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  • HEROES OF ENVIRONMENTAL DIPLOMACY
    FELIX DODDS
    Today more than ever, when the world is beset by environmental, social, healthcare and economic challenges, we need courage in our politics, both nationally and globally. This book tells the stories, some for the first time, of twelve individuals who made heroic contributions to protecting our planet through ground-breaking international treaties. Can individuals change the wor...

    $599.00

  • TOMORROW'S PEOPLE AND NEW TECHNOLOGY
    FELIX DODDS / CAROLINA DUQUE CHOPITEA / RANGER RUFFINS
    As we witness a series of social, political, cultural, and economic changes/disruptions this book examines the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the way emerging technologies are impacting our lives and changing society. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is characterised by the emergence of new technologies that are blurring the boundaries between the physical, the digital, and t...

    $999.00

  • STAKEHOLDER DEMOCRACY
    FELIX DODDS
    In the context of sustainable development, this book describes how we are moving from representative to participatory democracy, and how we are now in a "stakeholder democracy," which is working to strengthen represented democracy in a time of fear. Since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit the idea of stakeholder democracy has grown, with stakeholders engaged in helping governments and ...

    $1,099.00

  • NEGOTIATING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
    FELIX DODDS / AMBASSADOR DAVID DONOGHUE / JIMENA LEIVA ROESCH
    The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal set of seventeen goals and 169 targets, with accompanying indicators, which were agreed by UN member states to frame their policy agendas for the fifteen-year period from 2015 to 2030. Written by three authors who have been engaged in the development of the SDGs from the beginning, this book offers an insider view of the ...

    $1,179.00

  • THE WATER, FOOD, ENERGY AND CLIMATE NEXUS
    FELIX DODDS
    Global trends of population growth, rising living standards and the rapidly increasing urbanized world are increasing the demand on water, food and energy. Added to this is the growing threat of climate change which will have huge impacts on water and food availability. It is increasingly clear that there is no place in an interlinked world for isolated solutions aimed at just ...

    $1,439.00

  • FROM RIO+20 TO A NEW DEVELOPMENT AGENDA
    FELIX DODDS / JORGE LAGUNA-CELIS / LIZ THOMPSON
    Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit", the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies. Writ...

    $1,259.00

  • HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY
    DODDS, FELIX / PIPPARD, TIM
    Security has tended to be seen as based on military force, yet this illusion is crumbling, literally and figuratively, before our eyes in the conflict zones of Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa. It is now clear that real human security, defined by the Commission on Human Security as 'protecting vital freedoms', can only be achieved if the full range of issues that underpin human sec...

    $1,039.00

  • ONLY ONE EARTH
    FELIX DODDS / MICHAEL STRAUSS / WITH MAURICE F. STRONG
    Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved in the past forty years and what hasn’t. It shows the continuing threat of our present way of living to the planet. It looks to the ch...

    $1,099.00

  • CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY INSECURITY
    FELIX DODDS / RICHARD SHERMAN
    Climate change is now recognised as one of the greatest challenges facing the international community and when coupled with energy production and use - the most significant contributor to climate change - and the related security problems the double threat to international security and human development is of the highest order. This wide-ranging book brings together leading thi...

    $979.00