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  • Resource Booms and Institutional Pathways

    The Case of the Extractive Industry in Peru

    Edited by Eduardo Dargent, José Carlos Orihuela, Maritza Paredes, María Eugenia Ulfe ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyses the institutional development that the Peruvian state has undergone in recent years within a context of rapid extractive industry expansion. It addresses the most important institutional state transformations produced directly by natural resources growth. This includes the construction of a redistributive law with the mining canon; the creation of a research canon for public ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Global Food Economy

    The Battle for the Future of Farming

    by Tony Weis ...
    The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.The current food economy is characterized by immense contradictions. Surplus 'food mountains', bountiful supermarkets, and rising levels of obesity stand in stark contrast to widespread hunger and malnutrition. Transnational companies dominate the market in food and benefit from subsidies, whilst farmers in developing ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Transitions to Sustainable Development

    New Directions in the Study of Long Term Transformative Change

    by John Grin, Jan Rotmans, Johan Schot ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions
    Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are transformed into a widely-shared sense of urgency, partly due to events such as the various pandemics threatening livestock, and increasing ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Roots of Brazil

    by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda ...
    Translated by G. Harvey Summ ...
    Series series Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
    Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazilian history, society, and culture. Originally published in 1936, it appears here for the first time in an English language translation with a foreword, "Why Read Roots of Brazil Today?" by Pedro Meira Monteiro, one of the world's leading experts on Buarque de Holanda.Roots of Brazil focuses on the multiple cultural ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • State of Rebellion

    Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic

    by Louisa Lombard ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018In 2013, the Central African Republic was engulfed by violence. In the face of the rapid spread of the conflict, journalists, politicians, and academics alike have struggled to account for its origins.In this first comprehensive account of the country's recent upheaval, Louisa Lombard shows the limits of the superficial explanations offered thus far – ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • United States Human Expedition

    by Timothy Rodgers ...
    The United States Human Expedition if adopted by the government, would become a non-combative branch of service that would evolve into a functional check and balance upon money. It would be implemented domestically until established and proven effective against poverty, criminal and substance abuse statistics. This publication covers the need to separate corporation from state. Corporations were ... Read more

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  • The Horn of Africa

    Intra-State and Inter-State Conflicts and Security

    Edited by Redie Bereketeab ...
    The Horn of Africa, comprising Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia, is the most conflict-ridden region in Africa. This book explores the origins and impact of these conflicts at both an intra-state and inter-state level and the insecurity they create.The contributors show how regional and international interventions have compounded pre-existing tensions and have been driven by competing ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Water Security, Justice and the Politics of Water Rights in Peru and Bolivia

    by Miriam Seemann ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The author scrutinizes the claim of policy-makers and experts that legal recognition of local water rights would reduce water conflict and increase water security and equality for peasant and indigenous water users. She analyzes two distinct 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' formalization policies in Peru and Bolivia - neoliberal the former, indigenist-socialist the latter. The policies have intended and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Rice Economy of Asia

    by Randolph Barker ...
    To millions of people in the world, rice is the center of existence, especially in Asia, where more than 90 percent of the world's rice is grown. This book is about the trends and changes that have occurred in the Asian rice economy since World War II, but particularly since the introduction of new varieties of rice and modern technology in the mid-1960s. Although there is now a vast amount of ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • International Aid and the Making of a Better World

    Reflexive Practice

    by Rosalind Eyben ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    How can international aid professionals manage to deal with the daily dilemmas of working for the wellbeing of people in countries other than their own? A scholar-activist and lifelong development practitioner seeks to answer that question in a book that provides a vivid and accessible insight into the world of aid – its people, ideas and values against the backdrop of a broader historical ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises

    Everyday Politics of Crisis Response

    Edited by Dorothea Hilhorst ...
    Series series Routledge Humanitarian Studies
    Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse – are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. In reality, there are many continuities and discontinuities between crisis and normality. What does this mean for our understanding of politics, aid, and local institutions during crises? This book ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Preventing Violent Conflict in Africa

    Inequalities, Perceptions and Institutions

    Edited by Y. Mine, F. Stewart, S. Fukuda-Parr, T. Mkandawire ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Horizontal inequalities are root causes of violent conflict in Africa. Yet, people take actions not because of statistical data on inequalities, of which they might not be aware, but because of injustices they perceive. This volume analyses the results of original surveys with over 3,000 respondents in African cities and towns, exposing clear discrepancies between objective inequalities and people ... Read more

    $49.49 USD