Download or read book Estado regi n y poder local en Am rica Latina siglos XIX XX written by Pilar García Jordán and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 2007 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este volumen recoge los trabajos presentados, en el simposio Estado, región y poder local en América Latina, desarrollado en Barcelona el 29 y 30 de noviembre de 2006, por investigadores interesados en analizar y debatir, desde una mirada interdisciplinaria, cuestiones relativas a las características del estado-nación, el surgimiento y la articulación de diversos espacios regionales y la conformación de los poderes locales en la construcción de los estados latinoamericanos. La convocatoria fue organizada por el Taller de Estudios e Investigaciones Andino-Amazónicos (TEIAA), grupo de investigación consolidado de la Universitat de Barcelona (2005SGR 00250) que desde 1991 ha promovido diversas reuniones científicas ya en la Universidad de Barcelona, ya en congresos nacionales e internacionales (AHILA e ICA fundamentalmente), además de haber organizado un seminario permanente con la participación de investigadores de diversas disciplinas humanísticas y de las ciencias sociales, y de estudiantes de postgrado.
Download or read book Environmental Governance written by Arild Vatn and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative book, Arild Vatn presents an overview of the field of environmental governance, from its theoretical foundations, to the major issues and practical applications. While having an interdisciplinary orientation, the main theoretical basis is in institutional theory. The book spans issues from the global to the local level and puts environmental governance within the wider field of economic policy and development. This book is perfect for interdisciplinary masters programs in environmental studies, environmental policy and management, as well as being of value to practitioners in the field.
Download or read book Handbook of Ecological Economics written by Joan Martínez-Alier and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides an overview of major current debates, trends and perspectives in ecological economics. It covers a wide range of issues, such as the foundations of ecological economics, deliberative methods, the de-growth movement, ecological macroeconomics, social metabolism, environmental governance, consumer studies, knowledge systems and new experimental approaches. Written by leading authors in their respective areas of specialisation, the contributions systematize the “state of the art” in the selected topics, and draw insights about new knowledge frontiers.
Download or read book So Shall Ye Reap written by Joan London and published by New York : Crowell. This book was released on 1970 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the farm labor movement from its roots in the nineteenth century to the conclusion of the graps strike.
Download or read book Border Boss written by J. Gilberto Quezada and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 1, 1937, Manuel B. Bravo was sworn in as county judge of Zapata County, a post he would hold for twenty years. In Border Boss: Manuel B. Bravo and Zapata County, J. Gilberto Quezada delineates Bravo’s political career in the Democratic Party and examines his role in some of the important issues of his day, especially Falcon Dam. During Bravo’s years in office, he worked and corresponded with many Texas and national politicians, including James Allred, Lloyd Bentsen, Kika de la Garza, Ralph Yarborough, and, most prominently, Lyndon Johnson. The association between Bravo and Johnson began with the special Senate election of 1941 and is reflected in the more than fifty letters between the two in Bravo's personal papers. In Johnson's 1948 Senate runoff against Coke Stevenson, voting irregularities were alleged in Zapata County when the election returns from Precinct No. 3 were reported missing. Quezada analyzes the Bravo papers for any evidence that Bravo and Johnson had arranged the disappearance and offers possible alternative explanations. From the 1930s to the 1950s Zapata County was one of six South Texas counties where the Tejano majority dominated local politics and held most public offices. Bravo became known as one of the "Mexican bosses" of South Texas, but Quezada draws a more nuanced picture of bossism than has been presented previously, analyzing the role of influential leading families but looking as well at the degree of economic integration into the state and nation as factors in how bossism developed. Those interested in Mexican-American studies and politics and bossism in South Texas will appreciate the window onto South Texas politics and Tejano culture this biography gives.
Download or read book Ecological Economics and the Ecology of Economics written by Herman E. Daly and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains articles first published in journals in the 1980s and 1990s by a leading commentator on the environment, offering lively criticism of existing work on ecological economics and the economics of ecology. A theme of all the essays is that changes in perspective, attitudes, and policies are required to avoid the impoverishment that results when environmental and social costs of growth exceed benefits. Issues addressed include growth economics, misunderstandings of thermodynamics, economic development and population, globalization, money, and humans in the ecosystem. The author is a professor in the school of public affairs at the University of Maryland. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Social Metabolism written by Manuel González de Molina and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over this last decade, the concept of Social Metabolism has gained prestige as a theoretical instrument for the required analysis, to such an extent that there are now dozens of researchers, hundreds of articles and several books that have adopted and use this concept. However, there is a great deal of variety in terms of definitions and interpretations, as well as different methodologies around this concept, which prevents the consolidation of a unified field of new knowledge. The fundamental aim of the book is to conduct a review of the past and present usage of the concept of social metabolism, its origins and history, as well as the main currents or schools that exist around this concept. At the same time, the reviews and discussions included are used by the authors as starting points to draw conclusions and propose a theory of socio-ecological transformations. The theoretical and methodological innovations of this book include a distinction of two types of metabolic processes: tangible and intangible; the analysis of the social metabolism at different scales (in space and time) and a theory of socio-ecological change overcoming the merely “systemic” or “cybernetic” nature of conventional approaches, giving special protagonism to collective action.
