Entwicklungspolitik

Sustainability in Food and Water

Foodandwatersecurityissuesareregardedassinequanonif asocietywants to p- mote health, peace and prosperity. People who are well fed are also people with the means to changetheir situation. However,...

Mission Drift in Microfinance

Pim Engels

Investments in microfinance by institutional investors are growing. The investors benefit from a dual return investment opportunity by balancing financial and social returns. Yet, commercial micro...

Challenging Capacity Building

Interrogates the idea of capacity building theoretically and explores the variety of meanings, constructions and practices of capacity building. This book examines capacity building in both develo...

Beyond the Biophysical

<P><EM>Beyond the Biophysical</EM> provides a broad overview of agriculture and natural resource management (NRM) scholarship and practice that lies beyond the biophysical, empha...

Global Agro-Food Trade and Standards

Standards are replacing tariffs as the main trade barriers facing African agro-food exports. This book examines the challenges and opportunities that new public and private standards present to Af...

Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration

<P>Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration, takes an unusually international perspective of sustainable innovation with contributions from Australia, Europe, and North Amer...

Fairness in International Trade

<P>This book arises out of papers delivered at the World Congress of the International Society of Business, Economics and Ethics (ISBEE) held in Cape Town in 2008. There are two sections.&am...

The South in World Politics

C. Alden / S. Morphet / M. Vieira

The South in World Politics is a timely analysis of the influence and effectiveness of developing states in shaping the international order from the politics of the Cold War and North-South confro...

The Politics of Possession

<i>The Politics of Possession</i> investigates how struggles over access to resources and political power constitute property and authority recursively. Such dynamics are integral to s...

Sustainable Communities

This book would not have been possible without the dedication and commitment of each of the chapter authors. For some authors, writing a chapter was beyond their “9–5” job, and this book re?...

Sustainable Development in the USA

Jean-Marc Zaninetti

After WWII, the United States of America proposed their way of life, based on an unlimited consumption of land, goods, and energy, as a model for the entire world. Nowadays, this expansionist mode...

Emerging Environmental Technologies, Volume II

Within the span of last couple of years, the increasing human interference with v- ious natural ecosystems and higher discharge of pollutants has presented numerous challenges to the society relat...

e-Transformation: Enabling New Development Strategies

Nagy K. Hanna

<P>Could information and communication technology (ICT) become the transformative tool for a new style of global development? Could ICT promote knowledge-based, innovation-driven, and smart,...

Revisiting the Informal Sector

Sarbajit Chaudhuri / Ujjaini Mukhopadhyay

Ziviler Friedensdienst

Martin Quack

Der Zivile Friedensdienst (ZFD) ist eine neue Institution zur zivilen Konfliktbearbeitung. Finanziert von der Bundesregierung wird von Entwicklungs- und Friedensorganisationen Fachpersonal in Konf...

Comparative Evaluations of Innovative Fisheries Management

<P><EM>Comparative Evaluations of Innovative Fisheries Management</EM> begins with a look at four places outside the European Union known for innovative management: New Zealand, ...

Mining, Society, and a Sustainable World

Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government

Nan Chai

<p>Progressing towards sustainable development raises important challenges to conducting performance evaluations in governments because there are neither generally accepted methods nor speci...

Intercultural Economic Analysis

Rongxing Guo

<P>Since the end of the Cold War, the study of intercultural relations has become one of the most popular topics in the field of global politics and economics. This book presents a methodolo...

Private Environmental Regimes in Developing Countries

R. Espach

This book assesses the recent growth and future prospects of private transnational environmental certification and standards regimes, examining in detail to what degree, and under what circumstanc...