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  • 101
    ISBN: 9783030714574
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 212 p. 53 illus., 44 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: International Economic Association Series
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als JRC-IEA Roundtable: Macroeconomic Modelling for R&D and Innovation (2017 : Brüssel) Macroeconomic modelling of R&D and innovation policies
    Keywords: Technologiepolitik ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Makroökonomisches Modell ; Economic growth. ; Economic policy. ; Macroeconomics. ; Economic development. ; Economics.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Part I. Macroeconomic Modelling of Innovation Policy: State-Of-The-Art -- 2. Innovation, Public Policy and Growth: What the Data Say -- 3. Innovation and Growth: Theory -- 4. The Frontier of Macroeconomic Modelling: Proceedings of the JRC-IEA Workshop 2017 -- Part II. Impact Assessment of Innovation Policies: Models and Examples for the European Union -- 5. The RHOMOLO spatial CGE model -- 6. The QUEST III R&D Model -- 7. The NEMESIS macro-econometric model -- 8. Taking Stock -- 9 Other Innovation Policies and Alternative Modelling Approaches -- Part III. Conclusions.
    Abstract: This open access book encompasses a collection of in-depth analyses showcasing the challenges and ways forward for macroeconomic modelling of R&D and innovation policies. Based upon the proceedings of the EC-DG JRC-IEA workshop held in Brussels in 2017, it presents cutting-edge contributions from a number of leading economists in the field. It provides a comprehensive overview of the current academic and policy challenges surrounding R&D as well as of the state-of-the-art modelling techniques. The book brings to the forefront outstanding issues related to the assessment of the macroeconomic impact of R&D policies and its modelling. It speaks to the rising importance of R&D and innovation policy, and the proliferation of macroeconomic models featuring endogenous technological change. The contents of this book will be of interest to both academic and policy audiences working in the fields of R&D and innovation.
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783030920845
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVII, 202 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Magnani, Marco Making the global economy work for everyone
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftswachstum ; Beschäftigungseffekt ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Strukturelle Arbeitslosigkeit ; Epidemie ; Wirtschaftliche Anpassung ; Internationale Wirtschaft ; Welt ; Technological innovations. ; Economic development. ; Labor economics. ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Welthandel ; Internationalisierung ; Epidemie ; Strukturelle Arbeitslosigkeit ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Beschäftigungswirkung
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Innovation: engine of economic growth (and employment) -- Chapter 2: The technological revolution: The rise of machines -- Chapter 3: The technological revolution: professions at risk and new jobs -- Chapter 4: Constraints to economic growth: Sustainability, happiness and other issues -- Chapter 5: New jobs or technological unemployment? -- Chapter 6: Many proposals, few resources: The difficult choices for the future of labour -- Chapter 7: Human beings at the centre as "shareholders" of development -- Chapter 8: Ye were not made to live with the virus: Lessons from the pandemic.
    Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the weaknesses of globalisation, exposed the fragility of the current growth model, and accelerated the ongoing tech revolution. The world is increasingly facing the risk of decoupling between growth and employment, of a jobless growth with a disconnect between productivity and wages. This book is an in-depth analysis of these weaknesses and fragilities in the context of sustainability. Economist Marco Magnani suggests the possibility of pursuing a more balanced, environmentally and socially sustainable growth while defusing today’s apocalyptic alarmism about climate change, energy and demographic constraints, and the future of work. He explores alternative growth models —such as circular and civil economy, sharing economy, convivialism, and happy degrowth—and takes cues from them. He investigates the labour market, pinpointing occupations and work tasks at risk but also showcasing new jobs created by technology. He compares proposals such as reducing work hours, providing a job guarantee, mandating a universal basic income, and imposing a robot tax. The book makes innovative policy recommendations, such as the establishment of an endowment capital and the payment of a social dividend, and suggests a shift from re-distribution to pre-distribution policies. This will undoubtedly foster fierce debate. Marco Magnani closely examines artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, augmented reality and Internet of Things, quantum computing and blockchain, and biotechnologies and nano-materials. The reader embarks on a journey to learn about innovation, discover the threats of globalisation and the uncertainties of the labour market, redefine the man-machine relationship, and find a path to sustainable growth. The end goal is improving people’s lives, leveraging robots and machines despite their formidable and unjustifiably frightful rise, to make the global economy work for everyone.
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  • 103
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783030549596
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 437 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    Series Statement: Global dynamics of social policy
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Social policy. ; Economic development. ; Welfare state. ; Political sociology. ; Education. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sozialpolitik ; Wohlfahrtsstaat
    Abstract: "Lutz Leisering continues his path-breaking analysis of social policy development outside the OECD world. This is the book students of global social policy and policy-makers have been waiting for." — Ian Gough FAcSS FRSA, Visiting Professor in CASE and Associate of GRI, London School of Economics; Emeritus Professor, University of Bath, UK "This is a sophisticated analysis which will stimulate future theoretical and empirical work on social protection around the world. It deserves to be widely consulted."— James Midgley, Professor of the Graduate School, University of California Berkeley, USA While the rise of social protection in the global North has been widely researched, we know little about the history of social protection in the global South. This volume investigates the experiences of four middle-income countries - Brazil, India, China and South Africa - from 1920 to 2020, analysing if, when, and how these countries articulated a concern about social issues and social cohesion. As the first in-depth study of the ideational foundations of social protection policies and programmes in these four countries, the contributions demonstrate that the social question was articulated in an increasingly inclusive way. The contributions identify the ideas, beliefs, and visions that underpinned the movement towards inclusion and social peace as well as counteracting doctrines. Drawing on perspectives from the sociology of knowledge, grounded theory, historiography, discourse analysis, and process tracing, the volume will be of interest to scholars across political science, sociology, political economy, history, area studies, and global studies, as well as development experts and policymakers.
