Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta melissa leach
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Indigenous Knowledge
Indigenous Knowledge (IK) reviews cutting-edge research and links theory with practice to further our understanding of this important approach's contribution to natural resource …
Science, Society and Power
In this book, James Fairhead and Melissa Leach bring science to the heart of debates about globalisation, exploring transformations in global science and contrasting effects in …
Negotiating Environmental Change
Major advances have been made recently in environmental social science but the context and importance of this research has also changed. Social and natural science studies of the …
Reframing Deforestation
This study reviews how West African deforestation is represented and the evidence which informs deforestation orthodoxy. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, …
Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa
Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projects across the world, designed to conserve and enhance forest carbon …
Epidemics
Recent disease events such as SARS, H1N1 and avian influenza, and haemorrhagic fevers have focussed policy and public concern as never before on epidemics and so-called 'emerging …
Reframing Deforestation
This study reviews how West African deforestation is represented and the evidence which informs deforestation orthodoxy. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, …
The Politics of Green Transformations
Multiple ‘green transformations’ are required if humanity is to live sustainably on planet Earth. Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes the current …
Science and Citizens
Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences - such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas - pose a range of pressing challenges to …
Vaccine Anxieties
This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic …
African-American Exploration in West Africa
In the 1860s, as America waged civil war, several thousand African Americans sought greater freedom by emigrating to the fledgling nation of Liberia. While some argued that the new …
Misreading the African Landscape
Islands of dense forest in the savanna of ‘forest’ Guinea have long been regarded both by scientists and policy-makers as the last relics of a once more extensive forest cover, …