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Climate Change and Development Framings: A Comparative Analysis of the Human Development Report 2007/8 an the World Development Report 2010

Gasper, Gasper, D.R.; Portocarrero, Portocarrero, A.V.; … - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2011

The Human Development Report 2007/8 (HDR) and the World Development Report 2010 (WDR) are both devoted to the connections between climate change and development. The reports provide very different perspectives on where the key challenges reside. Their policy proposals are also different, but...

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Grabbing the 'clean slate' : The politics of the intersection of land grabbing, disasters and climate change – insights from a local Philippine community in the aftermath of super...

Uson, Uson, M. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2015

Land grabs in the wake of a disaster are nothing new. However this phenomenon gains certain particularities and interest when it happens within the current context of climate change policy initiatives and the global land rush. This nexus produces a new set of political processes containing new...

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Climate change and the language of human security

Gasper, Gasper, D.R. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2010

The language of ‘human security’ arose in the 1990s, including from UN work on ‘human development’. What contributions can it make, if any, to the understanding and especially the valuation of and response to the impacts of climate change? How does it compare and relate to other...

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Contested modernities in an indigenous domain

Kumar, Kumar, S. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2007

The study examines the fate of community forestry in the real-world context of pressures through the state and from the market, by using a combination of discourse analysis, actor analysis and net-work analysis.It deals with the views and interactions of a wide range of groups, including...

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Neither Here nor There

Joseph, Joseph, J.; Narendran, Narendran, V. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2013

future research on South-South Migration flows. Through an analysis of the Bangladesh-India migration corridor, the paper … by sending and receiving countries to improve data collection and analysis of Bangladesh-India migratory flows …. Policymakers must also pay attention to the challenges that arise due to India being not only a country of origin of migrants, but …

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Inclusive growth?

de Haan, de Haan, A. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2011

This paper discusses the relationship between labour migration and poverty in India. This is placed against the on …-going debates on changes in patterns of employment and job creation in India, during the periods of economic liberalization, under … into the changes in migration patterns in India, highlighting the under-recording of migration of most vulnerable groups …

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