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Author: Avijit Gupta
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-01-22
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1134745125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive second edition provides an up-to-date introduction to the nature of ecological degradation in a world of dramatic environmental change.
Author: Sinead Bailey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-08
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1134798032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn effective response to contemporary environmental problems demands an approach that integrates political, economic and ecological issues. Third World Political Ecology provides an introduction to an exciting new research field that aims to develop an integrated understanding of the political economy of environmental change in the Third World. The authors review the historical development of the field, explain what is distinctive about Third World political ecology, and suggest areas for future development. Clarifying the essentially politicised condition of environmental change today, the authors explore the role of various actors - states, multilateral institutions, businesses, environmental non-governmental organisations, poverty-stricken farmers, shifting cultivators and other 'grassroots' actors - in the development of the Third World's politicised environment. Third World Political Ecology is the first major attempt to explain the development and characteristics of environmental problems that plague parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Drawing on examples from throughout the Third World, the book will be of interest to all those who wish to understand the political and economic bases of the Third World's current predicament.
Author: David Pearce
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Irene Dankelman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1134045948
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'This book ... should be issued to grass-root organisations everywhere' Doris Lessing, The New Scientist 'It is must reading for government planners, environmentalists and the ordinary layman' Asia Week Women in the Third World play the major role in managing natural resources. They are also the first and hardest hit by environmental mismanagement, yet they are neither consulted nor taken into account by development strategists. lrene Dankelman and Joan Davidson provide a clear account of the problems faced by women in the management of land, water, forests, energy and human settlements. They also describe the lack of response from international organizations. With the help of well-documented case studies they describe the ways in which women can organize to meet environmental, social and economic challenges. Originally published in 1988
Author: W. M. Adams
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 1134754493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revised and updated new edition retains the clear and powerful argument which characterized the original. It gives a valuable analysis of the theory and practice of sustainable development and suggests that at the start of the new millennium, we should think radically about the challenge of sustainability. Fully revised, this latest edition includes further reading, chapter outlines, chapter summaries and new discussion topics, and explores: the roots of sustainable development thinking and its evolution in the last three decades of the twentieth century the dominant ideas within mainstream sustainable development the nature and diversity of alternative ideas about sustainability the problems of environmental degradation and the environmental impacts of development strategies for building sustainability in development from above and below. Offering a synthesis of theoretical ideas on sustainability based on the industrialized economies of the North and the practical, applied ideas in the South which tend to ignore 'First World' theory, this important text gives a clear discussion of theory and extensive practical insights drawn from Africa, Latin America and Asia.
Author: Bill Adams
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-07-30
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 1134158386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe third edition retains the clear and powerful argument of previous editions, but has been updated to reflect advances in ideas and changes in international policy. Greater attention has been given to political ecology, environmental risk and the environmental impacts of development.
Author: Sally Sontheimer
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781853831119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncreasingly, over the last 20 years, women in poor developing countries have had to cope with growing ecological stress. Food, fodder, wood and water, previously in adequate supply have become scarce, and women have also been deprived of traditional access to cultivable land. Those who left the countryside for the cities now face terrible pollution, miserable housing and poor sanitation and water supplies. This reader tells the rarely told story of women living and coping in these dreadful conditions. It is a book of hope because it shows them to be not passive victims but courageous fighters and organizers in the fact of natural disaster, uncaring bureaucracy, agencies and governments whose priorities lie elsewhere, and traditional structures inimical to their needs. The women and their oganizations described here have produced demonstrably effective approaches for more sustainable uses of their resources and environments, challenging conventional accounts of their roles.
Author: Roberto Pereira Guimarães
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781555872434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEqually a study of the ecological foundations of political systems and an analysis of how a particular Third World political system, Brazil's, addresses environmental issues, this book explores the institutional and political dimensions of environmental problems in developing countries. Roberto Guimaraes discusses the theoretical linkage between ecology and political science, presents a historical analysis of those linkages in Brazil, and looks at the structure for environmental policy formation and implementation in Brazil through a case study of the Special Secretariat for the Environment (SEMA).
Author: David William Pearce
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781853830884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Vandana Shiva
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2016-01-14
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0813166810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement—unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have followed it, this supposedly nonviolent revolution has left lands ravaged by violence and ecological scarcity. A dedicated empiricist, Vandana Shiva takes a magnifying glass to the effects of the Green Revolution in India, examining the devastating effects of monoculture and commercial agriculture and revealing the nuanced relationship between ecological destruction and poverty. In this classic work, the influential activist and scholar also looks to the future as she examines new developments in gene technology.
