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Why Public Space Matters
'Why Public Space Matters' examines how public space contributes to individual and societal flourishing. Based on thirty-five years of ethnographic fieldwork on plazas, walkways, parks, markets and beaches in the United States, Costa Rica, Argentina, India, Kenya and France, it presents a new understanding of the role of social contact, public culture and affective atmosphere in the creation of places essential to everyday urban life.
Guidebook for the Development of a Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action on Efficient Lighting
This publication emphasizes the role of energy efficient lighting and its potential for rapidly reducing carbon emissions and delivering economic and environmental benefits through Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs). It has been designed to assist governments, international agencies and other stakeholders shape national efficient lighting strategies into NAMAs. The Guidebook encompasses the entire process from developing a basic checklist to forming a national efficient lighting strategy. It also addresses other critical elements required to establish a successful efficient lighting NAMA by providing the most up-to-date information and case studies related specifically to energy efficient lighting.
Ética profesional del abogado
Esta obra busca contribuir a la construcción de un debate latinoamericano en torno a la ética profesional del abogado. En primer lugar, el libro parte de la creencia de que a la vista de las restricciones que hay para tener una visión general desde el conocimiento académico local, pero también del hecho de que ya existen en varios países latinoamericanos esfuerzos similares por repensar la ética profesional del abogado, unir fuerzas de académicos de distintos países latinoamericanos puede ser más productivo que seguir insistiendo solamente en esos esfuerzos locales, en los que las particularidades de cada legislación o la situación específica de cada país pueden interferir con ...
La batalla por el derecho al aborto
A partir del 2000 y tras décadas de intensas luchas por la despenalización del aborto, las organizaciones de mujeres en América Latina se han dedicado a una multiplicidad y simultaneidad de estrategias para avanzar, ya no exclusivamente en la despenalización del aborto, sino en su liberalización y, en especial, en el acceso al aborto permitido en las legislaciones de distintos países. Este libro aborda el caso de la Mesa por la Vida y la Salud de las Mujeres, un actor local del movimiento feminista colombiano, que refleja la vocación transnacional del feminismo latinoamericano. Resalta sus contribuciones en materia de construcción de puentes entre actores de distintos movimientos; el...
Beyond the Kale
Urban agriculture is increasingly considered an important part of creating just and sustainable cities. Yet the benefits that many people attribute to urban agriculture-fresh food, green space, educational opportunities-can mask structural inequities, thereby making political transformation harder to achieve. Beyond the Kale argues that urban agricultural projects focused explicitly on dismantling oppressive systems have the greatest potential to achieve substantive social change. Through in-depth interviews and public forums with prominent urban agriculture activists and supporters-primarily people of color and women, whose strategies have often been underrespresented in the literature Kristin Reynolds and Nevin Cohen illustrate how urban farmers and gardeners not only grow food for their communities but also use their activities and spaces to disrupt the dynamics of power and privilege that perpetuate inequity. Beyond the Kale provides recommendations for these in philanthropy, government, nonprofit organizations, and academia to support such initiatives. Book jacket.
Terminal evaluation of the project “Decision Support for Mainstreaming and Scaling Up of Sustainable Land Management”
Land degradation reduces food productivity and security, disrupts vital ecosystem functions and increases carbon emissions and vulnerability to climate change. 52 percent of the land used for agriculture worldwide is estimated to already be affected. Studies indicate that land degradation directly affects 1.5 billion people around the world. Despite the seriousness of the issue, there is still limited access to resources and planning tools for sustainable land management. Between 2015 to 2019, FAO implemented the project ''Decision support for mainstreaming and scaling up of sustainable land management (DS-SLM)’’ at a global level across 15 countries. The aim of the project was to improve access to information on land management best practices. The final evaluation examines the impacts and sustainability of the project results. What has contributed to, or hindered, the implementation of the planned activities? What has been the effect of linkages and partnerships between the project and other major country initiatives?
