Author: Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251383928
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251383928
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Author: Iica Y Costa Rica
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Socio-Environmental Regimes and Local Visions
Author: Minerva Arce IbarraPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030497674
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
This book presents oral histories, collective dialogues, and analyses of rural and indigenous livelihoods facing global socio-environmental regime change in Latin America (LA). Since the late twentieth century, rural and indigenous producers in LA, including agriculturists, coffee-growers, as well as small-scale farmers/fishers, and others, have had to resist, cope with, or adapt to a range of neoliberal socio-environmental regimes that impact their territories and associated resources, including water, production systems and ultimately their cultural traditions. In response, rural producers are using local visions and innovation niches to decide what, when, and how to resist, cope with uncertainty, and still be successful in using their customary laws to retain their land rights and livelihoods. This book presents a range of ethnically diverse case studies from LA, which addresses socio-environmental, educational, and law regimes’ effects using transdisciplinary research approaches in rural, traditional and indigenous production systems. Based on both, the results and insights gained into how producers are resisting and adapting to these regimes, as well as decades of research carried out in LA rural territories by the participating authors, the book puts forward a baseline for devising new public policies that are better suited to the real challenges of livelihoods, poverty, and environmental degradation in LA. These recommendations are rooted in post-development thinking; they promote territorial public policy with social inclusion and a human’s rights approach. The book draws on over 20 years of research carried out by LA’s academics and their undergraduate and graduate students who have addressed collaborative work, participatory research, and transdisciplinary approaches with rural commons and communities in LA. It features 19 case studies, with contributions from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, and Mexico.
Cities as Partners
Author: Marike BontenbalPublisher: Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
ISBN: 9059723139
Category : International cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Social Priorities of Civil Society
Author: Poul NielsenPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788171496
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This NGLS Development Dossier reproduces most of the key speeches made by NGOs to governmental and non-governmental Participants at the World Summit for Social Development held in Copenhagen on 6-12 March 1995. NGOs and other civil organizations made a major contribution to shaping the summit's outcomes. Dozens of NGO's were represented, such as the Cousteau Society, Disabled People's Organizations Umbrella Group, Internat. Council of Free Trade Unions, Internat. Council of Women, Internat. Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Internat. Planned Parenthood Federation, NGO Committee on Aging, Women's Environmental and Development Organization, and World Council of Churches.
The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch
Author: Marisa O. EnsorPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816549303
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Around the world disaster vulnerability is on the rise. The incidence and intensity of disasters have increased in recent decades with lives being shattered and resources being destroyed across broad geographic regions each year. As it swept across the Honduran landscape, the exceptional size, power and duration of Hurricane Mitch abruptly and brutally altered the already diminished economic, social, and environmental conditions of the population. In the aftermath of the disaster a group of seven socio-environmental scientists set out to investigate the root causes of the heightened vulnerability that characterized pre-Mitch Honduras, the impact of the catastrophe on the local society, and the subsequent recovery efforts. Edited by Marisa O. Ensor, this volume presents the findings of their investigation. The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch offers a comprehensive analysis of the immediate and long-term consequences of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras. Based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork and environmental assessments, this volume illustrates the importance of adopting an approach to disaster research and practice that places “natural” trigger events within their political, cultural, and socio-economic contexts. The contributors make a compelling case against post-disaster recovery efforts that limit themselves to alleviating the symptoms, rather than confronting the root causes of the vulnerability that prefigured the disaster.
Civil Society Index report
Author: Bertha Camacho TuckermannPublisher: CIPCA
ISBN: 9789990583731
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Arab Spring, Civil Society, and Innovative Activism
Author: Cenap ÇakmakPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137571772
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This book investigates the role of society groups in the making of the Arab Spring and under which conditions they attained their goals. Democracy and recognition of human rights and fundamental freedoms seem to be the main drives of the people organized in form of civil groups or grassroots movements in the Arab Spring countries; but it is essential to identify when they find it suitable to take such extreme action as taking the streets in an attempt to take down the repressive regimes. It is also important to investigate what methods they relied on in their action and how they challenged the state and the government. A review of the cases in this volume shows that civil society has certain limitations in its action. Analysis of the cases also challenges a commonly held assumption that the Arab world does not have strong and rich civil society tradition. However, for a lasting success and consolidation of democracy, something more than civil society action is obviously needed. A strong organized opposition and a democratic culture seems to be indispensable elements for the evolution of a democratic order and tradition.
Trabajando Juntos Comprometidos Con La Accion Conjunta
Author: Publisher: IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural assistance
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description