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Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024
Many countries, communities, and social actors around the world are struggling to cope with the impacts of climate change. Adapting to climate change in a sustainable manner involves a huge collective effort and is barely happening. How can sustainable climate change adaptation become plausible? The Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024 provides a unique systematic and global assessment of the context conditions for sustainable climate change adaptation, evaluating the social dynamics of deep decarbonization and the physical dynamics in regional climate variability and extremes. Through nine case studies across the globe, the assessment provides insights into key barriers and opportunities for sustainable climate change adaptation.
Non-State Actors and Sustainable Development in Brazil
This book investigates how non-state actors have become key drivers of the diffusion of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Brazil. The UN ranks Brazil as the most biodiverse country in the world, but the country’s environment has never been under greater threat, with the rise of multiple crises bringing mounting challenges to socioeconomic development and environmental protection. As state support has fallen away, non-state actors have actively engaged and eventually mobilized other social actors towards the promotion of the SDGs and the implementation of the UN agenda. This book asks why it is that non-state actors have dedicated so much time, effort and resources to promot...
Financializations of Development
Financializations of Development brings together cutting-edge perspectives on socio-political, socio-historical and institutional analyses of the evolving multiple and intertwined financialization processes of developmental institutions, programs and policies. In recent years, the development landscape has seen a radical transformation in the partaking actors, which have moved beyond just multilateral or bilateral public development banks and aid agencies. The issue of financing for sustainable development is now at the top of the agenda for multilateral development actors. Increasingly, development institutions aim to include private actors and to lever in private money to support developme...
The Indebted Woman
Women, and particularly poor women, have become essential cogs in the wheel of financialized capitalism. Globally, women are responsible for managing household debt, and that debt has exploded over the last decade, reaching an all-time high after the COVID-19 pandemic. Across various categories of loans, including subprime lending, microcredit policies, and consumer loans, as well as rent and utilities, women are overrepresented as clients and managers, and are being enfolded into the system. The Indebted Woman discusses the crucial yet invisible roles poor women play in making and consolidating debt and credit markets. Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar, and G. Venkatasubramanian spent over tw...
The Boric Government in Chile
This book analyses the victory of Gabriel Boric in Chile during the presidential elections of December 2021. He brought the radical left into power, after three decades of centre- left and right- wing governments. In order to explain this abrupt political mutation in the country, the book explores a series of fast and deep social and cultural transformations experienced in the country in the last decades. In addition, the book considers the main features of the new Boric government both in terms of goals and in terms of performance in his first year in office in several key areas of policy making. The triumph of the radical left in Chile poses several questions regarding the ability of the B...
The Latin American Crisis and the New Authoritarian State
This book provides a fresh interpretation of the rise and fall of Latin America’s ‘left turn’, or movement towards more progressive economic or social policies. From a historical and comparative perspective, the book argues that Latin America is entering a new phase of authoritarian statism. Based on over 10 years of research on Latin American political economy and social movements, including years of fieldwork in Chile, Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina, this book combines the stories of individuals and groups in particular situations with the macro-level political and economic trajectory of the region since the postwar period. The book draws on over 100 interviews with community activi...
Elgar Encyclopedia of Climate Policy
The Elgar Encyclopedia of Climate Policy provides a comprehensive and compelling account of the causes and potential solutions to one of the most pressing global challenges of the 21st century: climate change. With deep intellectual rigour, this Encyclopedia adeptly surveys the nature and application of various international climate change policies.
Financeirização
"This outstanding and well-researched volume is fundamental to understand the process and consequences of financialization in developing countries, a must-read book for all concerned. In particular, policymakers would do well to learn the lessons, from macroeconomic to social policies." ISABEL ORTIZ, Director Global Social Justice Program, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, former Director at the United Nations ILO and UNICEF "A financeirização surgiu com o capitalismo neoliberal. Foi uma fase do capitalismo dominada por uma coalizão de rentistas e financistas. Aos primeiros interessa juros altos e dividendos elevados, aos segundos, belas comissões e juros igualmente altos. O resultado est...
Hoch die Hände, Klimawende!
Zieht euch warm an – hier kommt der Handabdruck! Sven Plöger, Meteorologe und Bestseller-Autor „Gabriel Baunach trifft mit diesem Buch den Kern des Themas: gute Lösungen statt schlechtes Gewissen! Mehr jute Politik als Jutebeutel! Schlau machen, Mund aufmachen und den Handabdruck nutzen – all hands on deck!“ Dr. Eckart v. Hirschhausen, Arzt, Wissenschaftsjournalist und Gründer der StiftungGesunde Erde - Gesunde Menschen Willst du was für den Klimaschutz tun, musst du deinen CO2-Fußabdruck reduzieren– so die gängige Auffassung: regional einkaufen, LED-Lampen verwenden, weniger konsumieren ... Doch die bittere Wahrheit ist,mit individuellen CO2-Spartipps werden wir die Erderhit...
NGO Diplomacy
Provides an analytical framework for assessing the impact of NGOs on intergovernmental negotiations on the environment and identifying the factors that determine the degree of NGO influence, with case studies that apply the framework to negotiations on climate change, biosafety, desertification, whaling, and forests. Over the past thirty years nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have played an increasingly influential role in international negotiations, particularly on environmental issues. NGO diplomacy has become, in the words of one organizer, an “international experiment in democratizing intergovernmental decision making.” But there has been little attempt to determine the condition...
