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  • Governing the End

    The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage

    de Lisa Vanhala ...
    A searing account of how the international community is trying—and failing—to address the worst effects of climate change and the differential burdens borne by rich and poor countries.Climate change is increasingly accepted as a global emergency creating irrevocable losses for the planet. Yet, each country experiences these losses differently, and reaching even inadequate political agreements is ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Governing Climate Change Loss and Damage

    The National Turn

    Edición de Lisa Vanhala, Elisa Calliari ...
    Series series The Politics of Climate Change
    Climate-related loss and damage has been dominating international climate change negotiations in recent years. Until now we have had little understanding of how individual states are grappling with climate change destruction. Governing Climate Change Loss and Damage offers among the first book-length explorations of how loss and damage policy works at a national level. It focuses specifically on ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Making Rights a Reality?

    Disability Rights Activists and Legal Mobilization

    de Lisa Vanhala ...
    Series series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
    Making Rights a Reality? explores the way in which disability activists in the United Kingdom and Canada have transformed their aspirations into legal claims in their quest for equality. It unpacks shifting conceptualizations of the political identity of disability and the role of a rights discourse in these dynamics. In doing so, it delves into the diffusion of disability rights among grassroots ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

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  • Disasters Without Borders

    The International Politics of Natural Disasters

    de John Hannigan ...
    Dramatic scenes of devastation and suffering caused by disasters such as the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, are viewed with shock and horror by millions of us across the world. What we rarely see, however, are the international politics of disaster aid, mitigation and prevention that condition the collective response to natural catastrophes around the world. In this book, respected Canadian ... Leer más

    $21.00 USD

  • International Organizations and Higher Education Policy

    Thinking Globally, Acting Locally?

    Edición de Roberta Malee Bassett, Alma Maldonado-Maldonado ...
    Series series International Studies in Higher Education
    Higher Education operates in an increasingly global context, and yet the examination of what drives and moves the field has remained largely focused on domestic campus leaders, national governments and institutional actors. International Organizations and Higher Education Policy expands the analysis to include the global drivers behind higher education policy, including a full array of influential ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

    de Lin Lin, Seth Spaulding ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of International Organizations
    Established in the aftermath of World War II, UNESCO succinctly states its peace mission as well as its peaceful resolution to peace in its Constitution—constructing the “defenses of peace” in the minds of peoples on the “intellectual and moral” grounds. For more than seven decades, UNESCO has been consistently positioning peace as its unwavering core and ultimate goal through promoting ... Leer más

    $275.99 USD

  • State Building

    Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

    de Francis Fukuyama ...
    Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent since September 11 and Afghanistan and Iraq.The formation of proper public institutions, such as an ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Theories and Practices of Development

    de Katie Willis ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    The newly updated third edition provides a clear and user-friendly introduction to the complex debates around how development has been understood and achieved. It has been fully updated and expanded to reflect global political and economic shifts, as well as new approaches to development.The book deals with the evolution of development ideas and policies, focusing on economic, political, social, ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Six Faces of Globalization

    Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters

    de Anthea Roberts, Nicolas Lamp ...
    An essential guide to the intractable public debates about the virtues and vices of economic globalization, cutting through the complexity to reveal the fault lines that divide us and the points of agreement that might bring us together.Globalization has lifted millions out of poverty. Globalization is a weapon the rich use to exploit the poor. Globalization builds bridges across national ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Indigenous Aspirations and Rights

    The Case for Responsible Business and Management

    Edición de Amy Klemm Verbos, Ella Henry, Ana Maria Peredo ...
    Series series The Principles for Responsible Management Education Series
    Indigenous peoples are recognised as groups with specific rights based on their historical ties to particular territories. The United Nations estimates there are 370 million Indigenous peoples, with Indigenous populations being recognised in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, the Arctic region, Central and South America, and across Asia and Africa.Indigenous Aspirations and ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Absent Citizens

    Disability Politics and Policy in Canada

    de Michael J. Prince ...
    Disability exists in the shadows of public awareness and at the periphery of policy making. People with disabilities are, in many respects, missing from the theories and practices of social rights, political participation, employment, and civic membership. Absent Citizens brings to light these chronic deficiencies in Canadian society and emphasizes the effects that these omissions have on the ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edición de Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Maarif Global Education Series
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Leer más

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