Development studies

This book provides an introduction to sustainable aquaculture practices, focusing on how we develop social, economic and environmental resilience.

This book sets out how to ensure that adaptation efforts are socially and environmentally sustainable, contributing to poverty reduction as well as confronting the processes driving vulnerability.

This book examines China's response to the Asian financial crisis of 1997, both in its immediate aftermath and in the years since.

This book focuses on the development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Indonesia based on various primary and secondary field surveys.

After almost twenty years of internationalization, Chinese firms have shown their growing innovation capability through benefiting from global networks and domestic efforts.

With the growing environment and consciousness of "e;outcome-based education,"e; the importance of this subject has increased manyfold.

Contemporary discussions of Africa's recent growth have largely interpreted such growth in terms of structural transformation, based mainly on national- and sectoral-level data.

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy and beyond.

,The Power of Labelling illuminates a fundamental and intriguing dimension of social and political life.

This textbook examines fashion luxury brand management, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of its origins, unique components, current practices, global trade and, most importantly, the application of sustainable models to the industry.

This book investigates the ways in which the humanitarian system is secular and understands religious beliefs and practices when responding to disasters.

This book breaks new ground by providing a structured and cohesive set of contributions on the actions, developments, problems and theories of corporate social responsibility (CSR).

Designers are often depicted as social change agents that serve the good in the world.

Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence examines the complexities surrounding the concept of wilderness.

In this volume, leading economists assess India''s economic performance, policies and institutions.

Cities are the most likely actors to design and bring about lasting sustainability.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of regional integration in the contemporary Caribbean, challenging the value of the neoliberal ideology that permeates regionalism discourse.

This book examines the changing position of the Developing World within the world system.

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This book deepens the understanding of the broader processes that shape and mediate the responses to climate change of poor urban households and communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theater tells the story of how American theater has shaped popular understandings of the environment throughout the twentieth century as it argues for theater's potential power in the age of climate change.

Megaprojects, also referred to in the literature as Large Engineering Projects or Major Projects, are generally defined as large-scale investment initiatives worth 1b /$ or more and, facing similar problems independent of the country where they are implemented and the industry they belong to.

This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, and in-depth empirical research.

Published in 1998, this work focuses on the practical issues and policies relating to planning and managing both built and natural environments.

An in-depth look at the distinctly different ways that China and India govern their cities and how this impacts their residentsUrbanization is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two most populous countries in the world.

In the mid-2000s it seemed that the global carbon market would take off and spark the worldwide transition to a profitable low carbon economy.

China has traditionally been held up around the world as the archetype of centralised governance and a top-down system of public administration.

The deflationary Japanese economy is a spurious observation and a precarious political propaganda, which tacitly connects with the fanatic diagnosis urging an inflation-prompting macroeconomic policy.

The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a common global agenda for development.

In the past decades, social enterprise has been an emerging field of research.

This book analyzes contemporary dispossessions in Brazil, drawing on the Marxian concept of primitive accumulation to show how processes of proletarianization, capitalization, and commodification each relate in distinct ways to capitalist accumulation.

This book examines land acquisition and resettlement experience in Asian countries, where nearly two-thirds of the world's development-induced displacement currently takes place.

This book investigates the geopoliticisation of foreign aid in recent years, against a background of global overarching crises such as climate change, conflict, Covid-19, economic crisis, energy shortages and migration.

The rise of fundamentalist movements in major religions has forced decision-makers, development organizations and academics to turn their attention to its meaning for development.

Indonesia contains some of Asia's most biodiverse and threatened forests.

Protected areas are at the centre of nature-based tourism, which is increasingly popular across the world.

This book covers European perspectives on innovation management, including new product and service development, due to the inherent variety of socio-economic perspectives and institutional settings in Europe.

Housing matters to people, be they owner, renter, housing provider, homeless individual, housing professional, or policymaker.

This book describes the movement of un-skilled and skilled workers both within and from India and its fallout on education and development.

This book highlights the extraordinary range of areas to which geographical analysis and spatial modelling can bring lessons and insights.

This book contributes to broadening the interdisciplinary knowledge basis for the description, analysis and assessment of land use practices.

Although microcredit programmes have long been considered efficient development tools, many forms of debt-induced distress have emerged in their wake.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has established itself as one of the most powerful private forces in global politics, shaping the trajectories of international policy-making.

Projecting win-win situations, new economic opportunities, green growth and innovative partnerships, the green economy discourse has quickly gained centre stage in international environmental governance and policymaking.

East Asia is one of the world's most dynamic and diverse regions and is also becoming an increasingly coherent region through the inter-play of various integrative economic, political and socio-cultural processes.

This book looks at how patterns of world trade are changing, how EEC protectionism affects developing countries, how special deals and exceptions are bought in some cases and looks to the future to see how the situation may develop.

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.

The second in a three-volume series, this edited volume discusses post-independence economic inclusion in selected African countries.

This book depicts the challenges associated with the emergence of a new global order in which patterns of conflict and the role of traditional military power are in the process of radical flux.

This edited volume examines policies aimed at increasing the representation of women in governing institutions in six South Asian countries.