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  • Natural Resource Cooperatives in Africa

    Sustainable Management and Governance

    Edited by Andrew Emmanuel Okem, Terence Tapiwa Muzorewa, Ibrahima Barry ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
    This book examines the role of cooperatives in the sustainable management and governance of natural resources, drawing on a range of case studies from across Africa.Cooperatives play a pivotal role in natural resource management, especially in the face of a changing climate. Their collaborative nature and focus on sustainability make them effective vehicles for adapting to and mitigating the ... Read more

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  • Human Security and Sustainable Development in East Africa

    Edited by Jeremiah O. Asaka, Alice A. Oluoko-Odingo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
    This book investigates contemporary human security issues in East Africa, setting forth policy recommendations and a research agenda for future studies.Human security takes a people-centered rather than state-centered approach to security issues, focusing on whether people feel safe, free from fear, want, and indignity. This book investigates human security in East Africa, encompassing issues as ... Read more

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  • From Poverty to Power

    by Duncan Green ...
    This new edition of From Poverty to Power has been fully revised and now includes a new chapter with an in-depth analysis of the human impact of the global financial and food crises. From Poverty to Power argues that a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets rather than traditional models of charitable or government aid is required to break the cycle of poverty and inequality. ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • 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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  • Governance for Justice and Environmental Sustainability

    Lessons across Natural Resource Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Edited by Merle Sowman, Rachel Wynberg ...
    Understanding the governance of complex social-ecological systems is vital in a world faced with rapid environmental change, conflicts over dwindling natural resources, stark disparities between rich and poor and the crises of sustainability. Improved understanding is also essential to promote governance approaches that are underpinned by justice and equity principles and that aim to reduce ... Read more

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  • Governance for Development in Africa

    Solving Collective Action Problems

    by David Booth, Diana Cammack ...
    Drawing on in-depth empirical research spanning a number of countries in Africa, Booth and Cammack's path-breaking book offers both an accessible overview of issues surrounding governance for development on the continent, whilst also offering a bold new alternative. In doing so, they controversially argue that externally imposed 'good governance' approaches make unrealistic assumptions about the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Environment in Global Sustainability Governance

    Perceptions, Actors, Innovations

    by Aino Ursula Mäki, Alice Vadrot, Andreas Goldthau, Anna Kosovac, Claudia Ringler, Daniel Pejic, Daniela Kleinschmit, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Eva Alfredsson, Javier Gonzales-Iwanciw, Jens Marquardt, Julie Duval, Lyla Mehta, Manuel Fischer, Mareike Blum, Maria Brockhaus, Markus Kröger, Maurie Cohen, Mawa Karambiri, Miranda Schreurs, Montserrat Koloffon Rosas, Nopenyo Dabla, Paúl Cisneros, Philipp Pattberg, Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen, Sabine Reinecke, Sandra Schwindenhammer, Sherilyn MacGregor, Shiney Varghese, Sofia Cordero, Sylvia Lorek ...
    Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.With Agenda 2030, the UN adopted wide-ranging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that integrate development and environmental agendas. This book focuses on the political tensions between the environmental objectives and socio-economic aspects of sustainable development.The collection provides an introduction to interlinkages, synergies ... Read more

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  • A Human Rights Framework for Intellectual Property, Innovation and Access to Medicines

    by Joo-Young Lee ...
    This book examines the relationship between intellectual property in pharmaceuticals and access to medicines from a human rights perspective, with a view to contributing to the development of a human rights framework that can guide States in enacting and implementing intellectual property law and policy. The study primarily explores whether conflicts between patents and human rights in the context ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Access to Medicines as a Human Right

    Implications for Pharmaceutical Industry Responsibility

    by Lisa Forman, Jillian Clare Kohler ...
    According to the World Health Organization, one-third of the global population lacks access to essential medicines. Should pharmaceutical companies be ethically or legally responsible for providing affordable medicines for these people, even though they live outside of profitable markets? Can the private sector be held accountable for protecting human beings' right to health?This thought-provoking ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Gender Equality, Climate Action, and Technological Innovation for Sustainable Development in Africa

    by Ogechi Adeola, Olaniyi Evans, Innocent Ngare ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the intersection of gender and climate change, suggests ways in which innovative technologies can accelerate climate relief actions, and offers strategies for integrating climate change initiatives into national policies and planning. By examining the devastating consequences of climate change on women and girls throughout the continent, the authors pose a crucial ... Read more

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  • Crafting Trade and Investment Accords for Sustainable Development

    Athena's Treaties

    by Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger ...
    International economic law guides and shapes globalization and the future of the world economy, our human societies, and the Earth. The rules which facilitate trade and investment could defend the interests of Hermes, Greek god of commerce and thieves, or learn to draw inspiration from Athena, goddess of justice, wisdom, and crafts. This volume explores how trade and investment agreements could ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Handbook on the Geopolitics of Sustainability

    Edited by Björn-Ola Linnér, Therese Bennich, Henrik Carlsen ...
    This Handbook brings together more than 60 leading researchers from diverse academic disciplines to examine the complex and evolving intersection between geopolitics and sustainability. The result is a timely exploration of how sustainability challenges reshape geopolitics and how geopolitics, in turn, shape the prospects for just and effective sustainability transformations.Contributing authors ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD