Development studies

Tourism is widely considered to be an important factor in socio-economic development, particularly in less developed countries.

This book seeks to go beyond conventional literature on the North Korean nuclear issue by examining the chances of survival of the Kim Jong Un regime, both with and without the nuclear weapons program.

This book comprises a selection of papers presented at the International Conference of Sustainable Electrical Engineering and Intelligent Systems (ICSEEIS 2025).

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

This highly original work demonstrates the fundamental role of customary law for the realization of Indigenous peoples' human rights and for sound national and international legal governance.

This book investigates how effective human rights and the inherent dignity of refugees can be secured in situations of protracted exile and encampment.

This book takes a compelling approach to describing what is needed to create the kind of future that most people on Earth really want.

This book examines how cross-border mobility across the eastern border of Poland with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, driven by external shocks, influences different territorial units.

This book assesses local civil society responses to conflict, militarism, climate change, and disease in the global south.

Inner city slums, migrant settlements, construction workers, highlight informal work as underpinning urban poverty and marginalization.

This book explores how formal-legalism, as the dominant paradigm of explanation, has sought to explain the phenomenon of secessionism among its practitioners as a problem for the modern state.

This book brings together several systems-level approaches to the consideration of the interaction of livelihood choices, natural resource management and participatory action research on sustainable development.

This book looks at the changing continuum that links individuals, communities and society.

There is a tremendous need for community development practice in the Asia-Pacific region due to its size and prevailing diverse socio-economic, political and cultural needs and issues.

This book considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the realisation of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

The first decade of the 2000s was a period of radical change in Turkish society and politics, marked by the major economic crisis of 2001 and the coming to power of ex-Islamist cadres organised under the Justice and Development Party (AKP).

This edited volume is a compilation of the 'built environment' in response to many investigations, analyses and sometimes mere observations of the various dialogues and interactions of the built, in context to its ecology, perception and design.

Examining the regulation of technologies, this book explores how the drive to harmonize regulatory policies across the world is at odds with the increasingly diverse local settings in which they are implemented.

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

The book relates three years of history of social movements from Asia and Europe who work on social justice, as a rough overview.

Economic development is an important focus of anthropological work in rural and urban communities around the world, and in this volume the contributors offer expert analyses on the theory and practice of development.

Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projects across the world, designed to conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks in order to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and offset emissions elsewhere.

India and the South-East Asia are typical case studies of interest for students of development economics.

This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the 'roving colonialism' of sport mega-events.

Vu tells the story of Vietnamese farmers who have survived a 30-year war of independence and unification, its damaging legacies in their living environment, and the unfamiliar pressure of the market economy.

Assault on the Soul: Women in the Former Yugoslavia sheds light upon women's wartime experiences and makes sense of their coping strategies in the face of the innumerable atrocities committed against them.

This edited volume analyzes African knowledge production and alternative development paths of the region.

Originally published in 1986.

Originally published in 1980.

Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for anyone who seeks both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society.

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

While previous studies focus on lack of enforcement of forest laws, poverty, and ecological values of forest dependent people, coherent studies on people's motivations for forest illegalities and non-compliance behavior remain scanty.

This book reviews the fulfillment of two Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), namely poverty and inequality, in the Indian subcontinent.

Over the past few years, large-scale land acquisitions in Africa have stoked controversy, making headlines in media reports across the world.

Learning takes place both inside and outside of the classroom, embedded in local practices, traditions and interactions.

This handbook provides a single reference resource for communication for development and social change.

The Nile River and its basin extend over a distinctive geophysical cord connecting eleven sovereign states from Egypt to Tanzania, which are home to an estimated population of 422.

There is a large gap between Japan's ranking on indicators of economic development and on indicators of gender equality.

Globalisation of the market, law and politics contributes to a diversity of transnational sustainability problems whose solutions exceed the territorial jurisdictional limits of nation states in which their effects are generated or occur.

Remaking the Nation presents new ways of thinking about the nation, nationalism and national identities.

Since the mid-1990s, Morocco has sought to present itself as a model of genuine and gradual reform, with decentralisation as a key tenet of this.

This book, first published in 1992, provides a detailed analysis of the reform programme in post-Mao China.

The original critical guide to key concepts in development studies from some of the world's most eminent critical development scholars and practitioners.

This book unravels the institutions surrounding witchcraft in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh through theoretical and empirical research on witchcraft, violence and modernity in contemporary times.

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

'An important tool for researchers and decision-makers alike' Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO) 'An invaluable source for everyone who needs to be up-to-date on international efforts to solve global environmental challenges.

Trade liberalization, as promoted by the World Trade Organization (WTO), has become one of the dominant drivers and most controversial aspects of globalization.

Marginalized Communities and Access to Justice is a comparative study, by leading researchers in the field of law and justice, of the imperatives and constraints of access to justice among a number of marginalized communities.