Development studies

Changing Narratives of Sexuality examines the tensions and contradictions in constructions of gender, sexuality and women's empowerment in the various narrations of sexuality told by and about women.

Climate change impacts upon the world's poorest most heavily.

This book explores the ways in which political settlements can contribute to positive changes in Africa's agricultural and manufacturing sectors.

Prominent intellectuals and public figures explore the dynamics of development, offering varying perspectives from a range of fields.

This book, first published in 1980, addresses the questions raised by the death of Mao Zedong and the arrest of the 'Gang of Four'.

Breger Bush argues that derivatives markets work in the development context as engines of inequality and instability, aggravating poverty among those they are purported to help and highlighting some of the dangers of neoliberal globalization for the poor.

Exploring the phenomenon of diffusion of legal norms accompanying economic globalisation in developing countries, this book examines the blanket imposition of standard regulatory templates, maintaining that every jurisdiction requires customised legal solutions.

As water resources diminish with increasing population and economic pressures as well as global climate change, this book addresses a subject of ever increasing local and global importance.

This book, first published in 1939, was originally conceived as an investigation of peasant farming in Europe written in the years of the agricultural depression of the nineteen-thirties.

This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources.

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.

This book demonstrates how agriculture can play a determining role in integrated, climate-optimised urban development.

This book represents an unusual intervention in debates about the nature of contemporary international development, where the majority of scholarship tends to concern itself with measuring or collating goal performance.

This book examines the land question in neoliberal India based on a cohesive framework focusing on socio-legal and judicial interactions in a point of departure from the political-economy approach to land issues.

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.

Economic development is intended to benefit everyone in a community; however, in many cases, increased public and private investment can result in the pricing out and displacement of existing residents and businesses.

In recent years China has achieved impressive economic growth, and also made remarkable progress in human development.

Turbulence characterises the current global scene.

Zoonotic diseases - pathogens transmitted from animals to people - offer particularly challenging problems for global health institutions and actors, given the complex social-ecological dynamics at play.

This book investigates the power of civil society in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), in the context of the post-Arab Spring era, as well as more long-standing challenges and constraints in the region.

At least fifty years of projects aimed at the rural poor in Africa have had very little impact.

Foreign aid is about charity.

This work examines ideas about the role of law and legal reform in the creation of market economies, focusing on the process of post communist transition in Russia.

In her book, Dr Ulpiana Kocollari presents a unique contribution to the debate on Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability by clearly expressing how the configuration of a firm's social dimension can help identify inclusive corporate governance models, define innovative management processes and reshape performance measurement systems for the evaluation and assessment of sustainable economic, social and environmental results.

Qin explores the ten-year development of relations between China and Central and Eastern Europe through the China-CEEC (China-Central and Eastern European Countries) cooperation (16/17+1), which began as a platform for annual high-level meetings between leaders of China and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries, and to stimulate new dynamism and gain recognition through effective shared practice.

Aid Power and Politics delves into the political roots of aid policy, demonstrating how and why governments across the world use aid for global influence, and exploring the role it plays in present-day global governance and international relations.

We have only one earth, and how we choose to live in it matters.

In The Sustainable Manifesto, Kersten Reich describes in a concise and memorable way the necessary actions that humans need to take to live sustainably and combat climate change.

This book addresses the challenges threatening the quality of life and well-being of people living in the MENA region.

In volume 1 of Gandhi and the Psychology of Nonviolence the authors advanced a scientific psychology of nonviolence, derived from principles enunciated by Gandhi and supported by current state-of-the-art research in psychology.

This book argues that society must rethink the notion of formal employment and instead introduce and spread the notion of "e;meaningful work"e; so that societies can become independent of economic growth.

Various forms of partnering - such as officially registered marriages, cohabiting relationships, and other kinds of relatively stable relationships - are crucial in the formation of families throughout the world.

This book sheds light on the real experiences of women in different societies, exploring the impact of globalization through the changing nature of the labour of women.

This book uses the transformative innovation policy (TIP) as a lens to show how innovative processes, practices and systems could address critical challenges and facilitate the delivery of sustainable human settlements in South Africa.

This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers in order to examine how and to what extent the challenge of language revitalisation should be reassessed and reconceptualised to take account of our fast-changing social context.

Part of the 'Religion and Citizenship' series, this book is an ethnographic study of marginality of Muslims in urban India.

The stated aim of much development assistance is the reduction of poverty.

This book details a process of creating a long-term sustainability and resilience plan for local governments to use in designing and implementing sustainability and resilience-related policies, initiatives, and programs.

This volume describes African cities in transition, and the economic, socio-political, and environmental challenges resulting from rapid post-colonial urbanization.

The global construction sector is infamous for high levels of injuries, accidents and fatalities, and poor health and well-being of its workforce.

The evidence for human-induced climate change is now overwhelming, the brunt of its impacts is already being felt by poor people, and the case for urgent action is compelling.

To understand the policy environment within which refugees establish and operate their enterprises in South Africa,s informal sector, this report brings together two streams of policy analysis.

This book unveils the myriad streams of ecocentric thoughts that have been flowing through the human mind - in indigenous communities, in the wisdom of philosophers, in the creative expressions of poets and writers - sometimes latent, but sometimes more explicit.

In Defence of British India (1984) illustrates the problems arising from the British need to defend an Indian empire against the fluctuations in the European balance of power, preferably by isolating the empire from the European political system.

With the fall of apartheid in South Africa, expectations were high for the enfranchisement of the acutely underdeveloped majority in South Africa.

In the present global context, some countries still face many challenges to bringing about inclusive, efficient, and environmentally sustainable development.

The Community of Oil Exporting Countries (1972) looks at the oil producing countries of the developing world and their economic reliance on oil.

Sustainable development is a major challenge of our times.