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"It's no secret that our country has a serious problem when it comes to wealth inequality - and systemic racism and patriarchy have only exacerbated the advantages of wealthy white men. Over the past three decades, America's richest white men have only become richer, while those suffering in poverty have only gotten poorer. The divide may seem too great to bridge, but Rich White Men exposes the hidden and insidious ways that white male elites inherit, increase, and preserve their status-and, in this book, we get clear on how to uproot their monopoly on power. Serial nonprofit entrepreneur Garrett Neiman's day job is to get rich white men to donate money to good causes and organizations. In Rich White Men, Neiman brings us into corner offices of billionaires and the boardrooms of Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Stanford, Harvard, and other enclaves of silver-spooned white men to illuminate the role of rich white men in the world and how they justify inequality. He uses the analogy of compound interest to illustrate how the advantages wealthy white men inherit give them a leg up at key moments in their lives, gilding their trajectories and shutting others out. Through this rare, insider access, readers will discover new ways to persuade the elite toward progressive solutions. A hopeful polemic, the book sheds light on dark truths about inequality and the people invested in preserving it while also providing a blueprint for how America can become an equitable democracy. Rich White Men reveals that to realize America's founding aspiration of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, we must recognize, dismantle, and transform our current system into one that liberates us all - including this nation's morally and spiritually impoverished wealthy white men"-- Provided by publisher.

• Communism's unintended consequences: an introduction
• The Soviet bloc, part one: 1944-1956
• The Soviet bloc, part two: 1956-1980
• The Soviet bloc, part three: 1980-1989
• Socialist mavericks: Yugoslavia and Albania, 1943-1991
• Epitaph.

"The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote socialist ideals. Instead, they never succeeded in filling more than a third of their legislatures with women and were unable to make significant headway against entrenched patriarchal views; they considered it necessary (with the sole exception of Albania) to rely heavily on credits to build up their economies, eventually driving them into bankruptcy; and the effort to instrumentalize the arts ran aground in most of the region already by 1956, and, in Yugoslavia, by 1949. Communism was all about planning, control, and politicization. Except for Yugoslavia after 1949, the communists sought to plan and control not only politics and the economy, but also the media and information, religious organizations, culture, and the promotion of women, which they understood in the first place as involving putting women to work. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Robert K. Merton on functionalist theory, this book shows how communist policies were repeatedly undermined by unintended consequences and outright dysfunctions"-- Provided by publisher.

"Framed in the political economy, the book reveals the role of the Chinese state in the country's development in S&T and innovation. It appeals to scholars of business and management, innovation, and contemporary China studies as well as policymakers of emerging economies, executives interested in doing business in China"-- Provided by publisher.

• Famine and social memory
• The role of witness literature in preserving social memory
• The role of "prophecy" in preserving social memory
• The role of rituals in preserving social memory.

"Severe famine entered ancient Egyptian collective memory via personal reflection, literature, prophecy, and, most effectively, a ludic "festival of remembrance." This Element is about the creation and curation of social memory in pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt"-- Provided by publisher.

Digital Capabilities is a first-of-its-kind exploration of the capabilities that communities in positions of inequality in Israel and the West Bank seek to realize by utilizing information and communication technologies (ICT), the opportunities they have to communicate, and the way ICTs serve their desire to do so. It is the outcome of an eight-year research project in which the nine authors of this book, some of whom came from within the studied communities, conducted their work among the studied populations over an extended period of time. The capabilities approach, much discussed theoretically, takes on a life in this project and is presented as an empirically observable phenomenon for assessing whether ICTs are serving actual needs, whether communication resources are justly allocated and distributed and whether they serve the goal of a universally accessible right to communicate.

• Part A: Alternative Futures Analysis
• Chapter 1. Setting the Scenery: Factors Affecting the Future
• Chapter 2. Building Scenarios: the Four Economic Scenarios for Greek Alternative Economic Futures
• Chapter 3. Scenarios and Contextual Factors: Addressing the Implications.-Part B: The Past and the Present of the Greek economy. Chapter 4. Sustainable Development
• Chapter 5. Sustainable Governance
• Chapter 6. Inclusive Growth
• Chapter 7. Cultural Change and Development and Growth
• Chapter 8. The Dynamism of the Economy
• Part C: Alternative Futures for Greece: The Five Scenarios under the Five Pillars of Economic Development. Chapter 9. Alternative Economic Futures and Sustainable Development
• Chapter 10. Sustainable Governance and Alternative Economic Futures
• Chapter 11. The Impact of Alternative Economic Futures on Inclusive Growth
• Chapter 12. Cultural Change and Alternative Futures
• Chapter 13. The Dynamism of the Economy and the Alternative Futures.

This book introduces the Political Economy of Alternative Economic Futures for the Greek economy up to 2035. The analysis is not restricted to the presentation of a series of forecasts but aims to develop a comprehensive framework for Greeces future. The analysis covers five realms regarding alternative economic futures, which outline the political economy of Greece: sustainable development; sustainable governance; inclusive growth; evolution of human behaviors; and dynamic growth. A growth, an unsustainable growth, a transformation, and a falldown scenario are generated based on the severity of key-uncertainty factors' effects. Panagiotis E. Petrakis is the professor emeritus in the Department of Economics at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece. He is the scientific coordinator of Distance Education Training Programs at the NKUA. He is the author of numerous monographs and has extensive publications in recognized academic journals on economic development, entrepreneurship, and cultural background. Pantelis C. Kostis is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics at the NKUA and a teaching staff at the Hellenic Open University, Greece. His research has been published in distinguished international academic journals including the Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Business Research, and Economic Modelling. He is also the co-author of several books regarding economic development and growth. Kyriaki I. Kafka is an adjunct lecturer of Economics at the Department of Economics at the NKUA, Greece. She has published books and articles in distinguished academic journals including the Journal of Comparative Economics, the Journal of Business Research, and the Journal of Innovation and Knowledge. Her research interests include economic development and growth, economic policy, economic shocks and uncertainty, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Anna-Maria Kanzola is a researcher in the Department of Economics at NKUA, Greece. She holds a B.Sc. degree with honors (9/10) in Economics from NKUA. Currently, she is working toward her M.Sc. at NKUA, in applied economics and finance. She works as a graduate research assistant at NKUA. She is mainly interested in microeconomics, macroeconomics, international economics, sociology, and anthropology.

• Prologue
• The golden child
• Wide awake
• The bet
• LinkExchange
• Raving
• The shoe guy
• The trifecta
• Delivering happiness
• The new project
• The desert tech utopia --Life is beautiful --The Darwinian perspective
• Andy
• Trouble in paradise
• "The mayor of downtown Las Vegas"
• The island
• The trailer park
• The right hand
• Genie in a bottle
• Winter camp
• Flow state
• The Gordian knot
• Sticky notes
• Old friends and new
• Who will save your soul?
• On the edge of the ether-world
• Blizzy
• Thanksgiving
• The aftermath
• Epilogue.

"Tony Hsieh revolutionized both the tech world and corporate culture. He was a business visionary. He was also a man in search of happiness. So why did it all go so wrong? Tony Hsieh's first successful venture was in middle school, selling personalized buttons. At Harvard, he made a profit compiling and selling study guides. From there, he went on to build the billion-dollar online shoe empire of Zappos. The secret to his success? Making his employees happy. At its peak, Zappos's employee-friendly culture was so famous across the tech industry that it inspired copycats and earned a cult following. Then Hsieh moved the Zappos headquarters to Las Vegas, where he personally funded a nine-figure campaign to revitalize the city's historic downtown area. But as Hsieh fell deeper into his struggles with mental health and drug addiction, the people making up his inner circle began changing from friends to enablers. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with a wide range of people whose lives Hsieh touched, journalists Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans craft a rich portrait of a man who was plagued by his eternal search for happiness and ultimately succumbed to his own demons"--Dust jacket flap.

• Introduction
• States and development across borders
• Trends in global health financing and governance
• UK, France and development finance institutions
• Japan, South Korea and national development banks
• Singapore, Malaysia and sovereign wealth funds
• Conclusions.

"Organizing Nature explores how the environment is organized in Canada's resource-dependent economy. The book examines how particular ecosystem components come to be understood as natural resources and how these resources in turn are used to organize life in Canada. In tracing transitions from "ecosystem component" to "resource," this book weaves together the roles that commodification, Indigenous dispossession, and especially a false nature-society binary play in facilitating the conceptual and material construction of resources. Alice Cohen and Andrew Biro present an alternative to this false nature-society binary: one that sees Canadians and their environments in a constant process of making and remaking each other. Through a series of case studies focused on specific resources--fish, forests, carbon, water, land, and life--the book explores six channels through which this remaking occurs: governments, communities, built environments, culture and ideas, economies, and bodies and identities. Ultimately, Organizing Nature encourages readers to think critically about what is at stake when Canadians (re)produce myths about the false separation between Canadian peoples and their environments."-- Provided by publisher.

• Prologue
• Maria Eugenia Ortuño Pérez ; Luxonomics, a proxy for Roman studies
• Lluís Pons Pujol, Jordi Pérez González ; Los oficios del lujo: el discurso de Megadoro en Plauto, Aulularia 3.5.50
• Alejandra Guzmán Almagro, Diana Gorostidi Pi ; Lúculo y la luxuria. Una nota a Plut. Luc. 38, 5-42, 2
• Luis Amela Valverde ; Quelques exemples du Luxe dans la ville maurétano-romaine en Tingitane
• Sanaa Hassab ; La morte ti fa bella. Urne a vaso di alabastro (calcareo) e il lusso funerario in tombe femminili della prima età imperiale
• Simona Perna ; I corinthiarii di Roma: una produzione metallica di lusso
• Gian Luca Gregori, Letizia Rustico ; Intrecci di lusso nella Roma imperiale: i professionisti dell'ars plumaria
• Laura Parisini ; A luxe for the ears. Roman earrings in Augusta Emerita (Mérida) and the province of Lusitania
• Nova Barrero Martín ; Pearls, beryls, and priestesses in the Latin West: pearls and gems as symbols of female power and devotion, as well as impiety and irreverence
• Albert Sabaté Morales ; Representaciones de luxuria privata en los mosaicos de opus tessellatum en época imperial
• Luz Neira Jiménez ; Mármol y discursos literarios contra el lujo: el caso de los revestimientos
• Irene Mañas Romero ; Space and consumption: luxury in Hadrian's Villa
• Rosario Rovira Guardiola ; El jardín romano y el estatus social, una simbiosis indisoluble
• Chiara Romano ; El mobiliario doméstico en bronce de la casa romana. Lujo y practicidad
• Rocío Manuela Cuadra Rubio ; Presenze femminili tra gli operatori del lusso: le testimonianze epigrafiche
• Alfredo Buonopane ; "Cupiditas artificii, non argenti". L'arte dei caelatores in Roma tra epigrafia e letteratura
• Giovanna Di Giacomo ; Indumenta vetita. Sentido y alcance de las disposiciones restrictivas de la indumentaria suntuaria en la Roma imperial
• F. Javier Casinos Mora ; La crítica al lujo en la Historia Augusta
• Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez ; Riqueza y ostentación eclesiásticas en la Roma tardoantigua
• Pere Maymó i Capdevila ; Lujo o casos excepcionales? Longovicium (Lanchester, Durham) y sus tábulas ansatas de oro
• David Martínez-Chico ; Vinum Mulsum. La recuperación experimental del vino romano más exclusive
• Antonio Aguilera Martín, Miquel Sunyer Sunyer, Josep Maria Vaquer Llop, Juana Gómez Sánchez.

De luxuria propagata romana aetate. Roman luxury in its many forms focuses on luxonomics, or the economy of luxury in Roman times, and how its study is an element that is essential to understanding the history of the period. This volume brings together the contributions of leading experts in the study of luxury to present the full range of perspectives on the production and consumption of luxury items and, moreover, from the variety of approaches offered by Ancient History. The book is organised in chronological order, and the evolution of the luxury economy is divided into areas of consumption, production, and criticism. The analytical focus on the interaction between the notions of need and desire suggests that the historical development of luxury and business in Rome can be divided into five categories: houses, clothing, jewellery, food, and leisure.

• Introduction
• Exporting capitalism : the origins of the Chicago boys
• The Chicago Boys in the ivory tower
• Salvador Allende's thousand days of socialism and the Chicago Boys, 1970-1973
• Augusto Pinochet's coup and the Chicago Boys' reform program
• Milton Friedman's 1975 visit and the shock treatment
• Market reforms and the struggle for power, 1975-1981
• The birth of a neoliberal Regime : the seven modernizations and the new constitution
• Milton Friedman and the currency crisis of 1982
• The second round of reforms, 1983-1990 : pragmatic neoliberalism
• The return of democracy and inclusive neoliberalism
• Staying neoliberal
• Grievances, abuses, complaints, and protests
• The distributive struggle
• Broken promises : pensions and the revolt
• The constitutional convention and the election of Gabriel Boric
• The end of neoliberalism?

"After a modest increase in Metro fares in Santiago, Chile, last October, twenty Metro stations were simultaneously set on fire. The fare increase was the tipping point of years of social malaise. Days later there were more than a million protesters on the streets. The people of Chile were rejecting low pensions, highway tolls, school segregation, low-quality education, and poor public-health services-the result of decades of neoliberalism. Chile was the prototype for neoliberal policies, first set up under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet with the first-hand guidance of economists from the University of Chicago. Under neoliberalism Chile was long seen as an exemplary developing economy, and a testament to the power of privatization and free trade. But all was not well. Sebastian Edwards tells the story of how Chile went from being the posterchild of market-oriented reforms and capitalist modernization to a nation rocked by violence and political upheaval. He narrates the origins of neoliberalism and the role of the "Chicago boys" in designing and implementing these reforms. He explains the tension between poverty reduction and income inequality, which led to seething discontent under the surface of strong economic numbers. The book tells the story of the signature policies first enacted in Chile that came to define the neoliberal way more broadly: the replacement of a traditional pension system with a privately managed system of individual savings accounts, openness and globalization, the fiscal rule, the taming of inflation, and austere health, education, and environmental policies. As Chile now sets out to draft a new constitution, and other countries come to terms with the same set of policies, all under the looming specter of reactionary populism, the book is an authoritative and important assessment of the success of neoliberalism at a pivotal moment in its history"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction. Locating supply-side liberalism
• Part I. Building liberalism's supply side
• Part II. Liberalism's limits
• Part III. Reinventing Government
• Epilogue: The new Democrats and the idea of the state.

"In Illusions of Progress, Brent Cebul traces the rise of what he terms "supply side liberalism," a powerful and enduring orientation toward politics and the economy, race and poverty, that united local chambers of commerce, liberal policymakers and economists, and urban and rural economic planners. Beginning in the late 1930s, New Dealers tied expansive aspirations for social and, later, racial progress to a variety of economic development initiatives. In communities across the country, otherwise conservative business elites administered liberal public works, urban redevelopment, and housing programs. But by binding national visions of progress to the local interests of capital, liberals often entrenched the very inequalities of power and opportunity they imagined their programs solving. When President Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty-which prioritized direct partnerships with poor and racially marginalized citizens-businesspeople, Republicans, and soon, a rising generation of New Democrats sought to rein in its seeming excesses by reinventing and redeploying many of the policy tools and commitments pioneered on liberalism's supply side: public private partnerships, market-oriented solutions, fiscal "realism," and, above all, subsidies for business-led growth now promised to blunt, and perhaps ultimately replace, programs for poor and marginalized Americans. In this wide-ranging book, Brent Cebul illuminates the often-overlooked structures of governance, markets, and public debt through which America's warring political ideologies have been expressed and transformed. From Washington, D.C. to the declining Rustbelt and emerging Sunbelt and back again,Illusions of Progress reveals the centrality of public and private forms of profit that have defined the enduring boundaries of American politics, opportunity, and inequality-in an era of liberal ascendence and an age of neoliberal retrenchment"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• The rise of China's authoritarian economic statecraft
• The global rush for masks
• Dual-function strategy and China's core interests
• Spies and sister cities
• Zooming in
• The WHO and the Party man
• China adopts Russia's disinformation playbook
• "Chewing gum stuck to the bottom of China's shoe"
• Hong Kong outlaws global activism
• China vaccinates the world
• Building a democratic economic statecraft.

