"We have to adapt to the impacts that, unfortunately, we can no longer avoid", said President Obama at the UN Climate Summit in September 2014. Adaptation and resilience are now a must in both academic research and international bodies. A fashionable concept, resilience's polyse…
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The Second Edition of The Handbook of Community Practice is expanded and updated with a major global focus and serves as a comprehensive guidebook of community practice grounded in social justice and human rights. It utilizes community and practice theories and encompasses commu…
By providing specific and practical examples, this book helps practitioners to apply the insights of how best to pursue a bottom-up approach to development in their own work, while also helping theoreticians and students to develop a strong analytical framework on the subject.
Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right "expert" solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them …
This report addresses 9 often debated questions centered on the relationships between population growth and economic development. Specifically, it is asked whether slower population growth will: 1) increase the growth rate of per capita income through increasing per capita avail…
This report addresses 9 often debated questions centered on the relationships between population growth and economic development. Specifically, it is asked whether slower population growth will: 1) increase the growth rate of per capita income through increasing per capita avail…
"How Finland's nuclear waste experts discern far future Earths, and what the rest of us non-Finns and non-experts can learn from them"--
Introduction: Embracing deep time learning -- How to ride analogies across deep time -- How far future worlds sprout from simple repeating patterns -- How to zoom in and out on deep time from different angles -- How to face deep time expertise's mortality -- Conclusion: Escaping…
"How Finland's nuclear waste experts discern far future Earths, and what the rest of us non-Finns and non-experts can learn from them"-- "We live on a planet careening toward environmental collapse that will be largely brought about by our own actions. And yet we struggle to gr…
"How Finland's nuclear waste experts discern far future Earths, and what the rest of us non-Finns and non-experts can learn from them"--
"Governance matters for social welfare. Better governed countries are richer, happier, and have fewer social and environment problems. Good governance implies that public sector agents act impartially. It manifests itself in the form of equality before the law, an independent an…
"Governance matters for social welfare. Better governed countries are richer, happier, and have fewer social and environment problems. Good governance implies that public sector agents act impartially. It manifests itself in the form of equality before the law, an independent an…
"Governance matters for social welfare. Better governed countries are richer, happier, and have fewer social and environment problems. Good governance implies that public sector agents act impartially. It manifests itself in the form of equality before the law, an independent an…