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This book explores the achievements and obstacles confronting China and major Latin American countries in developing small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the context of new changes in “The Belt and Road” Initiative. In the first three chapters, the Chinese authors elaborate on the relationship between “The Belt and Road” Initiative and globalization, as well as strategies towards forming an increasingly close bond between China and Latin America. The book ends with chapters dedicated to analyzing the BRI conditions and effects on SMEs of Latin-American countries. These country specific chapters will show the specific opportunities and challenges the countries conditions, be they political, geological, etc. may have on the development of SMEs under the BRI. The book will be useful not only to industry leaders looking to better understand how they can potentially benefit from the BRI but also by the general public, as the book will explain what this new era of globalization, and more specifically the BRI, will mean for the world’s industries and society. Yihai Li is Secretary-General of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Think Tank Foundation (SASS-TTF), Vice Chairman of the Centre for Think Tank Studies, Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the International Center for Security and Crisis Management (SCM), and Secretary General of the Shanghai Center for Cultural Studies. Phd. Anibal Carlos Zottele Allende is Director of the China-Veracruz Studies Center (CECHIVER) of the Veracruz University, Director of the magazine Orientando, Professor and researcher of the Veracruz University, Technical Secretary of the Mexican Consortium of APEC Study Centers (CONMEX-CEAPEC) and Honorary advisor and president of the Veracruz Chapter of the Chamber of Commerce of Mexico in China (MEXCHAM).

Latin America—Economic conditions. --- Asia—Economic conditions. --- Economic development—Environmental aspects. --- Latin American and Caribbean Economics. --- Asian Economics. --- Development and Sustainability. --- Economic development --- Small business

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The EU Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth is the most advanced and comprehensive policy agenda on sustainability in the world. But is it going in the right direction? Acting as a bridge between policy and academia, this up-to-date contribution to the global policy debate brings together some of the leading experts from the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, to discuss how the financial system needs to be reformed to promote sustainability. Finance has long been criticized for being short-term focused and concerned with maximizing returns to intermediaries, rather than with the interests of savers and borrowers. The financial system must now take into account environmental, social and governance considerations to support a sustainable economy and this volume offers new insights on the way forward. A must-read for anyone working on financial sector policy and sustainability.

Finance ; environmental aspects --- Capitalism ; environmental aspects --- Economic development ; environmental aspects --- Sustainable development --- Economie ; ethiek --- Finance --- Sustainable development. --- Economic development --- Capitalism --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Eco-development --- Ecodevelopment --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable economic development --- Funding --- Funds --- Currency question --- Environmental aspects. --- Environmental aspects --- Finance - Environmental aspects. --- Capitalism - Environmental aspects. --- Economic development - Environmental aspects.

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"Fabriquer de toutes pièces des micro-organismes n'ayant jamais existé pour leur faire produire de l'essence, du plastique, ou absorber des marées noires ; donner un prix à la pollinisation, à la beauté d'un paysage ou à la séquestration du carbone par les forêts en espérant que les mécanismes de marché permettront de les protéger ; transformer l'information génétique de tous les êtres vivants en ressources productives et marchandes... Telles sont quelques-unes des "solutions" envisagées aujourd'hui sous la bannière de la transition écologique, du Pacte vert européen ou du Green New Deal pour répondre tout à la fois à la crise climatique, au déclin de la biodiversité et à la dégradation de la biosphère. Sont-elles vraiment en mesure de préserver la planète ? En disséquant les ressorts idéologiques, techniques et économiques de ce nouveau régime de "croissance verte", Hélène Tordjman montre que ses promoteurs s'attachent plutôt à sauvegarder le modèle industriel qui est la cause de la catastrophe en cours. Alors que de nouvelles générations de carburants "biosourcés" intensifient une logique extractiviste et contre-productive et que l'élargissement du droit de la propriété intellectuelle à toutes les sphères du vivant permet à quelques firmes de s'approprier l'ensemble de la chaîne alimentaire, l'attribution de prix aux "services écosystémiques", le développement de dispositifs de compensation écologique ou les illusions d'une finance prétendument verte stimulent un processus aveugle de marchandisation de la nature. Loin d'opérer la rupture nécessaire avec le système économique qui nous conduit à la ruine, ce mouvement témoigne en réalité d'une volonté de maîtrise et d'instrumentalisation de toutes les formes de vie sur Terre et d'une foi inébranlable dans les mécanismes de marché. Refuser cette fuite en avant est le premier pas à engager pour tracer enfin une autre voie."

Economic development --- Environmentalism. --- Sustainable development. --- Environmental protection. --- Environmental aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Écologisme. --- Développement économique --- Catastrophes écologiques. --- Sciences --- Société industrielle. --- Philosophie de la nature. --- Raison. --- Aspect environnemental. --- Aspect social. --- Environmentalism --- Sustainable development --- Environmental protection --- Environmental aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Government policy. --- Economic development - Environmental aspects --- Economic development - Moral and ethical aspects --- Sciences et société. --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Economic goods

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This open access book highlights the complexities around making adaptation decisions and building resilience in the face of climate risk. It is based on experiences in sub-Saharan Africa through the Future Climate For Africa (FCFA) applied research programme. It begins by dealing with underlying principles and structures designed to facilitate effective engagement about climate risk, including the robustness of information and the construction of knowledge through co-production. Chapters then move on to explore examples of using climate information to inform adaptation and resilience through early warning, river basin development, urban planning and rural livelihoods based in a variety of contexts. These insights inform new ways to promote action in policy and praxis through the blending of knowledge from multiple disciplines, including climate science that provides understanding of future climate risk and the social science of response through adaptation. The book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate students and postgraduate students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners in geography, environment, international development and related disciplines. Declan Conway is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute of the London School of Economics, UK. His problem-focused research cuts across water, climate and society, with emphasis on adaptation and the water-energy-food nexus. Katharine Vincent is a director of Kulima Integrated Development Solutions and holds visiting researcher positions at the Universities of the Witwatersrand, KwaZulu Natal and Leeds. She is interested in adaptation to climate change in the global South, and much of her work spans the science-policy/practice divide.

Environmental geography. --- Environment. --- Climate change. --- Economic development—Environmental aspects. --- Environmental Geography. --- Environment Studies. --- Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts. --- Climate Change. --- Development and Sustainability. --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Geography --- Environmental aspects --- Global environmental change --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Ecology --- Environmental Geography --- Environment Studies --- Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts --- Climate Change --- Development and Sustainability --- Environmental Studies --- Environmental Sciences --- Earth System Sciences --- Development Studies --- climate risk --- climate adaptation --- climate resilience --- co-prodution --- Future Climate For Africa --- Climate services --- sustainable development --- Climate-resilient development --- Agro-meteorology --- Hydropower in Africa --- renewable energy --- urban planning --- climate education --- Open Access --- Development & environmental geography --- Society & Social Sciences --- The environment --- Sustainability --- Economic development — Environmental aspects. --- co-production --- Climatic changes. --- Economic development --- Risk assessment --- Environmental aspects.

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This book provides a two-level analytical framework and empirical study to analyze the reason and process of China’s transition that is from a follower to driver in the field of global climate governance, and is especially valuable the dialogues and cooperation between the government, media and civil society. Nowadays, China shows strong leadership to push the process of global climate governance. It’s the first and fastest time in the past 40-year history of China’s Opening-up that China wins the international respect and trust in one of the issues of global governance. What experiences can be summarized? What dynamic situations and new possibilities emerged after Trump, the U.S. president announced to withdraw from the Paris Agreement? How to move forward based on the existing success? This timely book offers new lens for international readers to understand China’s effort domestically and internationally in the field of climate change and illustrate the outlook of the climate governance in the frame of win-win co-governance model. .

Economic development—Environmental aspects. --- Public policy. --- Climate change. --- Welfare economics. --- Development and Sustainability. --- Public Policy. --- Climate Change. --- Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy. --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Social policy --- Environmental aspects --- Government policy --- Public opinion. --- Global environmental change