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Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Thursday, 21 July 2016

The global politics of climate change (book)

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Climate Change in World Politics A multi-faceted view of climate change from an International Relations, global governance, justice, s...
Thursday, 19 May 2016

'The Green Economy'; a smokescreen for destruction (online)

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The “Green Economy”: giving immunity to criminals For over a decade, international policy debate has been re-defining forests as provide...
Friday, 6 May 2016

International decade of soils announced (news)

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The International Decade of Soils (2015-2024) In the Vienna Soil Declaration of Dec. 7, 2015, the The International Union of Soil Scie...
Thursday, 10 July 2014

Manifesto for a new economy (book)

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What Then Must We Do? Never before have so many been frustrated with their economic system, more fearful that it is failing, or more...
Tuesday, 1 July 2014

Moving to sustainable eating habits (report)

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Changing what we eat: A call for research & action on widespread adoption of sustainable healthy eating Government leadership and su...
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Wednesday, 18 June 2014

State-facilitated land grabbing in Rwanda (#journal)

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‘Control Grabbing’ and small-scale agricultural intensification: emerging patterns of state-facilitated ‘agricultural investment’ in Rwanda...

Climate justice; rooted in historical oppression (#journal)

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  Climate justice: the claim of the past This appraisal of the collection of papers in this issue argues that historical injustice satur...

Climate change and human rights (#journal)

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Climate ethics and human rights Compared to other ethical approaches to climate change, a human rights approach has several advantages...
Wednesday, 16 April 2014

Permaculture activist magazine

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Permaculture Activist Magazine I'm not sure how well known this American magazine is amongst Digest users so I thought I 'd gi...
Monday, 31 March 2014

Transition as peaceful radicalism (journal)

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Radicals without rebellion? A Case Study on four Transition experiments This paper investigates whether and how social movements can promo...

A critique of eco-cities (#journal)

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Eco-urbanism and the Eco-city, or, Denying the Right to the City? This paper critically analyses the construction of eco-cities as tec...

Transition towns in the majority world (journal)

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Jobs versus livelihoods: Sustainable settlements within the transition paradigm How can the “transition paradigm” be implemented in poor ...
Tuesday, 25 February 2014

The latest news on climate change (website)

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Responding to Climate Change A great site that carries all the latest news on climate change politics, policy and science from around the ...
Thursday, 13 February 2014

Can 'resilience' mean radical change? (#journal)

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‘Bouncing back’ to capitalism? Grass-roots autonomous activism in shaping discourses of resilience and transformation following disaster ...
Thursday, 30 January 2014

An international movement for urban agriculture? (#journal)

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Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture: Part 4 This article introduces, synthesises, and discusses four articles from four issues of the Journal...

The Transition Movement and contemporary protest (#journal)

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Readjusting to reality 2: Transition? This paper focuses on the Transition Movement that is growing rapidly around the world, aimed at res...

Neoanarchism and emancipatory politics; a critique (#journal)

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From alterglobalization to Occupy Wall Street: Neoanarchism and the new spirit of the left Neoanarchist politics have become increasingly...
Friday, 17 January 2014

The truth about biofuels (book)

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Food versus Fu el: An Informed Introduction to Biofuels   'Food versus Fuel' presents a high-level introduction to the scienc...

Food production beyond scarcity thinking (#journal)

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Beyond the scarcity scare: reframing the discourse of hunger with an eco-mind Solutions to world hunger continue to be impeded by a frame...

Alternative food networks (book)

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Alternative Food Networks: Knowledge, Practice and Politics This book reviews the growth of alternative food networks and their strug...