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  • Brazilian Environmental and Climate Change Law

    by Rafael Martins Costa Moreira, Gabriel Wedy ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The book covers a range of topics including the historical evolution and present landscape of Brazilian environmental law; fundamental principles of environmental law; environmental constitutionalism in Brazil; the legal framework governing environmental assets; animal protection and rights; environmental federalism; national environmental policy; administrative tools for environmental regulation; ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

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  • Falling Behind

    Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States

    Edited by Francis Fukuyama ...
    In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away from Latin America, and today the gap between the two is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural resources? Differences in political development? The question has occupied scholars for decades, and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Brazil in Transition

    Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change

    by Bernardo Mueller, Carlos Pereira, Lee J. Alston, Marcus André Melo ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent two decades of unrelenting decline from 1975 to 1994, the economy has rebounded dramatically. How did this nation become an emerging power? Brazil in Transition looks at the factors behind why this particular ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Governing Indigenous Territories

    Enacting Sovereignty in the Ecuadorian Amazon

    by Juliet S. Erazo ...
    Governing Indigenous Territories illuminates a paradox of modern indigenous lives. In recent decades, native peoples from Alaska to Cameroon have sought and gained legal title to significant areas of land, not as individuals or families but as large, collective organizations. Obtaining these collective titles represents an enormous accomplishment; it also creates dramatic changes. Once an ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Cooperatives Confront Capitalism

    Challenging the Neoliberal Economy

    by Peter Ranis ...
    Cooperatives the world over are successfully developing alternative models of decision-making, employment and operation without the existence of managers, executives and hierarchies.Through case studies spanning the US, Latin America and Europe, including valuable new work on the previously neglected cooperative movement in Cuba, Peter Ranis explores how cooperatives have evolved in response to ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Foreign Investment and the Environment in International Law

    by Jorge E. Viñuales ...
    Series Book 94 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Conflicts between foreign investment law and environmental law are becoming increasingly frequent. On the one hand, the rise of environmental regulation poses significant challenges to foreign investors in several industries. On the other, the surge in investment arbitration proceedings is making States aware of the important litigation risks that may result from the adoption of environmental ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Brazil and Climate Change

    Beyond the Amazon

    by Viola Eduardo, Matías Franchini ...
    Climate change is increasingly a part of the human experience. As the problem worsens, the cooperative dilemma that the issue carries has become evident: climate change is a complex problem that systematically gets insufficient answers from the international system.This book offers an assessment of Brazil’s role in the global political economy of climate change. The authors, Eduardo Viola and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Governing Global Land Deals

    The Role of the State in the Rush for Land

    Edited by Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, Ben White ...
    Series series Development and Change Special Issues
    This collection of essays in Governing Global Land Deals provides new empirical and theoretical analyses of the relationships between global land grabs and processes of government and governance.Reframes debates on global land grabs by focusing on the relationship between large-scale land deals and processes of governanceOffers new theoretical insights into the different forms and effects of ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Transnational Peasants

    Migrations, Networks, and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador

    by David Kyle ...
    Why do two groups from the same country pursue radically different economic strategies of transnational mobility? David Kyle examines the lives of people from four rural communities in two regions of the Andean highlands of Ecuador. Migrants from the southern province of Azuay shuttle back and forth to New York City, mostly as undocumented laborers. In contrast, an indigenous group of Quichua ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Comparative Climate Change Litigation: Beyond the Usual Suspects

    Edited by Francesco Sindico, Makane Moïse Mbengue ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book is based on the acknowledgment that climate change is a multifaceted challenge that requires action on the part of all stakeholders, including civil society, and the notion that climate change is at a tipping point with urgent measures needed in the next decade. Against this background, civil society is turning its attention to the courts as a means to directly influence climate action, ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Indigenous Dispossession

    Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico

    by M. Bianet Castellanos ...
    Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the national level, neoliberal housing policy has overtaken debates around land reform. For Indigenous peoples, access to affordable housing remains crucial to alleviating poverty. But as palapas, traditional thatch and wood houses, are replaced by tract houses in the Yucatán ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • New Order and Progress

    Development and Democracy in Brazil

    by Ben Ross Schneider ...
    Ben Ross Schneider's volume, New Order and Progress takes a thorough look at the political economy of Brazil. The distinctive perspective of the 11 chapters is historical, comparative, and theoretical. Collectively, the chapters offer sobering insight into why Brazil has not been the rising economic star of the BRIC that many predicted it would be, but also documents the gains that Brazil has made ... Read more

    $28.79 USD