Author: ADAM. SNEYD
Publisher: Fernwood
ISBN: 9781788534574
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book analyzes the politics of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and counters mainstream feelgood accounts of this agenda.
Hidden Politics in the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Author: ADAM. SNEYD
Publisher: Fernwood
ISBN: 9781788534574
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book analyzes the politics of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and counters mainstream feelgood accounts of this agenda.
Publisher: Fernwood
ISBN: 9781788534574
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book analyzes the politics of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and counters mainstream feelgood accounts of this agenda.
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2017
Author: United Nations Publications
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789211013689
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The aim of this report is to present an overview of the 17 Goals using data currently available to highlight the most significant gaps and challenges.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789211013689
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The aim of this report is to present an overview of the 17 Goals using data currently available to highlight the most significant gaps and challenges.
Politics Rules
Author: ADAM. SNEYD
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
ISBN: 9781788530712
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Adam Sneyd argues that it is imperative to recognize the importance of the sub-field of development politics.
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
ISBN: 9781788530712
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Adam Sneyd argues that it is imperative to recognize the importance of the sub-field of development politics.
Commodity Politics
Author: Adam Sneyd
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228010195
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Responsibility is political. As the international community has called for more responsible environmental, social, and governance performance, the politics of commodities has become more fraught. Commodity Politics cuts through the new rhetoric of responsibility and presents innovative research from Cameroon to provide a better understanding of the political complexity surrounding commodity production and trade in the twenty-first century. Assessing the perspectives of businesses, international organizations, governments, and civil society groups, the authors offer insights gleaned from years of field research in a commodity-dependent country. Commodity Politics presents case studies of sugar, palm oil, cocoa, and the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project. These cases uncover a problematic politics that is much broader than the implications of corporate social responsibility codes for people and the planet, delivering solid rationales for policy-makers and commodity stakeholders to think more deeply about investor-driven approaches to improving environmental, social, and governance conduct. This book trains students and scholars to better recognize political intricacies and consequential flash points. Immersing its readers in timely debates over the meaning and intent of responsibility, Commodity Politics breaks new ground in the political analysis of development.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228010195
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Responsibility is political. As the international community has called for more responsible environmental, social, and governance performance, the politics of commodities has become more fraught. Commodity Politics cuts through the new rhetoric of responsibility and presents innovative research from Cameroon to provide a better understanding of the political complexity surrounding commodity production and trade in the twenty-first century. Assessing the perspectives of businesses, international organizations, governments, and civil society groups, the authors offer insights gleaned from years of field research in a commodity-dependent country. Commodity Politics presents case studies of sugar, palm oil, cocoa, and the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project. These cases uncover a problematic politics that is much broader than the implications of corporate social responsibility codes for people and the planet, delivering solid rationales for policy-makers and commodity stakeholders to think more deeply about investor-driven approaches to improving environmental, social, and governance conduct. This book trains students and scholars to better recognize political intricacies and consequential flash points. Immersing its readers in timely debates over the meaning and intent of responsibility, Commodity Politics breaks new ground in the political analysis of development.
Connecting the Sustainable Development Goals: The WEF Nexus
Author: Laura Cavalli
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031013360
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
This contributed volume offers a state-of-the-art, holistic overview of the employment of a Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus approach to implement the seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a geographical focus on applications in different African regions. The book is divided into three sections, each composed of several chapters contributed by experts in their respective fields. Section I introduces the WEF Nexus and its role in the achievement of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. It highlights the attempt to connect different spheres of sustainability thanks to the Nexus, taking advantage of the existing interlinkages and interconnections among the Goals. Section II proposes a multi-scale and multi-stakeholder approach to various aspects of the Nexus and reviews existing quantitative tools. This section focuses on the issue of resource control and development aims and spotlights how Nexus dynamics influence the achievement of the SDGs as a whole. Section III applies the WEF Nexus to different African regions, which are balancing a rising population and an economic boom with severe vulnerability in the face of climate change. Chapter “Review of the Economic Impact of Water Availability on Food Security and the Related Ecosystems” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031013360
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
This contributed volume offers a state-of-the-art, holistic overview of the employment of a Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus approach to implement the seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a geographical focus on applications in different African regions. The book is divided into three sections, each composed of several chapters contributed by experts in their respective fields. Section I introduces the WEF Nexus and its role in the achievement of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. It highlights the attempt to connect different spheres of sustainability thanks to the Nexus, taking advantage of the existing interlinkages and interconnections among the Goals. Section II proposes a multi-scale and multi-stakeholder approach to various aspects of the Nexus and reviews existing quantitative tools. This section focuses on the issue of resource control and development aims and spotlights how Nexus dynamics influence the achievement of the SDGs as a whole. Section III applies the WEF Nexus to different African regions, which are balancing a rising population and an economic boom with severe vulnerability in the face of climate change. Chapter “Review of the Economic Impact of Water Availability on Food Security and the Related Ecosystems” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
The Impasse of Modernity
Author: Christian Comeliau
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781856499866
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Because of the deep unease over the direction modern society is following Christian Comeliau has written this critique of the global market economy. The author explores its alienating effects and social consequences.
