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The Politics of Deforestation and REDD+ in Indonesia

Global Climate Change Mitigation

By: David Aled Williams

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The Politics of Deforestation and REDD+ in Indonesia

Global Climate Change Mitigation

By: David Aled Williams

This book reflects on Indonesia’s recent experience with REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), all set within a broader discussion of neoliberal environmentalism, hyper-capitalism, and Indonesian carbon politics. Drawing on the author’s political ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Jakarta, Central Sulawesi, and Oslo, where the author examined Norway’s interests and role in implementing REDD+, this book discusses the long evolution of the idea that foreign state and private financing can be used to protect tropical forests and the carbon stored within them, resulting in both local economic development and global climate benefits. It shows how neoliberal environmental approaches to climate change, of which REDD+ is a leading example, increase the severity of political contestations that must be overcome to reach global climate mitigation goals, and how recent incarnations of REDD+ have tended to forget earlier scholarly advice to couple anti-deforestation approaches with policies that reduce industrial carbon emissions. In Indonesia, tectonic political and economic forces are shown to have negatively impacted REDD+ implementation. Using a political ecology approach, the book links the literature on REDD+ with that covering Indonesia’s recent democratic regression, highlighting how the country’s environmental performance is inextricably linked to the timbre of its political governance. Given the severity of the political contestations that must be overcome to reach its stated goals, REDD+ cannot replace global policies that drastically reduce industrial carbon emissions. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of political ecology, deforestation, climate change, environmental politics, natural resource management, and environmental conservation.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000891135

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9781000891133

Trust, Courts and Social Rights

A Trust-Based Framework for Social Rights Enforcement

By: David Vitale

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Trust, Courts and Social Rights

A Trust-Based Framework for Social Rights Enforcement

By: David Vitale

Trust, Courts and Social Rights proposes an innovative legal framework for judicially enforcing social rights that is rooted in public trust in government or 'political trust'. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book draws on theoretical and empirical scholarship on the concept of trust across disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, psychology and political theory. It integrates that scholarship with the relevant public law literature on social rights, fiduciary political theory and judicial review. In doing so, the book uses trust as an analytical lens for social rights law – importing ideas from the scholarship on trust into the social rights literature – and develops a normative argument that contributes to the controversial debate on how courts should enforce social rights. Also global in focus, the book uses cases from courts in Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America to illustrate how the trust-based framework operates in practice.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009115693

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9781009115698

Medieval Powys

Kingdom, Principality and Lordships, 1132-1293

By: David Stephenson

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Medieval Powys

Kingdom, Principality and Lordships, 1132-1293

By: David Stephenson

First full-scale account of the medieval realm of Powys.

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365

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Boydell & Brewer

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178327140X

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9781783271405

A History of Christianity in Wales

By: David Ceri Jones,Barry J. Lewis,Madeleine Gray,D. Densil Morgan

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A History of Christianity in Wales

By: David Ceri Jones,Barry J. Lewis,Madeleine Gray,D. Densil Morgan

Balanced coverage of whole history of Christianity in Wales, paying as much attention to earlier periods as the better-known later ones. A contemporary view of the subject, incorporating the latest scholarly research in an accessible and readable form. Guides to further reading specifically aimed at navigating students and others through what they should read after this book.

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University of Wales Press

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1786838230

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Ashley Williams

My Premier League Diary

By: Ashley Williams,David Brayley

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Ashley Williams

My Premier League Diary

By: Ashley Williams,David Brayley

Ashley Williams's diary over a season with Swansea City and Wales is one of the most insightful account of what it is like to be a Premier League football player.

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Y Lolfa

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1847712649

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9781847712646

The Companion Guide to Wales

By: David Barnes

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The Companion Guide to Wales

By: David Barnes

Wales is a country where small in beautiful, a cultural tradition rooted in the austerity and erudition of the Celtic saints, a tradition more confirmed than repudiated by the Reformation and is best appreciated by lovers of small things. The delights of Wales are understated and cumulative: small country churches rather than great city cathedrals, a labyrinth of byeays away form the few highways, details of vernacular achitecture rather than grand edifices - Edward I's thirteenth-century castles being the exception that proves the rule.

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Companion Guides

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1900639432

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9781900639439

The Impact of Technological Change

The Early Steamship in Britain

By: John Armstrong,David M. Williams

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The Impact of Technological Change

The Early Steamship in Britain

By: John Armstrong,David M. Williams

This book presents an in-depth study of the impact of the steamship on Britain during its first forty years, roughly between 1810 and 1850. It relates the early steamship to several industrial themes including diffusion; construction; modernisation; the role of government - particularly the difficult attempt to align laissez-faire politics with the greater need for public safety measures due to technological advance; business and finance; plus public reaction and tourism. The aim is to establish the significance of the steamship as a conduit of modernisation and societal change. It consists of a foreword, introduction, and fourteen chapters devoted to specific themes, structured to ensure each chapters build on the preceding chapter’s progress. Collectively, they demonstrate that the development of both experience and enterprise with steam power both gained and refined during this period made the mid-century expansion of steamship technology across Britain possible. Ultimately, it establishes that steamship services began to adapt to oceanic routes, steam began to integrate into the world economy, and the age of sail began to draw to a close.

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Liverpool University Press

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1786948885

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Y Cwtta Cyfarwydd; "The Chronicle Written by the Famous Clarke, Peter Roberts," Notary Public, for the Years 1607-1646

By: David Richard Thomas

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Y Cwtta Cyfarwydd; "The Chronicle Written by the Famous Clarke, Peter Roberts," Notary Public, for the Years 1607-1646

By: David Richard Thomas

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385341957

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9783385341951

Writing Geographical Exploration

James and the Northwest Passage, 1631-33

By: Wayne Kenneth David Davies,Arctic Institute of North America

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Writing Geographical Exploration

James and the Northwest Passage, 1631-33

By: Wayne Kenneth David Davies,Arctic Institute of North America

His tale of adventure should occupy a more prominent place in the study of exploration, literature and history, not only in Canada, but also in his homeland of Wales."--Jacket.

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University of Calgary Press

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1552380629

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9781552380628

Movable Types

Roving Creative Printers of the Victorian World

By: David Finkelstein

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Movable Types

Roving Creative Printers of the Victorian World

By: David Finkelstein

This is a study of international print networks developed across the English-speaking world over a significant part of the long nineteenth century. The first study of its kind, it draws on unique sources from Australasia, North America, South Africa, the British Isles, and Ireland, to explore how printers interacted and shared trade and cultural identities across international boundaries during the period 1830-1914. Morality, mobility, mobilisation, and solidarity were central to how compositors and print trade workers defined themselves during this period. These themes are addressed in case studies on roving printers, striking printers, and creative printers. The case studies explore the cultural values and trade skills transmitted and embedded by such actors, the global networks that enabled print workers to travel across continents in search of work and experience, the trade actions reliant on mobilization and information-sharing across the printing world, and the creative ideas that printers shared through such means as memoirs, poetry, prose, and trade news contributions to print trade journals and other public outlets.

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207

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Oxford University Press

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0192560476

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9780192560476

Bangor University 1884-2009

By: David Roberts

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Bangor University 1884-2009

By: David Roberts

This book relates to one of Wales's most important institutions of higher education, covering its history from its creation in 1884 as the University College of North Wales, its incarnation as the University of Wales, Bangor and to its 125th anniversary in 2009. The book traces the institution's origins as an 18th century coaching inn with just 58 students to its current status as an institution enjoying multi-million pound investment in staff and buildings in the twenty-first century. The story is one of heroic struggle, personal endeavour, financial crises, political unrest, academic distinction and student devotion. This account traces the growth and development of the institution, focusing on the personalities who shaped its direction and the changing nature of student life on the campus. The underlying theme of the book is academic progress, placed within the context of Welsh political, social and economic development during the last century, and also covers the first few years of the twenty-first.

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University of Wales Press

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0708322808

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9780708322802

From Ship's Cook to Baronet

Sir William Reardon Smith's Life in Shipping, 1856-1935

By: David Jenkins

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From Ship's Cook to Baronet

Sir William Reardon Smith's Life in Shipping, 1856-1935

By: David Jenkins

Sir William Reardon Smith (1856-1935) was one of the foremost figures in south Wales in the early twentieth century. His was a classic story of ‘rags to riches’ - starting life as a deck-hand and ship’s cook sailing from his native Appledore in 1870, he was a master mariner at the age of twenty-two and subsequently commanded many of the fine sailing ships owned by Hugh Hogarth & Sons of Glasgow. A long-cherished ambition to become a shipowner was eventually realised in 1906 when he acquired his first steamship, City of Cardiff. The venture prospered and nine vessels were owned on the eve of the First World War. He subsequently showed great entrepreneurial initiative during the depression, acquiring motor vessels and establishing new trade routes. He is also remembered as a great philanthropist, particularly through his association with the National Museum of Wales – during his term as treasurer (1925-28) and president (1928-32), he restored the museum’s faltering finances and enabled the construction of the it’s east wing which is now so integral a part of Cardiff’s dignified civic centre. His establishment of the Reardon Smith Nautical School in Cardiff in 1921 was another notable achievement; this school provided an opportunity for aspiring deck officers to learn the essential skills appropriate to their chosen careers. He also funded hospital developments in Cardiff and Bideford, and endowed the chair of geography at Exeter University. At the time of his death in December 1935, fulsome tributes were paid to him both by his fellow shipowners and by the principals of those organisations which had benefitted from his generosity; many of those who live in south Wales and the West country today still enjoy that legacy

