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  • Globalizing Citizens

    New Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion

    by Marjorie Mayo, Melissa Leach, Angela Alonso, Rajesh Tandon, Ian Scoones, Saturnino M. Borras, Steven Robins, Peter Newell CSGR, Rosalba Icaza, Rebecca Cassidy0, Rebecca Napier-Moore1, Jennifer C. Franco2, Julie Thekkudan3, Linda Waldman4, Lyla Mehta5, Marcelo Saguier6 ...
    Series series Claiming Citizenship
    Globalization has given rise to new meanings of citizenship. Just as they are tied together by global production, trade and finance, citizens in every nation are linked by the institutions of global governance, bringing new dynamics of inclusion and exclusion. For some, globalization provides a sense of solidarity that inspires them to join transnational movements to claim rights from global ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Water for Food Security, Nutrition and Social Justice

    by Lyla Mehta, Theib Oweis, Claudia Ringler, Barbara Schreiner, Shiney Varghese ...
    Series series Pathways to Sustainability
    This book is the first comprehensive effort to bring together Water, Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) in a way that goes beyond the traditional focus on irrigated agriculture. Apart from looking at the role of water and sanitation for human well-being, it proposes alternative and more locally appropriate ways to address complex water management and governance challenges from the local to global ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Citizenship and Social Movements

    Perspectives from the Global South

    by Eghosa E. Osaghae, Arilson Favareto, Ranjita Mohanty, Laurence Edward Piper, Simeen Mahmud, Linda Waldman, Lyla Mehta, Angela Alonso, Carlos Cortez Ruiz ...
    Series series Claiming Citizenship
    Debates over social movements have suffered from a predominate focus on North America and western Europe, often neglecting the significance of collective action in the global South. Citizenship and Social Movements seeks to partially redress this imbalance with case studies from Brazil, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, South Africa and Nigeria.This volume points to the complex relationships that ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • The Politics and Poetics of Water

    Naturalising Scarcity in Western India

    by Lyla Mehta ...
    The book studies the relationship between large dams and water scarcity in Kutch. It argues that water scarcity is not merely natural, but is embedded in the social and power relations shaping water access, use and practices. Scarcity is portrayed as natural rather than human induced and this ‘naturalisation of scarcity’ is beneficial to those who are powerful. This is a significant book in the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Limits to Scarcity

    Contesting the Politics of Allocation

    by Lyla Mehta ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    Scarcity is considered a ubiquitous feature of the human condition. It underpins much of modern economics and is widely used as an explanation for social organisation, social conflict and the resource crunch confronting humanity's survival on the planet. It is made out to be an all-pervasive fact of our lives - be it of housing, food, water or oil. But has the conception of scarcity been ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Environment in Global Sustainability Governance

    Perceptions, Actors, Innovations

    by Aino Ursula Mäki, Alice Vadrot, Andreas Goldthau, Anna Kosovac, Claudia Ringler, Daniel Pejic, Daniela Kleinschmit, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Eva Alfredsson, Javier Gonzales-Iwanciw, Jens Marquardt, Julie Duval, Lyla Mehta, Manuel Fischer, Mareike Blum, Maria Brockhaus, Markus Kröger, Maurie Cohen, Mawa Karambiri, Miranda Schreurs, Montserrat Koloffon Rosas, Nopenyo Dabla, Paúl Cisneros, Philipp Pattberg, Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen, Sabine Reinecke, Sandra Schwindenhammer, Sherilyn MacGregor, Shiney Varghese, Sofia Cordero, Sylvia Lorek ...
    Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.With Agenda 2030, the UN adopted wide-ranging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that integrate development and environmental agendas. This book focuses on the political tensions between the environmental objectives and socio-economic aspects of sustainable development.The collection provides an introduction to interlinkages, synergies ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India

    Edited by Lyla Mehta, Hans Nicolai Adam, Shilpi Srivastava ...
    Series series
    This book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India. Uncertainty is a key factor shaping climate and environmental policy at international, national and local levels. Climate change and events such as cyclones, floods, droughts and changing rainfall patterns create uncertainties that planners, resource managers and local populations are regularly ... Read more

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