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Cultural Perspectives on Development
What does cultural analysis have to offer development studies? Is culture a new paradigm for the study of development or a minefield of theoretical confusion? Can we move beyond notions of global culture' and local culture' to a more refined notion of cultural processes? This collection of articles addresses these issues providing a diversity of approaches. Two themes in particular run through the contributions: the relationship between culture and political economy and the relationship between local and global processes.
The Impact of Climatic Variations on Agriculture
Three important studies were initiated in the 19708 to investigate the relation ship between climatic variations and agriculture: by the National Defense University (1980) on Crop Yields and Climate Change to the Year eooo, by the U.s. Department of Transportation (1975) on Impacts 0/ Climatic Change on the Biosphere and by the U.s. Department of Energy (1980) on Environmental and Societal Consequences 0/ a Possible CO -Induced Climatic Change (the ClAP 2 study). These were pioneering projects in a young field. Their emphasis was on measuring likely impacts of climatic variations rather than on evaluating possible responses, and they focused on first-order impacts (e.g., on crop yields) rather than on higher-order effects on society. A logical next step was to look at higher-order effects and potential responses, as part of a more integrated approach to impact assessment. This was undertaken by the World Climate Impact Program (WCIF), which is directed by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The WCIF is one of four aspects of the World Ciimate Program, which was initiated in 1979.
Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development
This book is open access under a Creative Commons license. This authoritative book presents the ever progressing state of the art in evaluating climate change strategies and action. It builds upon a selection of relevant and practical papers and presentations given at the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major international organisations supporting climate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility. The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral developme...
Environmental History of Modern Migrations
In the age of climate change, the possibility that dramatic environmental transformations might cause the dislocation of millions of people has become not only a matter for scientific speculation or science-fiction narratives, but the object of strategic planning and military analysis. Environmental History of Modern Migrations offers a worldwide perspective on the history of migrations throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and provides an opportunity to reflect on the global ecological transformations and developments which have occurred throughout the last few centuries. With a primary focus on the environment/migration nexus, this book advocates that global environmental changes are not distinct from global social transformations. Instead, it offers a progressive method of combining environmental and social history, which manages to both encompass and transcend current approaches to environmental justice issues. This edited collection will be of great interest to students and practitioners of environmental history and migration studies, as well as those with an interest in history and sociology.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Desenvolvimento em bases regionais (experiências com políticas públicas)
“O escrito por Otamar de Carvalho, agora concluído, foi construído, somente em parte, nos anos de 1976 a 1978. Ficou parado um bom tempo, por motivos diversos. Otamar voltou ao que escrito naqueles três anos em 2018, assim começou a tentar não perder o que havia sido produzido nos anos de 1. mais três anos de trabalho, para completar o que vir, objeto e sistematizar em relação visitas às reuniões de trabalho e de campo, nos países do II Study Tour: Egito, Índia, Itália, Espanha, Holanda e Bélgica, sempre tendo o Brasil como contraponto. sobre o desenvolvimento do livro conteúdo aqui, em matéria Institucional; Planejamento e Execução de Programas de Desenvolvimento Agrícola; Desenvolvimento Rural Integrado; Desenvolvimento Regional; Recuperação de Terras; e Instrumentos de Política Econômica. Em relação a todos esses temas, aparece com destaque a Sudene, entidade aqui valorizada como instituição de planejamento e desenvolvimento regional, com atuação no Nordeste do Brasil, e também como patrocinadora da Viagem de Estudos tratados neste livro.
Migration, Population Structure, And Redistribution Policies
This book analyses the links between migration and the composition, structure, and geographic distribution of populations. It discusses the evolution of population redistribution policies in Brazil, and examines internal migration between the 1930s and the 1980s.
