Development studies

This book critically assesses the complex urban issues, planning challenges and development opportunities of rapidly growing cities, using Addis Ababa as a case study.

South Asia Migration Report 2020 documents key themes of exploitation and entrepreneurship of migrants from the region.

Forests are under tremendous pressure from human uses of all kinds, and one of the most significant threats to their sustainability comes from commercial interests.

This book examines the political economy that governs the management of international transboundary river basins in the developing world.

First published in 1992, Waste Location seeks to widen and integrate the debate on the intrinsically spatial nature of waste disposal.

This book tackles the terms under which a knowledge-based society can indefinitely improve while pursuing an eco-economic steady state.

Street foods are sold in almost every country in the world.

This book examines the global scope of tourism-related grabbing of land and other natural resources.

Since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the concept of sustainable development has become the basis for a vast number of “green industries” from eco-tourism to carbon sequestration.

Social protection is fast becoming an important theme in development policy.

This book examines the nexus of cities and oceans and the interrelations between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 11 and 14, just after the first two critical years following the milestone year of hope in 2015.

The current trend is to develop novel sustainable composite materials to enhance their properties for use in wider range of applications.

Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives.

The emergence of the African middle class as a driver of Africa's economic growth stands out as an important milestone in Africa's contemporary economic history.

This book promotes constructive and nuanced transdisciplinary understandings of some of the critical problems that we face on a global scale today by thinking with and from the Global South.

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Rob White's pioneering work in the establishment and growth of green criminology has been part of a paradigm shift for the field of criminology as it has moved to include crimes committed against the environment.

There is evidence that economic fraud has, in recent years, become routine activity in the economies of both high- and low-income countries.

The literature on environmental politics and regional governance has mainly been dedicated to the role played by the European Union (EU).

The movement of people from small towns and villages of India to places outside the country raises a number of questions- about the networks that enable their mobility, the aspirations that motivate them, what they give back to their home regions, and how their provincial home worlds engage with and absorb the consequent transnational flows of money, ideas, influence and care.

This book explores how Latin American young people engage with nostalgia and grasp a sense of nostalgic representations of the 1970s and 1980s through contemporary media.

The book presents a critical and comparative analysis of the hydropolitical landscape of African transboundary river basins which, for much of the past century, have been affected by water scarcity.

This volume explores the complexities of governance, law, and politics in India's Scheduled Areas.

The variety of land questions facing Africa and the divergent strategies proposed to resolve them continue to evoke debates.

Air pollution has become part of the daily existence of many people who work, live and use the streets in Asian cities.

Since the 1991-2002 civil conflict ended in Sierra Leone, the country has failed to translate the accomplishments of women's involvement in bringing the war to an end into meaningful political empowerment.

This unique study is the first in depth examination of the environment and development of the Straits.

Over the last decade, Peru has experienced a spectacular mining boom and astronomical economic growth.

Environmental sustainability is increasingly important to organisations, whether for regulatory, financial or ethical reasons.

This edited volume moves the study of South Asia to the center of sociological analysis, bringing together recent scholarship across sites in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Pakistan, as well as in Ethiopia and the USA.

This book uses the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira to examine how security has been pursued from below and what significance this has for security analysis and policy.

With the resurgence of 'new Protectionism', international trade and trade relations are once again prime topics for study.

The guide serves as a resource for national-level policy makers and the staff of conservation organizations who wish to integrate population and environmental conditions in planning for sustainable development.

At the start of 2014, more people were displaced globally by conflict and human rights violations than at any time since the Second World War.

This book explores tribal land alienation problems in India and tribal agitation against land encroachment and alienation.

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

This book offers insight into the use of empirical diffusionist models for analysis of cross-cultural and cross-national communication, translation and adaptation of the United Nation's (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This book contains assessment of the progress, or the lack of it, in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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

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The large-scale extraction of natural resources for sale in capitalist markets is not a new phenomenon, but in recent years global demand for resources has increased, leading to greater attention to the role of resource extraction in the development of the exporting countries.

Amid the growing calls for a turn towards sustainable agriculture, this book puts forth and discusses the concept of agrarian extractivism to help us identify and expose the predatory extractivist features of dominant agricultural development models.

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The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development provides an interdisciplinary, agenda-setting survey of the fields of migration and development, bringing together over 60 expert contributors from around the world to chart current and future trends in research on this topic.

In The Turn of the Tortoise, T N Ninan explores the paradox of a "e;premature superpower"e; (as Martin Wolf once described India in the Financial Times).

With China's rapid advancements in urbanization and industrialization, there has been significant labor movement away from agriculture in the rural regions.

Bioregionalism asks us to reimagine ourselves and the places where we live in ecological terms and to harmonize human activities with the natural systems that sustain life.