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  • Forced Migration and Global Processes

    A View from Forced Migration Studies

    by François Crépeau, Petrice R. Flowers, Peter Penz, Florence Padovani, Nicholas Van Hear, Barb Wigley, Betul Celik, Marita Eastmond, Susan Kneebone, Loren B. Landau, Elspeth Guild, Heather Devere, Keryn McDermott, Jane Verbitsky, René Bruin, Kees Wouters ...
    Series series Program in Migration and Refugee Studies
    Migration is at the center of much of the discussion on globalization. Migrants move across borders and thus defy state-centered traditions. Migration is often caused or influenced by aspects of global change: the transformation of the world economy with the expansion of free trade, the modification of the world balance of power and the challenge of global insecurity, the emergence of the global ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Political Ecology

    Global and Local

    Edited by David Bell, Leesa Fawcett, Roger Keil, Peter Penz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era
    Political Ecology addresses environmental issues which Innis was concerned with, from a contemporary, political economy perspective. They explore a wide range of themes and issues including:* sustainability* risk and regulation* population growth* planetary management* impact of humanity on environment* role of technology and communication.Case studies provide further insight into issues such as ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Displacement by Development

    Ethics, Rights and Responsibilities

    by Peter Penz, Jay Drydyk, Pablo S. Bose ...
    For decades, policy-makers in government, development banks and foundations, NGOs, researchers and students have struggled with the problem of how to protect people who are displaced from their homes and livelihoods by development projects. This book addresses these concerns and explores how debates often become deadlocked between 'managerial' and 'movementist' perspectives. Using development ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

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    The Political Economy of the Global Environment

    by Jennifer Clapp, Peter Dauvergne ...
    A new edition of a book that takes a comprehensive look at the ways economic processes affect global environmental outcomes.This comprehensive and accessible book fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways international economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental ... Read more

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  • Global Distributive Justice

    An Introduction

    by Chris Armstrong ...
    Global distributive justice is now part of mainstream political debate. It incorporates issues that are now a familiar feature of the political landscape, such as global poverty, trade justice, aid to the developing world and debt cancellation. This is the first textbook to focus exclusively on issues of distributive justice on the global scale. It gives clear and up-to-date accounts of the major ... Read more

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  • Globalization and the Environment

    by Peter Christoff, Robyn Eckersley ...
    Series series Globalization
    This book by two leading scholars offers the first systematic analysis of the relationship between globalization and the environment from the early Modern period to the present. Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley develop a broad conceptual framework for understanding the globalization of environmental problems and the highly uneven, often faltering, international political response. The authors ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Consuming Cities

    The Urban Environment in the Global Economy after Rio

    by Ingemar Elander, Brendan Gleeson, Rolf Lidskog, Nicholas Low ...
    This book is about cities as engines of consumption of the world's environment, and the spread of policies to reduce their impact. It looks at these issues by examining the impact of the Rio Declaration and assesses the extent to which it has made a difference.Consuming Cities examines this impact using case studies from around the world including: the USA, Japan, Germany, the UK, China, India, ... Read more

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  • Environmental Politics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Dobson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Environmental politics has many faces and operates at multiple scales: it preoccupies individuals as well as governments, drives local agreements as well as international treaties, results in minor business changes as well as wholesale business decisions, and fluctuates between a politics of protest and one of accommodation. In this Very Short Introduction Andrew Dobson offers a lively and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Cities by Design

    The Social Life of Urban Form

    by Fran Tonkiss ...
    Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process and examines the close relationship between the social and physical shaping of urban environments.With cities taking a growing share of the global population, urban forms and urban experience are crucial for understanding social injustice, economic ... Read more

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  • Environment, Scarcity, and Violence

    by Thomas F. Homer-Dixon ...
    The Earth's human population is expected to pass eight billion by the year 2025, while rapid growth in the global economy will spur ever increasing demands for natural resources. The world will consequently face growing scarcities of such vital renewable resources as cropland, fresh water, and forests. Thomas Homer-Dixon argues in this sobering book that these environmental scarcities will have ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Spaces of Sustainability

    Geographical Perspectives on the Sustainable Society

    by Mark Whitehead ...
    Spaces of Sustainability is an engaging and accessible introduction to the key philosophical ideas which lie behind the principles of sustainable development. This topical resource discusses key contemporary issues including global warming, third world poverty, transnational citizenship and globalization.Combining the latest research and theoretical frameworks Spaces of Sustainability offers a ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Sustainable Development

    by Jennifer Elliott ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    This fourth edition has been comprehensively rewritten and updated to provide a concise, well illustrated and accessible introduction to the characteristics, challenges and opportunities of sustainable development with particular reference to developing countries. The contested nature of sustainable development is explored through a detailed consideration of changing ideas and practices within ... Read more

    $76.99 USD