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  • Justice for Resilient Development in Climate-Stressed Cities

    par Diana Reckien, Sirkku Juhola, Anika Nasra Haque, Heba Allah Khalil, Maria Fernanda Lemos, Shuaib Lwasa, Leila Niamir, Juan Camilo Osorio, Cristina Visconti, William Solecki, Minal Pathak, Martha Barata, Aliyu Salisu Barau, Maria Dombrov, Cynthia Rosenzweig ...
    Collections series Elements in Climate Change and Cities
    Climate impacts and risk, within and across cities, are distributed highly unequally. Cities located in low latitudes are more vulnerable to climate risk and impacts than in high latitudes, due to the large proportion of informal settlements relative to the housing stock and more frequent extremes. According to EM-DAT, about 60% of environmental disasters in cities relate to riverine floods. ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Urban Transitions in Africa

    Opportunities and Complexities

    Modifié par Shuaib Lwasa, Mandipa Bongiwe Ndlovu ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides an invaluable overview of urban transitions in Africa with a focus on innovations that offer alternative development approaches of these areas. The key to a successful transition is the nature of system changes and the identification of what is needed to harness the potential and expand possibilities that will enhance equity, address climate change, create sustainable cities and ... En savoir plus

    $179.99 CAD

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    par Robin Mearns; Andrew Norton; Edward Cameron ...
    Climate change is arguably the most profound challenge facing the international community in the 21st century. It is as much a challenge for poverty reduction, growth and development as it is a global environmental issue. It could undermine or reverse progress in reducing poverty and attaining the Millenium Development Goals, thereby unraveling many of the development gains of recent decades. It ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • A New Blueprint for Government

    Reshaping Power, the PMO, and the Public Service

    par Kevin G. Lynch, James R. Mitchell ...
    2025 DONNER PRIZE FINALISTIs the Canadian government contributing to its own underperformance? An insider’s guide to steering our nation toward greater efficiencyCanada is struggling. Our growth is anemic, our standard of living is stagnant, our housing is unaffordable, and our health care system is nearing a breaking point. To make matters worse, the government fails to deliver core services and ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development

    Modifié par Margaret B. Holland, Yuta J. Masuda, Brian E. Robinson ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World

    A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate

    par Dani Rodrik ...
    New, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issuesFighting climate change, saving democracy, and eradicating poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world’s leaders continue to pursue outdated policies that focus on one while worsening the tradeoffs between each of them. Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World shows how the nations of the world can achieve all three ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Cities, Disaster Risk and Adaptation

    par Christine Wamsler ...
    Collections series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Worldwide, disasters and climate change pose a serious risk to sustainable urban development, resulting in escalating human and economic costs. Consequently, city authorities and other urban actors face the challenge of integrating risk reduction and adaptation strategies into their work. However, related knowledge and expertise are still scarce and fragmented.Cities, Disaster Risk and Adaptation ... En savoir plus

    $114.99 CAD

  • Some Small Countries Do It Better: Rapid Growth and Its Causes in Singapore, Finland, and Ireland

    par Shahid Yusuf, Kaoru Nabeshima ...
    Countries worldwide are struggling to imitate the industrial prowess of the East Asian pacesetters, but growth accelerations have proven remarkably transient. Building a portfolio of tradable goods and services and steadily raising the level of investment in these activities, has generally defied the best policy efforts - in particular, bringing investment ratios on par with East Asian averages ... En savoir plus

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  • Strengthening European Climate Policy

    Governance Recommendations from Innovative Interdisciplinary Collaborations

    Modifié par Ester Galende Sánchez, Alevgul H. Sorman, Violeta Cabello, Sara Heidenreich, Christian A. Klöckner ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open-access book foregrounds 10 novel collaborations between the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines, for strengthening European climate policy.Part of a three-volume collection covering climate, energy, and mobility policy. ... En savoir plus

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  • Project 2025

    A Deep Dive into the Policies and Impacts of a Conservative Vision to Reshape America's Future

    par Antonio G. Lanier ...
    Gain critical insights into how Project 2025's conservative policies will influence America's political, economic, and social landscape.In "Project 2025: A Deep Dive into the Policies and Impacts of a Conservative Vision to Reshape America's Future," you will gain an in-depth understanding of this ambitious project designed to reshape the socio-political and economic landscape of the United States ... En savoir plus

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work

    Modifié par Lena Dominelli ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • State of the World 2014

    Governing for Sustainability

    par The Worldwatch Institute, David W. Orr, Tom Prugh, Michael Renner, John Gowdy, Robert Engelman, Michael L. Weber, Conor Seyle, Matthew Wilburn King, Matt Leighninger, Diana Lind, Monty Hempel, Peter Brown, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Cormac Cullinan, Isabel Hilton, Sam Geall, Shakuntala Makhijani, Aaron Sachs, Inge Kaul, Maria Ivanova, Rick Worthington, Sean Sweeney, Dr., Thomas Palley, Gar Alperovitz, Colleen Cordes, David Bollier, Burns Weston, Petra Bartosiewicz, Marissa Miley, Evan Musolino, Katie Auth, Nina Netzer, Judith Gouverneur, Josephine Mitschke, Ian Johnson, Yu Hongyuan ...
    Collections series State of the World
    Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.’s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments’ progress has been lackluster. That’s not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the bottom up rather than the top down. Action—on climate, species loss, inequity, and other ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD