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  • Sustainable Development in China

    Edited by Curtis Andressen, A.R. Mubarak, Xiaoyi Wang ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Over the past three decades, China’s economic structure, direction and international presence have undergone a dramatic transformation. This rapid rise and China’s enormous success in economic terms has created new challenges, and this book examines how the Chinese economy can continue to flourish, whilst at the same time protecting the environment and giving people more equal access to the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Made in Madagascar

    Sapphires, Ecotourism, and the Global Bazaar

    by Andrew Walsh ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    Since the 1990s, the Ankarana region of northern Madagascar has developed a reputation among globe-trotting gemstone traders and tourists as a source of some of the world's most precious natural wonders. Although some might see Ankarana's sapphire and ecotourist trades as being at odds with each other, many local people understand these trades to be fundamentally connected, most obviously in how ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Conducting Research in Conservation

    Social Science Methods and Practice

    by Helen Newing ...
    Conducting Research in Conservation is the first textbook on social science research methods written specifically for use in the expanding and increasingly multidisciplinary field of environmental conservation.The first section on planning a research project includes chapters on the need for social science research in conservation, defining a research topic, methodology, and sampling. Section two ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • What Does It Mean to Be White?

    Developing White Racial Literacy – Revised Edition

    by Robin DiAngelo ...
    Series Book 497 - Counterpoints
    What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive racial inequality and segregation, most white people cannot answer that question. In the second edition of this seminal text, Robin DiAngelo reveals the factors that make this question so difficult: mis-education about what racism is; ideologies such as individualism ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Tourism, Globalization and Development

    Responsible Tourism Planning

    by Donald G. Reid ...
    Tourism is booming world wide - it makes up a massive part of the global economy. Donald G. Reid's book focuses on tourism in developing and less-developed countries. He examines its social and environmental impact and offers a timely critical analysis of the part it plays in globalisation.Many of the world's poorest countries rely on the tourist trade for the major part of their income. However, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brazil Inside Out

    by Jan Rocha ...
    Seen as a successful ‘emerging economy’, Brazil walks tall on the world stage and its voice is growing louder. Its success, celebrated in the 2014 Football World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, is attracting millions of foreign tourists. Yet Brazil also faces huge challenges: to combine economic growth with measures to reduce the huge social inequality inherited from its slave-owning past, to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Ebola

    Profile of a Killer Virus

    by Dorothy H. Crawford ...
    First discovered in 1976, and long regarded as an easily manageable virus affecting isolated rural communities, Ebola rocketed to world prominence in 2014 as a deadly epidemic swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in West Africa. Thousands of people died as the extraordinarily contagious disease spread rapidly from villages to urban centres. Initial quarantine responses proved often too ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • International Conflict over Water Resources in Himalayan Asia

    by R. Wirsing, C. Jasparro, D. Stoll ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The authors explore the fresh water crisis of Himalayan Asia. While the region hosts some of the world's mightiest rivers, it is also home to rapidly modernizing, increasingly affluent, and demographically multiplying societies, ensuring the rapid depletion of water resources and of disputes over ownership of transboundary waters. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • World Hunger

    by Liz Young ...
    Series series Routledge Introductions to Development
    World Hunger explores the nature and extent of contemporary world hunger, explaining why hunger still persists while agricultural production increases and genetic engineering revolutionises food production and distribution. Numerous case studies, drawn from the North and South, illustrate the diversity of diets in the world and the connections between the global and local. Globalisation and access ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Earth Brokers

    Power, Politics and World Development

    by Pratap Chatterjee, Matthias Finger ...
    Those of us who have watched the process have said that the Earth Summit has failed ... Multinational corporations, the United States, Japan, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund have got away with what they always wanted ... the Summit has ensured increased domination by those who already have power. Worse still, it has robbed the poor of the little power they had. It has made them ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Trade Liberalisation and Poverty

    Vietnam now and beyond

    by Minh Son Le, Tarlok Singh, Duc-Tho Nguyen ...
    This book uses Alan Winters’ analytical framework to investigate the effects of trade liberalisation on economic growth and poverty in Vietnam. The country launched a programme of economic and trade reforms, known as Doi Moi, in the mid-1980s which placed the economy on a transitional path from central planning to a market economy. Since then Vietnam has attained a number of remarkable ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Regional Economic Outlook, April 2016, Sub-Saharan Africa

    Time for a Policy Reset

    by INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND ...
    Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa as a whole has fallen to its lowest level in 15 years, though with large variation among countries in the region. The sharp decline in commodity prices has severely strained many of the largest economies, including oil exporters Angola and Nigeria, and other commodity exporters, such as Ghana, South Africa, and Zambia. At the same time, the decline in oil ... Read more

    $12.99 USD