    Note: Literaturangaben , Index: Seite 429-437 , Social protection in the global South — an ideational and historical approach , The early rise of social security in China : ideas and reforms, 1911–1949 , Social security : the career of a contested social idea in China during the reform era, 1978–2020 , Social policy in India : one hundred years of the (stifled) social question , Minoritarian labour welfare in India : the case of the employees' state insurance act of 1948 , The social question in pre-apartheid South Africa : race, religion and the state , A racialised social question : pension reform in apartheid South Africa , (Re)formulating the social question in post-apartheid South Africa : Zola Skweyiya, dignity, development and the welfare state , The anatomy of the social question and the evolution of the Brazilian social security system, 1919-2020 , Ideational bases of land reform in Brazil, 1910 to the present , One hundred years of social protection — the rise of the social question in Brazil, India, China and South Africa, 1920-2020
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  • 104
    ISBN: 9783030613150
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 199 p. 19 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Food—Biotechnology. ; Environmental policy. ; Sociology. ; Environment. ; Environmental management. ; Economic development. ; Food science.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Part I. Agroecology and Sustainability Transformations -- 2. Origins, Benefits and the Political Basis of Agroecology -- 3. Conceptualizing Processes of Agroecological Transformations: From Scaling to Transition to Transformation -- Part II. Domains of Agroecology Transformations -- 4. Domain A: Rights and Access to Natural Ecosystems — Land, Water, Seeds and Biodiversity -- 5. Domain B: Knowledge and Culture -- 6. Domain C: Systems of Economic Exchange -- 7. Domain D: Networks -- 8. Domain E: Equity -- 9. Domain F: Discourse -- Part III. Drilling Down on Power and Governance in Agroecology Transformations -- 10. Power, Governance and Agroecology Transformations -- 11. Reflexive Participatory Governance for Agroecological Transformations -- 12. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This open access book develops a framework for advancing agroecology transformations focusing on power, politics and governance. It explores the potential of agroecology as a sustainable and socially just alternative to today’s dominant food regime. Agroecology is an ecological approach to farming that addresses climate change and biodiversity loss while contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals. Agroecology transformations represent a challenge to the power of corporations in controlling food system and a rejection of the industrial food systems that are at the root of many social and ecological ills. In this book the authors analyse the conditions that enable and disable agroecology’s potential and present six ‘domains of transformation’ where it comes into conflict with the dominant food system. They argue that food sovereignty, community-self organization and a shift to bottom-up governance are critical for the transformation to a socially just and ecologically viable food system. This book will be a valuable resource to researchers, students, policy makers and professionals across multidisciplinary areas including in the fields of food politics, international development, sustainability and resilience. Colin Ray Anderson is Associate Professor at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, UK. His research focuses on food systems, sustainability transitions, social movement organizing and knowledge mobilization. Janneke Bruil is a co-founder, facilitator and researcher at Cultivate!, an international collective that works with social movements to advance healthy and just food systems rooted in agroecology. She is also an active member of Voedsel Anders, the Dutch food sovereignty platform. M. Jahi Chappell is the Executive Director of SAAFON (the Southeastern African-American Farmers’ Organic Network), the author of the award-winning book Beginning to End Hunger, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Agroecology, Water, and Resilience, UK. Csilla Kiss works as International Research Engagement and Liaison Officer at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University, UK. She supports collaborative research across the world on socially just and ecologically sustainable food systems. Michel Patrick Pimbert is Professor of Agroecology and Food Politics as well as Director of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University, UK. .
