Development studies

Each year millions of people are displaced from their homes and lands.

In 1998 the World Bank published a report entitled "e;Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn't and Why"e;.

In The Gender Politics of Development Shirin Rai provides a comprehensive assessment of how gender politics has emerged and developed in post-colonial states.

Shows how to perform qualitative research in cross-cultural contexts, with an emphasis on a more ethical, sensible and responsible approach.

Policing and Human Rights analyses the implementation of human rights standards, tracing them from the nodal points of their production in Geneva, through the board rooms of national police management and training facilities, to the streets of downtown Johannesburg.

Behind the mystery of economic growth stands another mystery: why do some places fare better than others?

This book explores various aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regimes with regard to plant-variety protection and farmers' rights; traditional knowledge; geographical indications, genetically modified crops; and access to genetic resources within the broad ambit of Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), the Convention of Biological Diversity and other treaties/protocols.

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies is the first comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of Indigenous scholarship.

Each year, millions of people are internally displaced and resettled in the wake of wars and floods or to make way for large-scale development projects, and this number is increasing.

Transnational Broadcasting in the Indo-Pacific brings together research spanning journalism, broadcast and political science to interrogate the issues arising from a rapidly changing global political and broadcast environment.

The Essentials of Social Finance provides an interesting, accessible overview of this fascinating ecosystem, blending insights from finance and social entrepreneurship.

Rapid industrialisation is promoted by many as the most feasible way of rejuvenating the Indian economy, and as a way of generating employment on a large scale.

This volume proposes an alternative development paradigm to the existing capitalist extant one, and studies how it is distinctly different from the older system.

This book introduces readers to the rich discipline of Africana Studies, reflecting on how it has developed over the last fifty years as an intellectual enterprise for knowledge production about Africa and the African diaspora.

Relying on micro-evidence on the repercussions of civil conflicts, this edited book explores theories and policies of post-conflict peacebuilding.

This volume examines some of the major challenges and opportunities for Europe in the light of the intensifying US-China global strategic rivalry.

Metropolitan areas are home to a significant proportion of the world's population and its economic output.

In 70 countries worldwide, there is an estimated 370 million indigenous peoples, and their rich diversity of cultures, religions, traditions, languages and histories has been significant source of our scholarships.

Environmental risk directly affects the financial stability of banks since they bear the financial consequences of the loss of liquidity of the entities to which they lend and of the financial penalties imposed resulting from the failure to comply with regulations and for actions taken that are harmful to the natural environment.

The economic policies of reactive states such as Turkey and Greece, both of which have shown limited ability to implement institutional reforms in recent years, have paved the way for deep crises.

Lichtenberg argues for a practical and moral approach to reducing poverty, exploring concepts such as altruism and aid.

This volume presents insights on the challenges of digital communication and participation in agricultural and rural development.

Across the world, 2 billion people experience menstruation, yet menstruation is seen as a mark of shame.

From Hurricane Katrina and the south Asian tsunami to human-induced atrocities, terrorist attacks and the looming effects of climate change, the world is assailed by both natural and unnatural hazards and disasters.

This book analyses energy transitions and the opportunities and challenges for building sustainable energy systems to improve human capabilities while protecting the environment.

There is a growing realization that religion plays a major role in development, particularly in the Global South.

In a world grappling with refugee crisis, political unrest and economies on the verge of collapse, temporary migration has become an increasingly common phenomenon.

First published in 1983, Collapse and Survival was written as an examination of the position of industry worldwide at the time of publication.

Management and the Sustainability Paradox is about how humans became disconnected from their ecological environment throughout evolutionary history.

This book studies the dynamic aspects of the Human Development Index (HDI) through a partial mobility perspective.

This book systematically analyses state responses towards Maoism in India and studies the role of state policies in prolonging conflict.

This volume is a collection of selected empirical studies on determinants of economic growth in Africa.

This book explores the environmental and ecological wisdom inherent in some of the indigenous traditions of traditional communities from developing societies like, Argentina, Brazil, India, Mexico, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

This book brings together diverse contributions exploring the integration of gender equality in current national energy policies and international energy frameworks across the Global South and North.

This book showcases new empirical findings on the conceptualization, design, and evaluation of land management interventions and addresses two crucial aspects: how and under which conditions such interventions are responsible, and how such interventions can be supported by smart technologies.

This book considers how public sector institutions can be transformed to better support sustainable development by exploring the concept of green inside activism and its importance for institutional change.

Contemporary cities in the Iberian Peninsula have gone through a period of dramatic changes during the last decade.

This book conceptualizes and synthesizes worldwide research on the quality of urban life.

Communicating Sustainability is a book of evidence-based strategies for making sustainability vivid, accessible, and comprehensible.

In South Africa, two unmistakable features describe post-Apartheid politics.

Fundraising for Impact in Libraries, Archives, and Museums provides practical advice that will help LAMs reassess how to leverage their organizational assets in ways that support communities and help to forge productive relationships with foundation, individual, corporate, and government funders.

The establishment of the IBSA as one of the principal platforms of South-South cooperation is one of the most notable developments in international politics during the first decade of the twenty-first century.

This book scrutinizes the role of Hong Kong in the expansive, and contested, vision of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 17 Goals blends the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental.

Without the effective participation of developing Asia, a climate crisis is certain.

This book applies a critical perspective to anthropogenic climate change and the global socio-ecological crisis.

This book, first published in 1933, reproduces the diary of the 1930 explorations by the great Italian traveller, Giotto Dainelli.

Based on the author's extensive research in the field, this book analyzes regional policy for the whole of Europe.

This book presents a novel examination of transboundary water governance, drawing on global case studies and applying new theoretical approaches.