Melissa Leach – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren Melissa Leach. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
39 produkter
African-American Exploration in West Africa
Four Nineteenth-Century Diaries
Av James Fairhead, Tim Geysbeek m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
727 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the 1860s, as America waged civil war, several thousand African Americans sought greater freedom by emigrating to the fledgling nation of Liberia. While some argued that the new black republic represented disposal rather than emancipation, a few intrepid men set out to explore their African …
Reframing Deforestation
Global Analyses and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa
Av James Fairhead, Melissa Leach
Inbunden, 1998
3156 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This study reviews how West African deforestation is represented and the evidence which informs deforestation orthodoxy. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin), and using historical and social anthropological evidence the authors …
Reframing Deforestation
Global Analyses and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa
Av James Fairhead, Melissa Leach
Häftad, 1998
1327 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This study reviews how West African deforestation is represented and the evidence which informs deforestation orthodoxy. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin), and using historical and social anthropological evidence the authors …
Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature
Av James Fairhead, Melissa Leach m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2512 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Science, Society and Power
Environmental Knowledge and Policy in West Africa and the Caribbean
Av James Fairhead, Melissa Leach
Häftad, 2003
875 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this book, James Fairhead and Melissa Leach bring science to the heart of debates about globalisation, exploring transformations in global science and contrasting effects in Guinea, one of the world's poorest countries, and Trinidad, a more prosperous, industrialised and urbanised island. The …
Misreading the African Landscape
Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic
Av James Fairhead, Melissa Leach m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
471 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Islands of dense forest in the savanna of 'forest' Guinea have long been regarded both by scientists and policy-makers as the last relics of a once more extensive forest cover, degraded and degrading fast due to its inhabitants' land use. In this 1996 text, James Fairhead and Melissa Leach question …
Naturekind
Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human
Av Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
Häftad, 2025
221 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A new paradigm that integrates human and nonhuman communication and cultureAre language and culture uniquely human, justifying an exceptionalism that sets people apart from the rest of nature? New discoveries in the biological sciences have challenged this assumption, finding syntax, symbolism and …
Naturekind
Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human
Av Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
Inbunden, 2025
865 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A new paradigm that integrates human and nonhuman communication and cultureAre language and culture uniquely human, justifying an exceptionalism that sets people apart from the rest of nature? New discoveries in the biological sciences have challenged this assumption, finding syntax, symbolism and …
Lie of the Land
Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment
Av Robin Mearns, Melissa Leach
Häftad, 1996
271 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Questions the reasoning behind Western images of the environmental destruction taking place in Africa.This book addresses the issue of how environmental orthodoxies become established, and what the alternative and appropriate approaches for policy-making are. It shows that many of the established …
Reframing Deforestation
Global Analyses and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa
Av Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
E-bok, 2003
1535 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This study reviews how West African deforestation is represented and the evidence which informs deforestation orthodoxy. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D''Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin), and using historical and social anthropological evidence the authors …
Reframing Deforestation
Global Analyses and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa
Av Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
E-bok, 2003
1524 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This study reviews how West African deforestation is represented and the evidence which informs deforestation orthodoxy. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D''Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin), and using historical and social anthropological evidence the authors …
Epidemics
Science, Governance and Social Justice
E-bok, 2010
970 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Recent disease events such as SARS, H1N1 and avian influenza, and haemorrhagic fevers have focussed policy and public concern as never before on epidemics and so-called 'emerging infectious diseases'. Understanding and responding to these often unpredictable events have become major challenges for …
Epidemics
Science, Governance and Social Justice
E-bok, 2010
970 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Recent disease events such as SARS, H1N1 and avian influenza, and haemorrhagic fevers have focussed policy and public concern as never before on epidemics and so-called 'emerging infectious diseases'. Understanding and responding to these often unpredictable events have become major challenges for …
Vaccine Anxieties
Global Science, Child Health and Society
Av James Fairhead, Melissa Leach
E-bok, 2012
785 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria. Combining a fresh anthropological …
Vaccine Anxieties
Global Science, Child Health and Society
Av James Fairhead, Melissa Leach
E-bok, 2012
762 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria. Combining a fresh anthropological …
Politics of Green Transformations
Av Ian Scoones, Melissa Leach m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2476 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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
495 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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
2512 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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
502 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature
Av James Fairhead, Melissa Leach m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
910 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Gender Equality and Sustainable Development
Inbunden, 2015
2512 kr
Lägg i varukorg
For pathways to be truly sustainable and advance gender equality and the rights and capabilities of women and girls, those whose lives and well-being are at stake must be involved in leading the way. Gender Equality and Sustainable Development calls for policies, investments and initiatives in …
Gender Equality and Sustainable Development
Häftad, 2015
502 kr
Lägg i varukorg
For pathways to be truly sustainable and advance gender equality and the rights and capabilities of women and girls, those whose lives and well-being are at stake must be involved in leading the way. Gender Equality and Sustainable Development calls for policies, investments and initiatives in …
Gender Equality and Sustainable Development
E-bok, 2015
589 kr
Lägg i varukorg
For pathways to be truly sustainable and advance gender equality and the rights and capabilities of women and girls, those whose lives and well-being are at stake must be involved in leading the way. Gender Equality and Sustainable Development calls for policies, investments and initiatives in …
Gender Equality and Sustainable Development
E-bok, 2015
589 kr
Lägg i varukorg
For pathways to be truly sustainable and advance gender equality and the rights and capabilities of women and girls, those whose lives and well-being are at stake must be involved in leading the way. Gender Equality and Sustainable Development calls for policies, investments and initiatives in …
Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa
E-bok, 2015
589 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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
E-bok, 2015
589 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature
Av Ian Scoones, Melissa Leach m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
1074 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature
Av Ian Scoones, Melissa Leach m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
1051 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Negotiating Environmental Change
New Perspectives from Social Science
Av Frans Berkhout, Melissa Leach m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
2132 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Major advances have been made recently in environmental social science but the context and importance of this research has also changed. Social and natural science studies of the environment have begun to interact more closely with each other and many analysts now agree that an understanding of …
Science and Citizens
Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement
Av Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
517 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences - such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas - pose a range of pressing challenges to questions of citizenship. This volume brings together for the first time authors from diverse experiences and analytical …
