Entwicklungspolitik

Poverty Mosaics: Realities and Prospects in Small-Scale Fisheries

<p> </p><p>Small-scale fisheries are a major source of food and employment around the world. Yet, many small-scale fishers work in conditions that are neither safe nor secure. M...

Die Bedeutung der Geburtenregistrierung für die Verwirklichung der UN-Kinderrechte

Mareen Schöndube

European Research on Sustainable Development

<p>This book provides the reader with a state-of-the-art view of research on sustainable development. Its emphasis lies on the transformative dimension of this research: sustainable developm...

Sustainability Communication

Modern and professional communication is required to realise the goal of sustainability in society. This book develops a theoretical and empirical framework, integrating interdisciplinary perspect...

Global Food Insecurity

Human-kind and ecological systems are currently facing one of the toughest challenges: how to feed more billions of people in the future within the perspective of climate change, energy shortages,...

Overcoming the Persistence of Inequality and Poverty

Valpy FitzGerald / Judith Heyer

International experts evaluate new policy directions in economic development and poverty reduction, building on the ideas of a pioneer in the new discipline of Development Studies, Frances Stewart...

Survival and Sustainability

<P>The International Conference on Environment: Survival and Sustainability, held at the Near East University, Nicosia, Northern Cyprus 19-24 February 2007, dealt with environmental threats ...

Tears into Energy - Das Theater der Unterdrückten in Afghanistan

Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn

Theater in Afghanistan – wie kann, wie soll das funktionieren in diesem Land? In einem Land, das sich, je nach Betrachtungsweise, seit 10 Jahren, seit 30 Jahren oder seit über hundert Jahren, s...

Images of the Future City

Mattias Höjer / Anders Gullberg / Ronny Pettersson

This book is an ideal complement to studies showing the potentially devastating ecological effects of climate change, studies trying to calculate the costs of climate change, and studies trying to...

HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

A. Flint

This book explains how issues of governance lie at the heart of understanding and combating the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa. It reviews the debates surrounding the root causes of the pandemic and i...

Housing Finance in Emerging Markets

<p>The growth of urban areas and population in middle and low income countries is a continuing trend. Urbanization expands as rural to urban migration offers better income opportunities in c...

Ein unvollkommenes Angebot

James Orbinski

Die Botschaft von James Orbinski, dem ehemaligen Präsidenten von Ärzte ohne Grenzen, ist so einfach wie eminent wichtig: Die Kriege auf der Welt müssen aufhören. Denn wo Krieg herrscht, herrsc...

The Performance Of Microcredit Organisations

Saikumar Ch Bharamappanavara

Self-Help Group (SHG) microcredit is emerging as a springboard of developmental finance for Income Generating Activities (IGAs) in rural areas of India, serving the cause of the landless, small, a...

Justifying, Characterizing and Indicating Sustainability

Geir B. Asheim

<P>This volume brings together 18 articles published during the last 20 years, devoted to understanding the concept of sustainable development. The volume analyzes sustainability from three ...

Quartierszentren in der Stadtgemeinde Bremen

Rolf Prigge / Jendrik Schröder

Seit den 1990er Jahren entwickelten sich in den Stadtgesellschaften neue soziale Ausgrenzungstendenzen und benachteiligte Wohnquartiere. Die soziale Stadtpolitik sucht deshalb nach Handlungsansät...

Quartierszentren in der Stadtgemeinde Bremen

Rolf Prigge / Jendrik Schröder

Seit den 1990er Jahren entwickelten sich in den Stadtgesellschaften neue soziale Ausgrenzungstendenzen und benachteiligte Wohnquartiere. Die soziale Stadtpolitik sucht deshalb nach Handlungsansät...

Infrastructuring

A. Coskun Samli

<P>The recent global financial crisis has intensified concerns over how nations—both developed and developing — can revitalize economic growth and ensure opportunity for prosperity to al...

Microfinance 2.0 - Group Formation & Repayment Performance in Online Lending Platforms During the U.S. Credit Crunch

Thilo Klein

Microfinance 2.0 examines the role of reputation-based intermediaries on the world’s largest peer-to-peer online lending platform. This marketplace as well as other recently opened lending websi...

Sustainable Cities for the Third Millennium: The Odyssey of Urban Excellence

Voula P. Mega

At the dawn of the third millennium, planet Earth entered a zone of turbulence. The 2008 crisis added economic uncertainty to the threat of global warming and extreme events such as droughts, floo...

Plant Biotechnology for Sustainable Production of Energy and Co-products

This book is a collection of chapters concerning the use of biomass for the sustainable production of energy and chemicals–an important goal that will help decrease the production of greenhouse ...