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The Biological Foundation of Sustainability : The Essential Role of Microbes in Planetary Metabolism - Hengge, Regine

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102389

Published: May 29, 2025 04:00

The ongoing climate change, rampant biodiversity loss, omnipresent pollution and waste accumulation around the world can no longer be overlooked or denied. As a consequence, “sustainability” has become a buzzword – but what does it actually mean when it…

Decolonizing African Agriculture : Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation - Moseley, William G.

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93363

Published: May 29, 2025 04:00

Why have so many approaches to farming and food policy failed in Sub-Saharan Africa? Because, argues William Moseley in this compelling analysis, of the shortcomings of a prevailing western, colonial agricultural science that is infused with power and…

Crisis Management Beyond the Humanitarian-Development Nexus - Edited by: Gómez, Oscar A.; Hanatani, Atsushi; Kawaguchi, Chigumi

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102308

Published: May 28, 2025 04:00

In addressing humanitarian crises, the international community has long understood the need to extend beyond providing immediate relief, and to engage with long-term recovery activities and the prevention of similar crises in the future. However, this…

Human Rights in Business : Removal of Barriers to Access to Justice in the European Union - Edited by: Rubio, Juan José Álvarez; Yiannibas, Katerina

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102228

Published: May 28, 2025 04:00

The capacity to abuse, or in general affect the enjoyment of human, labour and environmental rights has risen with the increased social and economic power that multinational companies wield in the global economy. At the same time, it appears that it is…

New Directions in Development Economics : Growth, Environmental Concerns and Government in the 1990s - Edited by: Lundahl, Mats; Ndulu, Benno

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102249

Published: May 28, 2025 04:00

New Directions in Development Economics is divided into two parts. The first half considers the dilemma of growth with special reference to its environmental cost. The second half focuses on the role of the state in the context of the growing dominance of…

Society, Environment and Human Security in the Arctic Barents Region - Edited by: Cambou, Dorothée; Hossain, Kamrul

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102288

Published: May 28, 2025 04:00

The Arctic-Barents Region is facing numerous pressures from a variety of sources, including the effect of environmental changes and extractive industrial developments. The threats arising out of these pressures result in human security challenges. This…

Indigenous Knowledges and the Sustainable Development Agenda - Edited by: Breidlid, Anders; Krøvel, Roy

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102315

Published: May 28, 2025 04:00

This book discusses the vital importance of including indigenous knowledges in the sustainable development agenda. In the wake of colonialism and imperialism, dialogue between indigenous knowledges and Western epistemology has broken down time and again.…

Modeling the Possible : Perspectives from Philosophy of Science - Edited by: Grüne-Yanoff, Till; Knuuttila, Tarja; Koskinen, Rami; Sjölin Wirling, Ylwa

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102304

Published: May 28, 2025 04:00

Models are used to explore possibilities across all scientific fields. Climate models simulate the potential future climatic conditions under various emissions scenarios, macroeconomic models investigate the implications of various fiscal and monetary…

Comparative Renewables Policy : Political, Organizational and European Fields - Edited by: Boasson, Elin Lerum; Leiren, Merethe Dotterud; Wettestad, Jørgen

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102258

Published: May 28, 2025 04:00

Challenging one-eyed technology-focused accounts of renewables policy, this book provides a ground-breaking, deep-diving and genre-crossing longitudinal study of policy development. The book develops a multi-field explanatory approach, capturing…

The Psychology of Collective Climate Action : Building Climate Courage - Bleh, Julian; Blumenschein, Paula; Dasch, Sophia; Hamann, Karen; Junge, Eva; Wernke, Alex

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102192

Published: May 28, 2025 04:00

How do we find the courage to act together against the climate crisis? This book weaves together real-life findings and examples from the socio-ecological movement with psychological research to show how motivation for collective climate action can be…

Leading Transformative Change Collectively : A Practitioner Guide to Realizing the SDGs - Kuenkel, Petra; Kuhn, Elisabeth; Stucker, Dominic; Williamson, Douglas

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102264

Published: May 28, 2025 04:00

This book directly helps decision-makers and change agents in companies, NGOs, and government bodies become more proficient in transformative, collaborative change in realizing the SDGs. This practitioner’s handbook translates a systemic – and enlivening –…

