Sustainable development and water security

This book uses Sustainable Development Goal 6 to consider the concept of sustainable water resources management and how to improve global water security. It provides a critical synthesis of water resources planning and management issues across all water-using sectors.

Timber!

Planting trees is not enough to reduce carbon. Counterintuitive as it may seem, we must also cut them down and start using wood as a construction material. With the built environment responsible for 40 per cent of the world’s carbon emissions, Brannen's message is clear: we must change how we build.

Kicking away the ladder

Exposes the attempts by developed countries to 'kick away the ladder' from developing countries trying to join the economic elite.

Art as research

The new practice of art-based research uses art making as a primary mode of enquiry rather than continuing to borrow research methodologies from other disciplines to study artistic processes. Drawing on contributions from arts therapies, education, history, organisational studies and philosophy, ...

Kira o'reilly

Artist Kira O'Reilly's works use the uncertain boundaries of bodies to ask what kind of societies become possible in collaborations across species, organisms and bodies. She explores these questions through sustained and experimental engagements with politics, biopolitics, change and the complex ...

Criminal procedure and punishment

This book provides a holistic overview of the English and Welsh system of criminal justice, from the earliest stages of investigation and arrest through to the punishment and release of offenders. Aimed at students, it examines not only the law and procedure of criminal justice and punishment, bu...

Bambi

Emma

From what acclaimed novelist Jane Austen wrongly suspected was the least-liked of her protagonists comes a character unlike any other. Emma is the story of a fiercely independent young woman who defines the boundaries of what a conventional lady was supposed to resemble in 19th century Britain. ...

The blacker the berry

“A Black boy could get along but a Black girl would never know anything but sorrow and disappointment.” Mirroring Nella Larsen’s Passing, The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life is the fantastic debut of Wallace Thurman.Emma Lou was born black. Abandoned by her father at birth, she is subjec...

Haunting the world

Argues that the experience of the ordinary film viewer and the investigations of the film scholar or film philosopher are not necessarily so far apart.In Haunting the World, Dominic Lash tries to show that taking films seriously in no way interferes with the pleasure we get from watching them. Th...

Politeia

Innovative readings and creative reinterpretations of significant works in the field of ancient philosophy.In classical Greece, the word politeia in its largest sense meant the citizens' engagement with the shared project that is the lived life of their polis, city, civic society. Ancient philoso...

Busting the myth of the communication metaphor

Traces the linguistic, rhetorical, historical, cultural, and economic origins of our most basic beliefs and practices for successful technical writing to initiate a reckoning about who they serve and who they harm.Busting the Myth of the Communication Metaphor is a transdisciplinary approach to m...

Perennial grains: from moonshot to farmers' fields

Recent advancements in breeding perennial rice and the perennial grain Kernza® illustrate progress in converting an agroecology moonshot into a deeply rooted reality. In this chapter we highlight research efforts underway to advance the scientific and sociocultural development of new perennial gr...

Macrofauna as indicators of soil health: earthworms and enchytraeids

Soil fauna represent a substantial portion of life in soils and play a critical role in providing ecosystem services and maintaining and enhancing soil quality. This chapter focuses on the potential of two key soil faunal ecosystem engineers—earthworms and enchytraeids—as soil health indicators i...

Types of silvoarable system: multifunctional windbreaks and riparian buffers

In this chapter, the authors summarize historic and current research on multifunctional biomass production, and provide insights in current research trends and future possibilities. The chapter is oriented around a case study in which widespread deployment of riparian buffers and windbreaks is mo...

Pension saving in a gendered lifecourse

Hayley James seeks to challenge the hetero-patriarchal assumptions in pension provision. She examines how pension systems are not gender-neutral, and argues that, to resolve gendered inequalities in pensions, we need to change pension systems to better suit the realities of lived experience.

Crimes of states and powerful elites

A collection of case studies investigating the crimes of the powerful, the social harms caused and the perpetuation of inequalities through lack of prosecution.

Practical rationality, learning and convention

This volume consists of a selection of the writings of Christopher Winch on topics on and related to the philosophy of education from 1988 until the present.

On the figure in general and the body in particular:

A collection of wide-ranging essays written throughout the 1990s, On the Body in General and the Figure in Particular: Figurative Invention in Cinema covers an array of genres and styles to propose an original method of cinematic analysis and interpretation foregrounding film’s formal and plastic...

Financial support for women smallholders: experience in bangladesh

Sexuality and small-scale farmers

In this chapter, the authors invite gender in agriculture scholars and practitioners to consider the smallholder farmers who are gender minorities but do not fit into the category of “woman.” By deconstructing gender and sex, researchers and practicians are positioned to attend to a more holistic...

Women smallholder farmers in south america, central america and the caribbean

Women smallholder farmers in this region have generally had to seek land in the interstices of large male-owned land holdings. Such smallholdings have been ignored in official statistics and the gender of their ownership rarely considered. European colonialism has strongly influenced farming and ...

