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Book Synopsis Global Cotton Crisis and Sustainable Development by : Riyaz Haider
Download or read book Global Cotton Crisis and Sustainable Development written by Riyaz Haider and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cultivating Knowledge by : Andrew Flachs
Download or read book Cultivating Knowledge written by Andrew Flachs and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single seed is more than just the promise of a plant. In rural south India, seeds represent diverging paths toward a sustainable livelihood. Development programs and global agribusiness promote genetically modified seeds and organic certification as a path toward more sustainable cotton production, but these solutions mask a complex web of economic, social, political, and ecological issues that may have consequences as dire as death. In Cultivating Knowledge anthropologist Andrew Flachs shows how rural farmers come to plant genetically modified or certified organic cotton, sometimes during moments of agrarian crisis. Interweaving ethnographic detail, discussions of ecological knowledge, and deep history, Flachs uncovers the unintended consequences of new technologies, which offer great benefits to some—but at others’ expense. Flachs shows that farmers do not make simple cost-benefit analyses when evaluating new technologies and options. Their evaluation of development is a complex and shifting calculation of social meaning, performance, economics, and personal aspiration. Only by understanding this complicated nexus can we begin to understand sustainable agriculture. By comparing the experiences of farmers engaged with these mutually exclusive visions for the future of agriculture, Cultivating Knowledge investigates the human responses to global agrarian change. It illuminates the local impact of global changes: the slow, persistent dangers of pesticides, inequalities in rural life, the aspirations of people who grow fibers sent around the world, the place of ecological knowledge in modern agriculture, and even the complex threat of suicide. It all begins with a seed.
Book Synopsis Organic Cotton by : Miguel Angel Gardetti
Download or read book Organic Cotton written by Miguel Angel Gardetti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the traditional boundaries of the textile industry and discusses to what extent organic cotton is sustainable. It also examines the domestic and international influences of agricultural practices on cotton. Sustainability issues in the textile and fashion sectors require the influences that arise from beyond the boundaries of the conventional textile industry to be taken into account. These “external” influences—from (international or domestic) agricultural practices and energy policies to consumption patterns and levels of ecological notions of the society—have a significant impact on the sustainability of the textile and fashion sectors as a whole. Ecological and social concerns go far beyond individual companies and industries; therefore, in order to become more sustainable, the textile (and fashion) industry needs to address these concerns appropriately and connect with other disciplines, industries, communities, and international groups.
Book Synopsis Global Economy: Post-Crisis to Sustainable Development by : Irakli Kovzanadze
Download or read book Global Economy: Post-Crisis to Sustainable Development written by Irakli Kovzanadze and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost ten years have passed since the onset of the global economic crisis, but scientists, businesspeople, bankers, and politicians continue to argue about its causes and whether it could have been prevented. The anticrisis measures that were taken also remain in dispute, and if you ask ten different economists which direction the economy is going, youll likely get ten different answers. Irakli Kovzanadze, a career banker and financier, examines the crisis, including its effects on the worlds social and political development in this important book. He highlights the following: causes of the crisis, including a dangerous triad of deregulation, financial innovation, and the speculative nature of doing business anticrisis measures at the national, regional, and international levels measures for reforming rating agencies that occupy an exceptionally important place in the modern global economy. From the origins and development of the crisis in the United States of America and Europe, to its ultimate spread, and on to ways the crisis was overcome, this book is an essential resource for aspiring macroeconomists, geopoliticians, bankers, students, and business professionals.
Book Synopsis The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance by : Jacob Park
Download or read book The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance written by Jacob Park and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than twenty years after the Bruntland Commission report, Our Common Future, we have yet to secure the basis for a serious approach to global environmental governance. The failed 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development showed the need for a new approach to globalization and sustainability. Taking a critical perspective, rooted in political economy, regulation theory, and post-sovereign international relations, this book explores questions concerning the governance of environmental sustainability in a globalizing economy. With contributions from leading international scholars, the book offers a comprehensive framework on globalization, governance, and sustainability, and examines institutional mechanisms and arrangements to achieve sustainable environmental governance. It: considers current failures in the framework of global environmental governance addresses the problematic relationship between sustainability and globalization explores controversies of development and environment that have led to new processes of institution building examines the marketization of environmental policy-making; stakeholder politics and environmental policy-making; socio-economic justice; the political origins of sustainable consumption; the role of transnational actors; and processes of multi-level global governance. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of political science, international studies, political economy and environmental studies.
Book Synopsis The Cotton Crisis by : Jonathan Robins
Download or read book The Cotton Crisis written by Jonathan Robins and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This dissertation examines the end of the wave of globalization that connected the Atlantic world and then the rest of the globe over the course of the nineteenth century. It focuses on the cotton industry, one of the main engines of the unprecedented growth witnessed in that period. While conventional accounts of the cotton industry convey the image of an "Indian summer" for the cotton trade and the global system in the decade before 1914, this dissertation shows that the period was in fact marked by crisis. Cotton brokers cornered the American supply of cotton between 1902 and 1904, paralyzing the world's textile manufacturers. In Lancashire, the biggest cotton textile center in the world, capitalists and workers turned to the British Empire for a new source of cotton. The British Cotton Growing Association promised to bring economic development to Britain's African colonies and stability to Lancashire's cotton industry, but its free-market model collapsed in the face of apathy in Lancashire, resistance to cotton growing in Africa, and fluctuating world prices for cotton. The British colonial state discarded the BCGA's for-profit development model after the First World War, but colonial officials kept many of the association's coercive tools and techniques, paving the way for a century of failed colonial and postcolonial development policies. On the other side of the Atlantic, American farmers used the cotton crisis to organize, reviving the populist campaigns of the last century. Hoping to permanently tilt the terms of trade in favor of cotton growers, these cotton populists proposed a range of ambitious reforms and initiatives. Their programs also failed, and like the BCGA, government moved in to play the central role in agrarian development. Caught between the farmers and the colonial cotton campaign was the International Cotton Federation, a trade group formed in response to the initial cotton supply crisis. The ICF tried to bring international governance to the cotton industry, and while its leaders successfully reformed several key institutions of the cotton trade, they failed to establish a binding, international framework to regulate the flow of cotton growing and cotton textile manufacturing. The First World War emphatically demonstrated the need for change in the cotton industry while showing the shortcomings of all three of these private-sector indicatives. By the 1920s, all three efforts to change the structure of the global cotton industry had failed, and leaders in the cotton industry embraced state solutions to solve the same lingering international problems"--Leaves iv-v.
Book Synopsis Sustainable Food Security in the Era of Local and Global Environmental Change by : Mohamed Behnassi
Download or read book Sustainable Food Security in the Era of Local and Global Environmental Change written by Mohamed Behnassi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses a broad range of vital issues encompassing the production and consumption of food in the current period of climate change. All of these add up to looming, momentous challenges to food security, especially for people in regions where malnutrition and famine have been the norm during numerous decades. Furthermore, threats to food security do not stop at the borders of more affluent countries – governance of food systems and changes in eating patterns will have worldwide consequences. The book is arranged in four broad sections. Part I, Combating Food Insecurity: A Global Responsibility opens with a chapter describing the urgent necessity for new paradigm and policy set to meet the food security challenges of climate change. Also in this section are chapters on meat and the dimensions of animal welfare, climate change and sustainability; on dietary options for mitigating climate change; and the linkage of forest and food production in the context of the REDD+ approach to valuation of forests. Part II, Managing Linkages Between Climate Change and Food Security offers a South Asian perspective on Gender, Climate Change and Household Food Security; a chapter on food crisis in sub-Saharan Africa; and separate chapters on critical issues of food supply and production in Nigeria, far-Western Nepal and the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Cameroon. Part III examines Food Security and patterns of production and consumption, with chapters focused on Morocco, Thailand, Bahrain, Kenya and elsewhere. The final section discusses successful, innovative practices, with chapters on Food Security in Knowledge-Based Economy; Biosaline Agriculture in the Gulf States; Rice production in a cotton zone of Benin; palm oil in the production of biofuel; and experiments in raised-bed wheat production. The editors argue that technical prescriptions are insufficient to manage the food security challenge. They propose and explain a holistic approach for adapting food systems to global environmental change, which demands the engagement of many disciplines – a new, sustainable food security paradigm.
Book Synopsis Global Cotton and Textile Product Chains: Identifying challenges and opportunities for China through a global commodity chain sustainability analysis by : Pan
Download or read book Global Cotton and Textile Product Chains: Identifying challenges and opportunities for China through a global commodity chain sustainability analysis written by Pan and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Department of Economic & Social Affairs Publisher :United Nations Publications ISBN 13 :9789211045871 Total Pages :295 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (458 download)
Book Synopsis Achieving Sustainable Development and Promoting Development Cooperation by : Department of Economic & Social Affairs
Download or read book Achieving Sustainable Development and Promoting Development Cooperation written by Department of Economic & Social Affairs and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an overview of the key debates that took place during the Economic and Social Council meetings at the 2007 High-level Segment, at which ECOSOC organized its first biennial Development Cooperation Forum. The discussions also revolved around the theme of the second Annual Ministerial Review, "Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to sustainable development."--P. 4 of cover.
Book Synopsis The World's Cotton Crops by : John Aiton Todd
Download or read book The World's Cotton Crops written by John Aiton Todd and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cotton plant; The geographical distribution of cotton; India; China; Japan; and Indo-China; Russia; Persia and Asia Minor; The United States; Mexico etc; The price of american cotton; British west Africa; South America; Egypt; Oceania, etc; The uses of cotton; The uses of cotton-seed.
Book Synopsis InoCottonGROW - Reducing the Water Footprint of the Global Cotton-textile Industry Towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals by : Frank-Andreas Weber
Download or read book InoCottonGROW - Reducing the Water Footprint of the Global Cotton-textile Industry Towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals written by Frank-Andreas Weber and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis InoCottonGROW - reducing the water footprint of the global cotton-textile industry towards the UN sustainable development goals by : Frank-Andreas Weber
Download or read book InoCottonGROW - reducing the water footprint of the global cotton-textile industry towards the UN sustainable development goals written by Frank-Andreas Weber and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Global Cotton and Textile Product Chains by :
Download or read book Global Cotton and Textile Product Chains written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Common Future written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sustainable Cotton Production, Trade and Environmental Impact by :
Download or read book Sustainable Cotton Production, Trade and Environmental Impact written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sub-Saharan Africa written by World Bank and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3. Investing in people.
Book Synopsis Inclusive Green Growth by : World Bank
Download or read book Inclusive Green Growth written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inclusive Green Growth: The Pathway to Sustainable Development makes the case that greening growth is necessary, efficient, and affordable. Yet spurring growth without ensuring equity will thwart efforts to reduce poverty and improve access to health, education, and infrastructure services.