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  • Governing Global Desertification

    Linking Environmental Degradation, Poverty and Participation

    Series series Global Environmental Governance
    Desertification affects 70 per cent of the world's arable lands in more than 100 countries. Inextricably linked to poverty, it is estimated that the livelihood of 250 million people are directly affected while another billion living in rural drylands are threatened by this phenomenon. This volume examines the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) signed in 1994. It studies ... Leer más

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  • The Geography of the World Economy

    The Geography of the World Economy provides an in-depth and stimulating introduction to the globalization of the world economy. The book offers a consideration of local, regional, national and global economic development over the long historical term. The theory and practice of economic and political geography provide a basis for understanding the interactions within and among the developed and ... Leer más

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  • The Canadian Federal Election of 2015

    The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016Written by the foremost authorities, The Canadian Federal Election of 2015 provides a complete investigation of the election.A comprehensive analysis of the campaigns and the election outcome, this collection of essays examines the strategies, successes, and failures of the major political parties: the Conservatives, the Liberals, the New Democrats, the Bloc ... Leer más

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  • About Canada: Immigration

    Series Libro 5 - About Canada
    Many Canadians believe that immigrants steal jobs away from qualified Canadians, abuse the healthcare system and refuse to participate in Canadian culture. In About Canada: Immigration, Gogia and Slade challenge these myths with a thorough investigation of the realities of immigrating to Canada. Examining historical immigration policies, the authors note that these policies were always ... Leer más

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  • Forty Years of Community-Based Forestry: A Review of Its Extent and Effectiveness

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    Since the 1970s and 1980s, community-based forestry has grown in popularity, based on the concept that local communities, when granted sufficient property rights over local forest commons, can organize autonomously and develop local institutions to regulate the use of natural resources and manage them sustainably. Over time, various forms of community-based forestry have evolved in different ... Leer más

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  • The Politics of Transatlantic Trade Negotiations

    TTIP in a Globalized World

    Series series Globalisation, Europe, and Multilateralism
    By focusing on the wider process of negotiations, this novel volume presents the first systematic analysis of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The authors include outstanding scholars and relevant practitioners from across disciplines and various academic institutions around Europe and North America, but also from outside of the transatlantic basin. While presenting a ... Leer más

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  • Canadian Parties in Transition, Fourth Edition

    Edición de Alain-G. Gagnon, Brian Tanguay ...
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  • The Untold Story of the World's Leading Environmental Institution

    UNEP at Fifty

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    The past, present, and possible future of the agency designed to act as "the world's environmental conscience."The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) was founded in 1972 as a nimble, fast, and flexible entity at the core of the UN system--a subsidiary body rather than a specialized agency. It was intended to be the world's environmental conscience, an anchor institution that established ... Leer más

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  • Essential Work, Disposable Workers

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    Across the world we are witnessing daily the lethal effects of a rapid and scary hardening of borders, ignited and justified by manufactured fear and scarcity. In such conditions, highly exploitative ideas of “managed migration” are presented as reasonable and just.And temporary worker programs, championed by countries like Canada and the US, are presented as an acceptable response to both acute ... Leer más

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  • World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

    Resurgence and the Development Agenda

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    Covering the World Intellectual Property Organization, this volume introduces a much ignored element of the contemporary structure of global governance to scholars of international political economy.Christopher May discusses:how the World Intellectual Property Organization works, its antecedents and historythe debates about the role and justification of intellectual propertythe role of WIPO within ... Leer más

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  • An Unfinished Foundation

    The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance

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  • Governance for Development in Africa

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