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  • Towards Sustainable Rural Regions in Europe

    Exploring Inter-Relationships Between Rural Policies, Farming, Environment, Demographics, Regional Economies and Quality of Life Using System Dynamics

    Edited by John M. Bryden, Sophia Efstratoglou, Tibor Ferenczi, Karlheinz Knickel, Tom Johnson, Karen Refsgaard, Kenneth J. Thomson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development and Society
    This book presents the methodology and results of a three-year, eleven-country science-to-policy research project – Toward a Policy Model of Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development – undertaken between 2005 and 2008 and financed under the European Union's Sixth Framework program. It deals with an important contemporary policy issue: how best to ensure that an agriculturally-based policy ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • How Numbers Rule the World

    The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics

    by Lorenzo Fioramonti ...
    Series series Economic Controversies
    Numbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate change, poverty and sustainability. But what is behind these numbers?In How Numbers Rule the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Human Co-operation

    Ritual and Social Complexity in Stateless Societies

    by Charles Stanish ...
    How do people living in small groups without money, markets, police and rigid social classes develop norms of economic and social cooperation that are sustainable over time? This book addresses this fundamental question and explains the origin, structure and spread of stateless societies. Using insights from game theory, ethnography and archaeology, Stanish shows how ritual - broadly defined - is ... Read more

    $120.59 USD

  • Ethnicity, Class, and Nationalism

    Caribbean and Extra-Caribbean Dimensions

    by Shona N. Jackson, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, Steven Ratuva, Cenk Saraçoglu, Diana Thorburn ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies
    Celebrants of an ever-emerging "globalization" fly the banner of free trade, the mass marketization of once faltering economies, and rising economic and social standards for all. Many opponents to globalization rightfully point out that borders still exist largely for the purposes of keeping one "commodity" in its place: the labor commodity or, the more familiar, immigrant. Arguments of this type ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Human Rights and the Third World

    Issues and Discourses

    by Subrata Sankar Bagchi, Arnab Das, Marie-Luisa Frick, Clarence J. Dias, Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay, Sayan Bhattacharya, Agus Wahyudi, Dip Kapoor, Ram Puniyani0, Debi Chatterjee1, Pranta Pratik Patnaik2, Semahgn Gashu3, Pawan Dhall4, Tushar Kanti Saha5, Francis Machingura6, Anuradha Saibaba Rajesh7, Satyabrata Chakrborty8, Dipankar Sinha9, Subhasis Mukhopadhyay0, Scott Simon1, Awi Mona2 ...
    Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. It finds Third World perspectives on human rights and seeks to open up a discursive space in the human rights discourse to address unresolved questions, citing issues and problems from different countries in the Third World: 1. Whether alternative ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Mixed Methods Research in Poverty and Vulnerability

    Sharing Ideas and Learning Lessons

    Edited by Keetie Roelen, Laura Camfield ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The added value of mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability is now widely established. Nevertheless, gaps and challenges remain. This volume shares experiences from research in developed and developing country contexts on how mixed methods approaches can make research more credible, usable and responsive to complexity. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Under the Influence

    A Case Study of the Elks, MADD, and DUI Policy

    by John C. Mero ...
    What are the potentially negative consequences of an undeniably good public policy? Under the Influence examines how the Elks, one of the oldest lodge-based voluntary associations in America, may have been impacted by government policies such as DUI laws. To examine this empirically, author John C. Mero conducted interviews with fifty-five California and Florida Elk Exalted Rulers. What emerges ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Religion, Community, and Education

    The Case of Rural Bihar

    by Mohd. Sanjeer Alam ...
    Religion-based educational disparities, especially relative educational backwardness amongst the Muslims in India, are the focus of serious debate. The 2006 Sachar Committee Report rekindled public interest and attention in this important issue. Yet, considerable gaps exist in our understanding of the dynamics of religion and access to education. In Religion, Community, and Education, Alam uses a ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Uprooted

    Improving Humanitarian Responses to Forced Migration

    by Susan F. Martin, Patricia Weiss Fagen, Kari M. Jorgensen, Andrew Schoenholtz, Lydia Mann-Bondat ...
    Series series Program in Migration and Refugee Studies
    By conservative estimates about 50 million migrants are currently living outside of their home communities, forced to flee to obtain some measure of safety and security. In addition to persecution, human rights violations, repression, conflict, and natural and human-made disasters, current causes of forced migration include environmental and development-induced factors. Today's migrants include ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Achieving Social Impact

    Sociology in the Public Sphere

    by Marta Soler Gallart ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents the findings of research projects conducted by CREA (Community of Researchers on Excellence for all), a research community based in Barcelona, showing how social transformation combines scientific excellence with the political and social impact of the research. Analyzing the impact of pursuing social sciences research by providing examples of achievements and opportunities ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Cultures of Wellbeing

    Method, Place, Policy

    Edited by Sarah White, Chloe Blackmore ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The authors challenge psychological perspectives on happiness and subjective wellbeing. Highlighting the politics of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, case studies across continents explore wellbeing in relation to health, children and youth, migration, economics, religion, family, land mines, national surveys, and indigenous identities. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • On the Move

    Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-U.S. Migration

    by Filiz Garip ...
    Series series Princeton Analytical Sociology Series
    Why do Mexicans migrate to the United States? Is there a typical Mexican migrant? Beginning in the 1970s, survey data indicated that the average migrant was a young, unmarried man who was poor, undereducated, and in search of better employment opportunities. This is the general view that most Americans still hold of immigrants from Mexico. On the Move argues that not only does this view of Mexican ... Read more

    $25.99 USD