Development studies

A Tributary Model of State Formation: Ethiopia, 1600-2015 addresses the perplexing question of why a pedigreed Ethiopian state failed to transform itself into a nation-state.

This topical volume deals with the major challenges of migration in the Global South and their governance, which are traditionally much less considered than migration to industrialized countries and its consequences.

This book addresses key issues across the field of sustainable urban planning, and provides a unique reference tool for planners, engineers, architects, public administrators, and other experts.

This edited volume studies the relationship between big business and the Latin American dictatorial regimes during the Cold War.

This edited collection examines contemporary directions in geographical research on South Africa.

This book analyses the World Bank's provision of technical assistance from 1946 to the present day.

This book provides an in-depth and broad study on rural Latin America over a 60-year period.

This book analyses the making of the international world of 'natural' disasters by its professionals.

This book studies recent attempts to restructure maritime security sectors through capacity building.

This book provides insight on the effect of political violence and transitional justice in Africa focusing on  Zimbabwe and comparing it to Rwanda, Uganda and Mozambique.

European colonization played a major role in the acquisition, formation, and destruction of different ways of knowing.

This handbook provides the latest research related to quality of life and sustainability, taking into account social, economic, environmental, and political/governance aspects as well as specific socio-spatial contexts.

This book examines how and why, in the context of International Relations, children's subjecthood has all too often been relegated to marginal terrains and children themselves automatically associated with the need for protection in vulnerable situations: as child soldiers, refugees, and conflated with women, all typically with the accent on the Global South.

This textbook introduces advanced students of International Relations (and beyond) to the ways in which the advent of, and reflections on, the Anthropocene impact on the study of global politics and the disciplinary foundations of IR.

This book examines the most significant factors accounting for the decline of union density during the neoliberal period, focusing on the case of Mexico.

This book addresses the underexposed political dimensions of bioeconomy promotion.

To achieve something by way of negation is not just to state a difference.

This book contests the negative portrayal of African immigrants as people who are not valuable members of South African society.

This book critically assesses the impact of Ethiopia's policy of Agriculture Development Led Industrialization.

This book presents the findings of research projects conducted by CREA (Community of Researchers on Excellence for all), a research community based in Barcelona, showing how social transformation combines scientific excellence with the political and social impact of the research.

This edited volume investigates the ethical and emotional challenges of conducting fieldwork in Africa.

This book presents research findings and conclusions that has been developed as algorithms or intelligent new methods solving problems in the fields of air pollution, climate and health, natural hazards and risks, water resources, human activities and management and informatics, remote sensing, high-performance computing and GIS for environmental monitoring and management.

This book ranks countries with respect to their achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and their vulnerability to climate change.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy, just as with the Great Recession a decade earlier, has served to reinforce the fact that the world is hierarchically organized and the distribution of power between countries is distinctly asymmetric.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy, just as with the Great Recession a decade earlier, has served to reinforce the fact that the world is hierarchically organized and the distribution of power between countries is distinctly asymmetric.

Many new challenges including competitiveness are emerging for sustainable business during this era of disruption.

This book presents a state-of-the-art portrait of entrepreneurship in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as well as Georgia and Ukraine.

This eagerly anticipated book equips readers to understand the dynamics of policy processes, relevant decision-making and the significance of key decision-makers.

This edited volume explores the state of inclusive governance in South Asia.

Through the lens of the Asian tsunami, this book problematizes concepts that are normally taken for granted in disaster discourse, including relief, recovery, reconstruction and rehabilitation.

This book examines forced migration of two refugees groups in South Asia.

This book draws together established and emerging scholars from sociology, law, history, political science and education to examine the global and local issues in the pursuit of gender justice in post-conflict settings.

This book analyzes the current trends in the production, dissemination, and use of knowledge which contribute to social inequalities, especially in the Global South.

This book comprises studies that reflect on various influences of excessive tourism development in protected areas, and solutions designed and initiated to mitigate such challenges.

This book is about the right to basic education and its impact on development in Africa.

The book examines the potential for regional competition law systems as enforcement tools in developing countries, based on a case study of the West African Economic and Monetary Union, the Andean Community and the Caribbean Community.

This volume focuses on the evolution of public policy and the role of agenda setting with regard to policymaking in countries of the Global South.

This book provides a detailed insight into how space and its applications are embedded, and can be further embedded, into African society in support of the SDGs, while taking into account the specific features, needs, and diversity of that society.

This book explores the dynamics of health system decentralization and recentralization, investigating why and how the territorial organization of health systems changes or remains stable over time.

This contributed volume presents the outcomes of multidisciplinary studies on the problem of sustainable economic development.

This book examines suitable approaches to and makes policy suggestions on China's industrial upgrading according to the requirements of the transformation of economic growth.

This book comprises chapters by leading international authors analysing the interface between intellectual property and foreign direct investment, development, and free trade.

This book takes the reader into some of the most intransigent social, economic, and political issues that impact achieving sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific.

This book provides a rare integrative interpretation of government-enterprise relations in China, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of the topic.

The book covers the trajectories and trends in social change communication, engaging the key theoretical debates on communication and social change.

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This book explains the dynamics behind the economic transformation from the colonial era to the post-independence period in Indonesia and Vietnam.

This volume provides comparative perspectives on issues related to education, culture, sustainable development and nation-building in India and Canada.

Drawn from a decade of refugee studies, this book offers a wealth of insights on arts-based methodologies.

This book delves deep into the Social Construction of Theory, comparative epistemology and intellectual history to stress the interrelationship between diverse cultures during the colonial period and bring forth convincing evidence of how the 19th century was shaped.