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81 produkter
Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions 'from Below'
Av Marc Edelman, Ruth Hall m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
719 kr
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When the 2007-2008 food and financial crises triggered a global wave of land grabbing, scholars, activists and policy practitioners assumed that this would be met with massive peasant resistance. As empirical evidence accumulated, however, it became clear that political reactions ‘from below’ to …
Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World
Av Ian Scoones, Marc Edelman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2510 kr
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The rise of authoritarian, nationalist forms of populism and the implications for rural actors and settings is one of the most crucial foci for critical agrarian studies today, with many consequences for political action. Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World reflects on the rural origins and …
Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World
Av Ian Scoones, Marc Edelman m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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The rise of authoritarian, nationalist forms of populism and the implications for rural actors and settings is one of the most crucial foci for critical agrarian studies today, with many consequences for political action. Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World reflects on the rural origins and …
Politics of Uncertainty
Challenges of Transformation
Häftad, 2020
560 kr
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Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? To explore the underlying reasons, issues and challenges, this book’s chapters address finance and banking, insurance, technology regulation and critical infrastructures, as well as climate change, infectious disease responses, natural disasters, …
Politics of Uncertainty
Challenges of Transformation
Inbunden, 2020
2510 kr
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Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? To explore the underlying reasons, issues and challenges, this book’s chapters address finance and banking, insurance, technology regulation and critical infrastructures, as well as climate change, infectious disease responses, natural disasters, …
Pastoralism and Development in Africa
Dynamic Change at the Margins
Av Andy Catley, Jeremy Lind m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2506 kr
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Once again, the Horn of Africa has been in the headlines. And once again the news has been bad: drought, famine, conflict, hunger, suffering and death. The finger of blame has been pointed in numerous directions: to the changing climate, to environmental degradation, to overpopulation, to …
Pastoralism and Development in Africa
Dynamic Change at the Margins
Av Andy Catley, Jeremy Lind m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
850 kr
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Once again, the Horn of Africa has been in the headlines. And once again the news has been bad: drought, famine, conflict, hunger, suffering and death. The finger of blame has been pointed in numerous directions: to the changing climate, to environmental degradation, to overpopulation, to …
Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change
Av Saturnino Borras Jr., Philip McMichael m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
3149 kr
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This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what? …
Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature
Av James Fairhead, Melissa Leach m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2506 kr
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Across the world, ecosystems are for sale. ‘Green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. A vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to …
New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals
Av Ben White, Saturnino Borras Jr. m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2506 kr
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This collection explores the complex dynamics of corporate land deals from a broad agrarian political economy perspective, with a special focus on the implications for property and labour regimes, labour processes and structures of accumulation. This involves looking at ways in which existing …
Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change
Av Saturnino Borras Jr., Philip McMichael m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
920 kr
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This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what? …
Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies
Av Ian Scoones, Saturnino M. Borras Jr. m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2515 kr
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Climate change is perhaps the greatest threat to humanity today and plays out as a cruel engine of myriad forms of injustice, violence and destruction. The effects of climate change from human-made emissions of greenhouse gases are devastating and accelerating; yet are uncertain and uneven both in …
Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies
Av Ian Scoones, Saturnino M. Borras Jr. m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
707 kr
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Climate change is perhaps the greatest threat to humanity today and plays out as a cruel engine of myriad forms of injustice, violence and destruction. The effects of climate change from human-made emissions of greenhouse gases are devastating and accelerating; yet are uncertain and uneven both in …
New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals
Av Ben White, Saturnino Borras Jr. m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
649 kr
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This collection explores the complex dynamics of corporate land deals from a broad agrarian political economy perspective, with a special focus on the implications for property and labour regimes, labour processes and structures of accumulation. This involves looking at ways in which existing …
Governing Global Land Deals
The Role of the State in the Rush for Land
Av Ben White, Ian Scoones m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
339 kr
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This collection of essays in Governing Global Land Deals provides new empirical and theoretical analyses of the relationships between global land grabs and processes of government and governance. Reframes debates on global land grabs by focusing on the relationship between large-scale land deals …
