The 21st Century Fight For The Amazon

Author : Mark Ungar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319565524
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 21st Century Fight for the Amazon written by Mark Ungar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the most updated and comprehensive look at efforts to protect the Amazon, home to half of the world’s remaining tropical forests. In the past five years, the Basin’s countries have become the cutting edge of environmental enforcement through formation of constitutional protections, military operations, stringent laws, police forces, judicial procedures and societal efforts that together break through barriers that have long restrained decisive action. Even such advances, though, struggle to curb devastation by oil extraction, mining, logging, dams, pollution, and other forms of ecocide. In every country, environmental protection is crippled by politics, bureaucracy, unclear laws, untrained officials, small budgets, regional rivalries, inter-ministerial competition, collusion with criminals, and the global demand for oils and minerals. Countries are better at creating environmental agencies, that is, than making sure that they work. This book explains why, with country studies written by those on the front lines—from national enforcement directors to biologists and activists.

Author : Vilma Pereira
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521596135
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amazon Women and the Patriarchal Power in the 21st Century: written by Vilma Pereira and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book recovers the question of inequalities, the figure of the woman and the Myth of the Women of the Amazon. It deconstructs some legends through discoveries of paleontology and archeology on the existence of Amazon warrior women in the ancient world, disappearing around the year 1200 BC, the Iron Age. The work is included in a broader process of reflection on the question of gender, the figure of Amazonian women As an icon to reverberate in the modern world XI century, through the differences occasioned by the patriarchal system. It gives a retrospective on the influence of matriarchal society in antiquity, when it appears in Europe and Asia, at least since the year 35 000 BC, and traces of this culture that would have been phased out, from 4,000 BC, when the Age of Bronze; Which coincides according to the hypothesis of the author with the appearance of the clans of Amazonian women (warriors). The book traces a panorama of Ancient Greece and the Arab world, addressing the first Islamic defeat by a Berber warrior woman from Africa (Morocco) in 689 BC. The copy is divided into 03 chapters and 04sub-titles with approximately 140 pages. An interesting subject for scholars, researchers, men's and women's movements.Professional Social Worker, Postgraduate specialization in public health, Fluminense Federal University-UFF (2014). Postgraduate in Management of People of the Catholic University of Don Bosco (2016-2017). Manager of the company CONSESO-Technical Consulting in Corporate Social Service-MEI. E-mail: seso.assesso.midiadigital1 @ gmail.com / [email protected]

Author : Jatinder N. D. Gupta
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 9781591402695
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intelligent Enterprises of the 21st Century written by Jatinder N. D. Gupta and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligent Enterprises of the 21st Century is a comprehensive compilation of the state of the art vision and thought processes needed to design and manage globally competitive business organizations."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Werner Rügemer
Publisher : tredition
ISBN 13 : 374971164X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Capitalists of the 21st Century written by Werner Rügemer and published by tredition. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time Ruegemer presents a typology of the new financial players who became dominant since the deregulation and the last financial crisis. Large capital organizers, private equity funds, hedgefonds, venture capital investors and private investment banks became much more influential as the traditional banks. These new financial players organize worldwide selling, buying and restructuring banks, companies and public enterprises. They exercise no responsibility against the national economic situation. Influencing governments and international financial institutions they lower the labour incomes and increase the part of private gains, also by using financial havens. They act in collaboration with law firms, rating and PR agencies, management consultants, chartered accountants and central banks. Ruegemer outlines the relations between the European Union and the USA concerning transatlantic capital, military and secret service interlocking and the open also as the latent conflicts. The book shows also the other way of capitalism under state directory in the People's Republic of China: How the imported capitalism from the USA, Japan, Taiwan and western Europe is in the process of transformation. So the incomes of all classes and also especially the labour incomes are continually rising. China is shown with his alternative way of globalisation which is not accompanied by military expansion. Finally the book asks about the way of the human society if it follows the international law of the UNO and the human rights including social and labour rights.

Author : Maurício Santoro
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811903530
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazil–China Relations in the 21st Century written by Maurício Santoro and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the bilateral relationship between Brazil and China in modern history, environment, economics, and contemporary Brazilian politics. As China has become Brazil's largest trading partner, importing commodities and exporting manufactures, and a major investor in the country, Brazil's social structure has been upended, with traditional hierarchies jolted and new ones created- in the agribusiness, industry, in the diplomacy of climate change in the Amazon and not least, Brazil's traditional relationship with the United States. In this incisive text, one of Brazil's leading political scientists explores how China, the X factor of international relations, can transform a nation's politics; it will be of interest to economists, scholars of geopolitics, of China's Belt and Road Initiative and of Latin America politics.

Author : Dianne Rahm
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476650683
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Activism in the 21st Century written by Dianne Rahm and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ravages of climate change emerged as a central issue in the 21st century. In the U.S., the political divide over climate change and how to confront it expanded. While Democrats became increasingly determined to join international efforts led by the United Nations to combat climate change, Republicans largely balked. The country embraced climate leadership when led by Obama and Biden but when led by Bush and Trump, a rebuff ensued. Those opposing climate action included the fossil fuel industries and others that sought to profit from the status quo. Climate crisis activism of the 21st century is the story of the tension between those wishing to continue business as usual and those seeing their futures directly impacted by such choices and demanding climate justice. This is a guide to understanding climate policy and activism, highlighting the participants, the progression of environmental science, and the pendulum of national policy under changing parties in power.

Author : Prof. (Dr) B.B. Tiwari
Publisher : Allied Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9389934214
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book E-Business: Issues and Challenges of 21st Century written by Prof. (Dr) B.B. Tiwari and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the way that E-Commerce helps in encouraging a positive business and regulatory condition, the book investigates the mechanics and usual ways of doing things of E-Commerce. Additionally, it demonstrates how different components identified with E-Commerce add to the development of a lively and dynamic electronic network, bringing about financial and economic growth. It covers a wide range of issues under the umbrella of E-Commerce and the information based economy. In doing as such, it dives deep into the applicable issues and incorporates all advances associated with it.

Author : Targowski, Andrew
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799880389
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strategies of Informing Technology in the 21st Century written by Targowski, Andrew and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-09-18 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital technology is ever-changing, which means that those working or planning to work in IT or apply IT systems must strategize how and what applications and technologies are ideal for sustainable civilization and human development. Developmental trends of IT and the digitalization of enterprise, agriculture, healthcare, education, and more must be explored within the boundaries of ethics and law in order to ensure that IT does not have a harmful effect on society. The Strategies of Informing Technology in the 21st Century is a critical authored reference book that develops the strategic attitude in developing and operating IT applications based on the requirements of sustainable civilization and ethical and wise applications of technology in society. Technological progress is examined including trends in automation, artificial intelligence, and information systems. The book also specifically covers applications of digital informing strategies in business, healthcare, agriculture, education, and the home. Covering key concepts such as automation, robotization, and digital infrastructure, it is ideal for IT executives, CIS/MIS/CS faculty, cyber ethics professionals, technologists, systems engineers, IT specialists and consultants, security analysts, students, researchers, and academicians.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900452942X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural workers have long been underrepresented in labour history. This volume aims to change this by bringing together a collection of studies on the largest group of the global work force. The contributions cover the period from the early modern to the present – a period when the emergence and consolidation of capitalism has transformed rural areas all over the globe. Three questions have guided the approach and the structure of this volume. First, how and why have peasant families managed to survive under conditions of advancing commercialisation and industrialisation? Second, why have coercive labour relations been so persistent in the agricultural sector and third, what was the role of states in the recruitment of agricultural workers? Contributors are: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Josef Ehmer, Katherine Jellison, Juan Carmona, James Simpson, Sophie Elpers, Debojyoti Das, Lozaan Khumbah, Karl Heinz Arenz, Leida Fernandez-Prieto, Rachel Kurian, Rafael Marquese, Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza, Rogério Naques Faleiros, Alessandro Stanziani, Alexander Keese, Dina Bolokan, and Janina Puder.

Author : Stephen Nugent
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315420406
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scoping the Amazon written by Stephen Nugent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amazon Indian is an icon that straddles the world between the professional anthropologist and the popular media. Presented alternately as the noble primitive, the savior of the environment, and as a savage, dissolute, cannibalistic half-human, it is an image well worth examining. Stephen Nugent does just that, critiquing the claims of authoritativeness inherent in visual images presented by anthropologists of Amazon life in the early 20th century and comparing them with the images found in popular books, movies, and posters. The book depicts the field of anthropology as its own form of culture industry and contrasts it to other similar industries, past and present. For visual anthropologists, ethnographers, Amazon specialists, and popular culture researchers, Nugent's book will be enlightening, entertaining reading.