Download or read book Sustainable Community Development Dilemma of Options in Kenya written by F. Waswa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community development has lately gained much prominence, but the emphasis has remained on the economic and social welfare of communities, rather than the environment. By focusing on 'sustainable' development in Kenya, this study shows the importance of integrating ecological concerns in socio-economic and cultural development processes.
Download or read book Forests and Food written by Bhaskar Vira and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As population estimates for 2050 reach over 9 billion, issues of food security and nutrition have been dominating academic and policy debates. A total of 805 million people are undernourished worldwide and malnutrition affects nearly every country on the planet. Despite impressive productivity increases, there is growing evidence that conventional agricultural strategies fall short of eliminating global hunger, as well as having long-term ecological consequences. Forests can play an important role in complementing agricultural production to address the Sustainable Development Goals on zero hunger. Forests and trees can be managed to provide better and more nutritionally-balanced diets, greater control over food inputs—particularly during lean seasons and periods of vulnerability (especially for marginalised groups)—and deliver ecosystem services for crop production. However forests are undergoing a rapid process of degradation, a complex process that governments are struggling to reverse. This volume provides important evidence and insights about the potential of forests to reducing global hunger and malnutrition, exploring the different roles of landscapes, and the governance approaches that are required for the equitable delivery of these benefits. Forests and Food is essential reading for researchers, students, NGOs and government departments responsible for agriculture, forestry, food security and poverty alleviation around the globe.
Download or read book Interviewing Rape Victims written by Karen Rich and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents a unique overview of the cultural, social and practical aspects of interviewing rape victims. Exploring a range of issues that affect rape cases including discourse, gender, attitudes and victim's rights, Rich reveals the complexities of sexual assault and looks to how communities can work to respond to and combat such violence.
Download or read book The Social Effects of Economic Thinking written by William Van Lear and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explains how social outcomes result from the influence of economic ideas which are themselves strongly impacted by the distribution of power in society. The book examines policies and programs of contending interests, emphasizing the importance of socio-economic issues stemming from quasi-economic stagnation.
Download or read book Religious Liberties for Corporations written by D. Gans and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded version of a series of debates between the authors, this book examines the nature of corporate rights, especially with respect to religious liberty, in the context of the controversial Hobby Lobby case from the Supreme Court's 2013-14 term.
Download or read book The Formation of the BRICS and its Implication for the United States written by M. Schaefer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schaefer and Poffenbarger assess whether the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are attempting to balance US power and analyze the United States' responses to the creation of this IGO through a mix of theoretical and policy-focused approaches.
Download or read book Security and Sovereignty in the North Atlantic written by L. Heininen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North Atlantic continues to be an area of international strategic significance regionally and globally. This study explores the strong processes of sovereignty, as well as new independent states and micro-proto-states that are forming in the region.
Download or read book The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture written by Ayman A. El-Desouky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture uses the notion of am?ra – the Egyptian concept of collective and connective agency – to explore the relationship between the Egyptian intellectual and 'the people' in contemporary Egyptian literature and culture.
Download or read book Migration States and Welfare States Why Is America Different from Europe written by A. Razin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last three decades, Europe's generous social benefits have encouraged a massive surge of 'welfare migration,' especially of low skilled laborers. At the same time, the US has attracted many highly skilled migrants, which in turn promotes internal innovation. Restrictions on the international mobility of labor are arguably the largest policy obstructions for the international economy today. A variety of studies suggest that even a small reduction in barriers to migration will result in the growth of significant global welfare benefits. Migration States and Welfare States focuses on a central tension faced by policy makers in countries that receive migrants from lower wage countries. Such countries are typically highly productive and rich in capital. These attributes, coupled with the host country's welfare system, attract low-skilled migrants, who find a generous welfare state particularly attractive, while deterring skilled migrants, who recognize that welfare states likely have higher redistributive taxes.
Download or read book Migration and Regional Integration in West Africa written by Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the processes of migration and integration within the West African sub-region and unearths subsisting promises and failures of the ECOWAS' intent of transmuting the sub-region into a single socio-economic (and political) entity.
Download or read book Revisiting Iris Marion Young on Normalisation Inclusion and Democracy written by U. Vieten and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting Iris Marion Young on Normalisation, Inclusion and Democracy presents an innovative collection of politically and theoretically inspiring papers by feminist, queer and postcolonial writers. All authors engage with Young's politics of cultural difference and a 'politics of positional difference' read against her critique of normalisation.
Download or read book Corruption Scandals and their Global Impacts written by Omar E. Hawthorne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corruption scandals receive significant press coverage and scrutiny from practitioners of global governance, and bilateral and multilateral donors. Across the globe, the annual publication of TI’s CPI and World Bank’s Worldwide Governance Indicators elicits spirited denials and accusations of targeting, of neo-colonialism. Poor measures on corruption indices and the ensuing negative publicity can have serious consequences both externally, through a freeze or retraction of donor funding, and internally, through reducing the availability of public funds, and harming the credibility of serving governments and institutions. Corruption Scandals and their Global Impacts tracks several major corruption scandals across the world in a comparative analysis to assess the full impact of global corruption. Over the course of the book, the contributors deliberate the exposure and reporting of corruption scandals, demonstrate how corruption inhibits development on different levels and across different countries, the impact it has on the country in question, how citizens and authorities respond to corruption, and some local, regional and global policy and legislative measures to combat corruption. The chapters examine the transnational manifestation of corruption scandals around the world, from developed countries and regions such as the United States and the European Union, to BRIC countries Brazil and Russia, to developing countries such as Belarus, Jamaica, Kenya and Nigeria. In each case, chapters highlight the scandal, its impact, the local, regional and global responses, and the subsequent global perceptions of the country. Concluding with a review of the global impacts of corruption scandals, this book provides an important comparative analysis which will be useful to students and scholars of international development and politics, as well as to development practitioners, donors, politicians and policy makers.
Download or read book Forensic Authorship Analysis and the World Wide Web written by S. Larner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Implementing a novel method for identifying idiolectal co-selections, and taking the UNABOM investigation as a case study, this Pivot evaluates the effectiveness and reliability of using the web for forensic purposes.
Download or read book Cinema Cross Cultural Collaboration and Criticism written by D. Thornley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and Criticism provides a platform for a new politics of criticism, a collaborative ethos for a different kind of relationship to cross-cultural cinema that invites further conversations between filmmakers and audiences, indigenous and others.
Download or read book Defining Democracy in a Digital Age written by B. Lutz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internet has created a new social base where governments are ever more critically examined and measuring public sentiment expressed on social media is crucial to gauging ongoing support for democracy. This book illustrates a methodology for doing so, and considers the impact of this new public sphere on the future of democracy.
Download or read book National Policy in a Global Economy written by I. Budge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers an analysis of the UK's current economic policy options and a plan for improving life for ordinary citizens via a sensible and realistic understanding of governments' limited ability to manage economic performance. It provides a manifesto which political parties could immediately adopt to make life better for all.
Download or read book Cameron s Conservatives and the Internet written by A. Ridge-Newman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internet is changing the way we interact and communicate. But how is it impacting on more historically traditional institutions like the British Conservative Party? This book examines the role of specific internet technologies like ConservativeHome, Facebook, Twitter and WebCameron in the organizational culture of the Tory Party 2005-14.