Justice, Education, and the World of Today : Philosophical Investigations - Edited by: Bostad, Inga; Papastephanou, Marianna; Strand, Torill

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102220

Published: May 28, 2025 04:00

This edited book challenges the limits of current educational philosophical discourse and argues for a restored normativisation of education through a powerful notion of justice. Moving beyond conventional paradigms of how justice and education relate, the…

Education for Sustainable Development in Foreign Language Learning : Content-Based Instruction in College-Level Curricula - Edited by: de la Fuente, María

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102319

Published: May 28, 2025 04:00

This unique volume utilizes the UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) framework to illustrate successful integration of sustainability education in post-secondary foreign language (FL) learning. Showcasing a variety of approaches to using…

Climate Governance across the Globe : Pioneers, Leaders and Followers - Edited by: Andersen, Mikael Skou; Tobin, Paul; Wurzel, Rüdiger K.W.

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102224

Published: May 28, 2025 04:00

This book takes an innovative approach to studying international climate governance by providing a critical analysis of climate leadership, pioneership and followership across the globe. The volume assesses the interactions between climate leaders,…

Sustainable Development in India : Groundwater Irrigation, Energy Use, and Food Production - Edited by: Fujita, Koichi; Mizushima, Tsukasa

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102218

Published: May 28, 2025 04:00

This book explores and interrogates the food–water–energy nexus, arguably the most crucial factor in sustaining India’s economic development. The book sheds light on different experiences faced in states across India, including the consequences of…

Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities - Edited by: Battersby, Jane; Watson, Vanessa

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102271

Published: May 28, 2025 04:00

As Africa urbanises and the focus of poverty shifts to urban centres, there is an imperative to address poverty in African cities. This is particularly the case in smaller cities, which are often the most rapidly urbanising, but the least able to cope with…

Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific : Between Local and Global - Edited by: Connell, John; Waddell, Eric

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102269

Published: May 28, 2025 04:00

This volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population…

Human Security and Epidemics in Africa : Learning from COVID-19, Ebola and HIV - Edited by: Varin, Caroline; Velthuizen, Andreas

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102317

Published: May 28, 2025 04:00

This book examines the impact of epidemics in Africa, exploring some of the adaptation and crisis management strategies adopted to tackle COVID-19, Ebola, and HIV-AIDS. The authors reflect on lessons learned from solving complex problems and difficult…

The Hydrocene : Eco-Aesthetics in the Age of Water - Bailey-Charteris, Bronwyn

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102293

Published: May 28, 2025 04:00

This book challenges conventional notions of the Anthropocene and champions the Hydrocene: the Age of Water. It presents the Hydrocene as a disruptive, conceptual epoch and curatorial theory, emphasising water's pivotal role in the climate crisis and…

Ecological Democracy : Caring for the Earth in the Anthropocene - Lysaker, Odin

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102285

Published: May 28, 2025 04:00

Ecological Democracy offers an original, thought-provoking, and engaging treatment of why and how democracy should be re-imagined in reaction to today’s ecological crisis. The book explains that one need to re-imagine both the view on nature and democratic…

Climatic and Ecological Change in the Americas : A Perspective from Historical Ecology - Edited by: Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda; Odonne, Guillaume; Whitaker, James Andrew

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102179

Published: May 27, 2025 04:00

This book offers a comparative analysis of the experiences, responses, and adaptations of people to climate variability and environmental change across the Americas. It foregrounds historical ecology as a structural framework for understanding the climate…

China and Great Power Responsibility for Climate Change - Kopra, Sanna

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102104

Published: May 27, 2025 04:00

As American leadership over climate change declines, China has begun to identify itself as a great power by formulating ambitious climate policies. Based on the premise that great powers have unique responsibilities, this book explores how China’s rise to…

Ecological Limits of Development : Living with the Sustainable Development Goals - Kish, Kaitlin; Quilley, Stephen

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102177

Published: May 27, 2025 04:00

Embracing the reality of biophysical limits to growth, this volume uses the technical tools from ecological economics to recast the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as Ecological Livelihood Goals – policy agendas and trajectories that seek to reconcile…

Human Minds and Animal Stories : How Narratives Make Us Care About Other Species - Cieński, Marcin; Małecki, Wojciech; Pawłowski, Bogusław; Sorokowski, Piotr

