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Environmental justice in Latin America :problems, promise, and practice
Issues of environmental justice form an important part of popular environmental movements in many countries. This work investigates the emergence of a distinctively Latin American environmental justice movement, offering analysis and case studies that exaime both the promise and the limits of the movement.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269957
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- 1 online resource (vi, 329 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Resisting Global Toxics :Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice.
Examines the export of hazardous wastes to poor communities of color around the world and charts the global social movements that challenge them.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281362
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- 1 online resource (359)
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Water Governance in the Face of Global Change From Understanding to Transfor…
This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of multi-level water governance, developing a conceptual and analytical framework that captures the complexity of real water governance systems while also introducing different approaches to comparative analysis. Applications illustrate how the ostensibly conflicting goals of deriving general principles and of taking context-specific factors in…
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- 978-3-319-21855-7
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Victim Healing and Truth Commissions Transforming Pain Through Voice in Solo…
This book intends to contribute to the growing body of transitional justice literature by providing insight into how truth commissions may be beneficial to victims of mass violence, based on data collected in Timor-Leste and on the Solomon Islands. Drawing on literature in the fields of victim psychology, procedural justice, and transitional justice, this study is guided by the puzzle of why…
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- 978-3-319-12487-2
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The Role of Community-Mindedness in the Self-Regulation of Drug Cultures : a …
This book analyzes heroin users and the drug subculture on the Shetland Islands, an area known for its geographical remoteness, rural character and relative wealth. It fills the scientific gap created by the conventional research in heroin research, which is usually conducted in urban areas and relies on treatment and prison populations. Based on qualitative, in-depth interviews with twenty-fou…
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- 9789400738614
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- 379p
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- 362.293
Use of Economic Instruments in Water Policy Insights from International Expe…
This book assesses both the effectiveness and efficiency of implemented Economic Policy Instruments (EPIs) in order to achieve water policy goals and identifies the preconditions under which they outperform alternative (e.g. regulatory) policy instruments and/or can complement them as part of complex policy mixes. The development of a consolidated assessment framework helps clarify (and where p…
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- 978-3-319-18287-2
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Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy
During the past few years, reproductive technology and surrogacy have emerged in a number of European countries as issues of debate. There has been a steady increase in the use of reproductive technology in the Nordic countries, as well as an increase in the use of cross-border medical treatment in order to achieve pregnancy. At the same time, a number of ethical issues have been raised concern…
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- TemaNord
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- 345 ASG r
National Courts and Preliminary References to the Court of Justice
This book has attempted to answer four questions relating to the different phases in the interaction between national courts and the ECJ in the context of the preliminary ruling procedure: question, answer and follow-up. The fourth question concerned the relationship between the answer (ie, the satisfaction of national judges with their interaction with the ECJ and the answers) and the question…
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- 9781800374164
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Justice and the Meritocratic State
Like American politics, the academic debate over justice is polarized, with almost all theories of justice falling within one of two traditions: egalitarianism and libertarianism. This book provides an alternative to the partisan standoff by focusing not on equality or liberty, but on the idea that we should give people the things that they deserve. Mulligan sets forth a theory of economic j…
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- 9781351980777, 9781315270005
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- Political Philosophy for the Real World
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Understanding Facial Expressions in Communication
This important volume provides a holistic understanding of the cultural, psychological, neurological and biological elements involved in human facial expressions and of computational models in the analyses of expressions. It includes methodological and technical discussions by leading scholars across the world on the subject. Automated and manual analysis of facial expressions, involving cultur…
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