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  • Brand Aid

    Shopping Well to Save the World

    by Lisa Ann Richey, Stefano Ponte ...
    Series series A Quadrant Book
    “Has there ever been a better reason to shop?” asks an ad for the Product RED American Express card, telling members who use the card that buying “cappuccinos or cashmere” will help to fight AIDS in Africa. Cofounded in 2006 by the rock star Bono, Product RED has been a particularly successful example of a new trend in celebrity-driven international aid and development, one explicitly linked to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • New Actors and Alliances in Development

    Edited by Lisa Ann Richey, Stefano Ponte ...
    Series series ThirdWorlds
    This collection brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars exploring how development financing and interventions are being shaped by a wider and more complex platform of actors than usually considered in the existing literature. The contributors also trace a changing set of key relations and alliances in development – those between business and consumers; NGOs and celebrities; ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Green Economy in the Global South

    Edited by Stefano Ponte, Daniel Brockington ...
    Series series ThirdWorlds
    The idea and practice of the ‘green economy’ is gaining momentum, coinciding with financial instability and continued economic woe in the Global North, but generally more positive economic circumstances in the Global South. ‘Green economic initiatives’ in the Global South are multiplying, and include carbon payments, ecotourism, community-based wildlife management, sustainability certification ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Business, Power and Sustainability in a World of Global Value Chains

    by Stefano Ponte ...
    The interaction of sustainability governance and global value chains has crucial implications the world over. When it comes to sustainability the last decade has witnessed the birth of hybrid forms of governance where business, civil society and public actors interact at different levels, leading to a focus on concepts of legitimacy within multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs).Based in over 15 ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • The Coffee Paradox

    Global Markets, Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development

    by Benoit Daviron, Stefano Ponte ...
    Can developing countries trade their way out of poverty? International trade has grown dramatically in the last two decades in the global economy, and trade is an important source of revenue in developing countries. Yet, many low-income countries have been producing and exporting tropical commodities for a long time. They are still poor. This book is a major analytical contribution to ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

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  • What Is Government Good At?

    A Canadian Answer

    by Donald Savoie ...
    Winner: Donner Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Public Policy Writing by Canadians (2016)Winner: New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction (2016)Recent decades have shown the public's support for government plummet alongside political leaders’ credibility. This downward spiral calls for an exploration of what has gone wrong. The questions "What is government good at?" and "What is government ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Sustainability Assessment

    Criteria and Processes

    by Bob Gibson, Selma Hassan, James Tansey ...
    Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based on the core requirements of sustainability and the particularities of the context. As well, they need ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Power

    by Donald Savoie ...
    In this informative critique of contemporary leadership renowned political scientist Donald Savoie poses and answers the crucial questions: where is power located and who is in charge? In recent years it has become extremely difficult to pinpoint the location of political and economic power making it complicated to determine who is to blame for political and economic catastrophes and leading to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Thinking Government

    Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition

    by David Johnson ...
    Thinking Government: Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition introduces students to power relations between elected politicians and unelected public servants, while also covering important topics such as the institutions of the federal government, financial and human resources management, and accountability and responsibility. Johnson explores the ways that the ideological ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Public Administration

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stella Z. Theodoulou, Ravi K. Roy ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Public administration ensures the development and delivery of the essential public services required for sustaining modern civilization. Covering areas from public safety and social welfare to transportation and education, the services provided through the public sector are inextricably part of our daily lives. However, mandatory budgetary cuts in recent years have caused public administrators to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Science of Science Policy

    A Handbook

    Edited by Julia I. Lane, Kaye Husbands Fealing, John H. Marburger, III, Stephanie S. Shipp ...
    Series series Innovation and Technology in the World Economy
    Basic scientific research and technological development have had an enormous impact on innovation, economic growth, and social well-being. Yet science policy debates have long been dominated by advocates for particular scientific fields or missions. In the absence of a deeper understanding of the changing framework in which innovation occurs, policymakers cannot predict how best to make and manage ... Read more

    $77.89 USD

  • Corporatizing Canada

    Making Business Out of Public Service

    by Jamie Brownlee, Chris Hurl, Kevin Walby ...
    From schools to hospitals, from utilities to food banks, over the past thirty years corporatization has transformed the public sector in Canada. Economic elites take control of public institutions and use business metrics to evaluate their performance, transforming public programs into corporate revenue streams.Senior managers use corporate methodology to set priorities in social services and ... Read more

    $24.49 USD