natural world that sustains us. Its effects will be profound and irreversible, but globalization itself is not inevitable. In The Case Against the Global Economy, 24 leading economic, agricultural, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Transport Studies

    Edited by Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Theo Notteboom, Jon Shaw ...
    The SAGE Handbook of Transport Studies is an authoritative survey of contemporary transportation systems examined in terms of economic, social, and technical issues, as well as environmental challenges. Incorporating an extensive range of approaches - from modes, terminals, planning and policy to more recent developments related to supply chain management, information systems and sustainability ... Read more

    $147.99 CAD