|
|
Click on cover for details of paper or digital version.
Click on title for details of contents.
ISBN Categories: HB Hardback; PB Paperback; CD CD-Rom; EB Ebook
|
 |
Alternative Femininities: Body, Age and Identity
Publisher: Berg
Author: Samantha Holland
Published: June 2004
ISBN: HB 1 85973 803 6 PB 1 85973 808 7
Subject: sociology;Fashion;anthropology;
Imagine a world where the oppressive, over-feminized images of women from advertising, television, films, and magazines have re-armed themselves with army boots, body modifications, and flamboyant hair.
|  |
Change the World Without Taking Power - New Edition: The Meaning of Revolution Today
Publisher: Pluto Press
Author: John Holloway
Published: June 2005
ISBN: PB 0 74532 466 5
Subject: Marxism, Politics and Political Theory |Globalization |Marxism Politics and Political Theory |
Offers a radical rethinking of Marx's concept of revolution that shows how we can bring about social and political change today.
|  |
Markets and Moralities: Ethnographies of Postsocialism
Publisher: Berg
Author: Edited by Ruth Mandel & Caroline Humphrey
Published: June 2002
ISBN: HB 1 85973 572 X PB 1 85973 577 0
Subject: sociology
Before the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, private marketeering was regarded not only as criminal, but even immoral by socialist regimes. Ten years after taking on board market-orientated shock therapy, post-socialist societies are still strugg ling.
|  |
Global Corruption Report 2006: Special Focus: Corruption and Health
Publisher: Pluto Press
Author: Transparency International
Published: December 2005
ISBN: HB 0 74532 509 2 PB 0 74532 508 4
Subject: Social Issues Welfare and Policy |Law and Human Rights |
Annual report on the state of corruption worldwide -- this year's special focus is on health.
|  |
Inside Clubbing: Sensual Experiments in the Art of Being Human
Publisher: Berg
Author: Phil Jackson
Published: February 2004
ISBN: HB 1 85973 708 0 PB 1 85973 713 7
Subject: cultural and media studies;
Inside Clubbing puts the spotlight on club culture - in all its sweaty, visceral and seductive glory. Moving from hip-hop clubs to fetish events and beyond, the author guides us through the huge spectrum of the contemporary club experience.
|  |
Enhancing Participation and Governance in Water Resources Management: Conventional Approaches and Information Technology
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Author: Edited by Libor Jansky and Juha I. Uitto
Published: January 2006
ISBN: PB 9 28081 120 7
Subject: environment
originates from the symposium on "Public Participation and Governance in Water Resources Management" held in Tokyo, Japan.
The United Nations estimates that more than 2 billion people in over 40 countries are negatively affected by water shortages. Increasing demand for water has been identified as one of four major factors that will threaten human and ecological health over the next generation. As public health, development, economy and nature suffer, ensuring access to clean water is rising towards the top of government agendas.
Water resources management is the aggregate of policies and activities used to provide clean water to meet human needs across sectors and jurisdictions and to sustain the water-related ecological systems upon which we depend. Knowledge that is crucial for water management is distributed across governments, non-governmental organizations and the water users themselves. In most circumstances, water management aims to address the interests of and integrate usage across hydrologically meaningful units, such as watersheds. Some management aspects, however, such as transboundary flows across multiple basins and inter-basin water transfers via channels or virtual water, may necessitate a broader geographical scope. The International Association for Public Participation describes public participation as "any process that involves the public in problem solving or decision making and uses public input to make better decisions". Public participation aims actively to increase attention to and inclusion of the interests of those who are usually marginalized, e.g. politically disenfranchised minorities or poor people indirectly affected by water management. In this book, the authors identify successful mechanisms, approaches and practices for promoting public involvement in water resources management, including both conventional approaches and those based on information technology.
|  |
The Danube: Environmental Monitoring of an International River
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Author: Edited by Libor Jansky, Masahiro Murakami and Nevelina I. Pachova
Published: May 2004
ISBN: PB 9 28081 061 8
Subject: environment
The Danube river is one of the world's greatest international freshwater resources. It stretches halfway across Europe and passes through 11 countries. Its catchment is shared by 17 nations, many of whom are new members of the expanded European Union.
This book focuses on the disputed Gabc¡kovo-Nagymaros Project on the Danube between Hungary and the Slovak Republic. It examines the history and progress of the case from the International Court of Justice to the subsequent agreement to joint monitoring and assessment of the environmental implications. It uses a multidisciplinary methodology combining approaches derived from natural resources management, geography, international relations, political science, and international law.
Environmental monitoring is essential to resolving transboundary water conflicts and the authors discuss the extensive monitoring programmes implemented by the two countries, attempts to link various causes and effects of the project, and how monitoring can help enhance public participation for sustainable solutions. The Danube examines the opportunities and constraints of using environmental monitoring as a tool for decision-making in the sustainable management of shared freshwater resources in the context of an international environmental conflict, and it proposes possibilities for optimising the environmental monitoring of the middle reaches of the Danube. The authors conclude that in view of the recent eastward expansion of the European Union, the environmental monitoring programme developed in response to Gabc¡kovo-Nagymaros Project should be integrated into the environmental management of the Danube River Basin to contribute to its sustainable development.
Based on original documents and research, and including numerous maps, figures, and authentic appendices accompanying the study, this book is a useful reference on the applications of environmental monitoring and data sharing for improving the management of international waters.
|  |
Sustainable Management of Headwater Resources: Research from Africa and India
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Author: Edited by Libor Jansky, Martin J. Haigh and Haushila Prasad
Published: September 2005
ISBN: PB 9 28081 108 8
Subject: environment
Headwaters are the source of freshwater resources, the margins of drainage basins, and the first and zero order basins that surround every catchment. The challenge is to define appropriate, self-sustainable, management strategies and structures for these lands which meet the needs of the headwater habitat, including its human inhabitants, and the needs of habitats downstream.
The contributors to this book strive to anticipate emerging and future problems; to discover integrated solutions to the problems already caused by land degradation, natural hazards and development processes; and to help develop better land management, environmental protection and landscape regeneration practices and policies. They also address the many challenges that remain: the concern for effective sharing of local experience in science and technology; community participation; the role of education; effectiveness and limits of current technology; the selection of appropriate policies and goals; modes of effective management; and the sustainability of current activities.
Sustainable Management of Headwater Resources provides an understanding of current and prior situations and provides scientific analyses of local and regional headwater issues in India and Africa. The authors analyse the current situation through field experiments that provide reliable information on the status of headwater resources in these regions.
This book originates from the conference on Sustainable Management of Headwater Resources at the 5th International Conference on Headwaters in Nairobi, Kenya.
|  |
Sentenced to Everyday Life: Feminism and the Housewife
Publisher: Berg
Author: Lesley Johnson and Justine Lloyd
Published: November 2004
ISBN: HB 1 84520 031 4 PB 1 84520 032 2
Subject: sociology;
The history of the housewife is a complicated and uneasy narrative, rife with contradictions, tensions, and unanswered questions. In response to this, Sentenced to Everyday Life marks an important cross-generational moment in feminism.
|  |
Spatial Disparities in Human Development: Perspectives from Asia
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Author: Edited by Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. Venables and Guanghua Wan
Published: January 2006
ISBN: PB 9 28081 122 3
Subject: development economics
Spatial inequality is a dimension of overall inequality, but it has added significance when spatial and regional divisions align with political and ethnic tensions to undermine social and political stability. This book contains a selection of papers from the UNU-WIDER conference on Spatial Disparities in Asia, held in March 2003 at UNU headquarters in Tokyo. It focuses on poverty and inequality, which are directly related to the Millennium Development Goals.
Specifically, it is a cross-country study, covering a number of countries and regions that are attracting considerable professional and political attention such as China, Russia and Central Asian countries. It addresses a wide range of issues including conflict-inequality interlinkages, poverty mapping, causes and consequences of inequality. In so doing it applies the latest research techniques such as regression-based decomposition, poverty decomposition and computable general equilibrium models.
Containing theoretical and empirical contributions by some of the most prominent economists in the area of inequality and development studies this book will be of interests to economists, sociologists and policymakers in Asia and elsewhere.
|
|
|