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781856499866
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Because of the deep unease over the direction modern society is following Christian Comeliau has written this critique of the global market economy. The author explores its alienating effects and social consequences.
Policies to Enhance Sustainable Development
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264192689
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Sustainable development involves linking the economic, social and environmental objectives of societies in a balanced way. It stresses the importance of taking a broader view of what human welfare entails, of using a long-term perspective about the ...
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264192689
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Sustainable development involves linking the economic, social and environmental objectives of societies in a balanced way. It stresses the importance of taking a broader view of what human welfare entails, of using a long-term perspective about the ...
Transgovernance
Author: Louis Meuleman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642280099
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
‘Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance’ analyses the question what recent and ongoing changes in the relations between politics, science and media – together characterized as the emergence of a knowledge democracy – may imply for governance for sustainable development, on global and other levels of societal decision making, and the other way around: How can the discussion on sustainable development contribute to a knowledge democracy? How can concepts such as second modernity, reflexivity, configuration theory, (meta)governance theory and cultural theory contribute to a ‘transgovernance’ approach which goes beyond mainstream sustainability governance? This volume presents contributions from various angles: international relations, governance and metagovernance theory, (environmental) economics and innovation science. It offers challenging insights regarding institutions and transformation processes, and on the paradigms behind contemporary sustainability governance.This book gives the sustainability governance debate a new context. It transforms classical questions into new options for societal decision making and identifies starting points and strategies towards effective governance of transitions to sustainability.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642280099
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
‘Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance’ analyses the question what recent and ongoing changes in the relations between politics, science and media – together characterized as the emergence of a knowledge democracy – may imply for governance for sustainable development, on global and other levels of societal decision making, and the other way around: How can the discussion on sustainable development contribute to a knowledge democracy? How can concepts such as second modernity, reflexivity, configuration theory, (meta)governance theory and cultural theory contribute to a ‘transgovernance’ approach which goes beyond mainstream sustainability governance? This volume presents contributions from various angles: international relations, governance and metagovernance theory, (environmental) economics and innovation science. It offers challenging insights regarding institutions and transformation processes, and on the paradigms behind contemporary sustainability governance.This book gives the sustainability governance debate a new context. It transforms classical questions into new options for societal decision making and identifies starting points and strategies towards effective governance of transitions to sustainability.
The Myth of Development
Author: Oswaldo de Rivero B.
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781856499491
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In order to prevent increasing social and political disorders, the author argues that many countries with primary production and explosive urban growth will have to abandon dreams of development to adopt a policy of national survival based on the search for water, food, and energy security - and the stabilization of their populations."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781856499491
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In order to prevent increasing social and political disorders, the author argues that many countries with primary production and explosive urban growth will have to abandon dreams of development to adopt a policy of national survival based on the search for water, food, and energy security - and the stabilization of their populations."--BOOK JACKET.
Critical Development Studies
Author: Henry Veltmeyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781788530040
Category : Development economics
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
This book provides an overview of the key issues of development studies from a critical perspective: the nature of the global capitalist system and the dynamics associated with the development process, the outmigration and urbanization of rural areas, the formation of a global working class and the emergence of powerful resistance movements.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781788530040
Category : Development economics
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
This book provides an overview of the key issues of development studies from a critical perspective: the nature of the global capitalist system and the dynamics associated with the development process, the outmigration and urbanization of rural areas, the formation of a global working class and the emergence of powerful resistance movements.