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  • Investigative Journalism, Environmental Problems and Modernisation in China

    de J. Tong ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines how the news media in general, and investigative journalism in particular, interprets environmental problems and how those interpretations contribute to the shaping of a discourse of risk that can compete against the omnipresent and hegemonic discourse of modernisation in Chinese society. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Global Food Economy

    The Battle for the Future of Farming

    de Tony Weis ...
    The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.The current food economy is characterized by immense contradictions. Surplus 'food mountains', bountiful supermarkets, and rising levels of obesity stand in stark contrast to widespread hunger and malnutrition. Transnational companies dominate the market in food and benefit from subsidies, whilst farmers in developing ... Leer más

    $28.39 USD

  • How Numbers Rule the World

    The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics

    de Lorenzo Fioramonti ...
    Series series Economic Controversies
    Numbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate change, poverty and sustainability. But what is behind these numbers?In How Numbers Rule the ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Beyond Smoke and Mirrors

    Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century

    de Burton Richter ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    Global climate change is one of the most important issues humanity faces today. This updated, second edition assesses the sensible, senseless and biased proposals for averting the potentially disastrous consequences of global warming, allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions on switching to more sustainable energy provision. Burton Richter is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who has served ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Urban Poverty in the Global South

    Scale and Nature

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • The Rice Economy of Asia

    de Randolph Barker, Robert W. Herdt, Beth Rose ...
    To millions of people in the world, rice is the center of existence, especially in Asia, where more than 90 percent of the world's rice is grown. This book is about the trends and changes that have occurred in the Asian rice economy since World War II, but particularly since the introduction of new varieties of rice and modern technology in the mid-1960s. Although there is now a vast amount of ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Evaluating Communication for Development

    A Framework for Social Change

    de June Lennie, Jo Tacchi ...
    Evaluating Communication for Development presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating communication for development (C4D). This framework combines the latest thinking from a number of fields in new ways. It critiques dominant instrumental, accountability-based approaches to development and evaluation and offers an alternative holistic, participatory, mixed methods approach based on systems ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Governing African Gold Mining

    Private Governance and the Resource Curse

    de Ainsley Elbra ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book takes a fresh approach to the puzzle of sub-Saharan Africa’s resource curse. Moving beyond current scholarship’s state-centric approach, it presents cutting-edge evidence gathered through interviews with mining company executives and industry representatives to demonstrate that firms are actively controlling the regulation of the gold mining sector. It shows how large mining firms with ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • The Global Environment

    Edición de Kei Takeuchi, Masatoshi Yoshino ...
    The ffiM Japan International Symposium Energy and Environment - Global Warming was held in the Keidanren Guesthouse at the foot of Mt. Fuji, from October 21 to 24, 1990. The symposium was conducted in the context of ffiM Japan's longstanding commitment to good corporate citizenship. On this beautiful planet with its inter-dependent waters, lands and atmo sphere, we consider that the problems ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Governance of Energy in China

    Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

    de P. Andrews-Speed ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The way in which energy is governed in China is driving its rising level of carbon dioxide emissions. This book analyses the nature of energy governance in China by combining ideas relating to transition management with institutionalist theories, which helps to identify factors which assist or constrain the country's path to a low-carbon economy. ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD

  • Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents

    Economic Policy and the Environment under Erdogan

    Edición de Fikret Adaman, Bengi Akbulut, Murat Arsel ...
    The 'neoliberal' economic policy of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP Party, which has delivered extraordinary growth in Turkish GDP over the last decade, has been one of the foundations of the party's popular appeal. Here, a group of experts on Turkish political economy show how these policies have also had a detrimental impact on the environment, sustainability and the long-term health of the ... Leer más

    $153.99 USD

  • Environmental Issues in China Today

    A View from Japan

    de Hidefumi Imura ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Economic development and environmental issues in China are attracting more and more attention internationally as the country’s large population and vast demands for food, energy, water, minerals, and other resources play an increasingly important role in deciding the fate of the world. There is great interest in learning more about environmental issues in China, but it is not easy to obtain ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD