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  • Human Security and Sustainable Development in East Africa

    Edited by Jeremiah O. Asaka, Alice A. Oluoko-Odingo ...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Water Law and Policy

    Edited by Alistair Rieu-Clarke, Andrew Allan, Sarah Hendry ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    Water plays a key role in addressing the most pressing global challenges of our time, including climate change adaptation, food and energy security, environmental sustainability and the promotion of peace and stability. This comprehensive handbook explores the pivotal place of law and policy in efforts to ensure that water enables positive responses to these challenges and provides a basis for ... Read more

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  • Food Security, Gender and Resilience

    Improving Smallholder and Subsistence Farming

    Edited by Leigh Brownhill, Esther Njuguna, Kimberly L. Bothi, Bernard Pelletier, Lutta Muhammad, Gordon M. Hickey ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    Through the integration of gender analysis into resilience thinking, this book shares field-based research insights from a collaborative, integrated project aimed at improving food security in subsistence and smallholder agricultural systems. The scope of the book is both local and multi-scalar. The gendered resilience framework, illustrated here with detailed case studies from semi-arid Kenya, is ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Water Resource Management

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    Edited by Jonathan Lautze ...
    Series series Earthscan Water Text
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  • Ecological Systems Integrity

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    Edited by Laura Westra, Janice Gray, Vasiliki Karageorgou ...
    Environmental law and governance are the cornerstones of global efforts to conserve the environment, protect resources and ensure fair and equitable outcomes for all of the planet's inhabitants. This book presents a series of thought-provoking chapters which consider the place of governance and law in the defence against imminent and ongoing threats to ecological, social and cultural integrity ... Read more

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  • Climate Change, New Security Challenges and the United Nations

    by Sabita Mohapatra ...
    Climate change affects human health in all sectors of society, both domestically & globally. The sea-level rise, changes in precipitation resulting in flooding & drought, heat waves, more intense hurricanes & storms, and degraded air quality, affect human health. This book is an attempt to unravel the new non-traditional challenges that the UN will face in coming decades if the states fail to keep ... Read more

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  • Climate Change, Assets and Food Security in Southern African Cities

    Edited by Bruce Frayne, Caroline Moser, Gina Ziervogel ...
    Series series Earthscan Climate
    There is overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. It is the poorest countries and people who are the most vulnerable to this threat and who will suffer the most. This book shows how increasing urbanization and growing poverty levels mean that it is imperative to ask how climate change might impact on asset accumulation and food security for the urban poor. It demonstrates how these ... Read more

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  • Building Resilient Communities: Land Use Change, Rural Development and Adaptation to Climate Consequences

    by Brittany Berger, Bishawjit Mallick, Kihwan Kim ...
    This book is a collection of case studies from seven different countries that use community-based approaches to address problems related to Global Climate Change. The areas of study very from resource management, extreme weather preparation and adaptation, migration, and economic development. Communities around the world are facing new and more extreme threats and there is no easy solution. Each ... Read more

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  • Women in Agriculture Worldwide

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    Edited by Wendee Kubik, Amber Fletcher ...
    Series series Women and Sustainable Business
    Over the past two decades, existing documentation of women in the agricultural sector has surveyed topics such as agricultural restructuring and land reform, international trade agreements and food trade, land ownership and rural development and rural feminisms. Many studies have focused on either the high-income countries of the global North or the low-income countries of the global South. This ... Read more

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  • Marginality

    Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology

    Edited by Joachim von Braun, Franz W. Gatzweiler ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book takes a new approach on understanding causes of extreme poverty and promising actions to address it. Its focus is on marginality being a root cause of poverty and deprivation. “Marginality” is the position of people on the edge, preventing their access to resources, freedom of choices, and the development of capabilities. The book is research based with original empirical analyses at ... Read more

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