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  • Commons, Citizenship and Power

    Reclaiming the Margins

    by Fabrizio Barca, Sébastien Bourdin, Lowri Cunnington Wynn, Julie Froud, Paolo Gerbaudo, Ayhan Kaya, Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Anna Krasteva, Danny MacKinnon, Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet, Sarah McKinley, Andrea Membretti, Andy Pike, Stella Rodrigues Lallement, John Tomaney, André Torre, Karel Williams, Sanne Velthuis ...
    Series series Civil Society and Social Change
    Since the 2010s, populism and illiberal politics have been on the rise. Demagogue leaders preach simplified rhetoric to vilify the powerless, polarising city and rural areas and sparking such shocking events as the US insurrection on 6th January 2021.This interdisciplinary book argues for a politics of representativity and accountability to help transform people’s experiences, showing that where ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Sustainable Futures in Southern Africa’s Mountains

    Multiple Perspectives on an Emerging City

    Edited by Andrea Membretti, Sue Jean Taylor, Jess L. Delves ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book presents multiple disciplinary perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for sustainable development in the South African mountain city of Phuthaditjhaba. These challenges are embedded in the complex environmental, socio-cultural and political contexts of the region. Established as the capital of the QwaQwa ‘homeland’ under Grand Apartheid, this city is now home to ... Read more

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  • The Social Commons: Rethinking Social Justice in Post-Neoliberal Societies

    by Francine Mestrum ...
    As the world's neo-liberal economic order continues to self-destruct in a climate of non growth and widening inequality, the birth of new social movements and alternatives are disrupting the old politics and business "as usual" in Europe, the Americas and Asia. The Social Commons: Rethinking Social Justice in Post-Neoliberal Societies by Francine Mestrum is a new and original entry into the debate ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Policy

    A Critical and Intersectional Analysis

    by Fiona Williams ...
    Welfare states face profound challenges. Widening economic and social inequalities have been intensified by austerity politics, sharpened by the rise in ethno-nationalism and exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, recent decades have seen a resurgence of social justice activism at both the local and the transnational level. Yet the transformative power of feminist, anti-racist and ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Short Guide to Environmental Policy

    by Carolyn Snell, Gary Haq ...
    Series series Short Guides
    Some have argued that the rate and scale of human-induced global environmental change is so significant that it now constitutes a new geological epoch in the Earth’s history called the Anthropocene (Zalasiewicz et al, 2011; Steffen et al, 2011). More than ever, there is a need to have appropriate and effective environmental policies that address the challenges of climate change, biodiversity, food ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Can Democracy Safeguard the Future?

    by Graham Smith ...
    Series series Democratic Futures
    Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future. From pensions to pandemics, health and social care through to climate, biodiversity and emerging technologies, democracies have been unable to deliver robust policies for the long term.In this book, Graham Smith asks why. Exploring the drivers of short-termism, he considers ways of reshaping legislatures and constitutions and proposes ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change

    Edited by Karen Seto, William Solecki, Corrie Griffith ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences global environmental change, and how global environmental change in turn influences urbanization processes. It has four thematic foci: Theme 1 addresses the pathways through which urbanization drives ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Health Practitioner's Guide to Climate Change

    Diagnosis and Cure

    Edited by Fiona Adshead, Jenny Griffiths, Mala Rao, Allison Thorpe ...
    Highly commended in the Public Health category, BMA Medical Awards 2010 There are enormous health benefits from tackling climate change. This is the first book to set out what health practitioners can do to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, to make health services sustainable, and to design healthy, sustainable communities. The book: - provides an introduction for health practitioners ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • 2018 The State of the World’s Forests: Forest Pathways to Sustainable Development

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This edition of The State of the World's Forests is aimed at enhancing our understanding of how forests and their sustainable management contribute to achieving several of the SDGs. Time is running out for the world's forests: we need to work across sectors, bring stakeholders together, and take urgent action.The State of the World's Forests 2018 identifies actions that can be taken to increase ... Read more

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  • Labour Law, Vulnerability and the Regulation of Precarious Work

    by Lisa Rodgers ...
    The shifting nature of employment practice towards the use of more precarious work forms has caused a crisis in classical labour law and engendered a new wave of regulation. This timely book deftly uses this crisis as an opportunity to explore the notion of precariousness or vulnerability in employment relationships.Arguing that the idea of vulnerability has been under-theorised in the labour law ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • An Analysis of James Ferguson's The Anti-Politics Machine

    by Julie Jenkins ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    The Anti-Politics Machine (1990) examines how international development projects are conceived, researched, and put into practice. It also looks at what these projects actually achieve. Ferguson criticizes the idea of externally-directed ‘development’ and argues that the process doesn’t take proper account of the daily realities of the communities it is intended to benefit. Instead, they often ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Technological and Institutional Innovations for Marginalized Smallholders in Agricultural Development

    Edited by Franz W. Gatzweiler, Joachim von Braun ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The aim of the book is to present contributions in theory, policy and practice to the science and policy of sustainable intensification by means of technological and institutional innovations in agriculture. The research insights re from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The purpose of this book is to be a reference for students, scholars and practitioners inthe field of science and policy for ... Read more

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