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102171

Published: May 27, 2025 04:00

The power of stories to raise our concern for animals has been postulated throughout history by countless scholars, activists, and writers, including such greats as Thomas Hardy and Leo Tolstoy. This is the first book to investigate that power and explain…

Dynamic Sustainabilities : Technology, Environment, Social Justice - Leach, Melissa; Scoones, Ian; Stirling, Andrew Charles

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102092

Published: May 27, 2025 04:00

Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid,…

Locating Zika : Social Change and Governance in an Age of Mosquito Pandemics - Edited by: Bardosh, Kevin

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102118

Published: May 27, 2025 04:00

The emergence of Zika virus in 2015 challenged conventional ideas of mosquito-borne diseases, tested the resilience of health systems and embedded itself within local sociocultural worlds, with major implications for environmental, sexual, reproductive and…

Multifunctional Land Uses in Africa : Sustainable Food Security Solutions - Edited by: Ostwald, Madelene; Simelton, Elisabeth

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102116

Published: May 27, 2025 04:00

This book presents contemporary case studies of land use, management practices, and innovation in Africa with a view to exploring how multifunctional land uses can alleviate food insecurity and poverty. Food security and livelihoods in Africa face multiple…

Climate Information for Public Health Action - Edited by: Mason, Simon J.; Thomson, Madeleine C.

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102105

Published: May 27, 2025 04:00

Policy-makers are increasingly concerned about the impact of climate variability and change on the health of vulnerable populations. Variations and trends in climatic factors and extreme weather events impact many health outcomes, including malaria, heat…

Rethinking Governance in Europe and Northeast Asia : Multilateralism and Nationalism in International Society - Wissenbach, Uwe

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102117

Published: May 27, 2025 04:00

This book explores how nationalism and multilateralism transform international society and global governance. It does so by comparing the governance model of the EU – a constitutionalised and increasingly polycentric form of multilateralism – with…

Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South : Balancing Urgency and Justice - Edited by: Höffken, Johanna; Kumar, Ankit; Pols, Auke

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102130

Published: May 27, 2025 04:00

This book explores how, in the wake of the Anthropocene, the growing call for urgent decarbonisation and accelerated energy transitions might have unintended consequences for energy poverty, justice and democracy, especially in the global South. Dilemmas…

Responding to Environmental Issues through Adaptive Collaborative Management : From Forest Communities to Global Actors - Edited by: Colfer, Carol J. Pierce; Prabhu, Ravi

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102142

Published: May 27, 2025 04:00

Focused on forest management and governance, this book examines two decades of experience with Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM), assessing both its uses and improvements needed to address global environmental issues. The volume argues that the…

Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast : Conservation Histories, Policies and Practices in North-west Namibia - Edited by: Dieckmann, Ute; Lendelvo, Selma; Sullivan, Sian

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92637

Published: May 27, 2025 04:00

Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast examines the conservation histories and concerns of one of southern Africa’s most iconic conservation regions: the variously connected ‘Etosha-Kunene’ areas of north-central and north-west Namibia. This cross-disciplinary…

Transforming the Future : Anticipation in the 21st Century - Edited by: Miller, Riel

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102158

Published: May 27, 2025 04:00

People are using the future to search for better ways to achieve sustainability, inclusiveness, prosperity, well-being and peace. In addition, the way the future is understood and used is changing in almost all domains, from social science to daily life.…

Ethical Journalism : Adopting the Ethics of Care - Mathewson, Joe

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102176

Published: May 27, 2025 04:00

This book makes the case for the news media to take the lead in combatting key threats to American society including racial injustice, economic disparity, and climate change by adopting an "ethics of care" in reporting practices. Examining how traditional…

Migration and Racialization in Times of “Crisis” : The Making of Crises and their Effects - Edited by: Benhadjoudja, Leila; Clark-Kazak, Christina; Garneau, Stéphanie

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102188

Published: May 27, 2025 04:00

The health crisis, the migration crisis, the humanitarian crisis, and the climate crisis. The repeating reference to the idea of crisis to label numerous social upheavals suggests that we now live in a world defined by crisis. Yet the urgency inherent in a…

Global Development and Environment - Duminy, James; Williams, Joe

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101853

Published: May 27, 2025 04:00

Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence. Development and environmental challenges are often framed at the global or planetary scale, but in a vague or apolitical manner. This book develops a theoretically rigorous and politicized concept of the…

Twenty-Eighth International Congress on Large Dams = Vingt-Huitième Congrès International des Grands Barrages - Edited by: ICOLD/CIGB

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101619

Published: May 27, 2025 04:00

The International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) held its 28th International Congress in Chengdu, China (16 May – 23 May 2025). The proceedings of the congress focussed on four main questions (Questions108-111): 1. Dams and reservoirs for climate change…

Bioethics : A Coursebook - Buyst, Nele; Compost Collective; Devos, Ina; Hens, Kristien; Kenis, Daan; Meinen, Lisanne; Mertens, Mayli; Moormann, Emma; Paleri, Varsha Aravind; Ratajczyk, Yanni; Stadlbauer, Christina; Vandeput, Bartaku; Villafuerte, Ilya Gordon; Vulliermet, Franlu

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102189

Published: May 27, 2025 04:00

This coursebook offers an expansive exploration of bioethics, an interdisciplinary field examining ethical, social, and legal dilemmas in medicine, life sciences, and beyond. It challenges conventional boundaries, embracing Van Rensselaer Potter’s vision…

Fair and Equitable Benefit-Sharing in Agriculture (Open Access) : Reinventing Agrarian Justice - Tsioumani, Elsa

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102162

Published: May 27, 2025 04:00

This book explores the emergence and development of the legal concept of fair and equitable benefit-sharing, and its application in agriculture. Developed in the 1990s, the concept of fair and equitable benefit-sharing has been deployed in an ever-wider…

Contestations of Citizenship, Education, and Democracy in an Era of Global Change : Children and Youth in Diverse International Contexts - Edited by: Kubow, Patricia K.; Miranda, Daniel; Strong, Krystal; Webster, Nicole

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101845

Published: May 23, 2025 04:01

Contestations of Citizenship, Education, and Democracy in an Era of Global Change: Children and Youth in Diverse International Contexts considers the shifting social, political, economic, and educational structures shaping contemporary experiences,…

Climate, Society and Elemental Insurance : Capacities and Limitations - Edited by: Booth, Kate; French, Shaun; Lucas, Chloe

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101844

Published: May 23, 2025 04:01

In this book, world-leading social scientists come together to provide original insights on the capacities and limitations of insurance in a changing world. Climate change is fundamentally changing the ways we insure, and the ways we think about insurance.…

Cultural Models of Nature : Primary Food Producers and Climate Change - Edited by: Bennardo, Giovanni

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101841

Published: May 23, 2025 04:01

Drawing on the ethnographic experience of the contributors, this volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of food-producing communities located in climate-change affected areas. These Cultural Models represent specific organizations…

Fairness and Justice in Natural Resource Politics - Edited by: Küblböck, Karin; Pichler, Melanie; Plank, Christina; Raza, Werner; Ruiz Peyré, Fernando; Staritz, Cornelia

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101835

Published: May 23, 2025 04:00

As demand for natural resources increases due to the rise in world population and living standards, conflicts over their access and control are becoming more prevalent. This book critically assesses different approaches to and conceptualizations of…

The Lecturer's Guide to Quality and Standards in Colleges and Universities - Ashcroft, Kate; Ashcroft, Professor Kate; Foreman-Peck, Dr Lorraine; Foreman-Peck, Lorraine

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101784

Published: May 23, 2025 04:00

A follow-up volume to "Managing Teaching and Learning in Further Education and Higher Education", this text provides a guide to managing quality and standards from the lecturer's point of view. It covers key issues such as teaching, learning, student…

Governance for Justice and Environmental Sustainability : Lessons across Natural Resource Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa - Edited by: Sowman, Merle; Wynberg, Rachel

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101819

Published: May 23, 2025 04:00

Understanding the governance of complex social-ecological systems is vital in a world faced with rapid environmental change, conflicts over dwindling natural resources, stark disparities between rich and poor and the crises of sustainability. Improved…

Narratives of Low-Carbon Transitions : Understanding Risks and Uncertainties - Edited by: Hanger-Kopp, Susanne; Lieu, Jenny; Nikas, Alexandros

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101793

Published: May 23, 2025 04:00

"The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429458781, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license." This book examines the uncertainties underlying various…

Cities After Crisis : Reinventing Neighborhood Design from the Ground-Up - Vazquez, Carlos

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101838

Published: May 23, 2025 04:00

Cities After Crisis shows how urbanism and urban design is redefining cities after the global health, economic, and environmental crises of the past decades. The book details how these crises have led to a new urban vision—from avantgarde modern design to…

Corporate Social Responsibility and SMEs : Impacts and Institutional Drivers - Graafland, Johan J.