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  • 105
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    ISBN: 9783030611606
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 168 p. 14 illus., 12 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Climate change. ; Economic development—Environmental aspects. ; Environment. ; Physical geography. ; Climatology. ; Economic development.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Key issues and progress in understanding climate risk in Africa; Declan Conway, Katharine Vincent -- Chapter 2: Climate information – towards transparent distillation; Christopher Jack, John Marsham, David P. Rowell, Richard Jones -- Chapter 3: Co-production; learning from contexts; Katharine Vincent, Anna Steynor, Alice McClure, Emma Visman, Katinka Lund Waagsaether, Suzanne Carter, Neha Mittal -- Chapter 4: Decision-making heuristics for managing climate-related risks: introducing Equity to the FREE framework; Camilla Audia, Emma Visman, Gino Fox, Emmah Mwangi, Mary Kilavi, Mark Arango, Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, Dominic Kniveton -- Chapter 5: Creating useful and usable weather and climate information: insights from Participatory Scenario Planning in Malawi; Dorothy Tembo-Nhlema, Katharine Vincent, Rebecka Henriksson -- Chapter 6: High stakes decisions under uncertainty: dams, development and climate change in the Rufiji River basin; Christian Siderius, Robel Geressu, Martin C. Todd, Seshagiri Rao Kolusu, Julien J. Harou, Japhet J. Kashaigili, Declan Conway -- Chapter 7: Integrating climate risks into strategic urban planning in Lusaka, Zambia; Anna Taylor, Gilbert Siame, Brenda Mwalukanga -- Chapter 8: Supporting climate-resilient planning at national and district level: A pathway to multi-stakeholder decision-making in Uganda; Rosalind J. Cornforth, Celia Petty Grady Walker -- Chapter 9: Conversations about climate risk, adaptation and resilience in Africa; Declan Conway, Katharine Vincent.
    Abstract: This open access book highlights the complexities around making adaptation decisions and building resilience in the face of climate risk. It is based on experiences in sub-Saharan Africa through the Future Climate For Africa (FCFA) applied research programme. It begins by dealing with underlying principles and structures designed to facilitate effective engagement about climate risk, including the robustness of information and the construction of knowledge through co-production. Chapters then move on to explore examples of using climate information to inform adaptation and resilience through early warning, river basin development, urban planning and rural livelihoods based in a variety of contexts. These insights inform new ways to promote action in policy and praxis through the blending of knowledge from multiple disciplines, including climate science that provides understanding of future climate risk and the social science of response through adaptation. The book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate students and postgraduate students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners in geography, environment, international development and related disciplines. Declan Conway is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute of the London School of Economics, UK. His problem-focused research cuts across water, climate and society, with emphasis on adaptation and the water-energy-food nexus. Katharine Vincent is a director of Kulima Integrated Development Solutions and holds visiting researcher positions at the Universities of the Witwatersrand, KwaZulu Natal and Leeds. She is interested in adaptation to climate change in the global South, and much of her work spans the science-policy/practice divide.
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  • 106
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    ISBN: 9783030633257
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 446 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
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    Keywords: Environmental policy. ; Sociology. ; Geography. ; Economic development. ; Environmental geography. ; Environment.
    Abstract: 1. Unbinding the Sustainability of Life on Earth -- 2. The Social Re-appropriation of Nature -- 3. Space, Place and Time: The Local Construction of an Environmental Rationality -- 4. Environmental Rationality and the End of Natural Dialectic -- 5. Marx’s Theory of Value, Technological Change and the Forces of Nature -- 6. Revaluing Nature: : From Exploitation of Peasantry in Capitalism to Emancipation of Indigenous Peoples and Sustainability of Life on Earth -- Chapter 7. Marxism and the Environmental Question: Towards an Environmental Rationality for Sustainability -- Chapter 8. De-growth or Deconstruction of the Economy: Towards a Sustainable World -- 9. Bioeconomics, Negentropic Productivity and Eco-social Sustainability -- 10. Political Ecology: A Latin American Perspective -- 11. Power-Knowledge Relations in the Field of Political Ecology -- 12. The Social Enownment of Nature, the Reinvention of Territories and the Construction of an Environmental Rationality; Carlos Walter Porto Gonçalves and Enrique Leff.
    Abstract: This book offers a conceptual framework for the critical understanding of the present socio-environmental conflicts. It reflects on the evolution of subject and thought, a shift in environmental thinking triggered by the development of eco-territorial conflicts and the social responses given to the environmental question. Bringing together 40 years of the authors writing and research, the book explores the transition from ecological economics and historical materialism to ecological Marxism. It unpacks the forging of political ecology from value theory in political economy, to ecological distribution and ecologies of difference; a transition to an environmental rationality grounded in the ontology of diversity, a politics of difference and an ethics of otherness. This evolution in thinking gives consistency to a theoretical discourse able to respond to the territorial conflicts generated by the radicalization of the environmental question as a key social issue of our times. The book is a call to respond to the urgent challenge of reversing the tendency towards the entropic death of the planet and to building a sustainable world order. Enrique Leff is Senior Researcher for the Social Research Institute and a professor in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is an environmental theorist working in the fields of Political Ecology, Environmental Epistemology and Philosophy, Ecological Economics and Environmental Education. He was UNEP’s Coordinator of the Environmental Training Network for Latin America and the Caribbean (1986-2008) and UNEP’s Coordinator for Mexico (2007-2008). .
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    ISBN: 9783030560362
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 249 p. 34 illus., 22 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
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    Keywords: Environmental policy. ; Sociology. ; Environmental geography. ; Geography. ; Environment. ; Economic development.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Political Ecology on Pandora -- Chapter 2. Theoretical Influences and Recent Directions -- Chapter 3. Discourses and Narratives on Environment and Development: The Example of Bioprospecting -- Chapter 4. Conservation Discourses versus Practices -- Chapter 5. Gender and Power: Feminist Political Ecologies -- Chapter 6. Climate Mitigation Choices: Reducing Deforestation in the Global South versus Reducing Fossil Fuel Production at Home -- Chapter 7. Pastoralists and the State -- Chapter 8. Climate Change, Scarcity and Conflicts in the Sahel -- Chapter 9. Population Growth, Markets and Sustainable Land-Use in Africa -- Chapter 10. Stocktake and Ways Forward.