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University of Wales Press

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1783162570

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9781783162574

Secret Sins

Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920

By: David Russell Davies

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Secret Sins

Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920

By: David Russell Davies

Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, ‘Secret Sins’. Behind the facade of idyllic rural life, there was a twilight world of mental illness, suicide, crime, vicious assaults, infanticide, cruelty and other assorted acts of depravity. This almost anecdotal historical study is often funny, sometimes disturbing, always revealing.

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University of Wales Press

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1783165456

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9781783165452

Epoch and Artist

By: David Jones

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Epoch and Artist

By: David Jones

Written between the late 1930s and the late 1950s, Epoch and Artist represents those essays that David Jones wished to see preserved in his lifetime.Beginning with his most personal reflections upon Welsh culture, the selection turns next to Jones's thoughts on the position of art and the artist in the twentieth-century, concluding with writings on the nature of epoch and European culture and history.

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Faber & Faber

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0571309321

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9780571309320

The Heart of Robin Hood

By: David Farr

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The Heart of Robin Hood

By: David Farr

The notorious Robin Hood and his band of outlaws steal from the rich, creating a fearsome reputation amongst those who dare to travel through the mighty forest of Sherwood. But they do not share their spoils with the poor and are unloved by the people, who must also pay unfair taxes to the evil Prince John as he plots to steal his brother's crown. In this time of chaos and fear, it is down to Marion to boldly protect the poor and convince Robin that he must listen to his heart if they are to save the country. The Heart of Robin Hood, David Farr's spirited new version of the great English legend, was premiered by the RSC at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon in November 2011.

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057128356X

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9780571283569

Shaping the Wild

Wisdom from a Welsh Hill Farm

By: David Elias

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Shaping the Wild

Wisdom from a Welsh Hill Farm

By: David Elias

What can one Welsh hill farm tell us about how we can help nature thrive? In this captivating debut, conservationist David Elias explores one a hill farm in Snowdonia National Park and what it can show us about the realities of farming and looking after nature in this environment. As he visits throughout the seasons, he forms a deep relationship with the land and the people who have worked upon it, discovering their history and traditions, current lifestyle and thoughts on their future. He also explores the many farm’s many habitats and the wildlife that can be found upon them and shows how this has been influenced by changing farming practices over the generations. Through lyrical prose and first-hand conversations with farmers, Elias also shows what current policies have achieved – and not achieved – and why it’s so important that we get a better understanding of the realities and challenges of farming if we are to truly going to reconcile this vital industry while also looking after nature.

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University of Wales Press

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1915279372

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The Politics of Deforestation and REDD+ in Indonesia

Global Climate Change Mitigation

By: David Aled Williams

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The Politics of Deforestation and REDD+ in Indonesia

Global Climate Change Mitigation

By: David Aled Williams

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1000891135

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Age of Promises

Electoral Pledges in Twentieth Century Britain

By: David Thackeray,Richard Toye

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Age of Promises

Electoral Pledges in Twentieth Century Britain

By: David Thackeray,Richard Toye

Age of Promises explores the issue of electoral promises in twentieth century Britain - how they were made, how they were understood, and how they evolved across time - through a study of general election manifestos and election addresses. The authors argue that a history of the act of making promises - which is central to the political process, but which has not been sufficiently analysed - illuminates the development of political communication and democratic representation. The twentieth century saw a broad shift away from politics viewed as a discursive process whereby, at elections, it was enough to set out broad principles, with detailed policymaking to follow once in office following reflection and discussion. Over the first part of the century parties increasingly felt required to compile lists of specific policies to offer to voters, which they were then considered to have an obligation to carry out come what may. From 1945 onwards, moreover, there was even more focus on detailed, costed, pledges. We live in an age of growing uncertainty over the authority and status of political promises. In the wake of the 2016 EU referendum controversy erupted over parliamentary sovereignty. Should 'the will of the people' as manifested in the referendum result be supreme, or did MPs owe a primary responsibility to their constituents and/or to the party manifestos on which they had been elected? Age of Promises demonstrates that these debates build on a long history of differing understandings about what status of manifestos and addresses should have in shaping the actions of government.

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Oxford University Press

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0192580957

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