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Climate Justice in Action

Activism and Adaptation in Eastern Africa

by Ikal Angelei, JulietGrace Luwedde, Wambua Muindi, Sheila Chebet Ronoh, Arinda Daphine, Robert Birungi, Eileen Jahn, Lungelo Ndhlovu, Josepha Wessels, Antonio Kalyango, Nitesh Lohan, Sneha Krishnan, Philomena Wambui, Douglas Nyathi, Samukeliso Khumalo, Joram Ndlovu, Keith Phiri, Antje Daniel, Evench Gomes, Kathy Reilly, Una Murray, Aidan Sinnott, Maurice Sadlier, Margaret Wagana, Sonja Fransen, Jana Lea Kaufmann, Dalia Malek, Eric Ndawula, Sostine Namanya, Anabela Arnauth de Lemos, Terry Apiyo Otieno, Obed Koringo, Sefu Uwimana ...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Climate Justice in Action celebrates the activism and adaptations of Eastern Africa, one of the most climate vulnerable regions of the world. Contributions from activists and researchers highlight diverse innovations and efforts to curb environmental catastrophe through transforming social inequalities and addressing root causes. The book ... Read more

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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Climate Justice in Action celebrates the activism and adaptations of Eastern Africa, one of the most climate vulnerable regions of the world. Contributions from activists and researchers highlight diverse innovations and efforts to curb environmental catastrophe through transforming social inequalities and addressing root causes. The book
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Critical Thinking and Mental Models for Sharper Everyday Decisions

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Overcome cognitive biases and master problem solving with a practical toolkit built for high-stakes decisions. When a demanding career leaves you feeling overwhelmed, relying on mental shortcuts often leads to costly mistakes. This focused audio experience cuts through the daily noise to equip you with reliable frameworks for moments when time is short and pressure is high.Turn your daily commute ... Read more

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Overcome cognitive biases and master problem solving with a practical toolkit built for high-stakes decisions. When a demanding career leaves you feeling overwhelmed, relying on mental shortcuts often leads to costly mistakes. This focused audio experience cuts through the daily noise to equip you with reliable frameworks for moments when time is short and pressure is high.Turn your daily commute
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Climate Justice in the Majority World

Vulnerability, Resistance, and Diverse Knowledges

Edited by Neil J.W. Crawford, Kavya Michael, Michael Mikulewicz ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World – where most of humans and non-humans live. It is also the site of the most severe impacts of climate change and home to some of the key solutions for the climate crisis. The collection brings together 12 chapters featuring the work of over 30 authors from around the globe.The impacts of ... Read more

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This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World – where most of humans and non-humans live. It is also the site of the most severe impacts of climate change and home to some of the key solutions for the climate crisis. The collection brings together 12 chapters featuring the work of over 30 authors from around the globe.The impacts of
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The Urbanization of Forced Displacement

UNHCR, Urban Refugees, and the Dynamics of Policy Change

by Neil James Crawford ...

Series Book 6 - McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
Displacement in the twenty-first century is urbanized. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the world’s largest humanitarian organization and the main body charged with assisting displaced people globally, estimates that over 60 per cent of refugees now live in urban areas, a proportion that only increases in the case of internally displaced people and asylum seekers.Though cities and local ... Read more

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Displacement in the twenty-first century is urbanized. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the world’s largest humanitarian organization and the main body charged with assisting displaced people globally, estimates that over 60 per cent of refugees now live in urban areas, a proportion that only increases in the case of internally displaced people and asylum seekers.Though cities and local
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Airstream Country

A Geologic Journey Across the American West

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A herd of bison standing in the snow. Layered bluffs of multicolored sandstone. A silver Airstream trailer on a mountain highway. These are familiar sights for Neil Mathison and his wife, Susan. Newly retired, their son in college, they embark upon a great American road trip "uncoupled from the tyranny of calendars or a specific journey." Airstream Country recounts their travels across the western ... Read more

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A herd of bison standing in the snow. Layered bluffs of multicolored sandstone. A silver Airstream trailer on a mountain highway. These are familiar sights for Neil Mathison and his wife, Susan. Newly retired, their son in college, they embark upon a great American road trip "uncoupled from the tyranny of calendars or a specific journey." Airstream Country recounts their travels across the western
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Cities and Development

by Sean Fox, Tom Goodfellow ...

Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
For the first time in human history more people now live and towns and cities than in rural areas. In the wealthier countries of the world, the transition from predominantly rural to urban habitation is more or less complete. But in many parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America, urban populations are expanding rapidly. Current UN projections indicate that virtually all population growth in the ... Read more

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For the first time in human history more people now live and towns and cities than in rural areas. In the wealthier countries of the world, the transition from predominantly rural to urban habitation is more or less complete. But in many parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America, urban populations are expanding rapidly. Current UN projections indicate that virtually all population growth in the
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Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South

Scarcity, Marketization and Participation

Edited by Leila M. Harris, Jacqueline A. Goldin, Christopher Sneddon ...

Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar—over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from agricultural inputs and industrial wastes; and the increasing variability of climate, including threats of ... Read more

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The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar—over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from agricultural inputs and industrial wastes; and the increasing variability of climate, including threats of
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Peaceland

Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention

by Séverine Autesserre ...

Series series Problems of International Politics
This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world, it demonstrates that everyday elements - such as the expatriates' social habits and usual approaches to understanding their areas of operation - strongly influence peacebuilding effectiveness. ... Read more

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This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world, it demonstrates that everyday elements - such as the expatriates' social habits and usual approaches to understanding their areas of operation - strongly influence peacebuilding effectiveness.
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The Women, Gender and Development Reader

by Valentine Moghadam, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Sarah White, Diana L. Wolf, Deepa Shankaran, Lourdes Beneria, Aysan Sev'er, Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Beth Herzfeld, Aili Mari Tripp, Kalpana Wilson, Susie Jolly, Sylvia Chant, Diane Elson, Gita Sen, Betsy Hartmann, Peggy Antrobus, Elizabeth Barajas-Roman, Jennifer Fluri, Anesu Makina, Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga, Ruth Needleman, Alice Mungwa, Jean Pyle, Sonia Corra, Ayesha M. Imam, Amy Lind, Jennifer L. Fruri, Samanthi Gunawardana, Haejin Kim, Paula Voos, Gulay Toksoz, Lila Abu-Lughod, Annette Desmarais, Shirin M. Rai, Ruth Pearson ...

The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession, and climate change. Approached from a ... Read more

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The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession, and climate change. Approached from a
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Green Social Work

From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice

by Lena Dominelli ...

Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in environmental issues that increasingly impact on people's well-being, both locally and globally.This compelling new contribution confronts this topic head-on, examining environmental issues from a social work perspective. Lena Dominelli draws attention to the ... Read more

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Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in environmental issues that increasingly impact on people's well-being, both locally and globally.This compelling new contribution confronts this topic head-on, examining environmental issues from a social work perspective. Lena Dominelli draws attention to the
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Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

Protecting Culture and the Environment

Edited by Fabien Girard, Ingrid Hall, Christine Frison ...

Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
This volume presents a comprehensive overview of biocultural rights, examining how we can promote the role of indigenous peoples and local communities as environmental stewards and how we can ensure that their ways of life are protected.With Biocultural Community Protocols (BCPs) or Community Protocols (CPs) being increasingly seen as a powerful way of tackling this immense challenge, this book ... Read more

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This volume presents a comprehensive overview of biocultural rights, examining how we can promote the role of indigenous peoples and local communities as environmental stewards and how we can ensure that their ways of life are protected.With Biocultural Community Protocols (BCPs) or Community Protocols (CPs) being increasingly seen as a powerful way of tackling this immense challenge, this book
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Human Security and Sustainable Development in East Africa

Edited by Jeremiah O. Asaka, Alice A. Oluoko-Odingo ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
This book investigates contemporary human security issues in East Africa, setting forth policy recommendations and a research agenda for future studies.Human security takes a people-centered rather than state-centered approach to security issues, focusing on whether people feel safe, free from fear, want, and indignity. This book investigates human security in East Africa, encompassing issues as ... Read more

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This book investigates contemporary human security issues in East Africa, setting forth policy recommendations and a research agenda for future studies.Human security takes a people-centered rather than state-centered approach to security issues, focusing on whether people feel safe, free from fear, want, and indignity. This book investigates human security in East Africa, encompassing issues as
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