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This edited collection chronicles the public policy responses to climate change and current and potential impacts that will affect critical and priority sectors within and across African countries now and in the coming decades. Contributions cover governance and policy responses to climate change, emphasizing continental governance and policy responses, national governance and policy responses (what selected countries in Africa are doing), and local or community policy and programmatic responses (what some selected major African communities are doing). Each chapter adopts multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, combining insights from social and policy sciences, emphasizing existing gaps, particularly in the area of decision-making, governance and local climate action. The book offers both theoretical and practical contributions, with the aim of advancing academic discourse and thinking, policymaking and implementation of climate interventions in Africa. Michael Addaney is a lecturer in environmental planning at the Department of Land Management of University of Energy and Natural Resources, Ghana. Michael is also a Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. DB (Vain) Jarbandhan is associate professor and the Director of the Centre for Public Management and Governance in the College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. William Kwadwo Dumenu is a research scientist at the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana and a Research Associate and Lecturer at the Sustainable Food System Institute, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Science, Germany.

Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Environmental planning --- Social geography --- Geography --- ruimtelijke ordening --- geografie --- Environmental sciences—Social aspects. --- Human geography. --- Sustainability. --- Environmental geography. --- Environmental Social Sciences. --- Human Geography. --- Integrated Geography.

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The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America during the five centuries from the first contacts between Europeans and the native peoples of the Americas in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present. Ideas and Ideologies in Twentieth-Century Latin America brings together chapters from Volumes IV, VI, and IX of The Cambridge History to provide in a single volume the economic, social and political ideologies of Latin America since 1870. This, it is hoped, will be useful for both teachers and students of Latin American history and of contemporary Latin America. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay.

History of Latin America --- anno 1900-1999 --- Latin America --- Ideology --- Social sciences --- Idéologie --- Sciences sociales --- History --- Histoire --- Idéologie --- Arts and Humanities --- History. --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Philosophy --- Political science --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization

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The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation shows that we have unwittingly fallen into an existential crisis of our own making. We have allowed large corporations, the military and other vested interests to capture governments and influence public opinion excessively. We have created a god called ‘the market’ and allowed our most important decisions to be made by this imaginary entity, which is in fact a human system controlled by vested interests. The result has been the exploitation of our life support system, our planet, and most of its inhabitants, to the point of collapse. This book argues that the way out of our black hole is to build social movements to apply overwhelming pressure on government and big business, weaken the power of vested interests and strengthen democratic decision-making. This must be done simultaneously with action on the specific issues of climate, energy, natural resources and social justice, in order to transition to a truly sustainable civilisation.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Nature protection --- General ecology and biosociology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Environmental planning --- Social geography --- environment --- ruimtelijke ordening --- milieubeleid --- natuureducatie --- natuurbescherming --- milieutechnologie --- Sustainability. --- Sustainable development. --- Environmental sciences—Social aspects. --- Human geography. --- Environment. --- Environmental policy. --- Environmental education. --- Environmental Social Sciences. --- Human Geography. --- Environmental Sciences. --- Environmental Policy. --- Environmental and Sustainability Education.

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Exploring Instagram’s public pedagogy at scale, this book uses innovative digital methods to trace and analyze how publics reinforce and resist settler colonialism as they engage with the Trans Mountain pipeline controversy online. The book traces opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline in so-called Canada, where overlapping networks of concerned citizens, Indigenous land protectors, and environmental activists have used Instagram to document pipeline construction, policing, and land degradation; teach using infographics; and express solidarity through artwork and re-shared posts. These expressions constitute a form of “public pedagogy,” where social media takes on an educative force, influencing publics whether or not they set foot in the classroom. Carrie Karsgaard is Postdoctoral Fellow at Arizona State University, USA, and currently serves as researcher at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Sociology --- Teaching --- Nature protection --- Mass communications --- sociologie --- sociale media --- communicatie --- massamedia --- natuureducatie --- natuurbescherming --- lesgeven --- Environmental education. --- Teaching. --- Digital media. --- Social justice. --- Environmental sciences—Social aspects. --- Mass media. --- Environmental and Sustainability Education. --- Pedagogy. --- Digital and New Media. --- Social Justice. --- Environmental Social Sciences. --- Media Sociology. --- Environmental Sciences --- Science --- Educació ambiental --- Internet --- Oleoductes --- Instagram (Firma) --- Canadà

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Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is substantially evaluative. Yet modernist ways of thinking encourage the common but extraordinary belief that values are beyond reason, and merely subjective or matters of convention, with little or nothing to do with the kind of beings people are, the quality of their social relations, their material circumstances or well-being. The author shows how social theory and philosophy need to change to reflect the complexity of everyday ethical concerns and the importance people attach to dignity. He argues for a robustly critical social science that explains and evaluates social life from the standpoint of human flourishing.

Sociology of culture --- General ethics --- Social psychology --- Normativity (Ethics) --- Social norms --- Social sciences --- Social values --- Values --- Axiology --- Worth --- Aesthetics --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Metaphysics --- Psychology --- Ethics --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Folkways --- Norms, Social --- Rules, Social --- Social rules --- Manners and customs --- Social control --- Ethical norms --- Normativeness (Ethics) --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Social values. --- Social norms. --- Values. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Social Sciences --- Sociology