Development studies

This book discusses applied life cycle and supply chain management approaches for the sustainable development of tourism in Asian countries.

This SpringerBrief focuses on Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) in the three basins in the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Value chains are a vital part of how our world operates, yet we are only beginning to understand how to make them sustainable.

This book takes food parcels as a vehicle for exploring relationships, intimacy, care, consumption, exchange, and other fundamental anthropological concerns, examining them in relation to wider transnational spaces.

This handbook questions, debates and subverts commonly held assumptions about disability and citizenship in the global postcolonial context.

This book introduces and demonstrates the state-of-the art research and development in tackling sustainable urban and rural integration, supported by digitalization and digital transformation in rural areas with Industry 4.

This book focuses on the Nordic countries through a European perspective and wishes to draw attention to their place in the new world order.

This book examines the twin critical processes of state-building and nation-building in Africa and the confluence of major domestic and global issues that shape them.

This book contributes to our understanding of a neglected and poorly-understood concept within the development field: 'capacity development' in the context of human and organisational sustainable development.

This book identifies key factors that drive the development and improvement of higher education research in emerging and advanced economies.

This book explores regionalism in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and highlights the influence of the European Union (EU) as an extra-regional actor on the organization and integration process.

This book examines post-secession and post-transition state building in Somaliland, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan.

Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice examines the interplay between images and human rights, addressing how, when, and to what ends visuals are becoming a more central means through which human rights claims receive recognition and restitution.

This Brief explores the problem of creating organizational change and a culture of lawfulness within police organizations in the developing world.

The central claim of this book is that the dichotomy between economic dependence and economic independence is completely inadequate for describing the political challenges faced by contemporary capitalist welfare states.

This book applies an interdisciplinary governance assessment framework to assess China's water quality governance from a holistic point of view.

During the past five decades, sub-Saharan Africa has received more foreign aid than has any other region of the world, and yet poverty remains endemic throughout the region.

This book provides a first-hand account of the author's encounters as a social geographer, based on his field research and travels in Mexico and the Caribbean.

This book introduces an analytic framework constructed upon the iterated Prisoners' Dilemma game to model and analyze transboundary water interactions along the Nile River.

This book investigates how social movements form their political strategies in their quest for social change and -when they shift from one strategy to another- why and how that happens.

This book presents five critical dimensions on relationships, institutions, produc-tion, organisation, and governance from design and systems perspectives for thesystematic transition of unstable and vulnerable communities across the world tosustainable community systems.

Rebuilding the Earth highlights humanity's interdependence with the planet's ecosystems.

This book critically engages with a long tradition of scholarly work that conceives of the European Union as a peculiar international actor that pursues a value-based, normatively oriented and development-friendly agenda in its relations with international partners.

This book highlights the developmental changes in aggression and violence during adolescence from a uniquely psychological perspective.

This book addresses the ongoing problem of HIV in black South African women as a health inequity.

This book, through an analysis of case studies in Latin America and Southeast Asia, sets out to understand the form and function of contemporary states seeking to guide and cajole markets, hoping to stimulate economic growth and generate robust development outcomes.

This book addresses the discourses, agendas and actions of Muslim faith-based organizations and activists to empower Muslim communities in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa.

This book examines the main reasons and challenges for the success of the human development approach both in theory and practice as an alternative to the economic growth model.

This book examines lifelong learning from different angles and follows the trajectory beginning with the expansive notion of lifelong education promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and its subsequent version intended to better suit the neoliberal framework and make EU countries more competitive in the global economy.

This book presents an alternative theory of globalization that derives not from the dominant perspective of the West, from which this process emerged, but from the critical vantage point of the Third World, which has borne the heaviest burdens of globalization.

This edited volume addresses various aspects of social and political development in Turkey and the latter's role within a global context.

Es wird die Komplexität von Umweltverschmutzung und Gesundheitsbeeinträchtigung im Kontext von sozialer Indikation dargestellt.

This book covers the entire Nile Basin and reflects the latest findings.

This book develops a case for feminist gender training as a catalyst for disjuncture, rupture and change.

This anthology constitutes an important contribution to the interdisciplinary debate on poverty measurement and alleviation.

This book examines the relationship between post-Soviet societies in transition and the increasingly important role of their diaspora.

In a fragile and conflict-ridden context such as the Gaza Strip, where the de facto Hamas government faces isolation and lacks international recognition, the provision of aid and development schemes challenges donors and CSOs delivering services to Palestinians.

This book discusses how human wellbeing is constructed and transferred intergenerationally in the context of international migration.

This book brings together multiple critical assessments of the current state and future visions of global development studies.

This book provides a non-technical, accessible primer on sustainable agricultural development and its relationship to sustainable development based on three analytical pillars.

In this volume, the authors reflect on the question "e;what is socialism"e; as it pertains to today's economy.

This book focuses on corporate social responsibility (CSR) records of Chinese oil investments in five Latin American countries: Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Colombia, and Venezuela.

This book examines how human behavior is shaped by our aspirations, emotions, thoughts and sensations, and conversely, how the experiences that result from our behavior impact ourselves, others and the planet.

This volume presents selected papers from the 19th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference held in Istanbul.

This book is based on experience and reflections related to international support provided to parliaments and legislative bodies both in selected countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ghana, Serbia, and Kyrgyzstan) and globally.

This edited volume analyzes the Mauritius economy and highlights what conditions and policies have contributed to the development of the country.

World population and the number of city dwellers are steadily growing.

This book identifies the strengths and weaknesses of different methodological approaches to research in communication and social change.