Development studies

China's agriculture and rural society has undergone rapid changes in recent years.

The study of economic development is inherently grounded in philosophical and ethical assumptions.

Amid the growing calls for a turn towards sustainable agriculture, this book puts forth and discusses the concept of agrarian extractivism to help us identify and expose the predatory extractivist features of dominant agricultural development models.

Many books have been written on computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling.

Chalmlee-Wright argues that international aid programmes have often been unsuccessful because they are imported.

Kitchen Table Sustainability offers a unique view of sustainability through the lens of community engagement.

This book is the first work dedicated to the key ideas of Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase on pollution and public goods with sustainable development in mind from the perspective of an economist-town planner.

Biofuels and Rural Poverty makes an original contribution to the current controversial global debate on biofuels, in particular the consequences that large-scale production of transport fuel substitutes can have on rural areas, principally in developing countries but also in some poor rural areas of developed countries.

This book presents a socio-economic and livelihood analysis of agriculturally-dependent communities of Mizoram, the eastern extension of the Himalaya, using the sustainable livelihood approach.

This book tracks and critiques the impact of the internet in Africa.

Food Chains: Quality, Safety and Efficiency in a Challenging World addresses the many issues facing European food producers and other food chain stakeholders, who endeavour to improve their competitive position in a highly competitive world food market.

The TRIPS Agreement (for trade-related intellectual property rights) provides for the general protection of geographical indications (GIs) of product origin, including for example the special protection of wines and spirits and for the creation of a multilateral register for wines.

Post-colonial, post-modern and feminist critiques have challenged the ways we theorise and practice development.

Today, one of the top priorities of an organization's modern corporate strategy is to portray itself as socially responsible and environmentally sustainable.

This books presents a theory of economic development very different from the "e;stages of growth"e; hypothesis or strategies emphasizing foreign aid, trade, or regional association.

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is widely regarded as one of the Kyoto Protocol's best creations and as an essential part of the international climate change regime.

To meet the challenge of global environmental degradation activists have tackled clear and concrete problems such as carbon emissions and climate change, the ruination of ecosystems and habitat, the precipitous loss of biodiversity, and many other unhappy consequences of irresponsible human behaviour.

The global history of liberalism has paid too much attention to the West, neglecting the contributions of liberals from colonial nations.

Migration has become, since the nineties, the subject of growing international discussion and cooperation.

From an unpromising start as 'the basket-case' to present day plaudits for its human development achievements, Bangladesh plays an ideological role in the contemporary world order, offering proof that the neo-liberal development model works under the most testing conditions.

The Asian crisis of the late 1990s severely affected some of the most successful economies in the region, placing the issue of social protection high on the regional and international agenda.

This book provides a step-by-step, insiders' guide on how to lobby and engage successfully at the United Nations.

International development is now more topical than ever.

This pioneering collection explores the ways in which positive, pleasure-focused approaches to sexuality can empower women.

Colonial Sequence 1930-1949 (1967) presents a valuable body of evidence for the enquiry into Britain's colonial actions, written at a time when Britain was retreating from empire.

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken since 2006, the book addresses some of the most topical aspects of remote Aboriginal life in Australia.

Thirty-years of economic transformation has turned China into one of the major players in the global capitalist economy.

Discussion over celebrity engagement is often limited to theoretical critique or normative name-calling, without much grounded research into what it is that celebrities are doing, the same or differently throughout the world.

Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor?

The majority of economists today are opposed to allowing governments a significant role in economic affairs.

'There should be a good market for this book.

This book will discuss the legal tools offered by international law that can support foreign direct investment (FDI) in the renewable energy sector in the Global South.

What is the thruth behind the paradise beaches in travel brocures?

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of global governance from a gendered perspective.

In this study of the Comparative Political Economy of East and South Asia, the author adopts an interdisciplinary perspective on Third World development, thus recognising the importance of the interrelationships between the economy and the society and emphasising the need to direct attention to political, institutional and historical factors.

Bringing together the expertise of dozens of Latin American scholars, Latin America's Multicultural Movements examines multicultural rights recognition in theory and in practice.

Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der lokalen Wahrnehmung ausgewählter Maßnahmen innerhalb der Polizeireform in Nigeria.

A solution to the problem of climate change requires close international cooperation and difficult reforms involving all states.

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the vulnerabilities of socio-economic systems globally and exposed the risks that natural capital degradation imposes on human health, economy, and society.

Transnational surrogacy the creation of babies across borders has become big business.

Sustainable Tourism Policy and Planning in Africa offers an accessible and understandable overview of the challenges of integrating sustainability into tourism policy and planning in Sub-Saharan Africa and provides some interesting recommendations on how these could be overcome.

Comprising seven edited pieces of detailed empirical work drawn from recent research, this title reveals the dynamics behind the movements of poor people in South and South East Asia and Africa.

The mushrooming of illegal housing on the periphery of cities is one of the main consequences of rapid urbanisation associated with social and environmental problems in the developing countries.

This book is intended for policy-makers, academics and students of development studies, area studies, political economy, geography and political science.

The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development.

This book evaluates the potential for the transformative mediation framework to be adopted in a non-western context.

This book is the result of the collective effort of some of the foremost experts and scholars of Chinese law, Asian law, and Chinese economics and carefully examines the relationship between law and China's economic development.

In recent years, it has become apparent that South-South economic relations are increasing, and will continue to do so.

Agriculture is at the centre of the economies of many developing countries, and its stagnation and poor performance across large parts of Africa is a major cause for concern.