Mainstreaming Gender in Global Climate Governance

This book explores the role of feminist activists in The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and highlights the progress they have made in mainstreaming gender as a key issue in global climate governance. It is now commonplace for gender to be framed as a political issue in global climate politics within academic scholarship, but there is typically a lack of robust empirica…

Towards the ethics of a green future: the theory and practice of human rights…

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How Europeans Understand Solidarity, Reciprocity and Fairness in the EU: Insi…

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Rebuilding the Local Landscape: Environmental Management in Burkina Faso

ABSTRACT First published in 1999, this volume emerged in the context of a recent willingness to understand what Africa’s peasant farmers are designing and building in their local landscapes, in contrast to the meta-narratives which were relatively distant from the lives and livelihoods of Africans. Based on author Chris Howorth’s fieldwork as a UNAIS technical assistant, this book combines…

Poverty and Climate Change: Restoring a Global Biogeochemical Equilibrium

ABSTRACT Most, if not all of the global biogeochemical cycles on the earth have been broken or are at dangerous tipping points. These broken cycles have expressed themselves in various forms as soil degradation and depletion, ocean acidification, global warming and climate change. The best proposal for an organic solution to fixing the myriad broken cycles is a deliberate investment in solutio…

Untold stories of the Spanish Civil War

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Power dynamics in African forests : the politics of global sustainability

General introduction to the politics of global sustainability in Africa: Power dynamics in the forests / Symphorien Ongolo and Max Krott -- Global political economy of conservation policies and ecosystem services in the tropics / Philippe Méral, Colas Chervier, and Symphorien Ongolo -- Empowering scientific information about biodiversity by linking science with forest users in African context…

Technology and sustainable development: the promise and pitfalls of techno-so…

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Assessment of Energy-Efficient Building Details for Seismic Regions

This open access book presents a methodology for the assessment of structural building details, taking into account the contemporary guidelines for earthquake-resistant and energy-efficient buildings. A review of structural details for energy-efficient buildings revealed that in some cases the structural system is interrupted, leading to solutions which are not suitable for earthquake-prone reg…

Comparative renewables policy : political, organizational and European fields

Challenging one-eyed technology-focused accounts of renewables policy, this book provides a ground-breaking, deep-diving and genre-crossing longitudinal study of policy development. The book develops a multi-field explanatory approach, capturing inter-relationships between actors often analyzed in isolation. It provides empirically rich and systematically conducted comparative case studies o…