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  • Brazilian Environmental Policy - A Short Biography, 1934-2020

    by Mauro Guilherme Maidana Capelari, Ana Flávia Granja e Barros, José Augusto Drummond ...
    In less than 60 pages, the authors summarize and analyze 90 years of Brazilian environmental laws and policies. They select the most important norms and policies, examine their origins, and evaluate their goals and effectiveness, besides looking into the agencies in charge of their enforcement or execution. The text works both as an introduction to this complex field and as a broad and seasoned ... Read more

    Was $9.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sustainability Challenges of Brazilian Agriculture

    Governance, Inclusion, and Innovation

    Edited by Niels Søndergaard, Camila Dias de Sá, Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    With contributions from a wide range of thematic areas, this book provides a diverse perspective on the contemporary environmental challenges of Brazilian agriculture. Assessing existing experiences of governance interventions, implementation of inclusive and sustainable production practices, as well as technical innovations, this edited volume presents the reader with a nuanced perspective on ... Read more

    $70.49 CAD

  • Brazil in the Geopolitics of Amazonia and Antarctica

    by Adriana Marcos Vivoni, Andrei Polejack, Andrés Zarankin, Carina Costa de Oliveira, Carlos Alfredo Lazary Teixeira, Everton Vieira Vargas, Gilberto Fernando Fisch, Jose Antonio Marengo Orsini, Luiz Henrique Rosa, Marcia Bezerra, Maria Lucia Marques da Fonseca, Rodrigo Augusto Lima de Medeiros, Carlos Henrique Rubens Tomé Silva, Flávio Helmold Macieira, Leandra Regina Gonçalves, Luiz Octávio Gavião, Paulo E.A.S. Câmara ...
    The book presents a comprehensive and original analysis from a Brazilian perspective of both traditional and emerging topics related to the so-called “El Dorados of the 21st century”: Amazonia and Antarctica. By gathering distinguished scholars, the resulting set of high-level findings, stemming from multiple epistemological standpoints, provides important and innovative insights into the wide ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • Building Capabilities for Earth System Governance

    by Jochen Prantl, Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau, Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue, Joana Castro Pereira, Thais Lemos Ribeiro, Eduardo Viola ...
    Series series Elements in Earth System Governance
    This Element develops a new Strategic Capabilities Framework for studying and steering complex socio-ecological systems. It is driven by the central question of what are the most essential capabilities that ought to be fostered for addressing the fundamental 21st Century environmental challenges and Earth system transformations. The author's objective is to innovate transformative ideas toward ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • Labor Relations in Globalized Food

    Edited by Terry Marsden, Josefa Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti, Alessandro Bonanno ...
    Series Book 20 - Research in Rural Sociology and Development
    In recent years labor relations have altered significantly and new and more serious forms of labor marginalization and control have emerged. This book looks at labor in agriculture and food in a global era by studying salient characteristics of the conditions and use of labor in global agri-food. Written by experienced and also emerging scholars, the chapters present a wealth of empirical data and ... Read more

    $213.29 CAD

  • Agrarian Extractivism in Latin America

    Edited by Ben M. McKay, Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Development Studies
    Amid the growing calls for a turn towards sustainable agriculture, this book puts forth and discusses the concept of agrarian extractivism to help us identify and expose the predatory extractivist features of dominant agricultural development models.The concept goes beyond the more apparent features of monocultures and raw material exports to examine the inherent logic and underlying workings of a ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Favela

    Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro

    by Janice Perlman ...
    Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries that story forward to the present. Re-interviewing many longtime favela residents whom she had first met in 1969--as well as their children and grandchildren--Perlman offers the only long-term ... Read more

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  • Poor People's Knowledge: Promoting Intellectual Property In Developing Countries

    by World Bank; Finger J. Michael; Schuler Philip ...
    How can we help poor people earn more from their knowledge-rather than from their sweat and muscle alone? This book is about increasing the earnings of poor people in poor countries from their innovation, knowledge, and creative skills. Case studies look at the African music industry; traditional crafts and ways to prevent counterfeit crafts designs; the activities of fair trade organizations; ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Intersectional Environmentalist

    How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

    by Leah Thomas ...
    From the 2022 TIME100 Next honoree and the activist who coined the term comes a primer on intersectional environmentalism for the next generation of activists looking to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change.The Intersectional Environmentalist examines the inextricable link between environmentalism, racism, and privilege, and promotes awareness of the fundamental truth that we ... Read more

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  • Blood of Extraction

    Canadian Imperialism in Latin America

    by Todd Gordon, Jeffery R. Webber ...
    Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a result. By following the money, Gordon and Webber illustrate the myriad ways Canadian-based ... Read more

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  • Untamed Urbanisms

    Edited by Adriana Allen, Andrea Lampis, Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based ... Read more

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  • Fixing the Climate

    Strategies for an Uncertain World

    by Charles F. Sabel, David G. Victor ...
    Solving the global climate crisis through local partnerships and experimentationGlobal climate diplomacy—from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement—is not working. Despite decades of sustained negotiations by world leaders, the climate crisis continues to worsen. The solution is within our grasp—but we will not achieve it through top-down global treaties or grand bargains among nations.Charles ... Read more

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