Development studies

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.

Domestic violence continues to be a social problem that is rarely understood or discussed in many parts of the world.

This book provides an in-depth look into key political dynamics that obtain in a democracy without parties, offering a window into political undercurrents increasingly in evidence throughout the Latin American region, where political parties are withering.

This book analyses how informal economy traders and the marketplace institution dominate the local economy in African cities.

The book  establishes a philosophical base for the economic principles of Irish republicanism in the 21st century.

This book, exploring the theoretical and practical implications of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of leading researchers in the areas of philosophy of disability, disability law, and disability policy.

In light of the growing global economic importance of East Asia, this book analyzes and compares the extraordinary development paths and strategies of Japan, South Korea, and China.

This book provides an examination of major problems facing the world using mathematics of uncertainty.

This book examines the extent to which peacebuilding processes such as disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration are possible in the attempt to demilitarize Nigeria's oil region and establish a stable post-conflict environment for nurturing durable peace.

This book is concerned with the role that communication - understood as including both the factual and fictional mass media as well as the performative and visual arts - can play in post-civil war peacebuilding.

This book brings together scholars from across the behavioural sciences and public health to examine substance use in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary issues of regional development.

This book discusses the conditions that underpin configuration of specific places as resource peripheries and the consequences that such a socio-spatial formation involves for those places.

This book constitutes a critical review of Nigeria's attempts to achieve rapid industrial development since independence from Britain in 1960.

This timely monograph focuses on India and Brazil's use of compulsory licensing, one of the most significant and controversial TRIPS flexibilities.

This book uses qualitative research methods to examine why students in an Indian context are being identified as having learning disabilities on criteria that are largely drawn from the context of the Global North.

This book argues that Sierra Leone's ten-year civil conflict demonstrates the criticality of freedom of information (FOI) as a facet of good governance where corruption thrives, spanning both public and private sectors, if Sierra Leone's continued security and stability are to be ensured.

This book examines the application of risk-sharing finance as a national economic policy in history and how it stimulated economic recovery during a short period in Germany between 1933 and 1935.

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.

This book examines the gender dimensions of large-scale mining in the oil industry and how oil exploitation has produced long-term economic, political, social and environmental risks and benefits in developing countries.

This book explores the obstacles facing indigenous communities, non-governmental organizations, governments, and international institutions in their attempts to protect the cultures of indigenous peoples and the world's remaining rainforests.

This book is aimed at researchers, entrepreneurs, and innovation consultants of the 5.

This edited volume brings together debates from the Global South and Global East to explore alternatives to conventional planning in Southern cities.

The current coronavirus pandemic fundamentally reshapes existing debates and processes in international development.

Written in the middle of a pandemic, this book examines the effect of COVID-19 on regional and global security threats in the first 18 months of the crisis.

The vision of this book is to bring together examples of grounded geographic research carried out in Latin America regarding territorial processes.

This book explores justice 'on the ground' in Southern African communities, and in particular the roles that women play in these processes.

This book mediates between postcolonial positions that criticize Marxist approaches (and Marx's writings) for their Eurocentrism and defenders of Marx, who claim that this accusation is a myth.

This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers in order to examine how and to what extent the challenge of language revitalisation should be reassessed and reconceptualised to take account of our fast-changing social context.

This book focuses on the connection between Brazil and Antarctica, two regions that can be seen as distant and contrasting, but are physically, culturally and politically associated.

This is a conversational book with chapters directly followed by responses from experts.

This volume takes an ecofeminist perspective in analysing societal changes related to energy transition, with a focus on Upper Silesia in Europe, following the closure of coal-mining industries in the region.

This book is about the entanglement of heritage and resistance in different situations of conflicts, and the opportunities this entanglement may provide for social justice.

This book interrogates the international child protection regime, with a particular focus on its weaknesses and failures.

This topical book sheds light on immigrants' subjective well-being by analysing the main factors associated with self-reported life satisfaction among immigrants and natives.

This book discusses the prospects for the development of the African continent as part of the emerging system of international relations in the twenty-first century.

This book, written decades into the HIV epidemic, reflects critically on the idea that the socially excluded populations often focused on in HIV research are in fact difficult to access and reach.

This textbook serves as an introduction to the major economic topics and events in Latin America's history, from the settling of the region by indigenous Americans and then Europeans, Africans and Asians, to the economic consequences of COVID-19.

This book focuses on ethnic journalism in the Global South, approaching it from two angles: as a professional area and as a social mission.

This book examines how the Calais Jungle posed and addressed the European Question.

This book focuses on marginal actors in the global order.

This edited volume in the Community Psychology Book Series emphasizes applications of community psychology for disrupting dominant and hegemonic power relations.

This book argues that capitalism has practically failed to deliver the long-desired economic transformation and inclusive development in postcolonial Africa.

This is a comprehensive regional geography synthesis of the most important physical and human spatial processes that shaped Serbia and led to many interesting regional issues, not only to Serbia but to the Balkans and Europe.

This book examines the ways in which colonialism continues to define the political economy of Nigeria sixty years after gaining political independence from the British.

Development and underdevelopment are the main determinants of life-chances worldwide, arguably more so than social class.

This book will teach you everything you need to know about sustainable living-from reducing your greenhouse gas footprint to making sure that you are part of the green economy.

This book explores the role universities have to play in fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This edited volume explores the link between natural resources and civil conflict, focusing especially on protest and violence in the context of mining and the extraction of minerals.

This book interrogates Africa's pursuit of the Democratic Developmental State model by drawing on the experiences of Mauritius, Ethiopia, and Rwanda.