"Beijing Rules is a superb expose which reveals how China learned to master capitalism which it now wields in its own authoritarian form to achieve global dominance. As Bethany Allen, the China reporter for Axios, reveals, the long-standing belief that free-trade capitalism is a democratizing force--the assumption underlying much of American and Western policy since World War II--is demonstrably false. Capitalism is actually a two-way street: if democratic values can travel in one direction, authoritarianism can travel in the other. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has successfully engineered what Cold War champions believed to be impossible: an unabashedly Communist Party leading a prosperous capitalist state. Written by the first American journalist to expose covert Chinese influence operations in the United States, Beijing Rules includes headline-making stories of western institutions bowing to Beijing's coercion--a glimpse of what American's future might look like should liberal democracy come firmly under the thumb of authoritarian capitalism. Grounded in deep investigative reporting, it sounds the alarm about what we must do to prevent the loss of freedoms we now take for granted"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. The Development of Irish Mass Media, Advertising, and Consumer Culture
• 2. The Advertising Industry and the Irish Nation State
• 3. Home Ownership and Consumer Culture in Ireland
• 4. Irish Housewives, Consumption, and Advertising
• 5. Advertising and Public Space in Dublin
• 6. Advertising and Sponsored Programming on Irish Radio
• 7. Christmas Abundance and War-Time Scarcities in Irish Consumer Culture.

Study conducted in Sonitpur and Lakhimpur Districts, Assam, India.

• Socialism is the solution, not the problem. A solidary and socially responsible formula for a prosperous economy / Enrique Gómez Cabezas
• Now more than ever, a social and solidary economy is necessary to build socialism in Cuba / Rafael J. Betancourt
• The social and solidarity economy : integrating bases, experiences and possible projections for socialist development in Cuba / Ovidio D'Angelo Hernández
• The foundations of popular and solidarity economics as fulfillment of the social property of all people in the socialist transition / Luis del Castillo Sánchez
• Participatory budgeting : a management tool for local development in Cuba, seen from the experiences of the office of the historian of the City of Havana / Orestes J. Díaz Legón and Maidolys Iglesias Pérez
• The inclusion of vulnerable groups as subjects of development : proposals from the viewpoint of the solidarity economy / Geydis Fundora Nevot and Reynaldo Miguel Jiménez Guethón
• Population, value chains, and social and solidarity economy : epistemological alignments / Dianné Griñan Bergara
• Do public-private partnerships have room in the present Cuban context? Notes from a practical experience / Mirlena Rojas Piedrahita
• Business social responsibility of the state enterprise : the experience of the center of molecular immunology / Jusmary Gómez Arencibia and Mirlena Rojas Piedrahita
• Cooperatives in the restarted reforms : some proposals for a law of cooperatives / Camila Piñeiro Harnecker
• The cooperative as an energizing agent of the social and solidarity economy model in Cuba / Yamira Mirabal González and Iriadna Marín de León
• Participation in the strategies and social management of non-agricultural cooperatives in Centro Habana municipality / Francisco Damián Morillas Valdés
• Committing to cooperative solidarity labor : the Taxi Rutero 2 experience / Mirell Pérez González
• Cooperative social balance : a useful tool to establish a social and solidarity economy / Oscar Llanes Guerra, Mercedes Zenea Montejo, Annia Martínez Massip, and Lienny García Pedraza
• Gender perspective viewed from the model of social balance in agricultural cooperatives in Villa Clara / Annia Martínez Massip, Lienny García Pedraza, Oscar Llanes Guerra, Mercedes Zenea Montejo, Lázaro Julio Leiva Hoyo, Anelys Pérez Rodríguez, Elianys de la Caridad Zorio González.

"Social and Solidarity Economy in Cuba examines the role of Social and Solidarity Economics (SSE) amidst national change in Cuba. Depicting both challenges and opportunities, this book makes a strong and sustained case for solidary and socially responsible practices in Cuba"-- Provided by publisher.

"This report considers socioeconomic data emanating mostly from the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) report of 2016 and others up to 2019 ... The present report represents another milestone in the country's developmental trajectory. It signals a path whereby the Government of Liberia, in collaboration with its development partners, can collectively work together and through a synergistic approach reduce the gaps identified in our generational economy concerning age structure, gender and population growth. The challenges faced by private and public consumption expenditure in the critical areas of education, health and other services represent a potential threat to the nation's ability to reap the benefits of the demographic dividend and scale up inclusive growth going forward."--Publisher.

"Currently, works on poverty constitute only a small part of contemporary economic research; however, the field of poverty and deprivation is undoubtedly one rising in popularity and relevance. Encompassing chapters that address both unidimensional and multidimensional poverty, this timely Research Handbook explores all aspects of poverty and deprivation measurement, not only detailing broad issues but also scrutinising specific domains and aspects of poverty, such as health, energy and housing. Succinct and highly focused, it brings together a diverse range of authors to employ a combination of theoretical and empirical methodologies to offer well-rounded explorations of complex topics. Expansive in scope, the Research Handbook includes case studies that examine poverty across the globe, with a particular focus on covering Africa, China, India and Latin America, producing a comprehensive, rigorous and interdisciplinary resource. The Research Handbook will be an invaluable resource for not only economics researchers and graduate students but also policy makers dealing with issues related to poverty and deprivation. Chapters are designed to provide the reader with foundational knowledge of a topic that they can subsequently deepen by exploring the cited literature"-- Provided by publisher.

"The consequences of current experiments in socio-economic global transformation are not favourable for Russia. At the same time, the optimum development trajectory of the country has not been clearly delineated by either theorists or practitioners either in political or socio-economic terms. The paradigm of the market economy has become outdated and is now an object of exploitation by global transnational corporations. There is a need for interdisciplinary consolidation, which can become the basis for understanding the role of the political and economic components of knowledge about the economy and society, the necessity and possibility for its improvement, and its application for the benefit of the country and the world, not excluding departure from obsolete stereotypes while maintaining the basic principles of logic and morality. It is time to redirect the apparatus of economic science to achieve real national and global welfare by eliminating irrational practices characteristic of both government intervention and private entrepreneurship, aimed at the realization of bureaucratic and oligarchic interests"-- Provided by publisher

• The colono: the territory, the future of labor and the subject of production
• The artisan: industrialization, labor, and the modernization of customs
• The vagrant: vagrancy, police, and the opacity of the social

"Mexico, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence, 1821-1867 investigates the fate of these economic hopes during the difficult decades between the year of the country's definite separation from Spain and the year of the defeat of the French occupation and the restoration of the Republic, which many took to be the second and final independence of the territory"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: The Sustainability Challenges of Brazilian Agriculture
• Part I The International Dimension of Sustainability
• The Shanghai Connection: Governing the Sustainability Impacts of Brazilian Agri-exports to China
• Sustainability Governance of Soybean Trade Between Brazil and Europe: The Road Travelled and the Challenges Ahead
• Brazilian Agriculture and the International Political Economy of Climate Change
• Brazilian Agriculture and the Global Environmental Agenda
• Carbon Markets and the Financing of Forestry, Agricultural, and Livestock Activities
• Part II Technical Challenges and Innovation
• Effects of Land Use Changes on Soil Biodiversity Conservation
• The Brazilian Way of Farming: Potential and Challenges to Agricultural Decarbonization
• Crop-Livestock-Forest Integration Systems as a Sustainable Production Strategy in Brazil
• Land Sparing and Sustainable Intensification within the Livestock Sector
• Green Digitalization? Agriculture 4.0 and Slow Environmental Governance in Brazil
• Part III The Challenge of Inclusion
• The (Un)Feasibility of Inclusive Rural Development in Brazil
• Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Brazilian Agriculture: Constraints and Opportunities to Sustainability
• Bioeconomy: Brazilian Potential and Challenges
• Part IV Public Governance
• The Brazilian Forest Code: The Challenges of Legal Implementation
• Brazilian Biofuel Governance: The Case of Brazilian Ethanol and Renovabio
• Land Governance: Getting the Incentives Right
• Part V: Private Governance
• Jurisdictional and Landscapes Approaches to Sustainability: Principles and Experiences from the Field in Brazil
• Tracing and Monitoring to Achieve Deforestation-Free Supply Chains in Brazil
• Private governance: Multistakeholder Initiatives and Moratoriums

With contributions from a wide range of thematic areas, this book provides a diverse perspective on the contemporary environmental challenges of Brazilian agriculture. Assessing existing experiences of governance interventions, implementation of inclusive and sustainable production practices, as well as technical innovations, this edited volume presents the reader with a nuanced perspective on sustainable future pathways for Brazilian agriculture. In many cases, actors within the agricultural sector stand in a key position to address environmental concerns, which often has generated important breakthroughs and improvement of production practices. Drawing on contributions from authors within a variety of fields, this contribution presents a trans-disciplinary perspective on the problems and pathways through which multi-level interventions can lead to sustainable solutions within the Brazilian agricultural and livestock sector. This book hereby constitutes an informed and timely contribution to the important debates about Brazils potential role in confronting environmental problems. More broadly, this volume also sheds light on the process of agricultural transitions in the Global South, and how food security concerns may be reconciled with sustainable production