Development studies

Mining and Development in Sierra Leone examines how different actors in Sierra Leone use the effects of large-scale mining to navigate and transform the challenging conditions of life.

This book seeks to identify and to examine factors and mechanisms underlying the growth and development of smart cities.

Waqf is emerging globally as a distinctive institution, serving as a vital bridge between societal and economic needs, and resource allocation.

Das Buch, aus einem PowerPoint-Vortrag entstanden, beschreibt die Entwicklung des Katalanischen Architekten Antonio Gaudi anhand seiner Werke, die in Barcelonea in einer Phase gesellschaftlicher und kultureller Unruhe in der Zeit von 1878 bis 1915 entstanden sind.

Dieses Buch gibt dem Leser Einblicke in die Arbeitsweise der etwas verborgenen Welt der globalen Entwicklungs-Organisationen auf dem Gebiet der Wasserwirtschaft im landwirtschaftlichen Sektor.

Environmental Economics and Ecosystem Services provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to environmental economics, using ecosystem services as the underlying framework.

This book explores how national identity has been negotiated and (re)imagined through the political symbols that embody it in post-conflict Timor-Leste.

This book assesses the 1991 Child Support Act and demonstrates how its failure was 'foreseeable' and 'foreseen'.

Britain faces huge challenges: inequality, public services under constant pressure, climate change - and in the long term, the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence.

This book depicts the role of both formal and informal institutions in achieving long-term economic efficiency and development.

Grounded in black feminist scholarship and activism and formally coined in 1989 by black legal scholar Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, intersectionality has garnered significant attention in the field of public policy and other disciplines/fields of study.

This edited collection aims to analytically reconceptualise the Syrian crisis by examining how and why the country has moved from a stable to a war-torn society.

Policy-making in public health is highly complex, which is one reason why the behavioural turn is now playing a significant role in this field.

 'In this comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis, McConnon demonstrates the extent to which security concerns have come to pervade the development policies of the three major donor countries.

This book analyzes Latin American regional integration with a novel conceptual approach grounded in extensive field research.

This book examines engagements with financial services in contexts of conflict.

This book explores and reflects on peacebuilding, which emerges from the experiences and realities of women's lives in East Africa, specifically, in Uganda.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the dimensions and dynamics of the role of international aid in the reform and capacity development of public service in post-communist Albania.

This book presents stimulating new perspectives on three key sets of issues: a fair globalization, the policies that might be adopted in response to protectionist pressures, and sustainable development policies involving G7 and G20 actions to lay the foundations for renewed trust.

This book demonstrates how peace is an event that comes into being in mundane and corporeal encounters.

This book analyzes the tension between the host state's commitment to provide regulatory stability for foreign investors - which is a tool for attracting FDI and generating economic growth - and its evolving non-economic commitments towards its citizens with regard to environmental protection and social welfare.

"e;This is a must-read book for anyone searching for insight into the peace process of the divided Korean peninsula.

This book offers new perspectives on the history of exploitation in Africa by examining postcolonial misrule as a product of colonial exploitation.

This volume addresses the current challenges for and future prospects of women's entrepreneurship research, bringing together a wealth of diverse insights with implications for research, education and practice alike.

This edited volume analyzes the Mauritius economy and highlights what conditions and policies have contributed to the development of the country.

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.

This book provides international perspectives on the law of copyright in relation to three core themes - copyright and developing countries; the government and copyright; and technology and the future of copyright.

This book explores children's lives across the Global North and Global South in the context of academic discussions of childhoods.

This edited volume investigates the ethical and emotional challenges of conducting fieldwork in Africa.

This book offers an analysis of China in its muddling through of financial reforms towards adopting a local real property tax.

This book is a comprehensive overview of the theory, history, law, institutional framework and culture of global diplomacy.

This book explores the strong links between sustainability and the humanities, which go beyond the inclusion of social sciences in discussions on sustainability, and offers a holistic discussion on the intellectual and moral aspects of sustainable development.

This book investigates agency in the historical resistance movement in Kashmir by initiating a fresh conversation about Muslim Kashmiri women.

This book takes up a wide variety of human security challenges beyond the dimension of human conflict, and looks at both natural and human disasters that the East Asian region faces or is attempting to resolve.

This edited collection examines contemporary directions in geographical research on South Africa.

This edited collection explores the lives, consequences and motivations of female researchers in Africa, giving unprecedented insights into how their gender-and sometimes their ethnicity and age-impacted on their research experiences, and how doing research in Africa affected them as women.

This book examines how the way we conceive of, or measure, the environment changes the way we interact with it.

This book offers a unique insight into the ways in which education systems, governance, and actors at multiple scales interact in initial steps towards building peace.

This book examines the nexus of cities and oceans and the interrelations between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 11 and 14, just after the first two critical years following the milestone year of hope in 2015.

How we manage public services and hold them to account is critically important.

The economic policies of reactive states such as Turkey and Greece, both of which have shown limited ability to implement institutional reforms in recent years, have paved the way for deep crises.

This book provides students and practicing engineers with a comprehensive guide to off-grid electrification: from microgrids and energy kiosks to solar home systems and solar lanterns.

The main focus of this book is to help better understand the multidimensionality and complexity of population displacement and the role that reconstruction and recovery knowledge and practice play in this regard.

This book explores the political economy of subnational development in Mexico.

This book critically examines the practice and meanings of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and how the movement has facilitated a positive and somewhat unquestioned image of the global corporation.

This edited volume discusses the development theory advanced by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in the 1940s, and its transformations through the second half of the twentieth century.

This book is based on experience and reflections related to international support provided to parliaments and legislative bodies both in selected countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ghana, Serbia, and Kyrgyzstan) and globally.

This book develops a case for feminist gender training as a catalyst for disjuncture, rupture and change.

This book examines human rights as political battlefields, spaces that are undergoing constant changes in which political conflicts are expressed by a translation process within networks of interactions.