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Global environmental governance reconsidered
An examination of three major trends in global governance, exemplified by developments in transnational environmental rule-setting.The notion of global governance is widely studied in academia and increasingly relevant to politics and policy making. Yet many of its fundamental elements remain unclear in both theory and practice. This book offers a fresh perspective by analyzing global governanc…
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- 9780262305709
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 301 pages).
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Connected play : tweens in a virtual world
"Millions of children visit virtual worlds every day. In such virtual play spaces as Habbo Hotel, Toontown, and Whyville, kids chat with friends from school, meet new people, construct avatars, and earn and spend virtual currency. In 'Connected Play', Yasmin Kafai and Deborah Fields investigate what happens when kids play in virtual worlds, how this matters for their offline lives, and what thi…
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- 9781461947974
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Worker leadership : America's secret weapon in the battle for industrial comp…
How can American manufacturing recapture its former dominance in the globalized industrial economy? In Worker Leadership, Fred Stahl proposes a strategy to boost enterprise productivity and restore America's industrial power. Stahl outlines a revolutionary transformation of industrial culture that offers workers real control of production operations and manufacturing processes (as well as a mon…
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Missed information better information for building a wealthier more sustainab…
How better information and better access to it improves the quality of our decisions and makes for a more vibrant participatory society.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Ecuador's environmental revolutions ecoimperialists ecodependents, and ecores…
An account of the movement for sustainable development in Ecuador through four eras: movement origins, neoliberal boom, neoliberal bust, and citizens' revolution.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262333382
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The Cultural Nature of Attachment: Contextualizing Relationships and Development
Multidisciplinary perspectives on the cultural and evolutionary foundations of children's attachment relationships and on the consequences for education, counseling, and policy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262342872
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- 1 online resource (xi, 429 pages).
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Demographic change and long-run development
Recent approaches to economic demography, investigating the effect of the transition to low mortality and low fertility on economic development.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262341660
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- 1 online resource (vi, 354 pages).
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Governing Complex Systems: Social Capital for the Anthropocene
An exploration of the need for innovative mechanisms of governance in an era when human actions are major drivers of environmental change.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262338899
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages).
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The Walls Have the Floor: Mural Journal, May '68
The graffiti of the French student and worker uprising of May 1968, capturing participatory politics in action."Fifty years ago, in 1968, barricades were erected in the streets of Paris for the first time since the Paris Commune of nearly one hundred years before. The events of May 1968 began with student protests against the Vietnam War and American imperialism but quickly expanded to rebellio…
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- 9780262346795
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 202 pages) :illustration
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Power in a warming world :the new global politics of climate change and the r…
After nearly a quarter century of international negotiations on climate change, we stand at a crossroads. A new set of agreements is likely to fail to prevent the global climate's destabilization. Islands and coastlines face inundation, and widespread drought, flooding, and famine are expected to worsen in the poorest and most vulnerable countries. How did we arrive at an entirely inequitable a…
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