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Global Justice: Liberation and Socialism
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Is there an alternative to the corporate globalization andmilitarism that is ravaging our planet? These classic works by Ernesto CheGuevara present a revolutionary view of a different world in which humansolidarity and understanding replace imperialist aggression and exploitation.
Global Urban Agriculture
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There has been growing attention paid to urban agriculture worldwide because of its role in making cities more environmentaly sustainable while also contributing to enhanced food access and social justice. This edited volume brings together current research and case studies concerning urban agriculture from both the Global North and the Global South. Its objective is to help bridge the long-standing divide between discussion of urban agriculture in the Global North and the Global South and to demonstrate that today there are greater areas of overlap than there are differences both theoretically and substantively, and that research in either area can help inform research in the other. The book covers the nature of urban agriculture and how it supports livelihoods, provides ecosystem services, and community development. It also considers urban agriculture and social capital, networks, and agro-biodiversity conservation. Concepts such as sustainability, resilience, adaptation and community, and the value of urban agriculture as a recreational resource are explored. It also examines, quite fundamentally, why people farm in the city and how urban agriculture can contribute to more sustainable cities in both the Global North and the Global South.
Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction
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Global warming is arguably the most critical and controversial issue facing the world in the twenty-first century, one that will affect every living creature on the planet. It is also an extraordinarily complex problem, which everyone needs to understand as clearly and completely as possible. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and accessible explanation of the key aspects of global warming. Mark Maslin discusses how and why changes are occurring, sets current warming trends in the context of past climate change, examines the predicted impact of global warming, as well as the political controversies of recent years and the many proposed solutions. Fully updated for 2008, this compelling account offers the best current scientific understanding of global warming, describing recent developments in US policy and the UK Climate Change Bill, where we now stand with the Kyoto Protocol, and the latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Maslin also includes a chapter on local solutions, reflecting the now widely held view that, to mitigate any impending disaster, governments as well as individuals must to act together.
Globalization and Its Discontents
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???Globalisation today is not working???for many of the world’s poor???for much of the environment??? for the stability of the global economy.’ From a leader of the anti-globalisation movement, a statement like this would not be remarkable. But coming from Joseph Stiglitz??”former Chief Economist at the World Bank??”it is startling and challenging. Stiglitz’s extraordinary authority and experience make this a compelling book. He argues that the West has seriously mismanaged the process of privatisation, liberalisation and stabilization, and that by following its advice many Third World countries and former communist states are actually worse off now than they were before. But he does not take a simplistic pro- or anti-globalisation stance. Instead he confronts us with the often difficult realities of the world. Stiglitz also offers real, though tough, solutions. In so doing he addresses some of the most pressing concerns of our age.