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    Thinking Beyond Sectors for Sustainable Development (2015)
    London : Ubiquity Press
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    Keywords: Governance ; Sustainable Development ; International development ; Public policy ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Description / Table of Contents: As we move from the era of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) it is important to consider how development agendas are set, the progress that has been made over the past 15 years, and how current debates are shaping global development efforts for the next 15. This book was, produced as part of a University College London-London International Development Centre research collaboration entitled, "Thinking Beyond Sectors for Sustainable Development". The aim of the book is to provide a concise introduction to the debates in a number of vital development sectors, review progress made in each sector, and to consider how looking beyond sectors might open new opportunities for inclusive, sustainable development. Each chapter in this book was produced collaboratively by academics from a wide number of disciplines. As such, it represents a truly interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral effort, of the kind that will be necessary for successful development and implementation of future international development goals.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 110 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781909188433
    URL: https://doi.org/10.5334/bao
    Language: English
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    Building State Capability : Evidence, Analysis, Action (2017)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Keywords: development ; capability ; reform ; government ; poverty ; services ; policy ; PDIA ; politics ; foreign aid
    Description / Table of Contents: Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but kids don’t learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are written but not implemented. These achievement deficiencies reveal gaps in capabilities, and weaknesses in the process of building state capability. This book addresses these weaknesses and gaps. It starts by providing evidence of the capability shortfalls that currently exist in many countries, showing that many governments lack basic capacities even after decades of reforms and capacity-building efforts. The book then analyzes this evidence, identifying capability traps that hold many governments back—particularly related to isomorphic mimicry (where governments copy best practice solutions from other countries that make them look more capable even if they are not more capable) and premature load bearing (where governments adopt new mechanisms that they cannot actually make work, given weak extant capacities). The book then describes a process that governments can use to escape these capability traps. Called PDIA (problem-driven iterative adaptation), this process empowers people working in governments to find and fit solutions to the problems they face. The discussion about this process is structured in a practical manner so that readers can actually apply tools and ideas to the capability challenges they face in their own contexts. These applications will help readers devise policies and reforms that have more impact than those of the past. | Table of Contents Introduction: "The Long Voyage of Discovery" Part 1. The Problem: The Creation and Consolidation of Capability Traps 1: The Big Stuck in State Capability 2: Looking Like a State: The Seduction of Isomorphic Mimicry 3: Premature Load Bearing: Doing Too Much Too Soon 4: Capability for Policy Implementation 5: What Type of Organization Capability is Needed? Part 2. A Strategy for Action: Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) 6: The Challenge of Building (Real) State Capability for Implementation 7: Doing Problem-Driven Work 8: The Searchframe: Doing Experimental Iterations 9: Managing Your Authorizing Environment 10: Building State Capability at Scale Through Groups
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 257 pages) , 27 Figures, 25 Tables, 6 Boxes
    ISBN: 9780198807186
    URL: http://global.oup.com/academic/product/building-state-capability-9780198747482
    Language: English
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    Star Carr Volume 2 : Studies in Technology, Subsistence and Environment (2018)
    Leeds, Sheffield, York : White Rose University Press
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    Keywords: Quaternary Science ; Mesolithic ; Prehistory ; Star Carr ; Artefact ; Excavation ; Palaeoenvironment
    Description / Table of Contents: Methods, Aims and Objectives --- Geophysical Survey --- Dating the Archaeology and Environment of the Star Carr Embayment --- Climate Research --- Palaeoenvironmental Investigations --- Sediments and Stratigraphy --- Geochemistry of the Central and Western Structures --- Deterioration and Conservation --- Faunal Remains: Results by Species --- Osseous Technology --- Barbed Points --- Antler Frontlets --- Animals in a Wider Context --- Woodworking Technology --- The Wooden Artefacts --- The Use of Birch Bark --- The Star Carr Fungi --- The Palaeoethnobotanical Evidence --- Beads and Pendant --- Stones --- The Worked Flint
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 588 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    ISBN: 9781912482016
    URL: https://universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/site/books/10.22599/book2/
    Language: English
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    Journeys into the Rainforest : Archaeology of Culture Change and Continuity on the Evelyn Tableland, North Queensland (2016)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    Keywords: archaeology ; Australia ; Aboriginal settlement ; rainforest
    Description / Table of Contents: This monograph presents the results of archaeological research that takes a longitudinal approach to interpreting and understanding Aboriginal–European contact. It focuses on a small but unique area of tropical rainforest in far north Queensland’s Wet Tropics Bioregion, located within the traditional lands of the Jirrbal Aboriginal people on the Evelyn Tableland. The research integrates a diverse range of data sources: archaeological evidence recovered from Aboriginal open sites occupied in the pre- to post-contact periods, historical documents of early ethnographers, settlers and explorers in the region, supplemented with Aboriginal oral history testimony. Analyses of the archaeological evidence excavated from three open sites facilitated the identification of the trajectories of culture change and continuity that this investigation focused on: Aboriginal rainforest material culture and technology, plant subsistence strategies, and rainforest settlement patterns. Analyses of the data sets demonstrate that initial use of the rainforest environment on the Evelyn Tableland occurred during the early Holocene period, with successful adaptation and a change towards more permanent Aboriginal use of the rainforest becoming established in the late Holocene period. European arrival and settlement on traditional Aboriginal land resulted in a period of historical upheaval for the Aboriginal rainforest people. Following an initial period of violent interactions and strong Aboriginal resistance from the rainforest, Jirrbal Aboriginal people continued to adapt and transform their traditional culture to accommodate for the many changes forced upon them throughout the post‑contact period.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 174 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781925022889
    URL: http://press.anu.edu.au?p=331441
    Language: English
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    Financing for Overcoming Economic Insecurity (2015)
    London : Bloomsbury Academic
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    Keywords: Politics ; Politics and International Relations ; Insurance ; Economic Insecurity
    Description / Table of Contents: The world is witnessing the paradox of simultaneous increase in income and insecurity. According to available data, global average per capita income has increased in recent decades, while at the same time actual and perceived insecurity has also increased. This paradox is true for both developed and developing countries. However, the concrete form and causes of insecurity differs across these two groups of countries. To the extent that income levels in many developing countries are very low, economic insecurity in these countries takes a starker and chronic form. In Financing for Overcoming Economic Insecurity, leading experts examine the causes and consequences of rising economic insecurity and policy measures that can be adopted to overcome insecurity. The volume contains papers addressing issues of economic insecurity pertaining to both developed and developing countries and caused by both economic factors and natural hazards. It also discusses the issues at both macro and micro levels. The volume’s focus on policy measures, such as redistribution and reinvestment of profit income in developed countries and imposition of capital control and promotion of micro insurance in developing countries, should be of much help to policymakers as well as researchers.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 248 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781472544421
    URL: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472544421
    Language: English
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    Landscape Biographies : Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes (2015)
    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
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    Keywords: humanities ; archaeology ; landscape archaeology ; landscape ; biography ; history ; archaeology ; human geography
    Description / Table of Contents: ‘Landscape Biographies’ explores the long and complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. As an essential part of human life-worlds, landscapes have the potential to absorb something of people's lives, works, and thoughts. But landscapes also shape their own life-histories at different timescales, transcending human life-cycles and generating their own temporalities and rhythms. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that the co-scripting of landscapes and people figures prominently in the (auto-)biographical works of writers and attracts the interest of geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists. This has even resulted in a new genre in landscape research, rapidly gaining in popularity, under the heading of 'landscape biography'. In ‘Landscape Biographies’, twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which landscapes and monuments have been constructed, transmitted, and transformed from prehistory up to the present, from Manhattan to Shanghai, from Iceland to Portugal, and from England to Estonia. Among the authors are distinguished scholars like Gísli Pálsson, Cornelius Holtorf, Joshua Pollard, and Mark Gillings.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (437 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789048517800
    URL: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=569807
    Language: English
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    Life on the Margins : An Archaeological Investigation of Late Holocene Economic Variability, Blue Mud Bay, Northern Australia (2013)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    Keywords: archaeology ; northern Australia ; environment ; climate change
