Reviews: Race, Riots and Policing: Lore and Disorder in a Multi-Racist Society: The British Planning System: An Introduction, Urban Development in Nigeria, the Regions and Global Warming: Impacts and Response Strategies, Housing Conditions in Barbados: A Geographical Analysis, Brazil: A New Regional Power in the World-Economy, Transport and Communications Innovation in Europe

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 991-1000
Author(s):  
P Jackson ◽  
R Darke ◽  
A T Salau ◽  
R Serafin ◽  
D Conway ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-43
Author(s):  
Simron J Singh ◽  
Simran Talwar ◽  
Megha Shenoy

Global material extraction has tripled since the 1970s, with more than 100 billion tonnes of materials entering the world economy each year. Only 8.6% of this is recycled, while 61% ends up as waste and emissions that is the leading cause of global warming, and large-scale pollution of land, rivers, and oceans. This paper introduces Socio-metabolic Research (SMR) and demonstrates its relevance for ecological economics scholarship in India. SMR is a research framework for studying the biophysical stocks and flows of material and energy associated with societal production and consumption. SMR is widely conducted in Europe, US, and China. In India, it is still at an infant stage. In this paper, we review pioneering efforts of SMR in India, and make the case for advancing the field in the sub-continent. The crucial question is whether India can source materials and energy necessary for human development in a sustainable manner.


Author(s):  
Hoang Thi Thu Hien ◽  
Jonh Creedy

The aim of this paper is to examine the development of microfinance in Vietnam from the early 1980s. This provides a particularly interesting case study in view of the large-scale changes that have taken place in the economy over the period, which has experienced the transition from a Central Economic Planning System towards a ‘socialist-oriented market economy’, with increased integration in the world economy. Starting from a framework, or taxonomy, of microfinance organisations, the paper explores how the two main objectives of microfinance organisations - of meeting the economic needs of borrowers and being sustainable - have eventually been met using a diversity of organisational forms.


2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 251-271
Author(s):  
Joseph Grange

Our planet is sick and perhaps on a tipping point of extinction. The causes are well known—global warming, the collapse of the world economy, human greed, and thermonuclear war—to name but a few agents at work in the contemporary world. America and China hold the world’s destiny in their grip. How they will interact is unknown. What is known is that both civilizations have in their traditions the ways and means to reverse this approaching apocalypse. Each country is now passing through cultural explosions. This article searches classical Chinese and American philosophy for concepts and social forms that can give shape to this era of upheaval. I have confidence in the genius of Confucius as well as that of certain great classical American philosophers. Read together they can help us come to deal with both the decay of established orders and the overwhelming novelty now sweeping through our consciousness.


1993 ◽  
Vol 159 (1) ◽  
pp. 86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bertha K. Becker ◽  
Claudio A. G. Egler ◽  
Arthur Morris

1994 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 364
Author(s):  
Marshall C. Eakin ◽  
Bertha K. Becker ◽  
Claudio A. G. Egler

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