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101756

Published: May 23, 2025 04:00

The world’s people and their leaders face a complex and multifaceted set of ‘eco-social questions’. As the productivity of humanity increases, the negative external environmental effects of production and consumption patterns become increasingly…

Andean States and the Resource Curse : Institutional Change in Extractive Economies - Edited by: Damonte, Gerardo; Schorr, Bettina

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101743

Published: May 23, 2025 04:00

This volume explores institutional change and performance in the resource-rich Andean countries during the last resource boom and in the early post-boom years. The latest global commodity boom has profoundly marked the face of the resource-rich Andean…

Mounting Pressures on the Rule of Law : Governability for Development and Democracy in Latin America - Edited by: Behrend, Jacqueline; Whitehead, Laurence

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101817

Published: May 23, 2025 04:00

This important book offers an original perspective on the rule of law, development, and democracy in Latin America, establishing a new approach in recognizing the realities of political economy as opposed to merely structural and institutional factors.…

Public Participation, Science and Society : Tools for Dynamic and Responsible Governance of Research and Innovation - Aarrevaara, Timo; Dikčius, Vytautas; Matschoss, Kaisa; Mačiukaitė-Žvinienė, Saulė; Rask, Mikko; Tauginienė, Loreta; d’Andrea, Luciano

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101769

Published: May 23, 2025 04:00

The field of public participation is developing fast, with phenomena such as citizen science and crowdsourcing extending the resource base of research, stimulating innovation and making science more accessible to the general population. Promoting public…

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Human Mind : Subjectivity, Science and Experiences in Change - Joranger, Line

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101823

Published: May 23, 2025 04:00

One of the main aims of modern mental health care is to understand a person's explicit and implicit ways of thinking and acting. So, it may seem like the ultimate paradox that mental health care services are currently overflowing with brain concepts…

The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Education and Thinking for the 21st Century - Edited by: John, Michele

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101818

Published: May 23, 2025 04:00

This Handbook emerges as a pivotal resource in underscoring the important role of sustainability education in catalysing a global shift toward sustainable development. It articulates the need for a profound transformation within institutional leadership…

From Paris to Glasgow : In Search of Policies for Climate Negotiations and their Implementation - Asadnabizadeh, Majid

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101870

Published: May 23, 2025 04:00

The negotiations on climate change is a complex and difficult issue that has been ongoing for more than two decades. This book explores the implementation process of the negotiations' results -- an important step of the Paris Agreement and the post-Paris…

Nachhaltigkeit bewerten mithilfe einer Bewertungsscheibe : Entwicklung einer Konzeption für den naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht am Beispiel Elektromobilität - Banse, Carolin

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101873

Published: May 23, 2025 04:00

Die Förderung von Bewertungskompetenz und Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung sind gemäß den Bildungsstandards verpflichtende Bestandteile des Chemieunterrichts. Doch wie kann die Nachhaltigkeit einer Maßnahme -- z.B. die Förderung der Elektromobilität --…

The Clean Hydrogen Economy and Saudi Arabia : Domestic Developments and International Opportunities - Edited by: Braun, Jan Frederik; Roychoudhury, Jitendra; Saxena, Saumitra; Shabaneh, Rami

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101811

Published: May 23, 2025 04:00

This book provides a first-of-its-kind analysis of the emerging global hydrogen economy from the vantage point of one of the world’s biggest energy providers: Saudi Arabia. In 2021, and within the context of the Circular Carbon Economy framework, Saudi…

Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries : Gender Justice and Norm Change - Edited by: Ghimire, Anita; Harper, Caroline; Jones, Nicola; Kyomuhendo Bantebya, Grace; Marcus, Rachel

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101821

Published: May 23, 2025 04:00

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315180250, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license Adolescence is a pivotal time in a girl's…