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  • Adaptation of Southeast Asia to Climate Change

    by William Ascher ...
    Southeast Asia is a booming region which is nevertheless among the most vulnerable to climate change. This book assesses how Southeast Asian countries – from the wealthiest to the poorest – are adapting to meet climate change challenges across several key sectors: agriculture and fisheries, conservation, energy, health, and migration. In the broad context of the global system, it celebrates some ... Read more

    $131.19 USD

  • The Psychology of Poverty Alleviation

    Challenges in Developing Countries

    by William Ascher ...
    In order to design, enact, and protect poverty alleviation policies in developing countries, we must first understand the psychology of how the poor react to their plight, and not just the psychology of the privileged called upon for sacrifice. This book integrates social and psycho-dynamic psychology, economics, policy design, and policy-process theory to explore ways to follow through on ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Moving within Borders

    Addressing the Potentials and Risks of Mass Migrations in Developing Countries

    by William Ascher, Shane Joshua Barter ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book highlights the attention that policymakers, activists, and the public should pay to internal migration. Although prominent research has analyzed particular types of internal migration, especially urbanization and internally displaced persons (IDPs), the narrow scope of existing studies cannot capture the overlaps of motivation and circumstances that pose serious policy dilemmas. The book ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Revitalizing Political Psychology

    The Legacy of Harold D. Lasswell

    by William Ascher, Barbara Hirschfelder-Ascher ...
    The goal of this book is to recapture the diminished roles of affect, psychological needs, and the psychodynamic mechanisms that are crucial for understanding political behavior by explaining and extending the contributions of Harold D. Lasswell, the dominant figure in political psychology in the mid-twentieth-century. Although Lasswell was best known for applying psychodynamic theories to ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries

    by William Ascher ...
    Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries provides a uniquely comprehensive and practical framework for development practitioners, policymakers, activists, and students to diagnose and improve policy processes in developing countries across a wide range of issues. Based on the classic policy sciences approach, the book offers over 100 diagnostic indicators keyed to identify ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Internal Migration

    Challenges in Governance and Integration

    Edited by Shane Joshua Barter, William Ascher ...
    Internal Migration: Challenges in Governance and Integration focuses on the challenges associated with internal migration across the developing world. While international migration captures significant attention, less attention has been paid to those migrating within recognized national borders. The sources of internal migration are not fundamentally different from international migration, as ... Read more

    $96.99 USD

  • A Report of the International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development

    Edited by Ann Hubbard, William L Ascher ...
    The 1980s were one of the most turbulent decades in Central America’s history, a history that has been marked by more than its share of strife and upheaval. The wars, economic hardship, and political unrest and instability that have dominated news of the region have been years in the making, the products of flawed and inequitable economic, social, and political structures.The International ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Central American Recovery and Development

    Edited by Ann Hubbard, William L Ascher ...
    The International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development was created in 1987 to analyze development in the region and to make recommendations to the region’s governments and to the international community. The essays in this volume were written by experts in Central American development, economics, politics, and administration who were asked by the commission to synthesize ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Development Strategies, Identities, and Conflict in Asia

    Edited by William Ascher, N. Mirovitskaya ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Development Strategies, Identities, and Conflict in Asia explores the links between Asian governments' development strategies and the nature and dynamics of inter-group violence, analyzing variations in strategies and their impacts through broad comparative analyses, as well as case studies focused on eight countries. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Caspian Sea

    A Quest for Environmental Security

    Edited by William Ascher, Natalia Mirovitskaya ...
    Series Book 67 - NATO Science Partnership Subseries
    This volume is based on the presentations and deliberations of an Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) "Caspian Sea: A Quest for Environmental Security" that was held on March 15-19, 1999, in Venice (Italy). The Workshop was sponsored by the NATO's Division for Scientific and Environmental Affairs, with additional support provided by the Trust for Mutual Understanding (USA). It was organized by Duke ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries

    Environment, Economic Growth, and Income Distribution

    by Robert Healy, William L Ascher ...
    Drawing on case studies developed over a two-year period, 1987–1989, by Fellows in the Program in International Development Policy at Duke University, including experienced representatives from developing countries, the World Bank, and scholars, the authors integrate the growing interest in environmental protection and resource conservation into the existing body of knowledge about the political ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy

    by Helen Corbett, Susanne Swibold ...
    The Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy is a comprehensive presentation of definitions, philosophies, policies, models, and analyses of global environmental and developmental issues. With a wealth of comparative, multidisciplinary, and geographically varied perspectives on environmental governance, it also provides detailed and balanced discussions about specific ... Read more

    $29.49 USD