Development studies

The book speaks to the need for a regulatory framework with regards to space resource utilization.

This book provides a comparative, neo-institutionalist approach to the different factors impacting state adoption of-or refusal to adopt-same-sex marriage laws.

Atmospheric reactive nitrogen (N) emissions, as an important component of global N cycle, have been significantly altered by anthropogenic activities, and consequently have had a global impact on air pollution and ecosystem services.

Using "e;the sharing paradigm"e; as a guiding concept, this book demonstrates that "e;sharing"e; has much greater potential to make rural society resilient, sustainable and inclusive through enriching all four sharing dimensions: informal, mediated, communal and commercial sharing.

A good understanding of the status quo is necessary for the success of efforts to develop and maintain nature in built space.

This volume is a selection of Chinese political scholar Xianglin Xu's published works spanning nearly 20 years of research that explore and discuss the socio-economic transition in China under state political reform.

Chattoraj and contributors explore the concept of privileged migration in the context of globalization, shedding light on the experiences of a demographic often overshadowed in migration discourse.

This book examines a range of current issues in Islamic development management.

This book addresses the essential topic of child survival in Tanzania, especially focusing on the role of mutual assistance, which has received little attention to date.

This book addresses the challenges of living together after empire in many post-colonial cities.

This book explores shifting forms of continental colonialism in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, from the early modern period to the present.

This volume presents an in-depth analysis of climate change problems and discusses the proliferation of renewable energy worldwide-in conjunction with such important questions as social justice and economic growth, providing an interdisciplinary approach to sustainable development.

This book investigates the politics of transatlantic trade, specifically the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations.

This book evaluates UN performance in ensuring good governance in Cambodia and Timor-Leste from a human-centred standpoint.

This edited volume breaks new ground and opens up new perspectives by capturing the role played by claims to authenticity in populist discourses in Brazil, India and Ukraine.

This book offers an analysis of China in its muddling through of financial reforms towards adopting a local real property tax.

This enlightening book offers a comprehensive historical analysis of the main development challenges of the last half century and the international community's response through aid and trade.

This book addresses the on-going crisis of informality in rapidly growing cities of the global South.

This book demonstrates how peace is an event that comes into being in mundane and corporeal encounters.

This book comprehensively gathers the current academic literature, field expertise and artistic developments on Wolfgang Dietrich's Many Peaces theory, in the ways it has been conceptualized and practiced by peace and conflict workers around the world.

This book examines social, economic and political issues in West, Eastern and Southern Africa in relation to borders, human mobility and regional integration.

This book brings together pioneering and evidence-based research that focuses on youth employment-one of the foremost development challenges of our time-and fills a critical research and knowledge gap alongside consolidating existing relevant literature.

This book addresses the mystery and diversity of urbanization in China, especially with regard to urban villages.

This book showcases selected conference papers addressing the sustainable future of ASEAN from the perspectives of science and technology disciplines.

This book investigates the long-term impact of migration on development, engaging in a thorough analysis of the pertinent factors in migration.

This book presents a new theory explaining underdevelopment in the global South and tests whether financial inputs, the government-business-media (GBM) complex and spatiotemporal influences drive human development.

This book focuses on the role of subsistence entrepreneurs in creating social and sustainable business opportunities on the global marketplace.

This book assesses the interconnectedness of democracy and economic development.

This volume examines the impact of the Trump presidency on development aid.

Democracy is in crisis because voices of the people are ignored due to a politics of mass society.

This book explores how community radio contributes to social change.

This two-volume study explores the economy of East Timor, of which very little has been written since the country gained independence in 2002.

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This book explores how the labour and leisure lives of people in contemporary rural China have been structured and transformed, discussing the changing dynamics of power relations both between and within genders, and in local (village and family/household) and remote (the state and market) contexts.

This book seeks to find creative and transformative relationship among roots and routes and create a new dynamics of awakening so that we can overcome the problems of closed and xenopbhobic roots and rootless cosmopolitanism.

This book explores and reflects on peacebuilding, which emerges from the experiences and realities of women's lives in East Africa, specifically, in Uganda.

This is a conversational book with chapters directly followed by responses from experts.

This book presents research that focuses on Sustainable Development in Asia.

This book explores the impact of Bangladesh's Local Government Act of 2009 on the functioning of the local governments or Union Parishads (UP), with a particular emphasis on people's participation and accountability.

How we manage public services and hold them to account is critically important.

This book investigates the role of media and communication in processes of democratization in different political and cultural contexts.

This book is a comprehensive overview of the theory, history, law, institutional framework and culture of global diplomacy.

This book presents the perspectives of some of the main players, both academics and professionals, in communication for sustainable development and social change so as to provide valuable lessons for future generations of change agents.

This book examines the historical antecedents of Pan-Africanism as a driving force of African Unity, carefully studying its major contributors, current institutional status, and potential future growth.

This book examines the inclusive development experiences and impacts of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).

This book demonstrates that there are wide-ranging potential challenges in addressing issues associated with ageing populations in both developed and developing countries of the region.

This inspiring book looks at the theory and practice of China's foreign aid in Africa, especially in the area of healthcare in Uganda.

This book pursues a Marxist approach with an emphasis on class to reflect on Marx's Capital in the context of the East.

This book is the first book that looks at both the politics of maintaining the trajectory toward humanity's final hundred years and the politics of those final hundred years.

This book examines engagements with financial services in contexts of conflict.