Development studies

This report is FAO's latest assessment of the long-term outlook for the world's food supplies, nutrition and agriculture.

This book calls for more holistic place-based action to address the social and environmental crisis, deploying the Deep Place approach as one contribution to the toolbox of actions that will underpin the UN Decade of Action towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

In this edited volume, academics and practitioners from various disciplines investigate the challenges, opportunities and frameworks in the implementation of Smart Cities in the Gulf.

The exploding global consumption of meat is implicated in momentous but greatly underappreciated problems, and industrial livestock production is the driving force behind soaring demand.

The fragility of democracy in Southeast Asia is a subject of increasing concern.

This edited collection provides a comprehensive and locally situated understanding of English language teaching from the perspective of dedicated and experienced language professionals and researchers in Costa Rica.

This book focuses on marginal actors in the global order.

This book focuses on the role of the creative sector in the governance of urban renewal and economic development initiatives.

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Increasing urbanisation and industrial development are occurring at the expense of shrinking forest cover and agricultural land in South Asia.

Despite the growing multi-faith and multi-ethnic nature of Britain, there is insufficient knowledge about diversity in family practices across ethno-religious groups.

Postcolonialism, Decoloniality and Development is a comprehensive revision of Postcolonialism and Development (2009) that explains, reviews and critically evaluates recent debates about postcolonial and decolonial approaches and their implications for development studies.

In this insightful new book, Moncrieffe argues that the traditionally narrow interpretation of accountability obscures relationships, power dynamics, structures, processes and complexities.

Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban "e;greening"e; from an environmental justice and sustainable development perspective.

This book explains farmer suicides in India in the backdrop of rural politics as a determining factor.

The debate on whether or not the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and their intervention strategies are a positive force for change in the developing world continues to rage.

This book examines the processes for the inclusion of women, and the role of women employees in Nepal's forestry bureaucracy.

One of the most striking trends in economic development since the 1970s has been the rising importance of the small firm.

This book analyzes women entrepreneurs in Muslim countries who are using Islamic values to develop and run small businesses.

This is the first history to be written of the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid arm of the United Nations System.

Social Entrepreneurship for Development, Second Edition, presents a fresh approach to poverty alleviation by bridging the fields of international development and social entrepreneurship.

This book is the first legal geography book to explicitly engage in method.

Knowledge and rigorous evidence around the role of external development partners in situations of conflict and fragility is still lacking.

Agriculture productivity, growth and regional change in post-colonial India from a spatial perspective are yet to be rigorously examined.

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Capital cities that are not the dominant economic centers of their nations - so-called 'secondary capital cities' (SCCs) - tend to be overlooked in the fields of economic geography and political science.

This book critically studies descriptive, normative and ethical aspects of violence to understand the Maoist conflict in India.

Northeast India is a multifaceted and dynamic region that is constantly in focus because of its fragile political landscape characterized by endemic violence and conflicts.

The purpose of this book, first published in 1982, is to analyse certain crucial aspects of the great power triangle in order to establish a more complete picture of the role of China in the superpower balance.

Epidemics know no borders and are often characterized by a high level of uncertainty, causing major challenges in risk governance.

Designed as an accessible text on sustainable agriculture, this book contains information on community organization and participation, technologies for sustainability and the wider policy and service environment.

International Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative investigates the most significant global-scale international trade expansion and capital investment programme since the Second World War.

Chinese Labor in a Korean Factorydraws on fieldwork in a multinational corporation (MNC) in Qingdao, China, and delves deep into the power dynamics at play between Korean management, Chinese migrant workers, local-level Chinese government officials, and Chinese local gangs.

This book examines the lived reality of 'everyday multiculturalism', and the ways that young people make sense of the diverse world around them.

In a period of rapid climate change and climate governance failures, it is crucial to understand and address how effectively different political institutions can and should react to climate change.

How China Became Capitalist details the extraordinary, and often unanticipated, journey that China has taken over the past thirty five years in transforming itself from a closed agrarian socialist economy to an indomitable economic force in the international arena.

This book is more or less a companion volume of the author's book Introduction to Social Systems Engineering published by Springer in March, 2018.

This book offers an overview of the recent disruptives technologies and their application in the new Society 5.

This book offers students and practitioners a sophisticated and convincing framework for rethinking the usual approaches to resource management.

This book will teach you everything you need to know about sustainable living-from reducing your greenhouse gas footprint to making sure that you are part of the green economy.

When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 in claimed it would deliver not just austerity, as necessary as that apparently was, but also fairness.

The book reveals how green buildings are currently being adapted and applied in developing countries.

Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda have figured prominently in the post- Cold War relations between Western donors and Sub-Saharan Africa.

The book investigates the beliefs about governance that determine that state structures are the most appropriate venue for international human rights actors and activists to operate.

This book interrogates the validity of longstanding claims that Gambians and Senegalese are 'one' people in two countries and explores how that claim intersects with the politics and development needs of the two countries.

This book offers an overview of the recent disruptives technologies and their application in the new Society 5.

This book introduces a new framework for understanding how the relationship between political parties and the state shapes the development of political parties, party systems and democratic consolidation.

Child Hunger and Human Rights: International Governance applies the human rights theory of legal obligation to the problem of child malnutrition and investigates whether duty-bearers have fulfilled their obligations to protect, respect and provide.