Development studies

Based on the importance of human beings as creators and managers of knowledge towards the achievement of sustainability in the current digital age, this book is an effort to present many studies taking individuals as centers of knowledge and starting points for environmental, social, and economic development.

International debt relief continues to be a highly controversial subject.

The integration of development and climate objectives is increasingly recognized as significant in research and policy making.

This textbook introduces political ecology as an interdisciplinary approach to critically examine land and environmental issues.

This book considers management theories and approaches specifically in the context of developing countries.

Published in the year 1977, Terms of Trade and Class Relations is a valuable contribution to the field of History.

This book investigates mine closure and local responses in South Africa, linking dependencies and social disruption.

Fifty years after the publication of Eric Wolf's celebrated Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, and forty years after the publication of his path-breaking Europe and the People Without History, this book offers a much-needed critical assessment and update of Wolf's contribution to the study of the peasantry and its relationship to capitalism, the state, and imperialism.

Why do some economies seem to excel at effective pollution management while others miss the mark when responding to deteriorating urban environments?

Voicing Demands is a collection of analytical narratives of what has happened to feminist voice, a key pathway to women's empowerment.

Mining can have negative environmental and social impacts, but can also be responsible.

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

This book is a compendium of rigorous and original research, exploring the use of media systems and communication techniques to mitigate sustainable development issues in Nigeria.

In the world's developing countries, foreign investment in natural resources brings into contact competing interests that are often characterised by unequal balances of negotiating power - from multinational corporations and host governments, through to the local people affected by the influx of foreign investment.

Peru is perhaps one of the most dramatic and unpredictable of all Latin American countries.

Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million people are affected by these and other disasters, which cause loss of life and damage to personal property, agriculture, and infrastructure.

The authors explore the outlook of Rwanda in the context of development of East Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context.

The Republic of Indonesia is a rising great power in the Asia-Pacific, set to become the eighth largest economy in the world in the coming decades.

Este libro no se plantea ni como una biografía de Luis Bolín, ni como un estudio prosopográfico.

Introducing East Asia is an ideal textbook for those new to the study of one of the most exciting and important regions in the world.

This book examines the role of African intellectuals in the years since the end of colonialism, studying the contribution that has been made by such individuals, both to political causes and to development within Africa.

Agricultural Co-operation in the Soviet Union (1929) examines agriculture in the USSR as the government was restructuring all national economic life and enterprise on a state socialist basis.

The world is changing at a fast pace, so is the Government and Governance style.

The book offers a theoretical and practical analysis of the contemporary approach to art, culture and innovation, with special emphasis on the relationship between culture, innovation and the economy, in the context of green transition, as an indispensable sustainability factor.

The unifying theme of Women and Careers is women's educational and employment success, with the objective of profiling supportive public policy in global contexts from Atlantic Canada to Western Europe, Australia and China.

Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society (1987) studies Guyanese society after slavery and specifically examines the area of social classes and ethnic groups.

Aid sector staff work in some of the world's most challenging environments, from conflict zones to sites of natural disaster and refugee camps.

Originally published in 1985, this book analyses the extent and way in which technological change determines the utilisation of labour in less developed economies.

This is one of the first volumes to comprehensively discuss resource constraints and institutional challenges in realizing the Fundamental Right to Education (RTE) in India.

The economic and political rise of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), and powerful middle-income countries (MICs) such as Argentina, Indonesia and Turkey, has far-reaching implications for global agrarian transformation.

Routledge Readings on Security and Governance in Northeastern India: Resource Conflicts, Militarisation and Development Challenges presents some of the finest essays on a region that stretches across the Northeastern Himalaya, eight Indian States and many tribal and non-tribal peoples.

As the Kyoto Protocol limps along without the participation of the US and Australia, on-going climate negotiations are plagued by competing national and business interests that are creating stumbling blocks to success.

This volume brings together some of the most recent scholarship on government and civil society.

L’Afrique dans son évolution, de l’Eden à l’Enfer.

This volume brings together the work of outstanding feminist scholars who reflect on the achievements of feminist political economy and the challenges it faces in the 21st century.

This book examines international out-migration from North India, focusing on the state of Punjab.

National competitiveness has become a misnomer, as competitiveness is increasingly understood as a regional phenomenon and regions are not confined to the boundaries of the nation state.

Ce numéro contient : La formalisation améliore-t-elle la productivité des firmes en Côte d'Ivoire ?

First James Lovelock, and recently Prince William and David Attenborough believe that we have reached a tipping point in the process of climate change.

This book examines gender and professions in the 21st century.

A sustainable brand should integrate environmental, social, economic and issues into its business operations.

The impact of humanity on the earth overshoots the earth's bio-capacity to supply humanity's needs, meaning that people are living off earth's capital rather than its income.

Congo Masquerade is about mismanagement, hypocrisy and powerlessness in what has proved to be one of Africa's most troublesome and volatile states.

This interdisciplinary book analyzes the nature of child justice administration in Africa, particularly focusing on Nigeria and South Africa.

This book analyses the conflicts that emerged from the Brazilian labour movement's active participation in a rapidly changing political environment, particularly in the context of the coming to power of a party with strong roots in the labour movement.

This book shares real-life case studies taken from GreenSCENT, a three-year EU-funded project that promotes sustainability through the development of digital platforms and tools, green education programme, and climate and environmental literacy certification.

The number of internally displaced people far outnumbers estimated refugees who have fled their countries.

The main focus of this book is to help better understand the multidimensionality and complexity of population displacement and the role that reconstruction and recovery knowledge and practice play in this regard.