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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

different institutions of climate change mitigation, land grabs and disasters interacts with the political processes of current …

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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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Land reform in Bolivia: the forestry question

Pellegrini, Pellegrini, L.; Dasgupta, Dasgupta, A. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009

In this paper we discuss forestry issues related to land reform in Bolivia. We find that although the current land … sector, it does not deal with many of the challenges related to forest management and actually contains provisions that come … in conflict with the objectives of sustainable forest management. Given that a large part of the land that is being …

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rural energy problem in developing countries : diagnosis and policy approaches : a review of major issues

van de Laar, van de Laar, A. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1991

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Land reform in Bolivia: the forestry question

Pellegrini, Lorenzo; Dasgupta, Anirban - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009

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rural energy problem in developing countries : diagnosis and policy approaches : a review of major issues

LAAR, A. van de - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1991

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Revisiting the role of the resource curse in shaping institutions and growth

Murshed, Murshed, S.M.; Badiuzzaman, Badiuzzaman, M.; … - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2015

recently (1995-2012) there is a reversal of this adverse effect on some institutions. Moreover, certain institutions matter …

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Innovation in institutional collaboration

Fowler, Fowler, A.F. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2014

critically, organisational innovations suggest that what currently exists to tackle intractable problems by getting institutions …

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Voluntary initiatives in global value chains

Siegmann, Siegmann, K.A.; Merk, Merk, J.; Knorringa, … - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2014

The organization of production in global value chains (GVCs) has been accompanied by a rise of informal and insecure work. Yet, the role of labour agency has received scant attention in the GVC and related literatures. Selwyn (2013) therefore demands to shift attention towards engagement with...

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