Development studies

How can we raise the standard of living of the world's poor and maintain high levels of social health and well-being in the developed world, while simultaneously reducing the environmental damage wrought by human activity?

Bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, The City as Target provides a sustained and critical response to the relationship between the concept of targeting (in its many forms) and notions of understanding, imagining and shaping the urban.

The author argues that the countries that, at the end of the 20th century, have economic, social and ecological success will not be unleashed market economies but "e;active and learning societies"e; that attempt to solve their problems via an organizational and governance-related pluralism.

This book deals with the main challenges of sustainable development and the role of sustainable business and corporate social responsibility in implementing these challenges through sustainable leadership and innovations.

On the bicentennial of Malthus' legendary essay on the tendency of population to grow more rapidly than the food supply, this book examines the impacts of population growth on 19 global resources and services, including food, fresh water, fisheries, jobs, education, income and health.

This book builds on the work of anthropologists, designers, and ethnographers to develop an original methodology and framework for indigenous engagement and designer/non-designer collaboration in the field of social design.

This book explores the extent, causes and characteristics of homelessness in developing countries.

This book explores the issue of poverty reduction within mainland Southeast Asia with a specific focus on the impact of the private sector and tourism.

The Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Economics offers new insights into the rapidly-developing economies of Southeast Asia.

Globalization and Development is a "e;cross-national study"e; on the "e;interstate dispersion"e; of the impacts (on growth, inequality and poverty) that international economic integration provides to the economies of the developing countries.

This book assesses the role of microfinance in the construction of livelihoods for poverty reduction in the Northern Savannah of Ghana, analysing the current microfinance landscape and financial services in the region.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) proclaimed the equality of all human beings in dignity and rights.

The IUCN Strategies for Sustainable Development Handbook Series This handbook is one in a series being produced by IUCN and its partners to assist countries and communities implement Agenda 21, the action programme of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.

The life story of a black woman born in 1902 in Cuba, her life spanning the best part of the 20th century.

This textbook considers understanding social processes to be the main task of sociology.

This book focuses on one critical challenge: climate change.

Although there is much interest in poverty reduction, there are few agreed upon strategies to effectively reduce poverty.

This book investigates the experiences of women in Zimbabwe facing COVID-19 and gender-based violence, arguing that the insights from this extremely tough period could be used as a springboard for positive legal, cultural and policy changes.

It is widely accepted that natural resource wealth, especially in the form of oil and minerals, can be a key factor in inhibiting economic development.

Museums and Nationalism in Croatia, Hungary, and Turkey draws attention to museums as political productions of the nation-state and shows how they can be shaped by the political forces that rule a country.

Revolt and Reform in Architecture's Academy uniquely addresses the complicated relationship between architectural education and urban renewal in the 1960s, which paved the way for what is today known as public interest design.

This book assesses the performance of Indian industries from the perspectives of trade, investment, policy, and development incentives.

The modern state - First and Third Worlds alike - pushes tirelessly to expand mass education and to deepen the schools' effect upon children.

Northeast India is a multifaceted and dynamic region that is constantly in focus because of its fragile political landscape characterized by endemic violence and conflicts.

Dealing with time is intimately linked to sustainability, because sustainability, at its core, involves long-term ethical claims.

In 2004, the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan called Darfur the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

This book explores young Cambodians' perceptions of their place in today's society and how they interact with the country's arts and culture scene.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Eastern European countries were said to be playing catch up with the West, and in the field of development cooperation, they were classified as 'new donors.

The future in the Global South is viewed and perceived critically, from the inertia of a present that does not offer peace, justice, wealth and happiness, but from a view constructed from poverty, marginality, war and chaos.

This book critically examines the interplay between digitalization and sustainability.

The global business world appears to be changing and there is an ever greater focus on developing countries.

Economics of Agricultural Development examines the causes, severity, and effects of poverty, population growth, and malnutrition in developing countries.

It is widely believed that economic development in much of the world is not happening quickly enough.

This edited collection explores key human rights themes and situates them in the context of developments on the African continent.

This handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the dynamic and complex relationship between democracy and sustainability in contemporary theory, discourse, and practice.

This book, first published in 1986, is a close analysis into management's financial disclosure practices of the first half of the twentieth century.

Broadband is one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century, yet our understanding of its regional impacts remains somewhat rudimentary.

India has one of the highest numbers of HIV carriers in the world.

This book reviews the strategies for the development of sustainable health promotion practices, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with case examples from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Earthquakes come without warming, and often cause massive devastation, resulting not only in the loss of property but also of lives.

This book documents a decade of research, methodological innovation, and lessons learned in an eco-regional research-for-development program operating in the eastern African highlands, the African Highlands Initiative (AHI).

There are two great mysteries in the political economy of South Korea.

This handbook takes stock of the African Union's Vision 2020 to rid the African continent of wars, civil conflicts, human rights violations, and humanitarian disasters - including violent conflicts and genocide - and provides recommendations on how to address contemporary threats to peace and security in Africa.

Winner of the 2018 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Brazil Section Book Prize In 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcantara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility.

Acclaimed for its unique ecosystem and Royal Bengal tigers, the mangrove islands that comprise the Sundarbans area of the Bengal delta are the setting for this pioneering anthropological work.

Global Wild Edibles of Deserts: Food Security and Sustainability provides coverage of topics in food and health in desert rangelands, using an interdisciplinary approach that considers health not only in a functional and human sense, but also in terms of external factors including aridity.

This book examines how the voluntary organisations engaged with development programmes work with the approach of conscientisation to empower Adivasis.

This book explores how humanitarian interventions for children in difficult circumstances engage in affective commodification of disadvantaged childhoods.

Bringing concepts from critical transitional justice and peacebuilding into dialogue with education, this book examines the challenges youth and their teachers face in the post-conflict settings of Bougainville and Solomon Islands.