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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “dimitris stevis”
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  • Just Transitions

    Social Justice in the Shift Towards a Low-Carbon World

    Edited by Edouard Morena, Dunja Krause, Dimitris Stevis ...
    In the field of 'climate change', no terrain goes uncontested. The terminological tug of war between activists and corporations, scientists and governments, has seen radical notions of 'sustainability' emptied of urgency and subordinated to the interests of capital. 'Just Transition' is the latest such battleground, and the conceptual keystone of the post-COP21 climate policy world. But what does ... Read more

    $25.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene

    From (Un)Just Presents to Just Futures

    Edited by Stacia Ryder, Kathryn Powlen, Melinda Laituri, Stephanie A. Malin, Joshua Sbicca, Dimitris Stevis ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Environmental Justice
    Through various international case studies presented by both practitioners and scholars, Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene explores how an environmental justice approach is necessary for reflections on inequality in the Anthropocene and for forging societal transitions toward a more just and sustainable future.Environmental justice is a central component of sustainability politics during ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Just Transitions

    Promise and Contestation

    by Dimitris Stevis ...
    Series series Elements in Earth System Governance
    Just transition prompts us to explore a number of important dimensions of Earth System Governance research, including sustainability transformations, inequality, power and justice. This Element aims to place just transition in the dynamics of the world political economy over the last several decades and to offer an overview of the varieties of just transitions based on an analytical scheme that ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies

    Edited by Nora Räthzel, Dimitris Stevis, David Uzzell ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this comprehensive Handbook, scholars from across the globe explore the relationships between workers and nature in the context of the environmental crises. They provide an invaluable overview of a fast-growing research field that bridges the social and natural sciences. Chapters provide detailed perspectives of environmental labour studies, environmental struggles of workers, indigenous ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

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  • The Environment and International Relations

    by Kate O'Neill ...
    Series series Themes in International Relations
    The new edition of this exciting textbook introduces students to the ways in which the theories and tools of international relations and other social science disciplines can be used to analyse and address global environmental problems. Kate O'Neill develops an innovative historical and analytical framework for understanding global environmental issues, integrating insights from different ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Privatizing Water

    Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis

    by Karen Bakker ...
    Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower costs than governments; opponents questioned the risks involved in delegating control over a life-sustaining resource to for-profit companies. Private-sector activity was most concentrated—and contested—in large cities ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Our Extractive Age

    Expressions of Violence and Resistance

    Edited by Judith Shapiro, John-Andrew McNeish ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life.Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and urban sites of extraction, this volume also foregrounds related violence in areas we might not expect, such ... Read more

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  • The Neoliberal Regime in the Agri-Food Sector

    Crisis, Resilience, and Restructuring

    Edited by Alessandro Bonanno, Steven A. Wolf ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    For the last three decades, the Neoliberal regime, emphasising economic growth through deregulation, market integration, expansion of the private sector, and contraction of the welfare state has shaped production and consumption processes in agriculture and food. These institutional arrangements emerged from and advanced academic and popular beliefs about the virtues of private, market-based ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Defining Sustainable Development for Our Common Future

    A History of the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission)

    by Iris Borowy ...
    The UN World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, alerted the world to the urgency of making progress toward economic development that could be sustained without depleting natural resources or harming the environment. Written by an international group of politicians, civil servants and experts on the environment and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Struggle for Development

    by Benjamin Selwyn ...
    The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises. Yet the majority of the world's population live in poverty. Why are wealth and poverty two sides of the coin of capitalist development? What can be done to overcome this destructive dynamic?In this hard-hitting analysis Benjamin Selwyn shows how capitalism generates widespread poverty, gender discrimination and environmental ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Cities and Development

    by Sean Fox, Tom Goodfellow ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    For the first time in human history more people now live and towns and cities than in rural areas. In the wealthier countries of the world, the transition from predominantly rural to urban habitation is more or less complete. But in many parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America, urban populations are expanding rapidly. Current UN projections indicate that virtually all population growth in the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Trade Unions in the Green Economy

    Working for the Environment

    Edited by Nora Räthzel, David Uzzell ...
    Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted. Yet research has largely ignored labour and its responses. This book brings together sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, historians, economists, and representatives from international and local unions based in Australia, Brazil, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD