Essays about: "justice and poor"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 43 essays containing the words justice and poor.
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16. BEHIND THE WORDS: RISING SEAS, DROWNING VOICES - a critical discourse analysis of Swedish press narratives on environmental migration & displacement
University essay from Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : As the physical consequences of climate change continues to augment, possibly millions of people might be forced to migrate. Those most likely to be forced to move are people living in poor countries in the Global South where vulnerability levels are generally high and the capacity to adapt is often low due to socio-economic difficulties and political insecurity. READ MORE
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17. "Tempering the Gambler's Nirvanna" : A Review into to the issues and regulation of Third Party Funding in Investment Treaty Arbitration
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Third party funding (TPF) is a method of financing legal proceedings, in which a party not directly connected to the proceedings funds one of the disputing parties, usually in return for a percentage of the final monetary settlement. The interests behind TPF are that the funded party will have the resources to pursue their claim, while the funder will be able to profit from a percentage of the final settlement. READ MORE
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18. Resistance to Coal: The Challenges of Achieving Environmental Justice in South Africa
University essay from Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : While the environmental justice movement has grown worldwide, it seems that the movement has yet to mobilise in South Africa. The instances of environmental injustices in South Africa are abundant but paradoxically this has not given rise to a united movement demanding environmental justice for a transition to a new and renewable energy path. READ MORE
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19. A Fair Distribution of Global Biocapacity : The Potential in Swedish Environmental Policy
University essay from KTH/Miljöstrategisk analys (fms)Abstract : Humanity’s detrimental impacts on the Earth’s ecosystems have been studied extensively, and these impacts’ negative consequences across societal groups, nations, and generations, have garnered much attention, from the scientific community as well as from civil society, where the attention often has been directed at how unfair the distribution of these environmental burdens is. The fairness of the distribution of global environmental benefits, however, has seen much less study, especially when it comes to the implementation of such concerns for fairness in environmental policy. READ MORE
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20. The goats are my friends, my children, my everything! : a study of remote farmers and farm workers in Botswana and their attitudes to their goats
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : Through offering a variety of funding programmes, in recent years the government of Botswana has made an attempt to promote goat production, partly with the aim of alleviating poverty among the resource-poor rural population. Goat production is also emerging as an alternative for the non-poor, as the goat market is expected to grow and as goats are perceived as a good complement or alternative for cattle, as they are better adapted to the more frequent climate change-induced droughts expected in southern Africa. READ MORE