Supporting women smallholder farmers: the role of the public and private sectors

This chapter examines the barriers facing women who re smallholder farmers or who produce a niche product on a larger farm. The most critical barrier for women wanting a career in agriculture is a lack of land ownership and the difficulties associated with proving their capacity. Their lack of ac...

Women smallholders and technology: facilitating access to improve farm productivity and profitability

There are numerous studies on the interlinkage between gender and agricultural productivity and gender and agricultural technology adoption. However, most of these studies use the sex of the household head as a gender indicator, which ends up dismissing the contributions of males in female-headed...

Negotiating the intersection of gender and race in agriculture

Agri-food scholars have long documented the deep-rooted social, cultural, and political issues that plague global agricultural systems. Still, there is a noticeable lack of empirical research examining the intersections of gender and race and their profound impact on individuals' lived experience...

Advancing a feminist intersectional lens in gender transformative work with women smallholder farmers

Gender Transformative Approaches (GTAs) are increasingly used in development research and practice as a way to transform constraining gender norms that limit smallholder women’s engagement in agrifood systems. The literature on GTAs underscores the need to consider diverse identities and experien...

Women smallholder farmers growing horticultural crops

Gender-sensitive analysis is critical to understanding women's roles in agrifood systems. However, studies typically portray agrifood systems as mechanistic entities controlled by macro level structuring forces. In this chapter, we apply a new materialist perspective to examine how farmers from t...

The adoption of climate change mitigation strategies by women smallholder farmers

This chapter brings an Australian perspective to the discussion of women smallholder farmers. It highlights that increasing climate induced disasters are having significant impacts on farmers across Australia with major consequences particularly on smaller farms. Assessing the impacts on women on...

Supporting women smallholders involved in small-scale chicken production

By the end of the 1990s research had clearly established that women had a good control over the benefit resulting from small-scale chicken use and sale. This paper analyses the differences between gender-blind and gender-aware approaches in dealing with small-scale chicken production. Three case ...

The impact of migration on women smallholders in ghana

This paper explores the effects of migration on women farmers in migration origins and destinations of Ghana, using 42 in-depth interviews and five focus groups. This exercise is timely and important as, first, many smallholder farmers are women, yet, they remain unrecognised and underpaid. Secon...

Women smallholder farmers and water resource management

Women smallholder farmers globally are confronting social, economic and environmental challenges related to water resource management with impacts on access to energy, drinking water and food. Furthermore, it is common for women in rural regions to be subjected to physical, economic and slow viol...

Women smallholder farmers and the achievement of the un sustainable development goals

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are internationally agreed aspirations to guide political action and development efforts until 2030. The guiding questions for this chapter were two-directional: What is the relevance of the SDGs for smallholder women? And, what do smallholder wome...

Women smallholder farmers growing beverage crops

Coffee and tea are two of the most ubiquitous beverage crops that are grown globally, and together they represent a significant share of the beverage industry overall. Even with the rise of packaged sodas, tea remains the second most popular beverage in the world, just below water. Coffee, though...

Agriculture, power and gender-based violence in the dedza and salima districts of malawi

Despite their significant contribution to agricultural production, women smallholder farmers suffer different types of gender-based violence including physical, emotional, psychological, and economic abuse perpetrated by their partners. This chapter considers the role of women smallholder farmers...

Women in smallholder pig farming: negotiating inequalities in uganda’s pig value chains

Women play a central role in agricultural value chains by doing work and investing resources across value chains from production to consumption of the products. However, as agricultural value chains commercialize or upgrade, women risk being marginalized and eliminated from commercial activities ...

Rebranding and reconstructing masculinity in agriculture: an overview

This chapter provides an overview of the importance of masculinity (re)construction to the work of agricultural equity and discusses how contemporary capitalist agriculture has engaged a hegemonic agricultural masculinity in order to normalise a certain type of land use and land decision-maker to...

Coronations and defenestrations

How do Tory leadership elections work? Lee Evans takes a lively look at how the Conservatives appoint (and depose) their leader, from the early history of the party to the present day.

Whose sovereignty?

This carefully argued case for a federal Europe proposes that national sovereignty has become increasingly untenable as mechanisms perpetuating fiscal, social, and environmental inequities transcend borders. A federal, democratized EU would strengthen Europe in the face of geopolitical uncertainty.

Working for each other

Deryn Thomas challenges the anti-work narrative by showing work not to be an individual need, but a collective one, a social activity that we do together with others, in response to their needs. Recognising this role is key to reimagining the promise of work as part of a good life.

Growth, democracy or climate action?

Governments are confronted with a tradeoff between growth, liberal democracy and effective climate action. They cannot achieve all three objectives at the same time. The authors consider which one has to give.

Crime, space and place

A critical introduction to the geographies of crime. The authors examine crime through the lenses of space and place including topics such as corruption, transnational organised crime and ecocide. This is a forward-looking book that enhances our geographical understandings of crime in the twenty-...

A political economy of women’s entrepreneurship

Melissa Langworthy offers a political economy of women’s entrepreneurship that moves beyond the input-output perspectives that have consistently positioned female entrepreneurs as underperforming relative to their male counterparts.