    Abstract: “The book describes our common present with unsentimental urgency. Benjaminsen and Svarstad demonstrate the complexity of human engagement with the scarce resources of our planet, and the analytical pathways offered by political ecology. The book’s many vivid examples underscore how power is always part of the equation: people + their environment.” Christian Lund, University of Copenhagen, Denmark This textbook introduces political ecology as an interdisciplinary approach to critically examine land and environmental issues. Drawing on discourse and narrative analysis, Marxist political economy and insights from natural science, the book points at similarities, differences and inter-connections between environmental governance in the global North and South. A wide range of carefully curated case studies are presented, with a particular focus on Africa and Norway. Key themes of power, justice and environmental sustainability run through all chapters. The authors challenge established views and leading discourses and present research findings that may surprise readers. Chapters cover topics including wildlife conservation, climate change and conflicts, land grabbing, the effects of population growth on the environment, jihadism in the African Sahel, bioprospecting, feminist political ecology, and struggles around carbon mitigation within a fossil fuel-based economy. This introductory text provides tools and examples for both undergraduate and postgraduate students to better understand on-going struggles about some of the world’s most urgent challenges. Tor A. Benjaminsen is a human geographer and Professor of Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway. His research is focused on environmental change and its governance within a broad and interdisciplinary political ecology perspective. He is a lead author of the 6th IPCC report and an Associate Editor of Political Geography. Hanne Svarstad is a sociologist and Professor of Development Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. Her research is about climate change mitigation, land use conflict, bioprospecting, power, environmental justice, education and alternative sustainabilities.
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  • 108
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    ISBN: 9783030734725
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 324 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    Series Statement: Gender, Development and Social Change
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    Keywords: Women in development. ; Economic development. ; Latin America—Politics and government.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Domestic violence in the Caribbean – Are our solutions effective? -- Chapter 3: Symbolic violence in the Postcolonial Anglo-Caribbean -- Chapter 4: Exploring Domestic Violence Issues and Resolutions through Epic Theatre and Forum Theatre: The Good, the Baddesse and the Ugly -- Chapter 5: Phenomenology as Methodology for Narrating Gender Perceptions on ‘Linguistic Violence’ -- Chapter 6: Literature as an Agent of Change -- Chapter 7: Trinidad and Tobago’s Legal Response to Domestic Violence-Incomplete and Inadequate without a Focus on Achieving Substantive Equality -- Chapter 8: Historicizing Domestic Violence: The Ills of Indenture ship? -- Chapter 9: The personal is political: domestic violence and feminist participation in Bolivarian Venezuela -- Chapter 10: Literary Evocations of Violence (Psychic and Physical) in Selected Works by Indo-Trinidadian Women Writers -- Chapter 11: Understanding Domestic Violence from the perspective of Trinidadian Men -- Chapter 12: Psychological reasons women stay in abusive relationships: Case studies in Trinidad and Tobago -- Chapter 13: The Women in Seafood Landscape: A Look at the Social and Economic Challenges of Gender Based Violence -- Chapter 14: Surviving Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence -- Chapter 15: Deepening the dialogue – Strengthening domestic violence policy and charting a way forward -- Chapter 16: Accounting for Episodes of Domestic Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean: Novel Achievements in the Midst of Persistent Challenges -- Chapter 17: Through the eyes of the perpetrator: the historical and contemporary cultural context of intimate partner violence in the Caribbean -- Index. .
    Abstract: Domestic violence, interpersonal violence, intimate partner violence, or gender-based violence continues to be a social problem that is rarely understood or discussed in many parts of society, worldwide. The same holds true in the Anglophone Caribbean. Most Caribbean societies are patriarchal in nature, as most men govern and create the political and economic landscape where citizens live. This edited volume brings together reputable scholars of rigorous academic research from various disciplines (e.g., political science, law, linguistics, criminology, nursing, social work and psychology) to clearly explain the conceptual definition of domestic violence within the Latin American and Caribbean region’s socio-political context. It will highlight who are the perpetrators as well as the victims of domestic violence and the consequences of allowing domestic violence to perpetuate in the region. This book is unique in the market today, as it is the only book grounded in the Caribbean providing a comprehensive overview of domestic violence with regards to the significance, victims, perpetrators, and the consequences. Ann Marie Bissessar is Professor of Political Science at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. Camille Huggins is Lecturer at the Social Work Department at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.
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    ISBN: 9783030737825
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 302 p. 25 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
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    Keywords: Environmental policy. ; Sociology. ; Environmental geography. ; Economic development. ; Geography. ; Environmental education.
