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  • Navigating Uncertainty

    Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World

    de Ian Scoones ...
    Uncertainties are everywhere. Whether it’s climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don’t know what the future will hold. For many contemporary challenges, navigating uncertainty – where we cannot predict what may happen – is essential and, as the book explores, this is much more than just managing risk. But how is this done, and what can we learn from ... Leer más

    $18.00 USD

  • Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development

    de Ian Scoones ...
    The message of Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development is clear: livelihoods approaches are an essential lens on questions of rural development, but these need to be situated in a better understanding of political economy. The book looks at the role of social institutions and the politics of policy, as well as issues of identity, gender and generation. The relationships between ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change

    Edición de Philip McMichael, Ian Scoones, Saturnino Borras Jr. ...
    Series series Critical Agrarian Studies
    This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what? Who does what? Who gets what? And what do they do with the surplus wealth? It also addresses the ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Sustaining the Soil

    Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa

    Edición de Chris Reij, Ian Scoones, Calmilla Toulmin ...
    Indigenous soil and water conservation practices are rarely acknowledged in the design of conventional development projects. Instead, the history of soil and water conservation in Africa has been one of imposing external solutions without regard for local practice. There is a remarkably diverse range of locally developed and adapted technologies for the conservation of water and soil, well suited ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions 'from Below'

    Edición de Marc Edelman, Ruth Hall, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ian Scoones, Ben White, Wendy Wolford ...
    Series series Critical Agrarian Studies
    When the 2007-2008 food and financial crises triggered a global wave of land grabbing, scholars, activists and policy practitioners assumed that this would be met with massive peasant resistance. As empirical evidence accumulated, however, it became clear that political reactions ‘from below’ to land grabbing were quite varied and complex. Violent resistance, outright expulsions, everyday ‘weapons ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Globalizing Citizens

    New Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion

    de Marjorie Mayo, Melissa Leach, Angela Alonso, Rajesh Tandon, Ian Scoones, Saturnino M. Borras, Steven Robins, Peter Newell CSGR, Rosalba Icaza, Rebecca Cassidy0, Rebecca Napier-Moore1, Jennifer C. Franco2, Julie Thekkudan3, Linda Waldman4, Lyla Mehta5, Marcelo Saguier6 ...
    Series series Claiming Citizenship
    Globalization has given rise to new meanings of citizenship. Just as they are tied together by global production, trade and finance, citizens in every nation are linked by the institutions of global governance, bringing new dynamics of inclusion and exclusion. For some, globalization provides a sense of solidarity that inspires them to join transnational movements to claim rights from global ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Science and Citizens

    Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement

    Edición de Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Brian Wynne ...
    Series series Claiming Citizenship
    Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences - such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas - pose a range of pressing challenges to questions of citizenship. This volume brings together for the first time authors from diverse experiences and analytical traditions, encouraging a conversation between science and technology and development studies around ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals

    Edición de Ben White, Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, Wendy Wolford, Saturnino Borras Jr. ...
    Series series Critical Agrarian Studies
    This collection explores the complex dynamics of corporate land deals from a broad agrarian political economy perspective, with a special focus on the implications for property and labour regimes, labour processes and structures of accumulation. This involves looking at ways in which existing patterns of rural social differentiation – in terms of class, gender, ethnicity and generation – are being ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa

    Edición de Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones ...
    Series series Pathways to Sustainability
    Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projects across the world, designed to conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks in order to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and offset emissions elsewhere. Exploring a set of new empirical case studies, Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa examines how these projects ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature

    Edición de James Fairhead, Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones ...
    Series series Critical Agrarian Studies
    Across the world, ecosystems are for sale. ‘Green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. A vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to justify appropriations of land for food or fuel. Yet in other cases, environmental green agendas are the ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Governing Global Land Deals

    The Role of the State in the Rush for Land

    Edición de Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, Ben White ...
    Series series Development and Change Special Issues
    This collection of essays in Governing Global Land Deals provides new empirical and theoretical analyses of the relationships between global land grabs and processes of government and governance.Reframes debates on global land grabs by focusing on the relationship between large-scale land deals and processes of governanceOffers new theoretical insights into the different forms and effects of ... Leer más

    $28.00 USD

  • Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development eBook

    de Ian Scoones ...
    Series Libro 4 - Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies
    The message of Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development is clear: livelihoods approaches are an essential lens on questions of rural development, but these need to be situated in a better understanding of political economy. The book looks at the role of social institutions and the politics of policy, as well as issues of identity, gender and generation. The relationships between ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD