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…

The biology of the first 1,000 days

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

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China's global political economy: managerial perspectives

Introduction and overview / Robert Taylor -- Political economy -- China's "new normal" growth trajectory : regional and global implications / Lucia Morales and Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan -- Origins and dimensions of the 21st century maritime silk road : experimental patch-work or grand strategy? / Robert Pauls and Joern-Carsten Gottwald -- Urban- rural differences in social policies : the…

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…

Philosophy and leadership: an evolution of leadership from ancient times to t…

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Everyday silence and the Holocaust

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Start-up wolf: the Shenzhen model of high-tech entrepreneurship

Introduction: Start-up wolf of Shenzhen -- Contextualising transnational entrepreneurs in China -- Performative governance: the campaign of mass entrepreneurship and innovation -- To be entrepreneured: creating hierarchies among privileged biographies -- Entrepreneurship competitions: the state and market ideals of talents -- Striving talents: performing excellence for economic privilege -- Pre…

Discursive thinking through of education: learning from those who transform t…

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