Development studies

This book details a process of creating a long-term sustainability and resilience plan for local governments to use in designing and implementing sustainability and resilience-related policies, initiatives, and programs.

This book analyses the past and ongoing decline of Zimbabwe under the rule of ZANU-PF, with a primary focus on the period 1997 to the present.

This edited collection investigates the human dimension of urban renewal, using a range of case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe, India and North America, to explore how the conception and delivery of regeneration initiatives can strengthen or undermine local communities.

This book explores today's changing intellectual climate, wherein understanding politics at different levels from global to local is considered mandatory in order to appraise the outcome of nature conservation interventions.

This book discusses sustainable waste management technologies for managing end-of-life (EoL) post-consumer and packaging plastic solid waste (PSW) from domestic and commercial waste streams.

This book discusses the impacts of climate change that are already being felt on every continent and provides the scientific basis for a number of modern approaches and state-of-the art methods for monitoring the environment, social behavior and human expectations concerning protection of the environment.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the practice of sustainability through a diverse range of case studies spanning across varied fields and areas of expertise.

This book describes challenges in the policy and practices of the various water sectors in the Philippines that have led to water conflicts.

This book comprehensively gathers the current academic literature, field expertise and artistic developments on Wolfgang Dietrich's Many Peaces theory, in the ways it has been conceptualized and practiced by peace and conflict workers around the world.

This book presents a systems thinking approach in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals for sustainable national development in vulnerable countries.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of key aspects of food insecurity, including definitional and conceptual issues, information systems and data sources, indicators, and policies.

This book addresses the links between climate change and the threats it poses to sustainable development, from a distance education perspective.

The Nigerian state has been oil-rich for decades, and yet perennially incapable of converting its oil resources into wealth for ordinary Nigerians.

This book analyses trends and changes in the European Union's (EU) humanitarian aid policy, by focusing on the performance of Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs).

This book argues that we need to focus attention on the ways that workers themselves have invested subjectively in what it means to be a worker.

Explaining the determinants of China and India's development cooperation in Africa cannot be achieved in simple terms.

This book addresses the on-going crisis of informality in rapidly growing cities of the global South.

This book provides a unique study of the role of universities, as organisation systems, in the pursuit of the Europe 2020 strategy.

This innovative book responds to an existing demand for taking Africa out of a place of exception and marginality, and placing it at the center of international relations and world politics.

In this handbook social science researchers who focus on sustainability present and discuss their findings, including empirical work, case studies, teaching and learning innovations, and applied projects.

The book speaks to the need for a regulatory framework with regards to space resource utilization.

This book is a guide to energy efficiency and environmental impact assessment in high-performance buildings projects.

This book examines the meaning, structure, practices and symbolism of corruption in relationship to European Union structural funding in Romania.

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that civil war inevitably stymies economic development and that 'civil war represents development in reverse'.

This book explores the practices of governance in Bhutan and how they shape the implementation of the country's Gross National Happiness (GNH) development strategy.

This volume analyses many of the real development challenges confronting the African continent, presenting fresh and current objective examinations, narratives, interpretations and pathways to the continent's development.

Here, expert authors delineate approaches that can support both decision makers as well as their concerned populations in overcoming unwarranted fears and in elaborating policies based on scientific evidence.

This enlightening book offers a comprehensive historical analysis of the main development challenges of the last half century and the international community's response through aid and trade.

This edited volume offers the first extended, cross-disciplinary exploration of the cumulative problems and increasing importance of various forms of media in the Middle East.

This book sheds new light on the limits of adaptation to anthropogenic climate change.

This book examines development aid for climate change adaptation.

This edited volume critically engages with ecofeminist scholarship.

This book analyzes the current trends in the production, dissemination, and use of knowledge which contribute to social inequalities, especially in the Global South.

This book discusses Bangladesh's economic and social development that may be called a "e;miracle"e; since the country has achieved remarkable development progress under several unfavorable situations: weak governance and political instabilities, inequality, risks entailed in rapid urbanization, and exposure to severe disaster risks.

This book focuses on the water-energy-climate nexus, which can be used to improve energy security and quality of life for millions of people in developing countries.

This book provides an examination of e-Government frameworks and maturity stages in governments around the world, including an overview of the legal frameworks that have supported them.

This book focuses on interregional relations across the Atlantic and the possible evolution of a new, distinctive Atlantic space for international relations.

This book is a critical political and institutional reflection on UN peace operations.

This book provides a comparative, neo-institutionalist approach to the different factors impacting state adoption of-or refusal to adopt-same-sex marriage laws.

This book addresses a conundrum for the international development community: The law of development cooperation poses major constraints on delivering aid where it is needed most.

This book offers a unique approach to reconciliation as a matter for negotiation, bringing together two bodies of theory in order to offer insights into resolving conflicts and achieving lasting peace.

This book explores the politics of local economic development in Northern England.

This book addresses the global need to transition to a low-carbon society and economy by 2050.

This book is a critical and multidisciplinary IPE of the unequal structures of South American development and uneven insertions in the global order following the decline of the commodities boom.

The book uses Athens as a case study to identify the key features of urban anti-poverty policies in Greece and to discuss them in relation to policy developments in the crisis-ridden countries of Southern Europe.

This book presents relevant and timely endogenous procedures for addressing the challenge of transforming ideas into sustainable opportunities in Africa.

This book examines the role played by two popular private newspapers in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe, one case from colonial Rhodesia and the other from the post-colonial era.

The present book offers a compelling sketch of how technological advances have shaped humankind's evolution and how they can unlock ways to combat climate change and environmental threats.

This edited volume explores the state of inclusive governance in South Asia.

To achieve something by way of negation is not just to state a difference.