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“alison mathie”

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  • Citizen-Led Innovation for a New Economy

    by John Gaventa ...
    This collection of eleven cases of citizens organizing for change in Canada and the United States gives form and substance to the ideal of a new economy based on fairness and environmental sustainability. These are stories of local citizens responding to the economically distorting effects of globalization, the environmental degradation brought about by industrial development and a deep concern ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Citizen-led Innovation for a New Economy

    Edited by Alison Mathie ...
    This collection of eleven cases from Canada and the United States gives expression to the ideal of a new economy based on fairness and environmental sustainability. Grappling with complex problems in their local communities, organized citizens are forging innovation, prying open cracks in the prevailing economic system and seizing opportunities to redirect economic life. Featured here are examples ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Citizen-led Innovation for a New Economy eBook

    Edited by Alison Mathie, John Gaventa ...
    This collection of eleven cases from Canada and the United States gives expression to the ideal of a new economy based on fairness and environmental sustainability. Grappling with complex problems in their local communities, organized citizens are forging innovation, prying open cracks in the prevailing economic system and seizing opportunities to redirect economic life. Featured here are examples ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900

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    People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But, as Alfred Crosby maintains in this highly original and fascinating book, the Europeans' displacement and replacement of ... Read more

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  • Globalization and the Decolonial Option

    Edited by Walter D. Mignolo, Arturo Escobar ...
    This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de ... Read more

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  • Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals

    A Critical Look Forward

    Edited by Alberto Cimadamore, Gabriele Koehler, Thomas Pogge ...
    Series series International Studies in Poverty Research
    As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) pass their 2015 deadline and the international community begins to discuss the future of UN development policy, Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals brings together leading economists from both the global North and South to provide a much needed critique of the prevailing development agenda. By examining current development efforts, goals and ... Read more

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  • Organic Agriculture for Sustainable Livelihoods

    Edited by Niels Halberg, Adrian Muller ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    This book provides a timely analysis and assessment of the potential of organic agriculture (OA) for rural development and the improvement of livelihoods. It focuses on smallholders in developing countries and in countries of economic transition, but there is also coverage of and comparisons with developed countries. It covers market-oriented approaches and challenges for OA as part of high value ... Read more

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  • Strategies for National Sustainable Development

    A handbook for their planning and implementation

    by Jeremy Carew-Reid, Robert Prescott-Allen, Stephen Bass, Barry Dalal-Clayton ...
    Series series Sustainable Development Set
    The IUCN Strategies for Sustainable Development Handbook SeriesThis handbook is one in a series being produced by IUCN and its partners to assist countries and communities implement Agenda 21, the action programme of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. The series will include handbooks on national strategies for sustainable development, local strategies, assessing ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • China’s Grand Strategy

    Contradictory Foreign Policy?

    by Lukas K. Danner ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book describes the main contradictions in China’s actions on the world stage—peaceful vs. assertive—through a culturally informed framework that takes into account China’s historical memory and political culture. The author analyzes nine cases, including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), as examples that show both China’s commitment to peace and development in the region, as ... Read more

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  • The Critical Villager

    Beyond Community Participation

    by Eric Dudley ...
    When aid to the Third World actually works it is usually on such a small scale that it makes little impact on the world's problems. Can demands for generalizable actions be reconciled with location-specific solutions? The Critical Villager considers how community-based technical aid can be made more effective and sustainable. Calling for development workers, policy makers and researchers to put ... Read more

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  • A Will of Their Own

    Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Working Children

    by Manfred Liebel ...
    This book shows how children's work can take on widely differing forms; and how it can both harm and benefit children. Differing in approach from most other work in the field, it endeavours to understand working children from their own perspective. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar Germany and France

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Jan C. Jansen, Manuel Borutta ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume compares one of the largest instances of 'ethnic cleansing' – the German expellees from the East (Vertriebene) – with the most important case of decolonization migration – the French repatriates of Algeria (pieds-noirs). ... Read more

    $35.99 USD