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  • Prosperity in Rural Africa?

    Insights into Wealth, Assets, and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania

    Edición de Dan Brockington, Christine Noe ...
    How can we track change in poor rural areas where data are scarce? How do we know what general economic growth does to places which are considered rural backwaters? As poorer countries try to transform their economies, and as economies appear to be rebounding across Africa, what is that doing to the rural poor? Prosperity in Rural Africa? provides surprising and challenging answers to these ... Leer más

    $110.99 USD

  • Contemporary Megaprojects

    Organization, Vision, and Resistance in the 21st Century

    Edición de Seth Schindler, Simin Fadaee, Dan Brockington ...
    Contemporary megaprojects have evolved from the discreet, modernist projects undertaken in the past by centralized authorities to encompass everything from large-scale construction to space exploration. Contemporary Megaprojects explores how these projects have been impacted by cutting-edge technology, the private sector, and the processes of decentralization and dematerialization. With case ... Leer más

    $21.89 USD

  • Tanzanian Development

    A Comparative Perspective

    de David Potts, Faustin Kamuzora, Honest Prosper Ngowi, Hossein Jalilian, John Weiss, Joseph Kuzilwa, Julia Jeyacheya, Kifle Wondemu, Michael F. Lofchie, Michael Tribe0, Moses Emanuel Mnzava1, Andrew Coulson2, Nicola Banks3, Olivia Howland4, Peter Lawrence5, Vesa-Mati Loiske6, Anna Mdee7, Bahati Ilembo8, Brian Van Arkadie9, Christine Noe0, Dan Brockington1, Daniel Mpeta2 ...
    Over the past thirty years, in common with a number of other Sub-Saharan African countries, Tanzania has experienced a period of painful adjustment followed by relatively rapid and stable economic growth. However the extent of progress on poverty reduction and the sustainability of the development process are both open to question. In this book, prominent international observers provide a range of ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Celebrity Advocacy and International Development

    de Dan Brockington ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    Celebrity advocacy is a curious phenomenon. It occupies a significant proportion of the public domain, but does so without engaging particularly well with much of the public. Yet this may not matter very much. Many people at the core of advocacy, and in political and business elites, simply do not notice any lack of engagement. In these circles celebrity advocacy can be remarkably effective ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Celebrity and the Environment

    Fame, Wealth and Power in Conservation

    de Dan Brockington ...
    The battle to save the world is being joined by a powerful new group of warriors. Celebrities are lending their name to conservation causes, and conservation itself is growing its own stars to fight and speak for nature. In this timely and essential book, Dan Brockington argues that this alliance grows from the mutually supportive publicity celebrity and conservation causes provide for each other, ... Leer más

    $28.19 USD

  • The Anthropology of Conservation NGOs

    Rethinking the Boundaries

    Edición de Dan Brockington, Peter Bille Larsen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores how NGOs have been influential in shaping global biodiversity, conservation policy, and practice. It encapsulates a growing body of literature that has questioned the mandates, roles, and effectiveness of these organizations–and the critique of these critics. This volume seeks to nurture an open conversation about contemporary NGO practices through analysis and engagement. ... Leer más

    $28.49 USD

  • Nature Unbound

    Conservation, Capitalism and the Future of Protected Areas

    de Dan Brockington, Rosaleen Duffy, Jim Igoe ...
    This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive, critical examination of the rise of protected areas and their current social and economic position in our world. It examines the social impacts of protected areas, the conflicts that surround them, the alternatives to them and the conceptual categories they impose.The book explores key debates on devolution, participation and democracy; the ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

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    Edición de Richard Peet, Paul Robbins, Michael Watts ...
    The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises. So far attempts at resolving the deep basis of these have been superficial and disorganized. Global Political Ecology links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental disasters and failed attempts at environmental policies.This critical volume draws together contributions ... Leer más

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  • Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction Policies

    Edición de Frank Ellis, H. Ade Freeman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    This important new collection of contributions brings together current thinking on poverty reduction and rural livelihoods in developing countries. As well as leading economists in the field such as Frank Ellis and Chris Barrett, there are a number of contributors from developing countries themselves. The book examines both macroeconomic and microeconomic phenomena and contains wide range of case ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Climate Change Adaptation and International Development

    Making Development Cooperation More Effective

    Edición de Ryo Fujikura, Masato Kawanishi ...
    Series series Earthscan Climate
    Climate change impacts upon the world's poorest most heavily. It is therefore essential that international development initiatives focus on improving the ability of developing countries to adapt to the effects of climate change. This book, a product of research by the JICA-RI (Research Institute of the Japan International Cooperation Agency), examines climate change adaptation from the perspective ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • Cities on a Finite Planet

    Towards transformative responses to climate change

    Edición de Sheridan Bartlett, David Satterthwaite ...
    Cities on a Finite Planet: Transformative responses to climate change shows how cities can combine high quality living conditions, resilience to climate change, disaster risk reduction and contributions to mitigation/low carbon development. It also covers the current and potential contribution of cities to avoiding dangerous climate change and is the first book with an in-depth coverage of how ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Advanced Introduction to International Environmental Law

    de Ellen Hey ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    All too often, international environmental law is presented as a kind of guided tour of different treaties and environmental problems. Professor Hey succeeds beautifully in articulating the themes that connect all of these disparate areas, an effort that both students and scholars will appreciate.'- Daniel Farber, University of California, Berkeley, US'This volume presents a superb overview of ... Leer más

    $24.69 USD