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Regulating Foreign Direct Investment for Development: Perspectives from Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Nakib Mohammad Nasrullah, Mia Mahmudur Rahim
November 06, 2024
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) regulation and sustainable development in Bangladesh. It is widely accepted that FDI-induced development is essential for the growth of undeveloped economies, but it can create a conflict between ...
Agricultural Digitization and Zhongyong Philosophy: Creating a Sustainable Circular Economy
1st Edition
By Yiyan Chen, Hooi Hooi Lean, Ye Li
October 09, 2024
This interdisciplinary book combines digital technology with Eastern philosophy to examine how the concept of Zhongyong in Confucianism can be used to coordinate digital technology with sustainable agriculture. Zhongyong comes from the connotation of moderate and sustainable in ancient Chinese ...
Climate Governance in China: Policy Diffusion of Emissions Trading in Shanghai and Hubei
1st Edition
By Lina Li, Maia Haru Hall
October 09, 2024
This book explores how and why innovative climate policies spread across subnational regions and between governance levels in China. Despite the significance of emerging economies in a pathway to a zero-carbon future, research to date on China’s transformation governance remains limited. Drawing ...
Regional Political Ecologies and Environmental Conflicts in India
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarmistha Pattanaik, Amrita Sen
October 09, 2024
This book focuses on the regional political ecologies (RPEs) of environmental conflicts in India. It explores broadly, landscape-based analyses of political, economic and social issues, which impact environmental changes, challenges and conflicts at local and micro-local levels. The chapters in ...
Land Tenure Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: Interventions in Benin, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe
1st Edition
By Steven Lawry, Rebecca McLain, Margaret Rugadya, Gina Alvarado, Tasha Heidenrich
October 07, 2024
This book examines the impacts of land tenure reform interventions implemented in Benin, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe. Since 2000, many African countries have introduced programs aimed at providing smallholder farmers with low-cost certificates for land held under customary tenure. Yet there are...
Circular Economy and the Law: Bringing Justice into the Frame
1st Edition
By Feja Lesniewska, Katrien Steenmans
August 26, 2024
This book explores the role of law and policy in circular economy transitions and their impacts on justice, including on distributional equity and recognition and procedural rights, especially for people already marginalised under the current dominant economic system. Amid increasing demand for ...
Ecohydrology-Based Landscape Restoration: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Mulugeta Dadi Belete
August 26, 2024
This book provides an introduction to a fairly new approach to natural resources management practice entitled ecohydrology-based landscape restoration. Ecohydrology-based landscape restoration integrates landscape restoration practices with ecohydrology science and principles in order to help ...
Electric Cars and the Resource Challenge
1st Edition
By Theo Henckens
August 20, 2024
This book is the first to fully explore the short- and long-term impact of the global electric car rollout on the supply of raw materials. The world has gone from zero to almost 1.5 billion fossil fuel cars in circulation today, contributing significantly to the global climate crisis and ...
Everyday Agri-Environmental Governance: The Emergence of Sustainability through Assemblage Thinking
1st Edition
By Jérémie Forney, Dana Bentia, Angga Dwiartama
July 05, 2024
Revitalising the way the social sciences question agri-environmental governance, this book introduces "the everyday governance approach" as a means to improving the sustainability of agriculture and food systems. The "everyday" refers to localised practices, specific networks, and practical norms ...
Climate-Just Behavior: Foundations and Transformational Approaches
1st Edition
By Susanne Stoll-Kleemann, Susanne Nicolai
June 21, 2024
This book highlights the obstacles to and potential for a just transformation as a way out of the current climate crisis. This volume examines the barriers, opportunities and incentives around the pursuit of climate-just behavior, based on a comprehensive interdisciplinary and integrative analysis....
Climate Perspectives from the Congo Basin
1st Edition
By Bila-Isia Inogwabini
May 31, 2024
This book considers the global question of climate change from local perspectives in the context of Central Africa. Bila-Isia Inogwabini examines attempts made by the international community to respond to the global challenges posed by climate change in the Congo Basin and highlights that these ...
Food Deserts and Food Insecurity in the UK: Exploring Social Inequality
1st Edition
By Dianna Smith, Claire Thompson
May 27, 2024
This book examines the social inequalities relating to food insecurity in the UK, as well as drawing parallels with the US. Access to food in the UK, and especially access to healthy food, is a constant source of worry for many in this wealthy country. Crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, have ...