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Author : Nina Goncharova
Publisher : Sanbun Publishers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9380213476
Author : Richard Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07
Category : Common sense
ISBN : 0955060834
Author : Jim Ife
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107543362
Community Development in an Uncertain World is an essential resource for students and professionals in the human services.
Author : Eric Holthaus
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780062883186
The first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades. The basics of climate science are easy. We know it is entirely human-caused. Which means its solutions will be similarly human-led. In The Future Earth, leading climate change advocate and weather-related journalist Eric Holthaus (“the Rebel Nerd of Meteorology”—Rolling Stone) offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades. Anchored by world-class reporting, interviews with futurists, climatologists, biologists, economists, and climate change activists, it shows what the world could look like if we implemented radical solutions on the scale of the crises we face. What could happen if we reduced carbon emissions by 50 percent in the next decade? What could living in a city look like in 2030? How could the world operate in 2040, if the proposed Green New Deal created a 100 percent net carbon-free economy in the United States? This is the book for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the current state of our environment. Hopeful and prophetic, The Future Earth invites us to imagine how we can reverse the effects of climate change in our own lifetime and encourages us to enter a deeper relationship with the earth as conscientious stewards and to re-affirm our commitment to one another in our shared humanity.
Author : Fulvio Attinà,Yi Feng
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031273582
This book analyzes China's transformative political power in today's world while simultaneously addressing global issues and the reformation of world institutions. China has become known as the world's first factory and trading power, but more knowledge on China's rise is necessary to understand the world of today and the future. The main question is where China's rise is headed and how this affects the increasingly connected world that faces problems that no state can effectively address on its own. This book analyzes both sides of the coin, that is, the problems of a world scale and the change of the world political order. China is among the major actors for global issues such as mitigating climate warming, controlling weapons of mass destruction, combating economic inequality and underdevelopment, and improving health for all. In the current setting of the new world order, all countries and especially world powers develop a general blueprint for the future, as cultural and material conditions of the present world are very different from the past. Under such conditions, China faces a review of its bilateral and regional strategies, as well as its position and actions in world institutions that have the mission of forming policy responses to issues of a global scale. This book, therefore, provides insight into China's view of world problems and the future world order. It is a must-read for everybody interested in a better understanding of China's role in today's world and the global power shift.
Author : Giles Hutchins
Publisher : Floris Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781782501435
Our modern patterns of thinking and learning are all based on observing a world of 'things', which we think of as separate building blocks. This worldview allows us to count and measure objects without their having any innate value; it provides neat definitions and a sense of control over life. However, this approach also sets humans apart from each other, and from nature.In reality, in nature, everything is connected in a fluid, dynamic way. 'Separateness' is an illusion we have created -- and is fast becoming a dangerous delusion infecting how we relate to business, politi, and other key areas of our daily reality.Giles Hutchins argues that the source of our current social, economic and environmental issues springs from the misguided way we see and construct our world. With its roots in ancient wisdom, this insightful book sets out an accesssible, easy to follow exploration of the causes of our current crises, offering ways to rectify these issues at source and then pointing to a way ahead.
Author : Tom Beer,Jianping Li,Keith Alverson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107171596
Authoritative reviews on the wide-ranging ramifications of climate change, from an international team of eminent researchers.
Author : David P. King
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812296075
Over the past seventy years, World Vision has grown from a small missionary agency to the largest Christian humanitarian organization in the world, with 40,000 employees, offices in nearly one hundred countries, and an annual budget of over $2 billion. While founder Bob Pierce was an evangelist with street smarts, the most recent World Vision U.S. presidents move with ease between megachurches, the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies, and the corridors of Capitol Hill. Though the organization has remained decidedly Christian, it has earned the reputation as an elite international nongovernmental organization managed efficiently by professional experts fluent in the language of both marketing and development. God's Internationalists is the first comprehensive study of World Vision—or any such religious humanitarian agency. In chronicling the organization's transformation from 1950 to the present, David P. King approaches World Vision as a lens through which to explore shifts within post-World War II American evangelicalism as well as the complexities of faith-based humanitarianism. Chronicling the evolution of World Vision's practices, theology, rhetoric, and organizational structure, King demonstrates how the organization rearticulated and retained its Christian identity even as it expanded beyond a narrow American evangelical subculture. King's pairing of American evangelicals' interactions abroad with their own evolving identity at home reframes the traditional narrative of modern American evangelicalism while also providing the historical context for the current explosion of evangelical interest in global social engagement. By examining these patterns of change, God's Internationalists offers a distinctive angle on the history of religious humanitarianism.
Author : Phyllis Kilbourne
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645081432
Shaping the Future includes a global overview of girl child issues stemming from gender discrimination and explores the root causes for this disparity. Further, the writers from various streams of work around the world lay a foundation for shaping our value of the girl child. The strategies discussed help the girl child surmount the barriers that prevent her from reaching her full, God-given potential and also result in her physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. A rosebud has been used to symbolize the life of the girl child. Rosebuds can be broken and trampled or allowed to bloom into beautiful roses. The challenge for us is to learn how we can help girls to bloom in spite of the obstacles, empowering them to embrace their full, God-given potential.
Author : Cristian Talesco,Felix Sai Kit Ng,David Ip
Publisher : Department of Applied Social Sciences - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789881641106
This edited volume on international development is a collection of papers presented at the international postgraduate conference “Development: What Now?” in Hong Kong from the 9th to 11th October 2014. With the support of the Postgraduate Students Conference Grant of the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, this conference was organised by the Department of Applied Social Science of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The conference aimed to contribute in answering the vital question for the future of development studies: “What Now?” The conference explored some of the past, present and future challenges in international development. It was a grand success attracting over 60 participants from Germany, Indonesia, Canada, Italy, India, Poland, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Australia, Nigeria, Singapore, Thailand, Brazil, the UK and Hong Kong. The participants presented their research papers on ten major themes. These included (1) Empowering People, Climate Change and Education; (2) Poverty Reduction; (3) Gender Studies; (4) Human Rights, Environment and Wellbeing; (5) Foreign Aid and Development Cooperation; (6) Security and Transnationality; (7) Economic Development; (8) Urban and Rural Development; (9) Governance, Diplomacy and Health in Development; (10) Sociology and Diversity in Psychology, Literature and Advertising. The highlights of the conference were the two defining speeches delivered by Emeritus Professor Robert J. Holton of Trinity College Dublin and The University of South Australia, and Professor Damien Kingsbury of Deakin University, Australia. These two keynote speeches, together with other outstanding conference papers, have been selected and published in this volume.
Author : Christie McLeod (Editor-In-Chief)
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329295865
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Food relief, American
ISBN : MINN:31951D00283255H
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789622096134
The book witnesses and chronicles the 90 years wherein the University of Hong Kong and its graduates were intimately engaged in the development of Hong Kong.
Author : Philip Hunt
Publisher : Cardinia Ranges Publishing House
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781922537034
Leadership is not something you merely do. It is something you grow into. It is something you need to live out. Leadership is a journey with people, through relationships, making and building organizations. Join World Vision Australia’s former CEO Philip Hunt as he takes you on his leadership journey. From the humble beginnings as a bank clerk, copywriting and eventually presenting on radio, to his growth in communications and organizational architecture at one of Australia’s leading not-for-profits. As he grew, the organizations he worked in, and led, grew. People grew. Philip’s family grew. Enjoy this memoir filled with exuberant nuance, wisdom and humour. Hear Philip’s gentle but compelling voice as he shares his story marked by an ancient Chinese poem: “…Be kind to all and gently lead the young” Allow his life experience to inspire you in your own leadership journey. Gain valuable insights in how you can empower your team, your staff and your family.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0215545095
In 1970 the UN General Assembly called on the economically advanced countries to provide 0.7% of their income as Official Development Assistance (ODA) by the middle of the decade. In 2004 the UK committed to meet the target by 2013. The Government proposes to enshrine in law its commitment to meet the target in 2010 and each subsequent year. Whilst the legislation is widely welcomed the Committee remains uncertain that it will have the wider impact claimed. The accountability measures contained in the draft Bill weaken the commitment and provide the Government with an easy excuse for not meeting the target. The 2002 International Development Act stipulates that DFID's expenditure on ODA should have poverty reduction as its primary objective. With increasing pressure to find additional finance for responding to climate change or to new types of security threats, there is a danger that increased amounts of UK ODA will be used for purposes only marginally related to poverty reduction. The Government must take appropriate steps to guard against this whether or not the Bill becomes law. Ultimately the Committee supports the 0.7% goal and feels the UK should maintain and build on its reputation as a donor.