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  • Brazil and its Perspectives on The Climate, Digital-Technological and Biological Ages

    by Francisco Gaetani, Izabella Teixeira, Marcello Brito, Roberto S. Waack, Samela Sateré Mawé ...
    What choices should we make for Brazil today? Imagine yourself in a debate room with the five authors of this book: Francisco Gaetani, Extraordinary Secretary for State Transformation; Izabella Teixeira, former Minister of the Environment and global authority on climate change; Marcello Brito, executive and Coordinator of the Global Agro-Environmental Center at Foundação Dom Cabral; Roberto S. ... Read more

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    Edited by Adriana Allen, Andrea Lampis, Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based ... Read more

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  • Unnatural Disasters

    Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed

    by Gonzalo Lizarralde ...
    Storms, floods, fires, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, and other disasters seem not only more frequent but also closer to home. As the world faces this onslaught, we have placed our faith in “sustainable development,” which promises that we can survive and even thrive in the face of climate change and other risks. Yet while claiming to “go green,” we have instead created new risks, continued to ... Read more

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  • Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities

    Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production

    Edited by Maria Backhouse, Rosa Lehmann, Kristina Lorenzen, Malte Lühmann, Janina Puder, Fabricio Rodríguez, Anne Tittor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book focuses on the meanings, agendas, as well as the local and global implications of bioeconomy and bioenergy policies in and across South America, Asia and Europe. It explores how a transition away from a fossil and towards a bio-based economic order alters, reinforces and challenges socio-ecological inequalities. The volume presents a historically informed and empirically rich ... Read more

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  • Coffee and Community

    Maya Farmers and Fair-Trade Markets

    by Sarah Lyon ...
    We are told that simply by sipping our morning cup of organic, fair-trade coffee we are encouraging environmentally friendly agricultural methods, community development, fair prices, and shortened commodity chains. But what is the reality for producers, intermediaries, and consumers? This ethnographic analysis of fair-trade coffee analyzes the collective action and combined efforts of fair-trade ... Read more

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  • Labour Law and Ecology

    by Consuelo Chacartegui Jávega ...
    Series series The Global Law Collection
    Labour law is a necessary discipline for achieving sustainable environmental companies, both to make the regulation of labor rights more effective and to realize a vigorous contribution to the mitigation of climate change. Labour and the environment are not strictly separable. The integration of the ILO's Decent Work Agenda in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a remarkable event ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • The Drug Company Next Door

    Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico

    by Alexa S. Dietrich ...
    "This fascinating and most timely criticalmedical anthropology study successfully binds two still emergent areas ofcontemporary anthropological research in the global world: the nature andsignificant impact of multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers on humansocial life everywhere, and the contribution of corporations to the fast-paceddegradation of our life support system, planet Earth. . . . ... Read more

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  • Environmental Governance in Latin America

    Edited by Fabio De Castro, Barbara Hogenboom, Michiel Baud ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC-BY license.The multiple purposes of nature – livelihood for communities, revenues for states, commodities for companies, and biodiversity for conservationists – have turned environmental governance in Latin America into a highly contested arena. In such a resource-rich region, unequal power relations, conflicting priorities, and trade-offs among multiple goals ... Read more

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  • Oil in the Soil

    The Politics of Paying to Preserve the Amazon

    by Pamela L. Martin ...
    Paradise may have been found in the Western Amazon, but it is on the brink of destruction. Oil in the Soil analyzes the campaign to save the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) block of Yasuní National Park in Ecuador's Amazon and the global networks that have resulted in one of the world's most innovative plans to save the Amazon and other biodiverse places on our planet. Pamela L. Martin examines ... Read more

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  • Angola 2050 - Picnic World Capital

    Tourism policy as a factor of territorial development

    by Hélio Aragão ...
    Project Angola 2050 - Picnic Capital of the World.Tourism policy as a factor of territorial development.Believing that any alternative territorial development strategy should be guided by tourism, counteracting the cycles of poverty, at regional and national level, this book reveals an excellent vision of the future, in a transversal perspective, insofar as it defends a new form of think about the ... Read more

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  • Labor Relations in Globalized Food

    Edited by Terry Marsden, Josefa Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti, Alessandro Bonanno ...
    Series Book 20 - Research in Rural Sociology and Development
    In recent years labor relations have altered significantly and new and more serious forms of labor marginalization and control have emerged. This book looks at labor in agriculture and food in a global era by studying salient characteristics of the conditions and use of labor in global agri-food. Written by experienced and also emerging scholars, the chapters present a wealth of empirical data and ... Read more

    $159.09 USD