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Community Development – Current Issues Series Serie de eBooks

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  • Sustainable Rural Development

    Sustainable livelihoods and the Community Capitals Framework

    Edición de Mary Emery, Isabel Gutierrez-Montes, Edith Fernandez-Baca ...
    Series series Community Development – Current Issues Series
    This book brings together several systems-level approaches to the consideration of the interaction of livelihood choices, natural resource management and participatory action research on sustainable development. By focusing on these approaches to community change, the volume hopes to encourage readers to consider how they might adopt methods such as Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA), ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

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  • Green Social Work

    From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $24.00 USD

  • Untamed Urbanisms

    Edición de Adriana Allen, Andrea Lampis, Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based ... Leer más

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  • Gender In Agriculture Sourcebook

    de World Bank; Food and Agriculture Organization; International Fund for Agricultural Development ...
    The Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook provides an up-to-date understanding of gender issues and a rich compilation of compelling evidence of good practices and lessons learned to guide practitioners in integrating gender dimensions into agricultural projects and programs.It is serves as a tool for: guidance; showcasing key principles in integrating gender into projects; stimulating the imagination ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Strategic Environmental Assessment For Policies: An Instrument For Good Governance

    de Ahmed Kulsum; Sanchez-Triana Ernesto ...
    Environmentally and socially sustainable policies are essential for good governance. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is the key tool for integrating environmental considerations into policies, programs and plans. This book focuses on SEA applied to policies. Through lessons learned from previous use of SEA on policies, it draws lessons on the strengths and weaknesses of current SEA ... Leer más

    $8.69 USD

  • Water Politics

    Governing Our Most Precious Resource

    de David L. Feldman ...
    As the world faces another water crisis, it is easy to understand why this precious and highly-disputed resource could determine the fate of entire nations. In reality, however, water conflicts rarely result in violence and more often lead to collaborative governance, however precarious.In this comprehensive and accessible text, David Feldman introduces readers to the key issues, debates, and ... Leer más

    $21.00 USD

  • Running Out of Time: The Reduction of Women's Work Burden in Agricultural Production

    de FAOoftheUN ...
    Based on a broad literature review, this publication discusses rural women's time poverty in agriculture, elaborates on its possible causes and implications and provides insight into the various types of constraints that affect the adoption of solutions for reducing work burden. This paper raises questions about the adequacy of women's access to technologies, services and infrastructure and about ... Leer más

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  • Ending Global Poverty

    A Guide to What Works

    de Stephen C. Smith ...
    Over 800 million people suffer from chronic hunger, and over ten million children die each year from preventable causes. These may seem like overwhelming statistics, but as Stephen Smith shows in this call to arms, global poverty is something that we can and should solve within our lifetimes. Ending Global Poverty explores the various traps that keep people mired in poverty, traps like poor ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • Food Security, Gender and Resilience

    Improving Smallholder and Subsistence Farming

    Edición de Leigh Brownhill, Esther Njuguna, Kimberly L. Bothi, Bernard Pelletier, Lutta Muhammad, Gordon M. Hickey ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    Through the integration of gender analysis into resilience thinking, this book shares field-based research insights from a collaborative, integrated project aimed at improving food security in subsistence and smallholder agricultural systems. The scope of the book is both local and multi-scalar. The gendered resilience framework, illustrated here with detailed case studies from semi-arid Kenya, is ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Cities for Children

    Children's Rights, Poverty and Urban Management

    de Sheridan Bartlett, Roger Hart, David Satterthwaite, Ximena de la Barra, Alfredo Missair ...
    Urban authorities and organizations are responsible for providing the basic services that affect the lives of urban children. Cities for Children is intended to help them understand and respond to the rights and requirements of children and adolescents. It looks at the responsibilities that authorities face, and discusses practical measures for meeting their obligations in the context of limited ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • The Drug Company Next Door

    Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico

    de Alexa S. Dietrich ...
    "This fascinating and most timely criticalmedical anthropology study successfully binds two still emergent areas ofcontemporary anthropological research in the global world: the nature andsignificant impact of multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers on humansocial life everywhere, and the contribution of corporations to the fast-paceddegradation of our life support system, planet Earth. . . . ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Ecological Systems Integrity

    Governance, law and human rights

    Edición de Laura Westra, Janice Gray, Vasiliki Karageorgou ...
    Environmental law and governance are the cornerstones of global efforts to conserve the environment, protect resources and ensure fair and equitable outcomes for all of the planet's inhabitants. This book presents a series of thought-provoking chapters which consider the place of governance and law in the defence against imminent and ongoing threats to ecological, social and cultural integrity ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD