Development studies

This book explores the political ecology of agrofuels as an encompassing socio-spatial transformation process consisting of a series of changing contexts, political reconfigurations, and the restructuring of social and labour relations.

Using quantitative techniques, this volume provides empirical evidence on the crucial role of public provisioning of food, water, sanitation and health care in reducing undernutrition among women and children in India.

This book brings together a leading team of international experts in arts and global development to showcase effective practice and to explore how this vibrant interdisciplinary field has developed and what the latest research can teach us.

This book brings together two vitally important strands of 20th-century thinking to establish a set of simple and elegant principles for planning, project design and evaluation.

First published in 1998, This book is written by seasoned scholars of African Studies and it intended to make a significant contribution to the debate on democracy and democratization in the continent.

In recent decades, gold mining has moved into increasingly remote corners of the globe.

Nature conservation planning tends to be driven by models based on Western norms and science, but these may not represent the cultural, philosophical and religious contexts of much of Asia.

When this work was first published in 1966, there was much interest in various types of commodity agreements and compensatory financing as methods of reducing the effects of export fluctuations on the economies of developing countries.

This book discusses the social and economic problems currently faced by Brazil as one of the largest "e;emerging countries"e;.

This handbook explores the political economy and governance of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences.

Climate Crisis Economics: A Race of Tipping Points draws on economics, political economy, scientific literature, and data to gauge the extent to which our various communities - political, economic, and business - are making the essential leap to a new narrative and policy approach that will accelerate us towards the necessary transition to a decarbonised economy and sustainable future.

This edited volume explores the crucial intersections between Indigenous Land-Based Knowledge (ILK), sustainability, settler colonialism, and the ongoing environmental crisis.

Brazil has famously been called a country of contradictions.

This collection of essays provides a state-of-the-art examination of the concepts and methods that can be used to understand poverty dynamics.

Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted.

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

Security assistance has become the largest component of international peacebuilding and stabilization efforts, and a primary tool for responding to civil war and insurgency.

This book examines the dynamic between citizens' trust and good governance using the case study of Bangladesh.

This book explores the process of economic liberalisation in Latin America and revises the transition from the import substitution industrialisation model to market-oriented reforms.

This book explores recent developments in the concept of hybridity through a multi-disciplinary perspective, bringing ideas about legal plurality together with the fields of peace, development and cultural studies.

This book focuses on one critical challenge: climate change.

This book explores identity-mediated dynamics of food and nutrition entitlement in urban India analysing concerns around equity, access to food and public health.

How successful have Southern African states been in dealing with the major issues that have faced the region in recent years?

Originally published in 1999.

This book examines postcolonial strategies for economic development in Africa from the 1960s to the present day.

This book teases out the reasons for, and the socio-economic impacts of, different types of migration on contemporary rural households and individuals.

First published in 1990.

The COVID-19 pandemic upended our social and economic lives.

The study of urbanization in Southeast Asia has been a growing field of research over the past decades.

Contract farming has received renewed attention recently as developing economies try to grapple with how to transform the agricultural sector and its associated value chains.

Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood experiments in grassroots democracy.

Around the world, discriminatory legislation prevents women from accessing their human rights.

When first published in 2009, Nature's Matrix set out a radical new approach to the conservation of biodiversity.

This book explores the practices of governance in Bhutan and how they shape the implementation of the country's Gross National Happiness (GNH) development strategy.

This book brings together two important discussions in public health in developing countries: an understanding of the burden of disease, health equity and social determinants of health; and biomathematical models, epidemiological studies and estimation of the direct and indirect cost of disease.

In Sri Lanka, the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) employs thousands of unmarried rural women, and their migration has aroused deep anxieties over female morality and ideal conduct.

This book debates the emergent proprieties of rural and peri-urban South Africa since land and agrarian reforms were initiated after the transition to democracy in 1994.

This book examines the global campaign to end hunger and malnutrition.

Recurring and worsening flood incidence around the world has necessitated the understanding and strengthening of community-based flood risk management from an international perspective.

Women in conflict zones face steep challenges, and nowhere is this clearer than in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, regions that face reduced foreign aid, foreign occupation, violence, instability, ingrained social conservatism and perpetual political crisis.

Collective Impact as a tool to bring about community change has seen remarkable growth in usage since 2011.

Soviet Agriculture in Perspective (1969) examines the framework within which Soviet agriculture had to operate from the start: the dilemma of a revolutionary regime in a backward peasant country, the straightjacket of a bureaucratic system inherited from Tsarism, made even more rigid by the internal tensions of the new society, and the imperative needs of economic development.

This timely and powerful autoethnography traces the spread of and responses to Covid-19: from the uncertainty surrounding its outbreak, to its devastating and continued aftermath.

This book explores non-electoral means of public participation in contemporaryChina, both as an outcome of and a key contributor to the party-state'sefforts to improve its governing capacity.

Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world.

The refugee crisis that began in 2015 has seen thousands of refugees attempting to reach Europe, principally from Syria.

Questions regarding the economic consequences of various forms of regime have puzzled development researchers for many years.

This unique study from the OECD Development Centre presents a comprehensive review by independent experts of the relationships and division of responsibility between the 22 member governments of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), and NGOs from these donor countries, working in international development.