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Convenient Solutions to an Inconvenient Truth
Global warming and changes in climate will have severe and lasting impacts on national efforts to alleviate poverty and promote sustainable development. Some of the world s poorest countries and communities are the most vulnerable and are already suffering the consequences. Yet often these countries are rich in natural capital, ecosystems, and biodiversity that can contribute to solutions as they can to climate change. Biodiversity is the foundation and mainstay of agriculture, forests, and fisheries. Biological resources provide the raw materials for livelihoods, agriculture, medicines, trade, tourism, and industry. Forests, grasslands, freshwater, and marine and other natural ecosystems pr...
Breathing You
"Breathing you" is a book of short stories (and poems) of modern love. It describes in a deep and yet simple way encounters, mismatches and challenges couples face nowadays. It is filled with sensitivity, wisdom and humor as well. It will make you laugh, cry and think. The stories in "Breathing you" will touch everybody, because they reflect what happens to everyone who loves, lost love or is in its pursuit.
Reclaiming Nature
In ‘Reclaiming Nature’, leading environmental thinkers from across the globe explore the relationship between human activities and the natural. This is a bold and comprehensive text of major interest to both students of the environment and professionals involved in policy-making.
The Burning Bush
The Burning Bush by Adriana Moreira There are many struggles and challenges that must be navigated when moving through life. It can seem overwhelming at first, as if being on a difficult journey without a guide. It can even seem like the entire path has to be taken entirely alone. However, this is not the case. The Burning Bush: To God’s Suffering Children provides valuable lessons that can be applied to readers’ lives to tackle daily and also complex struggles. The author uses personal accounts and conversations with the Lord in order to connect with readers. Scriptures and stories are combined to highlight the importance of living a spiritual life in order to develop a greater understanding of the Lord’s plan. Modeled as an educational tool, The Burning Bush: To God’s Suffering Children inspires readers to discover or strengthen their relationship with the living God. Each claim made about God’s mercy is thoroughly explored and explained, working to provide comfort, knowledge, and peace to all readers.
In Search of the Rain Forest
The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a marvelously wild and vulnerable rain forest. Although representations like these have fueled laudable rescue efforts, in many ways they have done more harm than good, as these essays show. Such icons tend to conceal both the biological variety of rain forests and the diversity of their human inhabitants. They also frequently obscure the specific local and global interactions that are as much a part...
Bioenergy Development
This book provides an overview of current and future bioenergy developments, describes the impacts related to poverty and the environment, assesses the opportunities and challenges and outlines how future World Bank activities related to bioenergy may be linked to poverty alleviation and environmental protection.
Governing the Rainforest
Sustainable development is among the foremost ideas that guide societal aspirations around the world. This text interrogates the concept through a critical lens, examining both its history and the trajectory of its manifestations in the Brazilian Amazon.
Framework for Environmental and Social Management
The Framework for Environmental and Social Management (FESM) establishes environmental and social performance requirements for FAO programming. The FESM includes key elements of a human rights-based approach with the goal to ensure that people and the environment are protected from any potential adverse impacts of FAO programmes and projects. It is also intended to ensure that all stakeholders have ample opportunities to actively participate in the activities of programmes and projects, and have access to effective channels to voice their concerns about them. The FESM reflects the organization’s commitment to sustainability with a new set of guiding principles, two operational pillars and ...
At Loggerheads?
The report offers a simple framework for policy analysis by identifying three forest types: frontiers and disputed lands; lands beyond the agricultural frontier; and, mosaic lands where forests and agriculture coexist. It collates geographic and economic information for each type that will help formulate poverty-reducing forest policy.
Voices of the Race
Introduces English-language readers to a rich body of Black writing that is virtually unknown in the United States.
