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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “miriam seemann”
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  • Water Security, Justice and the Politics of Water Rights in Peru and Bolivia

    by Miriam Seemann ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The author scrutinizes the claim of policy-makers and experts that legal recognition of local water rights would reduce water conflict and increase water security and equality for peasant and indigenous water users. She analyzes two distinct 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' formalization policies in Peru and Bolivia - neoliberal the former, indigenist-socialist the latter. The policies have intended and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Roots of Brazil

    by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda ...
    Translated by G. Harvey Summ ...
    Series series Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
    Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazilian history, society, and culture. Originally published in 1936, it appears here for the first time in an English language translation with a foreword, "Why Read Roots of Brazil Today?" by Pedro Meira Monteiro, one of the world's leading experts on Buarque de Holanda.Roots of Brazil focuses on the multiple cultural ... Read more

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  • Climate Justice

    A Voice for the Future

    by T. Thorp ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)

    $49.49 USD

  • Evaluation Methodologies for Aid in Conflict

    Edited by Ole Winckler Andersen, Beate Bull, Megan Kennedy-Chouane ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
    Knowledge and rigorous evidence around the role of external development partners in situations of conflict and fragility is still lacking. There is little accountability for the billions in aid being spent in places like Afghanistan, Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo.This book analyses evaluation theory and practice in order to help fill this knowledge gap and advocates a realistic and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Governance of Energy in China

    Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

    by P. Andrews-Speed ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The way in which energy is governed in China is driving its rising level of carbon dioxide emissions. This book analyses the nature of energy governance in China by combining ideas relating to transition management with institutionalist theories, which helps to identify factors which assist or constrain the country's path to a low-carbon economy. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

    Edited by Yongfu Huang, Unai Pascual ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This collection examines the role that foreign aid can play in dealing with the severe global challenge of climate change, one of the most pressing international development issues of the 21st century. Addressing the key threats of rising temperatures, changes in precipitation, coastal erosion and natural disasters, the book considers the implications for policy and future research, particularly ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The Water Crisis in Yemen

    Managing Extreme Water Scarcity in the Middle East

    by Christopher Ward ...
    Christopher Ward provides a complete analysis of the water crisis in Yemen, including the institutional, environmental, technical and political economy components. He assesses the social and economic impacts of the crisis and provides in-depth case studies in the key management areas. The final part of the book offers an assessment of current strategy and looks at future ways in which the people ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries

    by Piers Blaikie ...
    First published in 1985. This book examines wide variety of ways in which environmental deterioration, in particular soil erosion, can be viewed and the implicit political judgements that often inform them. Using the context of developing countries, where the effects tend to be more acute due to underdevelopment and climatic factors, this work aims to examine this source of uncertainty and make ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • International Aid and the Making of a Better World

    Reflexive Practice

    by Rosalind Eyben ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    How can international aid professionals manage to deal with the daily dilemmas of working for the wellbeing of people in countries other than their own? A scholar-activist and lifelong development practitioner seeks to answer that question in a book that provides a vivid and accessible insight into the world of aid – its people, ideas and values against the backdrop of a broader historical ... Read more

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  • Resource Booms and Institutional Pathways

    The Case of the Extractive Industry in Peru

    Edited by Eduardo Dargent, José Carlos Orihuela, Maritza Paredes, María Eugenia Ulfe ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyses the institutional development that the Peruvian state has undergone in recent years within a context of rapid extractive industry expansion. It addresses the most important institutional state transformations produced directly by natural resources growth. This includes the construction of a redistributive law with the mining canon; the creation of a research canon for public ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Climate Policy Foundations

    Science and Economics with Lessons from Monetary Regulation

    by William C. Whitesell ...
    This book provides a thorough grounding in the science and economics of climate policy issues and draws key lessons from the longer experiences of central banks in grappling with related challenges. Findings and controversies of climate history and the effects of human activities on climate are reviewed. The author describes similarities in risk management approaches for climate and monetary ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Investigative Journalism, Environmental Problems and Modernisation in China

    by J. Tong ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines how the news media in general, and investigative journalism in particular, interprets environmental problems and how those interpretations contribute to the shaping of a discourse of risk that can compete against the omnipresent and hegemonic discourse of modernisation in Chinese society. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD