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  • The Positive Deviant

    Sustainability Leadership in a Perverse World

    by Sara Parkin ...
    An economy low in carbon and high in life satisfaction will require thousands, if not millions of exceptional leaders. This book is the first to bring together sustainability knowledge with the leadership skills and tools to help you become one of those leaders. In it you will find everything you need to get started straight away, and to grow your effectiveness, even in a world that remains ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

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  • The Global Food Economy

    The Battle for the Future of Farming

    by Tony Weis ...
    The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.The current food economy is characterized by immense contradictions. Surplus 'food mountains', bountiful supermarkets, and rising levels of obesity stand in stark contrast to widespread hunger and malnutrition. Transnational companies dominate the market in food and benefit from subsidies, whilst farmers in developing ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Dirty Wars and Polished Silver

    The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix

    by Lynda Schuster ...
    From a former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent, an exuberant memoir of life, love, and transformation on the frontlines of conflicts around the world**Growing up in 1970s Detroit, Lynda Schuster felt certain life was happening elsewhere. And as soon as she graduated from high school, she set out to find it.Dirty Wars and Polished Silver is Schuster’s story of her life abroad as a foreign ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Climate Change and Human Development

    by Hannah Reid ...
    Whilst the world's poor are clearly hit hardest by climate change impacts, so too do they hold many of the solutions for how best to cope with its impacts, and at times reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero.In this wide-ranging book, Hannah Reid offers a rich compendium of real life scenarios and brings home the realities of how poor people are suffering from and coping with climate change ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Culture, Development and Social Theory

    Towards an Integrated Social Development

    by John Clammer ...
    This important book places culture back at the centre of debates in development studies. It introduces new ways of conceptualizing culture in relation to development by linking development studies to cultural studies, studies of social movements, religion and the notion of 'social suffering'. The author expertly argues that in the current world crises it is necessary to recover a more holistic ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Neoliberalism, Interrupted

    Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America

    by Mark Goodale, Nancy Postero ...
    In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life. Neoliberalism, Interrupted examines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses to neoliberalism's hegemony. In so doing, this vanguard collection of case studies undermines the conventional dichotomies used to understand transformation in this region, such as neoliberalism vs. ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Citizen-led Innovation for a New Economy eBook

    Edited by Alison Mathie, John Gaventa ...
    This collection of eleven cases from Canada and the United States gives expression to the ideal of a new economy based on fairness and environmental sustainability. Grappling with complex problems in their local communities, organized citizens are forging innovation, prying open cracks in the prevailing economic system and seizing opportunities to redirect economic life. Featured here are examples ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations

    Patching Together a Global Script

    by Tanja A. Börzel ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume explores the conditions under which regional organizations engage in governance transfer in and to areas of limited statehood. The authors argue that a global script of governance transfer by regional organizations is emerging, where regional and national actors are adapting governance standards and instruments to their local context. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Health and Development

    Edited by David Phillips, Yola Verhasselt ...
    Health and Development presents a broad and detailed description of the multifaceted aspects of health and development across the globe. People are living longer, their lifestyles are changing and so too are the diseases from which they suffer. Recession in the North and debt servicing in the South have reduced public expenditure on health and welfare. The links between regional, economic and ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Transit Migration

    Precarity, Mobility, and Self-Making in Mexico

    by Tanya Basok, Danièle Bélanger, Martha Luz Rojas Wiesner, Guillermo Candiz ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Questioning the notion of transit migration, the book examines factors that shape Central American migrants' mobility and immobility in the transnational space, comprised on Central American countries, Mexico, and the US. ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Marketed and Marketable Surplus of Major Food Grains in India

    by Vijay Paul Sharma, Harsh Wardhan ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book helps readers understand the concepts of marketed and marketable surplus, as well as the role of the government and marketing agencies, including those in the private sector, in improving market efficiency. It also examines the impact of various socioeconomic, technological, institutional, infrastructure, and price factors on the marketed surplus of major crops. While Indian agriculture ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Sustainable Development in Amazonia

    Paradise in the Making

    by Kei Otsuki ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    This book argues against the assumption that sustainability and environmental conservation are naturally the common goal and norm for everyone in Amazonia. This is the first book focusing on agency, reflexivity and social development to address sustainable development in the region. It discusses the importance of looking into societal dynamics in order to deal with deforestation and sustainable ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD