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Author : Lorenzo Cotula
Publisher : IIED
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : 9781843696674
Author : Lorenzo Cotula,Paul Mathieu (Economist)
Publisher : IIED
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Land tenure
ISBN : 9781843697039
Author : Morten Bergsmo
Publisher : Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788293081555
Author : Elisa Morgera,Matthias Buck,Elsa Tsioumani
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004217195
The 2010 Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing in Perspective analyses the implications of this innovative environmental treaty for different areas of international law, and its implementation challenges in various regions and from the perspectives of various stakeholders.
Author : Kyriaki Topidi,Lauren Fielder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317067658
This volume shows how and why legal empowerment is important for those exercising their religious rights under various jurisdictions, in conditions of legal pluralism. At the same time, it also questions the thesis that as societies become more modern, they also become less religious. The authors look beyond the rule of law orthodoxy in their consideration of the freedom of religion as a human right and place this discussion in a more plurality-sensitive context. The book sheds more light on the informal and/or customary mechanisms that explain the limited impact of law on individuals and groups, especially in non-Western societies. The focus is on discussing how religion and the exercise of religious rights may or may not empower individuals and social groups and improve access to human rights in general. This book is important reading for academics and practitioners of law and religion, religious rights, religious diversity and cultural difference, as well as NGOs, policy makers, lawyers and advocates at multicultural jurisdictions. It offers a contemporary take on comparative legal studies, with a distinct focus on religion as an identity marker.
Author : Julius Agboola
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789533077093
Over the years, environmental change has sharpened significant dynamic evolution and knowledge in organizational structures of organisms, from cellular/molecular to macro-organism level including our society. Changes in social and ecological systems due to environmental change will hopefully result in a shift towards sustainability, with legislative and government entities responding to diverse policy and management issues concerning the building, management and restoration of social-ecological systems on a regional and global scale. Solutions are particularly needed at the regional level, where physical features of the landscape, biological systems and human institutions interact. The purpose of this book is to disseminate both theoretical and applied studies on interactions between human and natural systems from multidisciplinary research perspectives on global environmental change. It combines interdisciplinary approaches, long-term research and a practical solution to the increasing intensity of problems related to environmental change, and is intended for a broad target audience ranging from students to specialists.
Author : Stephan W. Schill,Christian J. Tams,Rainer Hofmann
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : LAW
ISBN : 9781784711351
International investment law has often been seen as an obstacle to sustainable development. While the connections between investment and development are plain, for a long time there has been relatively little scholarship exploring them. Combining critical reflection and detailed analysis, this book addresses the relationship between contemporary investment law and development. The book is organized around two competing visions of investment and development - as working either harmoniously or in conflict with one another. The expert contributors reflect on both of these views and analyse the social dimensions of development and its impact on investment law. Coverage includes in-depth discussion on such issues as human rights, poverty reduction, labor standards, and indigenous peoples. Students and scholars of international investment law will benefit from the informed analysis of the links between investment and development. This book will also be of use to practitioners and experts of development law who are looking for an up-to-date perspective of the field.
Author : Marc Edelman,Carlos Oya,Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317569510
Since the 2008 world food crisis a surge of land grabbing swept Africa, Asia and Latin America and even some regions of Europe and North America. Investors have uprooted rural communities for massive agricultural, biofuels, mining, industrial and urbanisation projects. ‘Water grabbing’ and ‘green grabbing’ have further exacerbated social tensions. Early analyses of land grabbing focused on foreign actors, the biofuels boom and Africa, and pointed to catastrophic consequences for the rural poor. Subsequently scholars carried out local case studies in diverse world regions. The contributors to this volume advance the discussion to a new stage, critically scrutinizing alarmist claims of the first wave of research, probing the historical antecedents of today’s land grabbing, examining large-scale land acquisitions in light of international human rights and investment law, and considering anew longstanding questions in agrarian political economy about forms of dispossession and accumulation and grassroots resistance. Readers of this collection will learn about the impacts of land and water grabbing; the relevance of key theorists, including Marx, Polanyi and Harvey; the realities of China’s involvement in Africa; how contemporary land grabbing differs from earlier plantation agriculture; and how social movements—and rural people in general—are responding to this new threat. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
Author : Robert Dibie
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527526228
This book uses an open, explorative approach to deal with the different aspects of gender discrimination and gender empowerment policies, as well as their impact on economic development and capacity-building in several African countries. It uses primary and secondary data to present the argument that, without the full input of women, sustainable development will not be achieved in many African countries. This book is the first text written by knowledgeable gender issue experts that understand the culture of, and lived and conducted research in, Africa. It provides many examples of the relationships between gender and economic development around the African continent, highlighting different processes and practices. As such, the contributors here illustrate the impact of weak gender policies, and the ability to adequately develop female capacity building that could lead to wide-spread sustainable economic growth in Africa. They also explore a wide range of new dimensions and variables that are commonly ignored by other text books on gender equality. The book will help graduate, undergraduate students and other readers to understand women’s policies in the past, present, and future by analysing and illustrating cultural, political and socio-historical contexts which have shaped women’s role in the economic and sustainable development of Africa.
Author : Lorenzo Cotula
Publisher : IIED
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Eminent domain
ISBN : 9781843697411
Author : Chris Ashford,Paul McKeown
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781527525641
Recent years have seen social justice emerge as a powerful driver for work, both in law schools and the legal services sector. However, questions remain about how that term is understood and given meaning within the legal academy and beyond. This edited collection explores the meanings that have emerged and might subsequently be developed, together with a practical exploration of projects that have sought to bring the social justice agenda to life in law schools and in communities around the world. Over the course of eighteen chapters, this volume engages with a range of social justice and legal education themes, including clinical legal education, innocence projects, access to justice, cause lawyering, LGBTQ identities, and sustainability in law schools. In addition, it also explores themes of ethics and values in contemporary legal education in Africa, Australia, North America, and the UK.
Author : Annie Dufey,Maryanne Grieg-Gran,Halina Ward
Publisher : IIED
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Direkte investeringer
ISBN : 9781843696834
Brings together a series of papers identifying opportunities for Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs) to attract Foreign direct investment (FDI) that is associated with positive contributions to sustainable development and good corporate social responsibility practices.
Author : Lorenzo Cotula,Nat Dyer,Sonja Vermeulen
Publisher : IIED
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9781843697022
Author : Giulia Barbanente
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783658299644
Giulia Barbanente investigates the impact of large-scale foreign land acquisitions (LSLAs) on rural households in Ethiopia and Tanzania. Given the scale of LSLAs happening in developing countries, there is urgent need to objectively assess whether risks for smallholders are balanced by positive economic outcomes. The author considers four key pathways of influence of LSLAs on rural households: access to land, returns to land, returns to labor and price of agricultural goods. The four pathways are tested on the background of Ethiopia’s and Tanzania’s land tenure systems, which are strikingly different. The evidence shows several elements of similarity in the reported effect of LSLAs on the defined indicators of households’ welfare in the two countries.
Author : Mohamed Behnassi,Shabbir A. Shahid,Joyce D'Silva
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400705197
Due to many challenges (i.e. climate change, energy, water and land shortage, high demands on food, land grabbing, etc.), agriculture production potential is expected to be seriously affected; thus, increasing food insecurity and hunger in many already affected regions (especially in Africa). In this context, sustainable agriculture is highly recommended as an eco-system approach where soil, water, plants, environment and living organisms live in harmony. Innovative technologies and research should be developed to ensure sustainable agriculture and productivity using modern irrigation systems, improved varieties, improved soil quality, etc. In the meantime, the preservation of natural environment should be based on resource conservation technologies and best management practices. Sustainable Agricultural Development, not only raises the serious ethical and social issues underlying these huge environmental problems, but also aims at presenting successful experiences from all over the world in relation with sustainable farming, sustainable management of water and land resources, and innovative processes in livestock production. It also aims at providing inputs to decision making processes and encouraging the transfer of relevant know-how, technologies and expertise to different countries where similar agro-climatic conditions may exist; thus saving precious resources and promoting sustainable agricultural development as a relevant approach to tackle the food security challenge. Finally, this book focuses on the paradigmatic and policy dimensions and call for an innovative approach by analyzing the key themes in a complex and interrelated manner.
