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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 ...
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 ...
Indigenous Identity, Human Rights, and the Environment in Myanmar: Local Engagement with Global Rights Discourses
1st Edition
By Jonathan Liljeblad
May 27, 2024
This book draws on the experiences of the indigenous movement in Myanmar to explore how the local construction of indigenous identities connects communities to global mechanisms for addressing human rights and environmental issues. Various communities in Myanmar have increasingly adapted ...
Collaborating for Climate Equity: Researcher–Practitioner Partnerships in the Americas
1st Edition
Edited
By Vivek Shandas, Dana Hellman
January 29, 2024
This book explores the capacity of different stakeholders to work together and build urban resilience to climate change through an equity-centered approach to cross-sectoral collaboration. Urban areas, where the majority of the global population dwells, are particularly vulnerable to a myriad of ...
Participatory Design and Social Transformation: Images and Narratives of Crisis and Change
1st Edition
By John A. Bruce
January 29, 2024
Participatory Design and Social Transformation introduces theories and methodologies for using image-oriented narratives as modes of inquiry and proposition toward greater justice and equity for society and the environment. Participatory artistic- and design-based research encounters – being, ...
Water Governance in Bolivia: Cochabamba since the Water War
1st Edition
By Nasya Sara Razavi
January 29, 2024
This book examines water remunicipalization in Cochabamba since the Water War, offering innovative methodological and theoretical conceptualizations of what it means to be "public," helping to move debates on water services beyond the paralyzing binary of public versus private with a focus on the ...
Gender, Food and COVID-19: Global Stories of Harm and Hope
1st Edition
Edited
By Paige Castellanos, Carolyn E. Sachs, Ann R. Tickamyer
September 25, 2023
This book documents how COVID-19 impacts gender, agriculture, and food systems across the globe with on-the-ground accounts and personal reflections from scholars, practitioners, and community members. During the coronavirus pandemic with many people under lockdown, continual agricultural ...
German Radioactive Waste: Changes in Policy and Law
1st Edition
By Robert Rybski
September 25, 2023
This book presents the universal issue of radioactive waste management from the perspective of the German legal system, analysing how lawmakers have responded to the problem of nuclear waste over the course of the last seventy years. In this book, Robert Rybski unwraps and explains the perplexing ...
Phyto and Microbial Remediation of Heavy Metals and Radionuclides in the Environment: An Eco-Friendly Solution for Detoxifying Soils
1st Edition
By Rym Salah-Tazdaït, Djaber Tazdaït
September 25, 2023
This book examines the role that bioremediation can play in the detoxification of soil, water, and air to improve environmental and human health, with a specific focus on heavy metals and radionuclides. Environmental pollution, whether by natural or human causes, with industrial activities being a...
Mathematical Models and Environmental Change: Case Studies in Long Term Management
1st Edition
By Douglas J. Crookes
May 31, 2023
This book demonstrates how mathematical models constructed in system dynamics modelling platforms, such as Vensim, can be used for long-term management of environmental change. It is divided into two sections, with the first dedicated to theory, where the theory of co-evolutionary modelling and ...