    Abstract: Part I. Defining our Great Global Challenges -- Chapter 1. Change Yourself and Change the World -- Chapter 2. Our Climate Change Challenge -- Chapter 3. Our Great Sustainability Challenge -- Chapter 4. Our Ethical Responsibility -- Part II. Tackling Climate Change -- Chapter 5. How You and Your Family Can Reduce Your Carbon Footprint -- Chapter 6 How Your Community Can Reduce Its Greenhouse Gas Impact -- Chapter 7. How Your School, Non-Profit Organization, or Business Can Reduce Eliminate Its Carbon Footprint -- Part III. Environmental Sustainability -- Chapter 8 Moving to Green Energy -- Chapter 9. Protecting Our Water Resources -- Chapter 10. Dealing with the Garbage Around Us -- Chapter 11. Saving Ecosystems -- Part IV. Building Just and Equitable Economic and Social Systems -- Chapter 12. Building a Just and Sustainable Society -- Chapter 13. Green Your Economy -- Chapter 14. Sustainable Travel and Leisure -- Chapter 15. Tune Out, Buy Nothing, and Get Educated.
    Abstract: “This book will change how you see the world. It argues compellingly that dramatic changes are happening to our planet and the only way forward is to treat the environment, and each other, with sustainability in mind. By presenting the basic science behind global threats and offering sage advice for doing your part to make a positive difference, this book is a must-have manual for life on Earth in the 21st century.” - Professor E. Christian Wells, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, USA This book will teach you everything you need to know about sustainable living—from reducing your greenhouse gas footprint to making sure that you are part of the green economy. Along the way, readers will learn about the field of sustainability and the “three E’s” of sustainable living—environment, economy, and equity. We are in the midst of great environmental change and all of us need to do everything we can to try to live more gently on the planet. Robert Brinkmann provides a range of options for readers as to what they can do to try to make a difference. Some involve simple lifestyle changes - but he also challenges all of us to commit to make more difficult and more meaningful changes to create a greener, more sustainable world. The book also delves into how we can create more sustainable communities, schools, and organizations. It showcases many examples of people and organizations that are making significant contributions to improving our planet’s sustainability that serve as inspiration and guidance for all of us trying to live more sustainably. Robert Brinkmann is the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Northern Illinois University, USA and is the author of numerous books, including Environmental Sustainability in a Time of Change. His blog, On the Brink, is one of most popular sustainability blogs on the Internet.
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    ISBN: 9783030554163
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 514 p. 26 illus., 21 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
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    Keywords: Environmental policy. ; Sociology. ; Geography. ; Environmental geography. ; Environment. ; Economic development.
    Abstract: Part I Introduction -- 1 Environmental Roots of Development Problems -- Part II Understanding the Environment and Development Nexus -- 2 Healthy Cities, Diseasogenic Cities and the Global South -- 3 Regenerating the Socio-Ecological Quality of Urban Streams: The Potential of a Social Learning Approach -- 4 A Systems Analysis Approach to Addressing Contemporary Water Challenges: Management Improvements in Brazil and Beyond -- 5 Doce River Large-Scale Environmental Catastrophe: Decision and Policy-Making Outcomes -- 6 What Do We Want to Be When We Grow Up? The Political Dimensions of Climate Change in Brazil, China and Mozambique -- 7 Colombia’s Developmental and Socioecological Trajectory and the Mounting Risks Associated with the 2016 Havana Accord -- 8 Cerca del Rio y Lejos del Agua: Water, Autonomy, and Hope in the Ecuadorian Andes -- 9 ‘The Best-Laid Schemes o’ Mice an’ Men’: Transformative Agency Towards Ecosocialism -- Part III The Lived Environment and Development of the Amazon Region -- 10 The Indigenous Politics of Belonging: Opposing Neoliberal Extractivism with Ethical Cosmologies -- 11 Voiceless Development, Toxic Injustice, Criminal Resistance: A Study of Peruvian Natural Resource Extraction Through the Political Ecology of Voice -- 12 Ethnogenesis and Environmentalism in Contemporary Brazilian Amazonia: A Study in Comparative Frontier History -- 13 Brazilian National Integration Policies and the Amazon: Discourses of Modernisation Between the Past and the Present -- 14 Unintended Consequences of ‘Development’ in the Amazon: Commercial Aquaculture and Malaria in Mâncio Lima, Brazil -- 15 Political Economy of Amazon Development and Hydropower Construction -- 16 Water Governance and the Hydrosocial Territory of the Teles Pires River Basin in the Brazilian Amazon -- 17 La Via Campesina’s Agroecological Militancy at a Crossroads: New Research Avenues for Amazonian Studies -- 18 Oxford Letter for the Amazon.
