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  • Capacity Development in Practice

    by Jan Ubels, Naa-Aku Acquaye-Baddoo, Alan Fowler ...
    The international development community invests billions of dollars to improve organisational capacity. But real-life practice is poorly understood and undervalued as a distinct professional domain. Written by practitioners, this innovative publication is designed to make capacity development more professional and increasingly effective in achieving development goals.Practical illustrations draw ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Banker to the Poor

    Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

    by Muhammad Yunus ...
    The “stirring” (Washington Post) story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the worldIn 1983, Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Twenty-three years later they won the Nobel Prize for Peace for their work in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • An Introduction to Sustainable Development

    by Peter P. Rogers, Kazi F. Jalal, John A. Boyd ...
    This volume is the most comprehensive textbook on sustainable development. It has been developed with students and professionals from around the world specifically for those who need a thorough grounding in the subject. Coverage includes: background to sustainable development and global environmental issues; measurement and sustainability indicators; environmental assessment, management and policy ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Living within a Fair Share Ecological Footprint

    Edited by Robert Vale, Brenda Vale ...
    According to many authorities the impact of humanity on the earth is already overshooting the earth’s capacity to supply humanity’s needs. This is an unsustainable position. This book does not focus on the problem but on the solution, by showing what it is like to live within a fair earth share ecological footprint.The authors describe numerical methods used to calculate this, concentrating on low ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Biocultural Diversity Conservation

    A Global Sourcebook

    by Luisa Maffi, Ellen Woodley ...
    The field of biocultural diversity is emerging as a dynamic, integrative approach to understanding the links between nature and culture and the interrelationships between humans and the environment at scales from the global to the local. Its multifaceted contributions have ranged from theoretical elaborations, to mappings of the overlapping distributions of biological and cultural diversity, to ... Read more

    Was $84.99 USD Now $71.99 USD

  • Shadow Cities

    A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World

    by Robert Neuwirth ...
    In almost every country of the developing world, the most active builders are squatters, creating complex local economies with high rises, shopping strips, banks, and self-government. As they invent new social structures, Neuwirth argues, squatters are at the forefront of the worldwide movement to develop new visions of what constitutes property and community.Visit Robert Neuwirth's blog at: http: ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare

    A Critical Historical Survey

    by Matthias Beck, Sara Melo ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare creates a comprehensive and systematic international survey of various perspectives on healthcare quality management together with some of their most pertinent critiques. It reviews the factors which have underpinned the managerialist trajectory of healthcare management over the past decades. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Migration by Boat

    Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion and Survival

    Edited by Lynda Mannik ...
    Series Book 35 - Forced Migration
    At a time when thousands of refugees risk their lives undertaking perilous journeys by boat across the Mediterranean, this multidisciplinary volume could not be more pertinent. It offers various contemporary case studies of boat migrations undertaken by asylum seekers and refugees around the globe and shows that boats not only move people and cultural capital between places, but also fuel cultural ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $23.99 USD

  • The Global Hunger Crisis

    Tackling Food Insecurity in Developing Countries

    by Majda Bne Saad ...
    For billions across the world, the daily challenge is to find enough to eat to survive. Hunger is on the rise globally with more than 1.2 billion people suffering from food insecurity and poverty and rising food prices increasingly jeopardising access to food. But what are the causes for global hunger? And as the global population soars, what are the key food challenges?In this deeply informative ... Read more

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  • The Political Economy of Sustainable Development

    Valuation, Distribution, Governance

    by Dirk Jacob Wolfson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The author shows how sustainable development may be organized, valued and distributed by introducing situational contracting as an interactive and contextual mode of governance. Situational contracting provides a road map for where we want to go, serving the prevailing ideology in implementing the trade between efficiency and fairness. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Women and Development in the Third World

    by Janet Momsen ...
    Series series Routledge Introductions to Development
    For all societies, the common denominator of gender is female subordination. For women of the Third World the effects of this position are worsened by economic crisis, the legacy of colonialism, as well as patriarchal attitudes and economic crises. Feminist critique has introduced the gender factor to development theory, arguing that the equal distribution of the benefits of economic development ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Precarious Enterprise on the Margins

    Work, Poverty, and Homelessness in the City

    by Jessica Gerrard ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the contemporary conditions of marginal work within the context of persistent unemployment, poverty, and homelessness in wealthy nations. Drawing from research concerning three cities—Melbourne, San Francisco, and London—Jessica Gerrard offers a rich account of one of the most precarious informal forms of work: selling homeless street press (The Big Issue and Street Sheet). ... Read more

    $80.09 USD