Development studies

This book makes an original contribution to the discussion about agro-food exporting countries' governmental policy.

This edited volume focuses on the development and conflict prevention mechanism of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS.

This book provides an overview of governance and development in the Mesoamerican Region (MAR), the design and scope of the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP), its relationship to pre-existing regional organisms and its transformation into Proyecto Mesoamerica.

This volume seeks to analyse the emerging wave of data journalism in the Global South.

This book was inspired by the inaugural National Roundtable on Environmental and Sustainability Education in Canadian Faculties of Education (Roundtable 2016), which took place June 14-16, 2016, at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.

This book proposes an integrated approach to sustainability reporting, the goal being to overcome certain limitations of the well-established additive approach, where the reporting of environmental, social and economic issues is sequential, but separate.

This book examines childhood in four Caribbean SIDS (Barbados, Jamaica, Haiti and St.

This book presents a new framework for the 'trade and environment' debate and discusses the ways in which the EU and the WTO address this topic: positive, negative and non-integration.

Since the latest crisis of capitalism broke out in 2008, Marx has been back in fashion, and sometimes it seems that his ideas have never been as topical, or as commanding of respect and interest, as they are today.

This publication offers a systemic analysis of sustainability in the food system, taking as its framework the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations.

This book brings a radically new voice to the debate in the field of Chinese politics and labor movement.

This book presents an overview of the problem of urban violence in Caracas, and specifically in its barrios.

This book discusses migration and space-spanning social network relationships as normal realities of life in African societies.

With our highly connected and interdependent world, the growing threat of infectious diseases and public health crisis has shed light on the requirement for global efforts to manage and combat highly pathogenic infectious diseases and other public health crisis on an unprecedented level.

This book presents an ethnographic case study of the personal motivations, advocacy, and activation of social capital needed to create and sustain the Immortelle Children's Centre, a private school that has served children with disabilities in Trinidad/Tobago for four decades.

This book examines the historical antecedents of Pan-Africanism as a driving force of African Unity, carefully studying its major contributors, current institutional status, and potential future growth.

A response to the pressing need to address and clarify the substantial ambiguity within current literature, this edited volume aims to deepen readers' understanding of the impact of foreign aid on development outcomes based on the latest findings in research over the past decade.

This book discusses homelessness policy in the UK from 1945 to 2019.

Very little has been written on the economy of East Timor since the country's independence in 2002, and no comprehensive account exists of the economic history of the country.

This book explores the evolution of Brazilian foreign relations in the last fifteen years, with a focus on continuities and change.

This book provides a business-oriented analysis of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

This book analyses the role of evidence in taking wellbeing from an issue that has government attention to one that leads to significant policy change.

This book analyses the debates on colonial genocide in the 21st century and introduces cases where states are reluctant to acknowledge genocides.

This edited volume seeks to critically engage with the diversity of feminist and post-colonial theory to counter hegemonic Western knowledge in mainstream community psychology.

This book explores narratives produced in the Maghreb in order to illustrate shortcomings of imagination in the discipline of international relations (IR).

This book analyzes motivation, investments, and influence of the Russian Federation and Russian companies in the European oil sector, specifically, the Southeastern Europe.

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This two-volume study explores the economy of East Timor, of which very little has been written since the country gained independence in 2002.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the influence of public policy on sex selection.

This book presents detailed accounts of policymaking in contemporary risk communication.

This book proposes a holistic transdisciplinary approach to sustainability as a subject of social sciences.

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This interdisciplinary book analyzes the nature of child justice administration in Africa, particularly focusing on Nigeria and South Africa.

Compiling various strands of the dis/enchantment with development discourse in contemporary South Asia, with specific focus on the cases from India, this edited book brings together anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and historians to refresh the understanding of development.

This book chronicles the divergent growth trends in car production in Belgium and Spain.

This book explores how community radio contributes to social change.

This book addresses the challenges of living together after empire in many post-colonial cities.

This book analyzes state terror documentation as a form of peaceful resistance to oppressive regimes through substantial research in human rights archives that registered violations perpetrated by Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile.

This book provides a broad understanding of whether law plays a role in influencing patterns of sustainable consumption and, if so, how.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of gateway cities in contemporary circuits of global production.

This book investigates the role of media and communication in processes of democratization in different political and cultural contexts.

This book describes how those individuals who are often most marginalised in postcolonial societies draw on age-old, non-western knowledge systems to adapt to the hardships characteristic of unequal societies in transformation.

This book adds significantly to the discourse surrounding the progress made in empowering women in Africa over the last decade, providing strong research evidence on diverse and timely gender issues in varied African countries.

This book focuses on understandings of higher education in relation to notions of decoloniality and decolonization in southern Africa.

"e;A very valuable and much needed book on a central element in the processes of social change: the construction and reconstruction of social norms as they move between global and local levels.

This book presents a comprehensive view of the state of social progress worldwide over an entire 50-year period beginning 1970.

In this book Edward and Sumner argue that to better understand the impact of global growth on poverty it is necessary to consider what happens across a wide range of poverty lines.

Cultures of violence are characteristic of many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and attempts to move towards cultures of peace have often proved difficult and ineffectual.

Building on recent critical work, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of the nature and forms of medieval and early modern childhoods, viewed through literary cultures.

This book examines the effects of policies and practices of microfinance NGOs in empowering rural women in Bangladesh.