Bøker i Pathways to Sustainability-serien

Examining the regulation of technologies, this book explores how the drive to harmonize regulatory policies across the world is at odds with the increasingly diverse local settings in which they are implemented.

Substantial resources have been spent on tackling avian influenza and building a global capacity for a pandemic response. This book explores how virus genetics, ecology and epidemiology intersect with economic, political and policy processes in places ranging from Bangkok to Washington, to Jakarta, Cairo, Rome and London.

A view of `development at the margins¿ in the pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa highlights innovation and entrepreneurialism, cooperation and networking and diverse approaches rarely in line with standard development prescriptions. Through twenty detailed empirical chapters, the book highlights diverse pathways of development, going beyond the standard `aid¿ and `disaster¿ narratives.

Focuses on how different policy-makers, scientists, and local populations construct alternative narratives - accounts of the causes and appropriate responses to outbreaks - about epidemics at the global, national and local level. This book also reveals the often unintended consequences of policy responses to epidemics.

A view of 'development at the margins' in the pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa highlights innovation and entrepreneurialism, cooperation and networking and diverse approaches rarely in line with standard development prescriptions. Through twenty detailed empirical chapters, the book highlights diverse pathways of development, going beyond the standard 'aid' and 'disaster' narratives.

There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades. This has substantially increased the availability of health-related goods and services in all but the most remote localities, but it has created problems with safety, efficiency and cost. This book documents the problems associated with unregulated health markets and presents innovative approaches that have emerged to address them.

Multiple `green transformations¿ are required if humanity is to live sustainably on planet Earth. This book, written by experts in the field, examines what social and political alliances are required to realise green transformations. The role of the state is emphasised, as well as the role of citizens, as innovators, entrepreneurs, green consumers and members of social movements. Green transformations must be both `top-down¿, involving elite alliances between states and business, but also `bottom up¿, pushed by grassroots innovators and entrepreneurs, and part of wider mobilisations among civil society.