    Abstract: This book will provide a comprehensive overview of emerging challenges facing different social groups, policy-makers and the international community related to economic growth, social development and environmental change, social inclusion and regional development. The book will undertake a critical assessment of the tensions associated with the failures of mainstream regulatory approaches and impacts of social and economic policies whilst widening the discussion on the interface between the expansion of the socio-environmental demands, equity and justice. These are crucial challenges, of great importance today and of equal relevance to the Global North and South. The world is increasingly interconnected, with growing rates of production and trade, but also with serious levels of inequality, environmental degradation and mounting socio-ecological risks (for instance, due to climate change, soil erosion, water scarcity, biodiversity loss and social inequality). There are many problems associated with the usual focus on development, economic growth and the adoption of more intensive technologies and globalized markets. One of the main contradictions of development, including the limitations of many examples of supposedly sustainable responses, is the simplification of assessments and narrow consideration of alternatives. Taking those dilemmas as its departure point, the book will examine the justification, the trends and limitations of Western-based development and possible alternatives to fundamentally modify the basis and the rationale of the development process. It will consider theoretical and lived experiences of development, paying attention to multiple scales, local realities and economic frontiers. Contributing authors will explore policy recommendations and discuss effective practical tools for determining the values different people hold for ecosystem services and territorial resources, for monitoring change in the provision of ecosystem services that might increase the well-being of vulnerable groups and strategies to promote innovation and integrated, equitable and sustainable development. Antonio Ioris' research focuses primarily on the political dimension of the interconnections and interdependencies between society and the rest of nature. Most of his current research is related to social and environmental justice, the multiple obstacles faced by marginalised groups and creative reactions at different geographical scales. The work is intended to have both academic and more-than-academic relevance and is focused on socionatural processes, on the political economy of development and environmental regulation, and on governance and politics.
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    ISBN: 9783030824754
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 287 p. 23 illus., 22 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
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    Keywords: Economic development. ; Public policy. ; Human geography.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction/A Critical Appreciation of Urban Trajectories in the Global South: Mutual Learning Opportunities (Anjali Karol Mohan, Juliana Gomez and Sony Pellissery) -- Part I: Emerging Planning Territories: Co-producing Spaces, Knowledge and Vocabularies -- Chapter 2. Addressing Metropolitan Governance through Suburban Space in an Ordinary City Region (Sarani Khatua) -- Chapter 3. Planning for the urban mosaic of a mega-city: the case of urban villages in Delhi (Banashree Banerjee) -- Chapter 4. Invisible territories: The visibility of an urban crisis in Medellin (Edwar A. Calderón) -- Chapter 5. A Tenure Security-Responsive Approach: The Case of Barrio Cantera, San Martín de los Andes, Argentina -- (Claudia Sakay, Silvia Aún, Akiko Okabe) -- Chapter 6. Informality, Everyday Practices, and Public Space (re)appropriation: The caseof El Cisne Dos, Guayaquil (Xavier Méndez Abad, Hans Leinfelder, Kris Scheerlinck) -- Part II: Planning Histories and Emerging Conflicts: Juxtaposition of the Traditional and the Modern -- Chapter 7. De-Colonising Gray Space: Bedouin-Arabs Resisting Metropolitan Displacement (Oren Yiftachel, Safa Abu Rabia, Erez Tzfadia) -- Chapter 8. Urban Planning and Rationality Conflicts in Malawi (Mtafu Manda) -- Chapter 9. Reimagining Urban Planning in a Tribal Region: Reflections from a Fifth Schedule Area of India (Aashish Khakha) -- Chapter 10. Religious Urbanism: Emergent Mixed-use Approaches to Planning and (re)development in Lagos, Nigeria (Taibat Lawanson) -- Chapter 11. New directions in spatial development in Southern Africa: Outlining the background, influences and significance of co-produced spatial production in Namibia (Guillermo Delgado) -- Chapter 12. Urban Planning Practices in Mainland China: Evolution and Paradigm Shifts (Zhi Liu) -- Chapter 13: Conclusions (Anjali Karol Mohan, Juliana Gomez and Sony Pellissery).
    Abstract: “South-to-south conversations, which enable the direct sharing of ideas and practices across countries and continents, offer a promising pathway for building a richer understanding of the urban processes around the world. This book is an account of one of these fruitful conversations, organized between Bangalore and Medellin and expanded to include other voices and experiences. It is a welcome contribution to the search for alternative theories of urban development.” – Ali Madanipour, Newcastle University, UK “The volume includes a wealth of new ideas and perspectives that explore current challenges and opportunities within Southern cities. With diverse authors drawing on examples across the global South, the tension between homogenising and counter homogenising processes is addressed directly. Common themes are considered through the chapters as ideas are picked up and developed; but the originality of research contributions is not compromised. This is a volume that illustrates what has been lost due to the paucity of Southern voices in global debates about urban development. Making a contribution to trans-national learning, this book manages to be a fascinating, informative and enjoyable read!” – Diana Mitlin, International Institute for Environment and Development, UK The book gathers debates from the Global South to offers ‘fragments’ of the urban that provide clues to the larger, often-repeated ontological question that continues to hold: why and what does theory from the South mean? Deriving from and speaking to the simultaneously homogenous and heterogeneous South, the Chapters explore locally rooted knowledge systems, premised on social and cultural practices, as possible conduits to evolving planning methods and theory. Anjali Karol Mohan is an Urban and Regional Planning Faculty at the Institute of Public Policy, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. Juliana Gómez Aristizábal is leading the Master’s program in Urban and Environmental Processes at URBAM, EAFIT University, Medellín, Colombia. Sony Pellissery is Director, Institute of Public Policy, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. Chapters [Chapter-1] and [Chapter-11] are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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    ISBN: 9783030893514
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 180 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    Series Statement: Pan-African Psychologies
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    Keywords: Cross-cultural psychology. ; Personality. ; Social psychology. ; Self. ; Identity (Psychology). ; Ethnology—Africa. ; Economic development. ; Sociology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Pan-Africanism and Psychology Resistance, liberation and decoloniality -- Chapter 2 Pan-Africanism Histories, synergies and contradictions -- Chapter 3 National identity, xenophobic violence and Pan-African psychology -- Chapter 4 African feminisms, Pan-Africanism and psychology -- Chapter 5 Institutional racism and the university in Africa: A focus on South Africa -- Chapter 6 Methodologies, ethics and critical reflexive practices for a Pan-African psychology -- Chapter 7 Towards a Pan-African psychology of restorative and reparatory justice -- Chapter 8 Concluding remarks: Can a Pan-African psychology address the wounds of slavery, colonization, and apartheid?.
