This paper reflects on the experience of the 1999–2002 minority pipeline program (MPP) at the University of California, Riverside. With support from the American Economic Association, the MPP identifi ed students of color interested in economics, let them explore economic issues aff ecting minority communities, and encouraged them to consider postgraduate work in economics. The MPP’s succes…
Taking a bottom-up perspective, this book explores local framings of a wide range of issues related to benefit-sharing, a growing concept in global environmental governance.Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance draws on original case studies from South Africa, Namibia, Greece, Argentina, and Malaysia to shed light on what benefit-sharing looks like from the local viewpoint. These local-le…
This chapter argues that the discussion of urban sustainability is in urgent need of new understanding of how ecosystem services are generated in places where human and non-human stakeholders interact within the urban landscape. More than half of the world’s population currently lives in urban areas, and the rate of urbanisation is estimated to increase rapidly in the next three decades ( Uni…
Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns); Labor Economics; Human Geography; Regional Development
Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law; US Politics; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History; Electoral Politics; Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Environmental Science and Engineering; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management; Geoecology/Natural Processes
climate change; renewable energy; sustainable development; water; water-energy-carbon nexus
Entrepreneurship; Organization
Agriculture; Agricultural Economics; Geography, general; Innovation/Technology Management
Sustainable Development