    Description / Table of Contents: The research presented here is primarily concerned with human-environment interactions on the tropical coast of northern Australia during the late Holocene. Based on the suggestion that significant change can occur within short time-frames as a direct result of interactive processes, the archaeological evidence from the Point Blane Peninsula, Blue Mud Bay, is used to address the issue of how much change and variability occurred in hunter-gatherer economic and social structures during the late Holocene in coastal northeastern Arnhem Land. The suggestion proposed here is that processes of environmental and climatic change resulted in changes in resource distribution and abundance, which in turn affected patterns of settlement and resource exploitation strategies, levels of mobility and, potentially, the size of foraging groups on the coast. The question of human behavioural variability over the last 3000 years in Blue Mud Bay has been addressed by examining issues of scale and resolution in archaeological interpretation, specifically the differential chronological and spatial patterning of shell midden and mound sites on the peninsula in conjunction with variability in molluscan resource exploitation. To this end, the biological and ecological characteristics of the dominant molluscan species is considered in detail, in combination with assessing the potential for human impact through predation. Investigating pre-contact coastal foraging behaviour via the archaeological record provides an opportunity for change to recognised in a number of ways. For example, a differential focus on resources, variations in group size and levels of mobility can all be identified. It has also been shown that human-environment interactions are non-linear or progressive, and that human behaviour during the late Holocene was both flexible and dynamic.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 216 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781925021103
    URL: http://press.anu.edu.au?p=245491
    Language: English
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    Bitcoin and Beyond : Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Global Governance (2018)
    London, New York : Routledge
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    Keywords: Bitcoin ; Blockchain ; cryptocurrency ; governance
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: What are blockchains and how are they relevant to governance in the contemporary global political economy? / Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn --- Chapter 2: Moneys at the Margins – From Political Experiment to Cashless Societies / Moritz Hütten and Matthias Thiemann --- Chapter 3: The Internal and External Governance of Blockchain-Based Organisations: Evidence from Cryptocurrencies / Ying-Ying Hsieh, JP Vergne, and Sha Wang --- Chapter 4: The Mutual Constitution of Technology and Global Governance: Bitcoin, Blockchains, and the International Anti-Money Laundering Regime / Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Marcel Goguen --- Chapter 5: Between Liberalization and Prohibition: Prudent Enthusiasm and the Governance of Bitcoin/Blockchain Technology / Kai Jia and Falin Zhang --- Chapter 6: Cryptocurrencies and Digital Payment Rails in Networked Global Governance: Perspectives on Inclusion and Innovation / Daivi Rodima-Taylor and William W. Grimes --- Chapter 7: Governing What Wasn’t Meant To Be Governed:　A Controversy-Based Approach to the Study of Bitcoin Governance / Francesca Musiani, Alexandre Mallard and Cécile Méadel --- Chapter 8: Experiments in Algorithmic Governance: A History and Ethnography of "The DAO," a Failed Decentralized Autonomous Organization / Quinn DuPont --- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Towards A Block Age or Blockages of Global Governance? / Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 207 Seiten) , Diagramme
    ISBN: 9781315211909
    URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780415792141
    Language: English
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    Arctic Governance : Power in Cross-border Cooperation (2018)
    Manchester : Manchester University Press
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    Keywords: Arctic ; governance ; power ; environmental cooperation ; indigenous diplomacy ; expert knowledge ; international relations ; political geography ; Russia ; Arctic Council
    Description / Table of Contents: This book seeks to pose and explore a question that sheds light on the contested but largely cooperative nature of Arctic governance in the post-Cold War period: how does power matter – and how has it mattered – in shaping cross-border cooperation and diplomacy in the Arctic? Each chapter functions as a window through which power relations in the Arctic are explored. Issues include how representing the Arctic region matters for securing preferred outcomes, how circumpolar cooperation is marked by regional hierarchies and how Arctic governance has become a global social site in its own right, replete with disciplining norms for steering diplomatic behaviour. This book draws upon Russia’s role in the Arctic Council as an extended case study and examines how Arctic cross-border governance can be understood as a site of competition over the exercise of authority.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 164 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    ISBN: 9781526131645
    URL: https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&query=rid:26948
    Language: English
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    Star Carr Volume 1 : A Persistent Place in a Changing World (2018)
    Leeds, Sheffield, York : White Rose University Press
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    Keywords: Quaternary Science ; Mesolithic ; Prehistory ; Star Carr ; Artefact ; Excavation ; Palaeoenvironment
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- A History of the Site --- Fieldwork --- Climate, Environment and Lake Flixton --- Dryland Structures --- Wooden Structures --- Assembling Animals --- Making Space through Stone --- Interpretative Narrative of the History of Occupation --- Human Lifeways --- The British Mesolithic Context --- The Early Mesolithic in Southern Scandinavia and Northern Germany --- Engaging a Wider Audience --- Conclusions
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIII, 383 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    ISBN: 9781912482054
    URL: https://universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/site/books/10.22599/book1/
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