    Abstract: “This book offers an incisively critical interrogation of the often understated centrality and excesses of psychology as a discipline, practice and technology in the sins of inequality, unequal encounters, conquest, domination, violence and violation; while simultaneously pointing the reader to emergent promising alternative perspectives for the edification of the ideals of pan-Africanism and the elusive quest for an inclusive humanity.” —Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town, South Africa “A necessary corrective to the persisting obfuscation of coloniality and scientific racism in mainstream psychology, this book is highly commended for picking up the unresolved questions of psychology and bringing disparate sources together with a view to catalyzing the transforming of a discipline that has proved recalcitrant. This book is rich with possibilities that if pursued, may contribute productively to the myriad challenges of decolonial times.” —Professor Amina Mama, Kwame Nkrumah Chair: University of Ghana, Institute of African Studies, Professor in Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies: University of California, Davis. USA This book explores the potential of Pan-African thought in contributing to advancing psychological research, theory and practice. Euro/American mainstream psychology has historically served the interests of a dominant western paradigm. Contemporary trends in psychological work have emerged as a direct result of the impact of violent histories of slavery, genocide and colonisation. Hence, this book proposes that psychology, particularly in its social forms, as a discipline centered on the relationship between mind and society, is well-placed to produce the critical knowledge and tools for imagining and promoting a just and equitable world. Shose Kessi is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cape Town Floretta Boonzaier is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town and co-director of the Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa Babette Stephanie Gekeler is Lecturer at the International Psychoanalytic University of Berlin.
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    ISBN: 9783030347802
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 329 p. 31 illus., 12 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chinese cities in the 21st century
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    Keywords: Sociology, Urban. ; Regional planning. ; Urban planning. ; Ethnology—Asia. ; Urban economics. ; Economic development. ; Social change. ; City planning ; Urbanization ; China ; Aufsatzsammlung ; China ; Verstädterung ; Stadtentwicklung ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: New Urban Challenges in the Twenty-First Century -- Part I A New Domestic and International Context -- 2. Xi Jinping’s Economic Policy and Chinese Urbanization -- 3. Chinese Cities in the World-System’s City System: 2001–2014 -- 4. Redeveloping Informal Settlements in China, India, and Brazil -- Part II The New Urban Economy -- 5. Urbanism in Chinese Local Development: An Institutional Approach -- 6. Private Participation in China’s Infrastructure: Experience and Prospects -- 7. Path Dependency, Central-Local Dialectic, and Structure and Agency: How Has Yuhang Transformed from the Rural to the Urban? -- Part III Migrants’ Inclusion and Affordable Housing -- 8. Migration, Family Arrangement, and Children’s Health in China -- 9. The Spatial Impact of Population on Housing Price in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration, China -- 10. Shantytown Tenants’ Housing Choice in Beijing: A Perspective from the Consumer Equilibrium Theory -- 11. Double Aging: Conserving the Living Environment of Familiarity (LEF) to Mediate Between Aging People and Aging Buildings -- Part IV Urban Sustainability -- 12. Environmental Sustainability in Urban China -- 13. Unveil Urbanization ‘Bubbles’ in China: Sustainable Urbanization in Theory and Policy -- 14. Evaluating Green Development Index in Ecologically Fragile Areas of China.
