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Archive for Environment and Development

  • Editorial 51.4: Food Sovereignty and the Right to Live Editorial 51.4: Food Sovereignty and the Right to Live

    Wendy Harcourt This volume of Development explores how four key environmental concerns – water, gender and fisheries, climate justice and agriculture – are highly political issues at the core of global social justice. The strong message throughout the volume is that the growing media and...

  • Editorial 51.3: Walk the Talk – Putting climate justice into action Editorial 51.3: Walk the Talk – Putting climate justice into action

    Wendy Harcourt So, why is the journal entitled climate justice and development rather than climate change and development? It is after all climate change that the many intergovernmental meetings, articles, in-depth media reporting, books, newspaper articles and blogs are talking about. We ha...

  • Guest Editorial 51.3: Climate Action with a Human Face Guest Editorial 51.3: Climate Action with a Human Face

    Tariq Banuri In the 'lost decade' of the 1980s, developing countries confronted a severe crisis: persistent deficits in balance of payments and government budgets, accelerating inflation, widening shortages, and downturns in investment. Most conventional analyses viewed this as a classic cas...

  • Editorial 51.2: Whatever Happened to Women, Environment and Development? Editorial 51.2: Whatever Happened to Women, Environment and Development?

    Wendy Harcourt I warmly welcomed the proposal from Poh Sze Choo, Barbara S. Nowak, Kyoko Kusakabe and Meryl J. Williams to publish a set of papers on gender and fisheries in this special volume on environment and development. It seemed timely to reengage on gender and environment issues. Ind...

  • Guest Editorial 51.2: Gender and Fisheries Guest Editorial 51.2: Gender and Fisheries

    Poh Sze Choo, Barbara S Nowak, Kyoko Kusakabe and Meryl J Williams The journal Development is committed to 'the search for alternative paths of social transformation towards a more sustainable and just world'. As you read the articles on gender and fisheries papers, you will find a natura...

  • Editorial 51.1: In Hot Water: The ecological politics of development Editorial 51.1: In Hot Water: The ecological politics of development

    Wendy Harcourt In preparation for this volume I found myself in New York for two days in November just before the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Bali, Indonesia 3–14 December 2007. The occasion was a high-level United Nations Expert Group Meeting on 'Strengthening i...

  • Guest Editorial 51.1: The quest for water: Rethinking water scarcity Guest Editorial 51.1: The quest for water: Rethinking water scarcity

    Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt Abstract Water is fundamental for life and health. The human right to water is indispensable for leading a healthy life in human dignity. It is a pre-requisite to the realization of all other human rights. Keywords: The United Nations Committee on Economic, Cultural ...