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  • Disasters in the Philippines

    Before and After Haiyan

    by Roberto Ariel Abeldaño Zuñiga, Xavier Venn A. Asuncion, Erlidia F Llamas-Clark, Anita Garrido Cular, Dhino B. Geges, Ervina A. Espina, Rowena S. Guiang, Dennis D. Gupa, Shiely Anne O. Julian, Francine Blaise M. Loja, Katherine Velmonte, Marivic Y. Codiñera, Corazon Y. Clarin, Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete, Ladylyn L. Mangada, Maria Cecilia T. Medina, Grace Wiebe, Yvonne Su, Ara Joy Pacoma ...
    Bringing together the voices of local scholars in the Philippines, this book offers critical insights into one of the world’s most disaster-prone regions.The Asia-Pacific region is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world, with the effects of climate change contributing to rising sea levels and increasingly frequent typhoons and floods. Case studies in this book examine such disasters, ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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    past, present, future

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    This open access book is the first comprehensive overview of maritime or marine spatial planning. Countries across the globe are beginning to implement maritime spatial plans; however the authors of this collection have identified several key questions that are emerging from this growing body of MSP experience. How can maritime spatial planning deal with a complex and dynamic environment such as ... Read more

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  • Competition and Cooperation in Social and Political Sciences

    Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Social and Political Sciences

    Edited by Isbandi Rukminto Adi, Rochman Achwan ...
    The book contains essays on current issues in Social and Political Sciences, such as the issues of governance and social order; social development and community development; global challenges and inequality; civil society and social movement; IT-based community and social transformation; poverty alleviation and corporate social responsibility; and gender issues. Asia and the Pacifi c are the ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Aspirations and Rights

    The Case for Responsible Business and Management

    Edited by Amy Klemm Verbos, Ella Henry, Ana Maria Peredo ...
    Series series The Principles for Responsible Management Education Series
    Indigenous peoples are recognised as groups with specific rights based on their historical ties to particular territories. The United Nations estimates there are 370 million Indigenous peoples, with Indigenous populations being recognised in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, the Arctic region, Central and South America, and across Asia and Africa.Indigenous Aspirations and ... Read more

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  • Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development

    Edited by Margaret B. Holland, Yuta J. Masuda, Brian E. Robinson ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book presents a nuanced and accessible synthesis of the relationship between land tenure security and sustainable development. Contributing authors have collectively worked for decades on land tenure as connected with conservation and development across all major regions of the globe. The first section of this volume is intended as a standalone primer on land tenure security and ... Read more

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  • Introduction to Gender-Sensitive Social Protection Programming to Combat Rural Poverty: Why Is It Important and What Does It Mean? – Fao Technical Guide 1

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    Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries or recipients of benefits. Extending social protection to rural populations has great potential for fostering rural women's economic empowerment. However, to tap into this potential, more needs to be done. There is much scope for making social protection ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work

    Edited by Lena Dominelli ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Green social work espouses a holistic approach to all peoples and other living things – plants and animals, and the physical ecosystem; emphasises the relational nature of all its constituent parts; and redefines the duty to care for and about others as one that includes the duty to care for and about planet earth.By acknowledging the interdependency of all living things it allows for the ... Read more

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  • Disaster Resiliency

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Naim Kapucu, Christopher V. Hawkins, Fernando I. Rivera ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy
    Natural disasters in recent years have brought the study of disaster resiliency to the forefront. The importance of community preparedness and sustainability has been underscored by such calamities as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Japanese tsunami in 2011. Natural disasters will inevitably continue to occur, but by understanding the concept of resiliency as well as the factors that lead to it, ... Read more

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  • Disaster Management

    International Lessons in Risk Reduction, Response and Recovery

    Edited by Alejandro Lopez-Carresi, Maureen Fordham, Ben Wisner, Ilan Kelman, Jc Gaillard ...
    There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between academia and active professionals in the field of disaster management. This gap means that valuable lessons are not learned and people die or suffer as a result. This book opens a dialogue between theory and practice. It offers vital lessons to practitioners from scholarship on natural hazards, disaster risk management and reduction and ... Read more

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  • Handbook Of Disaster Risk Reduction & Management: Climate Change And Natural Disasters

    by Christian N Madu, Chu-hua Kuei ...
    Climate change is increasingly of great concern to the world community. The earth has witnessed the buildup of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere, changes in biodiversity, and more occurrences of natural disasters. Recently, scientists have begun to shift their emphasis away from curbing carbon dioxide emission to adapting to carbon dioxide emission. The increase in natural disasters around ... Read more

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  • Environmental Governance in Indonesia

    Edited by Annisa Triyanti, Mochamad Indrawan, Laely Nurhidayah, Muh Aris Marfai ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book presents the state-of-the-art environmental governance research and practices in Indonesia. It offers a wide scope, covering different sectors (e.g., forestry, mining) and geographical landscapes (e.g., inland and coastal areas). This book engages with existing theories and frameworks, including Earth System Governance, Adaptive and Interactive Governance, among others to ... Read more

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  • Value Chains, Social Inclusion and Economic Development

    Contrasting Theories and Realities

    Edited by Sietze Vellema, A.H.J. Helmsing ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    Lead firms, development organisations, donors and governments view value chains and voluntary standards as vital instruments for achieving millennium development goals through trade and market-related interventions. The precise foundations for these development strategies, which suggest positive development outcomes from integration of poor actors into value chains, are as yet underdeveloped. The ... Read more

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