    Abstract: “With an incredible coverage in breadth and depth, this excellent collection provides a set of timely, compelling and extremely well-articulated assessments of China’s new urban realities. A landmark contribution to the literature casting a long shadow over both scholarly enquiry and policy making concerning a rapidly urbanizing China at the dawn of the new urban century.” —George C.S. Lin, Chair Professor of Geography, University of Hong Kong, China “Through skillful selection of varied analytic points of departure, editor Youqin Huang has created a masterful overview of the complex challenges confronting politicians, urban planners, and ordinary citizens who aspire to urban sustainability.” —Deborah Davis, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Yale University, USA “This book is a timely and significant contribution to understanding Chinese cities at the moment of transformation. The book provides fresh insights on China’s development model, institutional change, finance and development, and environmental and green development policies. Impressively comprehensive, the book is also remarkably detailed and fascinating.” —Fulong Wu, Bartlett Professor of Planning, University College London, UK This book is an interdisciplinary examination of China's new urban development model and the challenges Chinese cities face in the 21st century. China is in the midst of a historic developmental inflection point, grappling with a significantly slowing economy, rapidly rising inequality, massive migration, skyrocketing housing prices, alarming environmental problems, and strong pushback from the West. In this volume, Western and Chinese scholars in different disciplines offer the clearest look yet at some of the main challenges China faces, including domestic and international contexts, the new urban development model, inclusion and well-being of migrants and their families, and urban sustainability. This book sheds light on China’s ongoing development and future directions, and has strong policy implications for anyone interested in the future of China.
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    ISBN: 9783030494544
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIX, 372 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management
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    Keywords: Environmental economics. ; Water. ; Environmental geography. ; Economic development.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: The Case for Universal and Sustainable Access -- Chapter 2: Where we are -- Chapter 3: Where we need to be -- Chapter 4: The costs involved -- Chapter 5: Funding Flows Today -- Chapter 6: The gap between aspirations and realities -- Chapter 7: Addressing capital costs -- Chapter 8: Lowering operating costs -- Chapter 9: Demand Management and Resource Recovery -- Chapter 10: Innovation, Efficiency and Affordability.
    Abstract: Is safe and sustainable water and sanitation for all an unaffordable pipedream? This book surveys the worldwide development of water and sewage services and the challenges in meeting Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6) along with climate change, population growth and urbanisation. It explores the reasons why current SDG6 progress is failing, including weak policy implementation, staff shortages and inadequate funding, as well as the limited impact of aid funding. The author contends that despite a series of innovations, debt finance remains too small to address needs of developing economies. Therefore, instead of advocating new funding, this book proposes addressing the funding gap through technological innovation and more efficient management and procurement through a series of examples that have challenged traditional assumptions. After four decades of good intentions, SDG6 is making a difference in monitoring shortfalls for the first time, allowing for more effective responses. This book outlines the role of innovation in hardware development, procurement and installation, and discusses how network management and operations can most effectively address funding gaps. The potential for savings is considerable, if effectively replicated. New approaches are driving forward affordable resilience, including nature-based solutions such as upstream habitat enhancement to retain water and improve downstream water quality; the circular economy, including water, nutrient, energy and heat recovery from wastewater; and demand management. This book will be of great value to scholars, policy makers and practitioners interested in the global finance of sustainable water and sanitation. David Lloyd Owen runs Envisager, advising multilaterals, governments, companies and financiers about water regulation, economics and policy. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Pictet Water Fund and has previously authored Smart Water Technologies and Techniques: Data Capture and Analysis for Sustainable Water Management (2018).
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    ISBN: 9783030566272
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 447 p. 9 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
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    Keywords: Environmental policy. ; Sociology. ; Environmental economics. ; Geography. ; Environmental geography. ; Economic development.
    Abstract: Part I: The sustainability process - context and scope -- Chapter 1: The policy context of the sustainability discourse -- Chapter 2: The historical context - sustainability in the modern society.-Chapter 3: The knowledge context of the sustainability discourse -- Part II: Economic and ecological knowledge in the sustainability process -- Chapter 4: Economics outright - management of natural resources -- Chapter 5: Environmental economics - orthodox perspectives -- Chapter 6: Ecological economics - critical perspectives -- Chapter 7: Conflicts, relapse and failure in the sustainability process - neglected problems -- Part III: The future - sustainability transformation -- Chapter 8: Changing relations of science and practice in the sustainability process -- Chapter 9: Re-thinking temporal perspectives of the sustainability transformation -- Chapter 10: Recreating sustainability – conjectures and conclusions.
    Abstract: This textbook provides an overview of economic perspectives on sustainability. It synthesises economic, ecological and interdisciplinary sustainability research and by applying an integrated social-ecological and economic framework, demonstrates how this research can be improved and implemented in practice. Split into three parts, the book begins by introducing a range of topics forming the basis of knowledge needed to understand the varying sustainability discourses in economics, ecology and interdisciplinary sustainability research. Chapters cover the political context of sustainability; the history of sustainability in European environmental discourses dating back to the seventeenth century; as well as various problems and forms of interdisciplinary knowledge integration and synthesis in the sustainability process. Part II reviews the core economic themes relevant to sustainable development including natural resource management, environmental economics and ecological economics. Also highlighted are often neglected issues such as conflicts, disasters and interrelated crises on the way towards sustainability. The chapters in Part III discuss the future of the sustainability process. They argue for the necessity of overhauling the relationship between science and practice; explore failures and the unforeseen difficulties of sustainability transformation; and discuss how to enable a long term sustainability process that reaches into the distant future. An innovative resource for a broad range of interdisciplinary programmes on sustainability. The book will be an invaluable reference for master and PhD students, instructors, researchers and practitioners in sustainability governance.
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