A comparative history of social responses to climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain / / the Social Learning Group

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910957855503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2001
• ISBN: 9786612100321; 9780262308670; 0262308673; 9781282100329; 1282100327; 9780262284011; 0262284014; 9780585387628; 0585387621
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (403 p.)
• Collana: Politics, science, and the environment; Learning to manage global environmental risks ; ; v. 1
• Disciplina: 363.7/05
• Soggetti: Environmental policy; Environmental management; Global environmental change
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: v. 1. A comparative history of social responses to climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain -- v. 2. A functional analysis of social responses to climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain.; 1. Overview -- 2. Studies of arenas.
• Sommario/riassunto: This long-awaited two-volume book examines how the interplay of ideas and actions applied to environmental problems has laid the foundations for global environmental management. It looks at how ideas, interests, and institutions affect management practice; how management capabilities in other areas affect the ability to deal with specific environmental issues; and how learning affects society's approach to the global environment.The book focuses on efforts to ; deal with climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain from 1957 (The International Geophysical Year) through 1992 (the UN Conference on Environment and Development). The settings include Canada, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, the former Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and international environmental organizations. Topics include problem framing, agenda setting, issue attention, risk assessment, monitoring, option assessment, goal and strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation. Volume 1 provides an overview of the project, of global environmental management in general, and of the three central environmental issues studied; it also contains the individual country studies. Volume 2 contains the management function studies and the book's conclusion.Authors in the set includeJeannine Cavender-Bares, William C. Clark, Ellis Cowling, Nancy M. Dickson, Gerda Dinkelman, Rodney Dobell, Renate Ell, Adam Fenech, Alexander Ginzburg, Elena Goncharova, Peter Haas, Eva Hizsnyik, Michael Huber, Peter Hughes, Jill Jager, Marc Levy, Angela Liberatore, Diana Liverman, Justin Longo, David McCabe, Donald Munton, Elena Nikitina, Karen O'Brien, Edward Parson, Vladimir Pisarev, Ruud Pleune, Miranda Schreurs, Simon Shackley, Peter Simmons, Heather Smith, Vassily Sokolov, Ferenc L. Toth, Jeroen van der Sluijs, Josee van Eijndhoven, Claire Waterton, Cor Worrell, and Brian Wynne.More information is available from the SLG web site.

Kwame Nkrumah's contribution to Pan-Africanism : an Afrocentric analysis / / D. Zizwe Poe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910958391203321
• Autore: Poe D. Zizwe (Daryl Zizwe), <1954->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, 2003
• ISBN: 1-135-94067-3; 1-138-09266-5; 1-135-94068-1; 1-280-09583-0; 0-203-50537-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (197 p.)
• Collana: African studies : history, politics, economics, and culture
• Disciplina: 341.24/9
• Soggetti: African cooperation; Pan-Africanism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Fornt Cover; Kwame Nkrumah's Contribution to Pan-Africanism: An Afrocentric Analysis; Copyright Page; Contents; 1. Introduction; A Presentation of Key Terms; Africology and 'Africalogy'; African Centered; AfricanLiberation Movement (ALM); Pan-African Nationalist Movement (PANM) and the African Unity Movement (AUM); African Personality; Collectivist African Personality; Composite African; Pan-Africanism; Philosophical Consciencism; Centrism; Object-Subject; Traditional Rulers; 2. Method to Examine Nkrumah's Contribution to Pan-African Agency; Afrocentricity; A Synthetic Afrocentric Paradigm; Individual and Organizational Agency in the Intellectual and Social LandscapePsychological, Political, and Philosophical Location; Historicity and Hermeneutics; Critique and Delinking; Denunciation of Hegemony; Assertion of an African Culture, Personality, and Genius; 3. The Basisof Nkrumah's Contribution; Custom Locatives; Primary Source Data-nkrumah; Nkrumah's Speeches; Nkrumah and the Pan-African Centered Perspective; Nkrumah's Written Works; Autobiographical Works; Nkrumah's Theoretical Works; Testimonial of Key African Revolutionists; Secondary Sources; Comrade-Authors; Tertiary Sources; Pan-African HistoriographyBiographers; 4. The Pan-african Nationalistic Trend in African Culture: An Afrocentric Presentation; The Pan-African Centered Perspective; Definitions and Typology; The Problem of Eurocentric Hegemony and African Phenomenon; Pan-Africanism as a Racial Concept; African Centered Version of Pan-Africanism; Pan-Africanism's Typology (Revolutionary versus Retrogressive); An Afrocentric Perspective to Understand Pan-African Development; Historical Origins of Pan-Africanism; Opposition to Pan-Africanism During the Modern Era; Conclusion; 5. Major Tributary Events That Influenced Nkrumah's Pan-African AgencyPeriodization of Pan-African Nationalism; 'Liberty' and 'Unity' as Pan-African Themes; Abyssinia: A Pan-African Nationalist Symbol of a Liberated Zone; The Liberated Ghanaian State and Pan-African Nationalism; Conclusion; 6. Nkrumah and the Pan-African Movement 1945-1966; Part 1: Pan-African Conference to Leader of Gold Coast Government 1945-1951; Nkrumah and the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress; West African National Secretariat; The Circle; Organization of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC); Organization of the Convention People's Party (CPP)The Accra Evening News and Other Publications; Pan-African Agency in the Gold Coast Colony; Part 2: From Leader of Gold Coast Governmentto Leader of Pan-African Liberated Zone 1951-1956; Global Reconnections and the Push for West African Unity; The Opposition; Part 3: From Leader of Pan-African Liberated Zone to Founder of Pan-African Nationalism 1957-1966; Ghana Becomes Independent and Nkrumah Declares Pan-African Policy; Conference of Independent African States (CIAS); Nkrumah's Trip A broad; Ghana-Guinea Union (G-GU); The All-African People's Conference (AAPC)
• Sommario/riassunto: Analyses contributions made by Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) to the development of the Pan-African agency from the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester to the military coup d'etat of Nkrumah's government in February 1966.