Combining perspectives from media studies and political ecology, this book analyses socially constructed news regarding three environmental conflicts in South America.
The last three decades have witnessed a proliferation of nongovernmental organizations engaging in new campaigns to end the practice of female genital cutting across Africa.
This volume in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Second Edition, describes the breadth of science and engineering knowledge critical to advancing sustainable built environments, from architecture and design, mechanical engineering, lighting, and materials to water and energy, public policy, and economics.
How one law tells the story of America's modern criminal justice movementIn late 2018, the First Step Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump just hours before a government shutdown.
Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek and the Creation of Contemporary Politics explores the lives and thought of three powerful theorists who shaped the foundations of the center, left, and right of the political spectrum in the 20th century.
Stephen Krasner's assumption of a distinction between state and society is the root of his argument for the superiority of a statist interpretation of American foreign policy.
A pointed argument that cities-not nation-states-can and must take the lead in fighting climate changeClimate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent nations have grown increasingly unable to cooperate effectively on sustainability.
A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation's economic inequalities One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society-economic, cultural, and political-and what might be done to bridge them.
This scholarly work discusses the historical, contemporary, and prospective dimensions of environmental activism and its intersection with global media.
This edited book is an outcome of the selected papers presented at the International Conference on Electrical Systems & Automation, (ICESA 2023) held from 29 to 30 May 2023 at the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies, Al Hoceima, Morocco.
,The most fundamental difference between ,developing, and ,developed, societies is technology, in a broad yet specific sense,; so states the author of this important study, Liberation and Technology: Development possibilities in pursuing technological autonomy.
Este libro analiza el resultado de una política que se transformó en un frente de batalla central para la ex presidenta Cristina Fernández de Kirchner y concluye con la restauración, término elegido para describir el abordaje del presidente Mauricio Macri.
¿Por qué la fuerza política que sacó al país de su peor crisis y encabezó durante doce años las transformaciones más profundas de la Argentina contemporánea perdió las elecciones en diciembre de 2015?
In conjunction with Singapore's 50th birthday in August 2015, 50 Years of Environment: Singapore's Journey Towards Environmental Sustainability takes the reader through Singapore's environmental journey over the past 50 years, to its present day challenges and solutions, and seeks to explore what lies ahead for Singapore's environmental future.
Full Title: Water - Pollution, Biotechnology - Transgenic Plant Vaccine, Energy, Black Sea Pollution, AIDS - Mother-Infant HIV Transmission, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, Limits of Development - Megacities, Missile Proliferation and Defense - Information Security, Cosmic Objects, Desertification, Carbon Sequestration and Sustainability, Climatic Changes, Global Monitoring of Planet, Mathematics and Democracy, Science and Journalism, Permanent Monitoring Panel Reports, Water for Megacities Workshop, Black Sea Workshop, Transgenic Plants Workshop, Research Resources Workshop, Mother-Infant HIV Transmission Workshop, Sequestration and Desertification Workshop, Focus Africa Workshop
This volume looks at China's foreign policy from the perspective of learning theory, a relatively new approach to foreign policy analysis based on social psychology.
With contributions from an international team of leading researchers, the book pulls together updated research results in the area of HIV/AIDS modeling to provide readers with the latest information in the field.