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Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge
Edited by Tania Bubela, E. Richard Gold
This fascinating study describes efforts to define and protect traditional knowledge and the associated issues of access to genetic resources, from the negotiation of the Convention on Biological Diversity to The Declaration on the Right...eBook:Find out more$50.36
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Handbook of Research Methods in Migration
Edited by Carlos Vargas-Silva
Covering both qualitative and quantitative topics, the expert contributors in this Handbook explore fundamental issues of scientific logic, methodology and methods, through to practical applications of different techniques and approaches...eBook:Find out more$67.96
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Coordinating Urban and Rural Development in China
Ye Yumin, Richard LeGates
This detailed study offers a succinct yet comprehensive introduction to China’s crucial policy to coordinate urban and rural development. It describes the theoretical, political, and economic reasons why China allowed a large gap between...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Social Protection, Economic Growth and Social Change
Edited by James Midgley, David Piachaud
This highly original and thought-provoking book examines the recent expansion of social protection in China, India, Brazil and South Africa – four countries experiencing rapid economic growth and social change.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Order from Transfer
Edited by Günter Frankenberg
Constitutional orders and legal regimes are established and changed through the importing and exporting of ideas and ideologies, norms, institutions and arguments. The contributions in this book discuss this assumption and address theore...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Social Capital and Rural Development in the Knowledge Society
Edited by Hans Westlund, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Social capital is often considered a key factor for local development. This book analyzes the role of social capital for rural areas’ survival and development in the current age of metropolitan growth – an era in which urban is the norm ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Islands at Risk?
John Connell
This book provides a wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary economic, social, political and environmental change in small islands, island states and territories, through every ocean. It focuses on those island realms conventio...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Weak versus Strong Sustainability
Eric Neumayer
This fourth edition of an enduring and popular book has been fully updated and revised, exploring the two opposing paradigms of sustainability in an insightful and accessible way. Eric Neumayer contends that central to the debate on sust...eBook:Find out more$59.96
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Improving Irrigation in Asia
Elinor Ostrom, Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan, Ganesh P. Shivakoti
Improving Irrigation in Asia is based on a longitudinal study over two decades on innovative intervention for sustained performance of irrigation systems. The work identifies key factors that can help explain the performance of intervent...eBook:Find out more$36.76
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Urban Transport in the Developing World
Edited by Harry T. Dimitriou, Ralph Gakenheimer
The twenty thematic chapters in this book provide a broad set of perspectives on the plight, possibilities and opportunities of urban transport in the developing world, set against the challenges of sustainable development. The contribut...eBook:Find out more$79.16
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Migration and Development
Edited by Oliver Bakewell
To what extent does development influence migration? How does migration affect development? In recent years, there has been a huge amount of research into such questions about what has come to be known as the migration–development nexus.... -
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Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities
Edited by Zachary D. Kaufman
Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities provides crucial insight into social entrepreneurship from visionaries in the field as well as other experienced practitioners and renowned theorists. While this book focuses on social ent...eBook:Find out more$51.96
