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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robyn mayes”
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  • Rurality and Education

    Edited by Barbara Pini, Robyn Mayes, Laura Rodriguez Castro ...
    This book broadens the scope of the subject of rural education and enlivens the ways in which the subject may be studied. Through textual and visual analysis of a range of sources – including young adult novels, the farming simulation game ‘Hay Day’ and reality television programs – the contributors investigate how the lives of young people in rural spaces are mediated by a range of social ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Funding, Power and Community Development

    by Sarasij Majumder, Debarati Sen, Çetin Gürer, Ulrike Flader, Rita Thapa, Japhet Maingu Makongo, Lin Bender, Robyn Mayes, Niamh Goggin, Brendan Murtagh, Mariya Ivancheva, Agnes Gagyi, Natascha Mueller-Hirth, Erica Kohl-Arenas ...
    Series series Rethinking Community Development
    This edited collection critically explores the funding arrangements governing contemporary community development and how they shape its theory and practice.International contributions from activists, practitioners and academics consider the evolution of funding in community development and how changes in policy and practice can be understood in relation to the politics of neoliberalism and ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Sexuality, Rurality, and Geography

    by Alexis Annes, Jenny Björklund, Mathias Detamore, Hanna-Mari Ikonen, Robyn Mayes, Nick McGlynn, Richard Phillips, Meredith Redlin, Gordon Waitt, Samu Pehkonen, LaToya E. Eaves, Claire E. Rasmussen, Professor Kath Browne, Chris Gibson, Lynda Johnston ...
    This international edited collection contributes to knowledge about the geographies of sexualities experienced and imagined in rural spaces. The book draws attention to the heterogeneity of rural contexts and the diversity of meanings about sexualities within and across these spaces. The collection examines four key themes.First, ‘Intimacies and Institutions’ focuses on how intimate relationships ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Resource Curse or Cure ?

    On the Sustainability of Development in Western Australia

    Edited by Martin Brueckner, Angela Durey, Robyn Mayes, Christof Pforr ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Globalisation and rapid social and environmental change in recent decades have brought into sharper focus not only the benefits but also the costs of economic development. The once assumed link between economic development and societal well-being is being increasingly questioned in the face of growing social and environmental problems and unfulfilled expectations concerning political and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    How Money Really Does Grow On Trees

    by Sir Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate that there is a new wave of environmental attention focused on a wholly different set of subjects: namely that of natural capital, ecosystem services and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 44 Man-Made World

    Choosing Between Progress and Planet

    by Andrew Charlton ...
    Series Book 44 - Quarterly Essay
    Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleague's words: 'The world is split between those who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves.'In this groundbreaking essay, Charlton discusses the rift that will shape our future- progress versus planet- rich versus poor. In ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Transforming Water Management in South Africa

    Designing and Implementing a New Policy Framework

    Edited by Barbara Schreiner, Rashid M. Hassan ...
    Series Book 2 - Global Issues in Water Policy
    One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights to water, radical reforms in water management and supply institutions, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Urbanization in Asia

    Governance, Infrastructure and the Environment

    Edited by Kala Seetharam Sridhar, Guanghua Wan ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This work focuses on urban governance in the developing world, its aim being to bring a holistic perspective to the debate on urban governance in Asia and around the globe. It has been divided into three sections: The first section is on rural interventions as they influence urbanization and its problems/solutions. The second focuses on urban governance, infrastructure programs, service delivery ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The European Emission Trading System and Its Followers

    Comparative Analysis and Linking Perspectives

    by Simone Borghesi, Massimiliano Montini, Alessandra Barreca ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Given the rapid spread of ETSs in an increasing number of countries and the important role that they are likely to play for the success or failure of the environmental policy in the years to come, this book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the EU ETS from both the legal and economic perspectives comparing it with the other main ETSs existing worldwide, in order to assess whether the EU ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Environmental Law and Contrasting Ideas of Nature

    A Constructivist Approach

    Edited by Keith H. Hirokawa ...
    Law's ideas of nature appear in different doctrinal and institutional settings, historical periods, and political dialogues. Nature underlies every behavior, contract, or form of wealth, and in this broad sense influences every instance of market transaction or governmental intervention. Recognizing that law has embedded discrete constructions of nature helps in understanding how humans value ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Production of Ethanol from Sugarcane in Brazil

    From State Intervention to a Free Market

    by Márcia Azanha Ferraz Dias de Moraes, David Zilberman ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The success of Brazil in the large-scale production and use of fuel ethanol has been widely discussed and analyzed by other countries interested in adopting policies designed to encourage the use of biofuels. Within this context, certain questions arise: Could the Brazilian experience be replicated in other countries? What were the conditions that enabled the creation of the Brazilian Proálcool ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Globalization of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy

    Edited by Michael A. Livermore, Richard L. Revesz ...
    Cost-benefit analysis -- the formal estimating and weighing of the costs and benefits of policy alternatives -- is a standard tool for governments in advanced economies. Through decades of research and innovation, institutions have developed in the United States, European Union, and other developed countries that examine and weigh policy alternatives as an aid to governmental decisionmaking. ... Read more

    $91.79 USD