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…
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
climate change; renewable energy; sustainable development; water; water-energy-carbon nexus
Entrepreneurship; Organization
Agriculture; Agricultural Economics; Geography, general; Innovation/Technology Management
Sustainable Development
The objective of this report is to examine the extent to which countries in Latin America and the Caribbean participate in global value chains and what are the drivers of such participation. Production processes have been increasingly fragmented worldwide. For example, the production of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner involves 43 suppliers located in 135 locations around the globe. There are many exa…
Manufacturing, Machines, Tools; Sustainable Development; Energy Efficiency; Production