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“nicky chambers”

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  • Sharing Nature's Interest

    Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability

    by Nicky Chambers, Craig Simmons, Mathis Wackernagel ...
    Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small-scale planning and development. This is an introduction to ecological footprint analysis, showing how it can be done, and how to measure the footprints of activities, lifestyles, organizations and regions. Case studies illustrate its effectiveness ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • Anthropology and Development

    Understanding Contemporary Social Change

    by Jean-Pierre Oliver De-Sardan ...
    This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology's principal area of study. Professor de Sardan argues for a socio-anthropology of change and development that is a deeply empirical, multidimensional, diachronic study of social groups and ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Urban Poverty in the Global South

    Scale and Nature

    by Diana Mitlin, David Satterthwaite ...
    One in seven of the world’s population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of these live in the Global South – mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate water, sanitation, health care and schools provision. This book explains how and why the scale and depth of urban poverty is so frequently under-estimated by governments and international agencies worldwide. The ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • People, Places and Policy

    Knowing contemporary Wales through new localities

    Edited by Martin Jones, Scott Orford, Victoria Macfarlane ...
    The Open Access version of this book, available at www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.Set within the context of UK devolution and constitutional change, People, Places and Policy offers important and interesting insights into ‘place-making’ and ‘locality-making’ in contemporary Wales. Combining policy research ... Read more

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  • South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy

    by Doctor Thiven Reddy ...
    Series series Africa Now
    In South Africa, two unmistakable features describe post-Apartheid politics. The first is the formal framework of liberal democracy, including regular elections, multiple political parties and a range of progressive social rights. The second is the politics of the 'extraordinary', which includes a political discourse that relies on threats and the use of violence, the crude re-racialization of ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Sustainable Development

    Economics and Environment in the Third World

    by David Pearce, Edward Barbier, Anil Markandya ...
    Blueprint for a Green Economy put the economics of the environment onto the public agenda. Its authors have now widened the issue by applying the principles of their earlier, ground-breaking work to the tangled issue of sustainable Third World development. They offer a definition of sustainable development in terms of not depleting natural resources and then examine its economic implications. The ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Reconsidering Welfare Policies in Times of Crisis

    Perspectives for European Cities

    by Ombretta Caldarice ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers a European perspective on spatial planning and welfare policies in relation to the new conditions derived from the current urban crisis. The book deals with research and policy issues stemming from the fact that in the last ten years European cities have been affected by a structural crisis, not only financial but also a social, environmental and spatial, leading to an economic ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Who Needs Jobs?

    Spreading Poverty or Increasing Welfare

    by P. Lemieux ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In Who Needs Jobs?, Lemieux explains how jobs are not the goal of economic life and how creating jobs should not be the goal of public policy. He delves into how income and prosperity are created (businesses producing what consumers demand), proposes solutions to the unemployment problem, and provides readers with the knowledge to navigate the jobs discussions of politicians and economists in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • State of the World's Cities 2012/2013

    Prosperity of Cities

    by Un Habitat ...
    The city is the home of prosperity. It is the place where human beings find satisfaction of basic needs and access to essential public goods. The city is also where ambitions, aspirations and other material and immaterial aspects of life are realized, providing contentment and happiness. It is a locus at which the prospects of prosperity and individual and collective well-being can be increased. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Turkey

    by Zülküf Aydin ...
    Series series Third World in Global Politics
    Since the 1970s, Turkey has faced some of the most serious crises since the Republic was established in 1923. This book analyses the political and socio-economic problems faced by Turkey in recent decades and the country's gradual integration into the global economy.Social unrest, political and ethnic violence, paralysis of the state bureaucracy and other institutions, increasing foreign debt, ... Read more

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  • Malaise in Representation in Latin American Countries

    Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay

    Edited by Alfredo Joignant, Mauricio Morales, Claudio Fuentes ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume examines malaise with democracy within three middle-income Latin American countries - Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. In particular, the book focuses on the gap within public opinion on democratic system within the context of crisis of representation and breakdowns of democracy. Based on a study using comparative and systematic survey data, the contributors of this volume provide ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Neoliberalism, Development, and Aid Volunteering

    by Nichole Georgeou ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development and Society
    This work comes at an important time of global crisis and change, where the world is ravaged by natural disasters, wars and poverty. This has increased the pressure on governments and other organisations, such as volunteer sending agencies, which provide aid, and we have seen an upward trend in the number of people volunteering abroad. Within this volatile environment, neoliberal ideology on how ... Read more

    $67.99 USD