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The Routledge Handbook on Environmental Security provides a
comprehensive, accessible, and sophisticated overview of the field
of environmental security. The volume outlines the defining
theories, major policy and programming interventions, and applied
research surrounding the relationship between the natural
environment and human and national security. Through the use of
large-scale research and ground-level case analyses from across the
globe, it details how environmental factors affect human security
and contribute to the onset and continuation of violent conflict.
It also examines the effects of violent conflict on the social and
natural environment and the importance of environmental factors in
conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Organized around the
conflict cycle, the handbook is split into four thematic sections:
* Section I: Environmental factors contributing to conflict; *
Section II: The environment during conflict; * Section III: The
role of the environment in post-conflict peacebuilding; and *
Section IV: Cross-cutting themes and critical perspectives. This
handbook will be essential reading for students of environmental
studies, human security, global governance, development studies,
and international relations in general.
World of Bugs Backyard Guide shows you how bugs blend in, where
they like to hide, which bugs you may find and which bugs to stay
away from. These colorful pages are a window into the tiny alien
world of bugs that is all around us. Take a closer look and you
will see, how amazing this little world can be.
Established to help people jumpstart their lives and economy after
over a half century of conflict, the South Sudanese microcredit
sector collapsed in 2012, six years after its takeoff, to the
detriment of some 80,000 participants. Microcredit Meltdown is an
account of the ambitious launch and premature downfall of the
Southern Sudanese microcredit industry. Through a mixed methods
ethnographic approach, the book charts the state and non-state
actors that embarked upon economic development after war, the
assumptions built into microlending, and the impact of ideologies
and social norms on economic practice. The text compares industry
theories with the experiences of borrowers and finds that
microcredit failed in South Sudan due to false assumptions that
were inapplicable to this post-conflict environment. Yet the over
promising and under-delivering commercial microcredit was not
isolated to South Sudan or even post-conflict settings. The Juba
microcredit story is an instance of the broader global shift toward
the commercial microcredit model. Initiated to get badly needed
capital into the hands of poor people, instead the focus became
sustaining a lending program. The text shows how the ideological
and material constraints of the commercial microcredit paradigm
were woefully misaligned with local socio-cultural realities, and
created the collapse in South Sudan.
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