Development studies

This book critically examines the interplay between gender inequality and activism in Nigeria and related African contexts.

This book critically examines the interplay between gender inequality and activism in Nigeria and related African contexts.

This book is a call to action for housing recovery policymakers and practitioners to leverage foresight and planning capacities to achieve long-term resilience.

This book is a call to action for housing recovery policymakers and practitioners to leverage foresight and planning capacities to achieve long-term resilience.

The book unravels the entangled relationship between ascriptive identity (caste) and space (urban) and how this interaction (re)moulds urban stratification.

The book unravels the entangled relationship between ascriptive identity (caste) and space (urban) and how this interaction (re)moulds urban stratification.

This book, through systematic analyses and reviews, provides an up-to-date and holistic perspective on the progress of sustainable awareness and practices in different fields in Vietnam, such as Economics, Business, Finance, Law, and Management.

This book, through systematic analyses and reviews, provides an up-to-date and holistic perspective on the progress of sustainable awareness and practices in different fields in Vietnam, such as Economics, Business, Finance, Law, and Management.

This book provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the work of the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, with a particular focus on the conceptual material of his work.

This volume explores the diverse meanings and ways of implementing development programs and technical assistance projects, through several case studies grounded in Mexico but transcending its geography.

This Handbook brings together a plethora of decolonial perspectives from and about Asian countries beyond Southeast Asia.

This book focuses on the regulatory, supervisory and policy resolutions of the problems of the financial and banking system during the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book explores the future of African-European relations with a focus on achieving equity in a global context.

This book is part of a two-volumes exploration comprising 18 chapters organized into four distinct thematic sections.

This book explores the future of African-European relations with a focus on achieving equity in a global context.

This book focuses on the impact of environmental chemicals on human health.

This book focuses on the impact of environmental chemicals on human health.

Africa provides a unique perspective to understand today's global crises.

An estimated 75% of the infrastructure that societies will depend on in 2050 does not yet exist, reflecting $139 trillion of investment over the next quarter century.

Africa provides a unique perspective to understand today's global crises.

An estimated 75% of the infrastructure that societies will depend on in 2050 does not yet exist, reflecting $139 trillion of investment over the next quarter century.

This book assumes that "e;women's empowerment"e; is a social movement aimed at producing political, economic and social change.

This book critically examines how the media assistance and broader 'development' sector have appropriated the catch-all concept of sustainability, originally rooted in economic and environmental fields, to suit their agendas.

This book highlights the challenges with respect to climate change in the Global South.

This book assumes that "e;women's empowerment"e; is a social movement aimed at producing political, economic and social change.

This book highlights the challenges with respect to climate change in the Global South.

This book examines the influence of prevailing colonial heritage in Africa on its socio-economic development.

This book examines the influence of prevailing colonial heritage in Africa on its socio-economic development.

This book covers the impact of global warming on environmental toxins, occupational toxins, food toxins, marine toxins and agricultural toxins.

This book covers the impact of global warming on environmental toxins, occupational toxins, food toxins, marine toxins and agricultural toxins.

This book interrogates the wars in Ukraine and in Gaza and asks whether meaningful distinctions can be made between just and unjust wars.

The Palgrave Handbook of Ubuntu, Inequality and Sustainable Development interrogates the multiple inequalities that subsist in the world and explores how Ubuntu, emerging from Africa but being potentially applicable elsewhere, holds promise for mitigation and resolution.

The Palgrave Handbook of Ubuntu, Inequality and Sustainable Development interrogates the multiple inequalities that subsist in the world and explores how Ubuntu, emerging from Africa but being potentially applicable elsewhere, holds promise for mitigation and resolution.

This book evaluates development progress using the lens of structural transformation in four groups of developing countries: Africa’s least developed countries (LDCs), Asia’s LDCs, landlocked Central Asian countries, and Pacific small island states.

This book evaluates development progress using the lens of structural transformation in four groups of developing countries: Africa’s least developed countries (LDCs), Asia’s LDCs, landlocked Central Asian countries, and Pacific small island states.

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.

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.

This book sets out to develop a policy design process that is more inclusive by creating space for emotions and feelings.

This book presents an in-depth and provoking analysis of the current global landscape and the challenges it presents for development.

This book presents an in-depth and provoking analysis of the current global landscape and the challenges it presents for development.

This innovative book has combined the latest drive to integrate the findings and principles of quantum mechanics and quantum technology, especially here quantum computing, into the flamboyant world of social sciences.

This book gathers the thoughts of 8 hospital presidents, 9 vice presidents focusing on construction management in hospitals, and 6 hospital architects regarding the hospital design and construction in China.

This book gathers the thoughts of 8 hospital presidents, 9 vice presidents focusing on construction management in hospitals, and 6 hospital architects regarding the hospital design and construction in China.

The purpose of this volume is to revisit the core principle that growth is a function of communication, encapsulated in the term, negentropy, in the light of noteworthy initiatives that applied this construct in the pursuit of development goals.

The purpose of this volume is to revisit the core principle that growth is a function of communication, encapsulated in the term, negentropy, in the light of noteworthy initiatives that applied this construct in the pursuit of development goals.

This book will argue that lodging is a hugely ignored, largely invisible but critical sector of housing provision and economic contributor of burgeoning African cities.