This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system. Calls are coming from all quarters that the food system is broken and needs a radical transformation. A system that feeds many yet continues to create both extreme hunger and diet-related diseases, and one which has significant environmental impacts, is not serving …
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, migration, crime and security and spirituality and religion.The book argues that uncertainties mu…
This book systematically analyzes how and why China has expectedly lost and then surprisingly gained ground in the quest to solve the complicated environmental problem of air pollution over the past two decades. Yuan Xu shines a light on how China’s sulfur dioxide emissions rose quickly in tandem with rapid economic growth but then dropped to a level not seen for at least four decades. Despit…
Published in 1998, this books is an examination of farm decision-making, incorporating the elements of risk in both production and off-farm or casual wage labour. Farm household decision-making is studied, and issues of wage determination, pricing, commodity price stabilization and producer income and output are also explored.
The increasing demand for halal products, including goods and services, every year, especially for food and beverages, has resulted in a growing need for products with halal guarantees. Along with the increasing trend of the global demand, it has resulted in an increase in producers of halal food and beverages in both Muslim and non-Muslim countries. In addition the demand for halal tourism is …
ICHSS is an international seminar that is held every two years organized by the Research and Community Service Institute of the State University of Malang.
When a group of liberal arts students embark on a university assignment about the natural environment, no one could have quite prepared them for the bewildering array of questions and provocations to confront them in their task. What starts out as an earnest attempt to understand nature in the modern world, turns into a philosophical and practical tangle that only a good transdisciplinary educa…
Kumpulan yang disunting ini menyelidiki linguistik globalisasi, geopolitik, dan gender dalam budaya tempat kerja dalam berbagai latar internasional kontemporer yang berbeda. Bab-babnya meneliti bagaimana isu globalisasi, gender, dan geopolitik memengaruhi para profesional dalam berbagai konteks tempat kerja, termasuk pekerja rumah tangga; profesional TI; guru, staf universitas; insinyur; pengus…
Pandemi COVID-19 mengakibatkan eksodus massal pekerja migran India dari kota-kota kembali ke desa-desa. Buku ini membahas kondisi sosial dan masalah seputar kesehatan, ketenagakerjaan, migrasi, dan gender yang muncul sebagai akibat dari migrasi paksa ini. Buku ini mengkaji kegagalan sistem kesehatan publik dan respons negara untuk mengatasi krisis kemanusiaan yang terjadi di tengah pandemi. Buk…
Dengan pengantar yang ditugaskan khusus dari para pakar internasional, seri Wawasan Psikologis untuk Memahami COVID-19 menyatukan bab-bab yang diterbitkan sebelumnya tentang tema-tema utama dalam ilmu psikologi yang membahas pengalaman orang-orang yang belum pernah terjadi sebelumnya tentang pandemi. Volume ini mengumpulkan bab-bab yang membahas isu-isu dan tantangan utama yang dihadirkan oleh …