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Download or read book Articulaci n del Estado en Am rica Latina La written by Pilar García Jordán and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta obra recoge algunos de los trabajos presentados en Barcelona el 21 y 22 de noviembre de 2012 en el Simposio organizado por el Taller de Estudios e Investigaciones Andino-Amazónicos (TEIAA) relativos al Estado en América Latina. El objetivo del encuentro fue propiciar el debate, desde una perspectiva comparativa, sobre el estado-nación latinoamericano, en particular relativa a la organización social, económica y política, y a la construcción simbólica de la nación.
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Download or read book Searching for America s Heart written by Peter B. Edelman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Book Review said that Peter Edelman adheres "to a high-minded worldview" -- and he does not hesitate to emphasize that in the Preface to this new paperback edition of Searching for America's Heart by declaring, "I have one voice, but for my part, I will continue to speak what I believe to be the truth." The truth is -- from the time Edelman was a close aide to RFK, to when he resigned from the Clinton Administration in protest over the latter's welfare bill (which ended a sixty year federal commitment to poor children) -- poverty continues to be a source of shame to the richest nation on earth. Fueled by a vision of economic justice he shared with Robert Kennedy, related here, he advocates an active federal government in correcting inequities in American life. Based partly on initiatives begun by Kennedy, he advocates government support for school reform and more community-based economic development initiatives. Peter Edelman is one of those rare beings in public and political life: a man not only with a conscience, but also with a vision, and the eloquence to speak out for the poor -- and the children in poverty -- among us.
Download or read book Din micas de poder local en Am rica Latina siglos XIX XXI written by Pilar García Jordán and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 2009 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta obra recoge algunos de los trabajos presentados y debatidos en Barcelona el 19 y 20 de noviembre de 2008 en un Simposio organizado por el Taller de Estudios e Investigaciones Andino-Amazónicos (TEIAA) grupo de investigación consolidado de la Universidad de Barcelona (2005SGR 00250). El objetivo del encuentro fue propiciar el debate, desde una mirada interdisciplinaria y comparativa, en torno a categorías de análisis, metodologías y perspectivas teóricas relativas a las dinámicas de poder local desarrolladas en varias repúblicas centro y suramericanas en diversas coyunturas de la historia contemporánea. Se analizaron, entre otras cuestiones, problemas de organización social, política, gobernabilidad e imaginarios incidiendo en la base económica en la que se apoya el poder local; los instrumentos políticos utilizados para el acceso y el control del poder político por parte de grupos locales; las características de las alianzas socioeconómicas tejidas; las.vinculaciones con el poder regional y central; los conflictos ideológicos de los grupos en pugna; el papel de la escuela como elemento homogeneizador, entre los más significativos. Las miradas aquí recogidas han sido hechas desde la historia, la antropología y el derecho.
Download or read book Estado en Am rica Latina El Recursos e imaginarios siglos XIX XXI eBook written by Pilar García Jordán and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 2012-12-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta obra recoge algunos de los trabajos presentados en Barcelona el 17 y 18 de noviembre de 2010 en el Simposio organizado por el Taller de Estudios e Investigaciones Andino- Amazónicos (TEIAA) relativos al Estado en América Latina. El objetivo del encuentro fue propiciar el debate, desde una mirada interdisciplinaria y comparativa, sobre el estado-nación latinoamericano atendiendo, fundamentalmente, a dos cuestiones. Una fue la relativa a los recursos existentes en el interior del Estado: quiénes tienen -o pretenden obtener- el control de los mismos, qué tipo de recursos, cuáles son las estrategias utilizadas… La otra cuestión fue la referida a los valores e imaginarios construidos en la historia republicana, el papel desempeñado por los grupos dirigentes y las políticas por ellos implementadas para conseguir la internacionalización de dichos valores por parte de la población; y también el cuestionamiento de aquéllos por parte de otros sectores socioeconómicos en el interior del Estado.
Download or read book Ecology Economy and Society written by Vikram Dayal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with not just complex linkages, interactions and exchanges that form the relationship between the economic activities, human society and the ecosystems, but also the influences and impacts that each causes on the other. In recent times, this ecology–economy–society interface has received unprecedented attention within the broader environment–development discourse. The volume is in honour of Kanchan Chopra, one of the pioneers of research in these areas in India. She has recently been awarded the coveted Kenneth Boulding Award by the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) and is the first Asian to receive it. The four sub-themes of the book reflect some of the important areas in the environment–development discourse — sustainability of development, institutions and environmental governance, environment and well-being, and ecosystem and conservation. Within each of the sub-themes, the policy and the practice as well as the macro and micro aspects are addressed. With contributions mainly from ecological economists and ecologists, the book’s approach is interdisciplinary, both in spirit and content, reflecting the honoree's work, which went not just beyond the mainstream ideology of economics, but also the way she listened to ideas from disciplines like ecology and sociology. The volume also includes two reflective essays on academic life and works of Kanchan Chopra. The book is a valuable resource for students, teachers, researchers, practitioners and policy makers in the areas of development economics, ecological economics, environmental economics and related disciplines such as conservation, development, ecology, economics, environment, governance, health, sociology and public policy.
Download or read book Las Villas Del Norte written by Moises Garza and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the 1757 censuses for the six Villas del Norte; Laredo, Dolores, Revilla, Mier, Camargo, and Reynosa. Included in this book is a name index of these censuses in alphabetical order by last name. It also includes information about the Indians of each Villa. This book is a great genealogical resource and a great addition to any library.
