Pathways to Sustainability

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1. Transforming Health Markets in Asia and Africa

   Improving Quality and Access for the Poor

   Edited by Gerald Bloom, Barun Kanjilal, Henry Lucas, David Peters

   Series: Pathways to Sustainability

   There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades. This has substantially increased the availability of health-related goods and services in all but the most remote localities, but it has created problems with safety, efficiency and cost....

   Published August 1st 2012 by Routledge
2. Pastoralism and Development in Africa

   Dynamic Change at the Margins

   Edited by Andy Catley, Jeremy Lind, Ian Scoones

   Series: Pathways to Sustainability

   Once again, the Horn of Africa has been in the headlines. And once again the news has been bad: drought, famine, conflict, hunger, suffering and death. The finger of blame has been pointed in numerous directions: to the changing climate, to environmental degradation, to overpopulation, to...

   Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
3. Contested Agronomy

   Agricultural Research in a Changing World

   Edited by James Sumberg, John Thompson

   Series: Pathways to Sustainability

   The dramatic increases in food prices experienced over the last four years, and their effects of hunger and food insecurity, as well as human-induced climate change and its implications for agriculture, food production and food security, are key topics within the field of agronomy and agricultural...

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Regulating Technology

   International Harmonization and Local Realities

   By Patrick van Zwanenberg, Adrian Ely, Adrian Smith

   Series: Pathways to Sustainability

   Examining the regulation of technologies, this book explores how the drive to harmonize regulatory policies across the world is at odds with the increasingly diverse local settings in which they are implemented. The authors use a 'framings' approach that starts with the concerns and experiences of...

   Published April 4th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Politics of Asbestos

   Understandings of Risk, Disease and Protest

   By Linda Waldman

   Series: Pathways to Sustainability

   Around the world, asbestos-related diseases are on the increase. Meanwhile, in many newly-industrializing and developing countries, asbestos use continues unabated. This book, based on anthropological fieldwork in the UK, India and South Africa, explores people's understandings of their illness,...

   Published March 17th 2011 by Routledge
6. Rice Biofortification

   Lessons for Global Science and Development

   By Sally Brooks

   Series: Pathways to Sustainability

   Biofortification – the enrichment of staple food crops with essential micronutrients – has been heralded as a uniquely sustainable solution to the problem of micronutrient deficiency or 'hidden hunger'. Considerable attention and resources are being directed towards the biofortification of rice –...

   Published June 29th 2010 by Routledge
7. Epidemics

   Science, Governance and Social Justice

   Edited by Melissa Leach, Sarah Dry

   Series: Pathways to Sustainability

   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 infectious diseases'. Understanding and responding to these often unpredictable events have become major challenges for...

   Published June 24th 2010 by Routledge
8. Dynamic Sustainabilities

   Technology, Environment, Social Justice

   Edited by Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Andy Stirling

   Series: Pathways to Sustainability

   Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies...

   Published April 22nd 2010 by Routledge
9. Avian Influenza

   Science, Policy and Politics

   Edited by Ian Scoones

   Series: Pathways to Sustainability

   Over the past decade, substantial resources have been spent on tackling avian influenza and building a global capacity for a pandemic response. The catastrophic costs of the 1918 influenza pandemic are well documented, and the swine flu pandemic of 2009-10 has raised the alarm yet again. Across the...

   Published April 15th 2010 by Routledge