Governing Global Land Deals
The Role of the State in the Rush for Land
Av Ben White, Ian Scoones m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
331 kr
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This collection of essays in Governing Global Land Deals provides new empirical and theoretical analyses of the relationships between global land grabs and processes of government and governance. Reframes debates on global land grabs by focusing on the relationship between large-scale land deals …
Sustaining the Soil
Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa
Av Calmilla Toulmin, Ian Scoones m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
746 kr
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Indigenous soil and water conservation practices are rarely acknowledged in the design of conventional development projects. Instead, the history of soil and water conservation in Africa has been one of imposing external solutions without regard for local practice. There is a remarkably diverse …
Sustaining the Soil
Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa
Av Calmilla Toulmin, Ian Scoones m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
746 kr
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Indigenous soil and water conservation practices are rarely acknowledged in the design of conventional development projects. Instead, the history of soil and water conservation in Africa has been one of imposing external solutions without regard for local practice. There is a remarkably diverse …
Dynamics and Diversity
Soil Fertility and Farming Livelihoods in Africa
Av Ian Scoones
E-bok, 2010
589 kr
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Soils are critical to agriculture and, in turn, to food supply and livelihoods. Sustainable management of soils is crucial for a large proportion of the population of Africa. Contrary to many claims, soil fertility is improved and managed successfully by small-scale farmers there. Careful studies …
Dynamics and Diversity
Soil Fertility and Farming Livelihoods in Africa
Av Ian Scoones
E-bok, 2010
572 kr
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Soils are critical to agriculture and, in turn, to food supply and livelihoods. Sustainable management of soils is crucial for a large proportion of the population of Africa. Contrary to many claims, soil fertility is improved and managed successfully by small-scale farmers there. Careful studies …
Avian Influenza
Science, Policy and Politics
Av Ian Scoones
E-bok, 2010
785 kr
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Over the past decade, substantial resources have been spent on tackling avian influenza and building a global capacity for a pandemic response. The catastrophic costs of the 1918 influenza pandemic are well documented, and the swine flu pandemic of 2009-10 has raised the alarm yet again. Across the …
Avian Influenza
Science, Policy and Politics
Av Ian Scoones
E-bok, 2010
785 kr
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Over the past decade, substantial resources have been spent on tackling avian influenza and building a global capacity for a pandemic response. The catastrophic costs of the 1918 influenza pandemic are well documented, and the swine flu pandemic of 2009-10 has raised the alarm yet again. Across the …
Understanding Environmental Policy Processes
Cases from Africa
E-bok, 2014
883 kr
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A critical analysis of the post-Rio consensus on environment and development which questions the role of particular forms of internationalized elite scientific expertise. It asks why certain understandings of environmental change stick with such tenacity. In exploring this, the authors unravel the …
Understanding Environmental Policy Processes
Cases from Africa
E-bok, 2014
864 kr
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A critical analysis of the post-Rio consensus on environment and development which questions the role of particular forms of internationalized elite scientific expertise. It asks why certain understandings of environmental change stick with such tenacity. In exploring this, the authors unravel the …
Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions 'from Below'
Av Marc Edelman, Ruth Hall m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2515 kr
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When the 2007-2008 food and financial crises triggered a global wave of land grabbing, scholars, activists and policy practitioners assumed that this would be met with massive peasant resistance. As empirical evidence accumulated, however, it became clear that political reactions ‘from below’ to …
Sustaining the Soil
Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa
Av Chris Reij, Ian Scoones m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2515 kr
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Indigenous soil and water conservation practices are rarely acknowledged in the design of conventional development projects. Instead, the history of soil and water conservation in Africa has been one of imposing external solutions without regard for local practice. There is a remarkably diverse …
Politics of Green Transformations
Av Ian Scoones, Melissa Leach m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2479 kr
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Multiple ‘green transformations’ are required if humanity is to live sustainably on planet Earth. Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes the current challenge different, and especially urgent. It examines how green transformations must take place in the context of the …
Politics of Green Transformations
Av Ian Scoones, Melissa Leach m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
496 kr
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Multiple ‘green transformations’ are required if humanity is to live sustainably on planet Earth. Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes the current challenge different, and especially urgent. It examines how green transformations must take place in the context of the …
Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa
Inbunden, 2015
2515 kr
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Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projects across the world, designed to conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks in order to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and offset emissions elsewhere. Exploring a set of new …
Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa
Häftad, 2015
503 kr
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Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projects across the world, designed to conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks in order to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and offset emissions elsewhere. Exploring a set of new …
