Development studies

This book explores the nature of regions and how they function, particularly at the local and micro-level.

"e;The fourth sector"e; is a relatively new sector that consists of for-benefit organizations that combine market-based approaches of the private sector with the social and environmental aims of the public and non-profit sectors.

This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary examination of law and legal institutions in Malaysia.

In 1980 the Indian software industry was practically non-existent.

Post-Rational Planning confronts today's threats to truth, particularly after recent news events that present alternative facts and media smear campaigns, often described as post-truth politics.

Policy-making in public health is highly complex, which is one reason why the behavioural turn is now playing a significant role in this field.

Labor Relations in New Democracies explores how democratization has changed the material and political fortunes of workers in the new democracies of Europe, Latin America, and East Asia.

This book, based on exploratory ethnographic research, analyzes the experiences of African migrants in Thailand.

This book argues that the development of capital goods manufacturing industries in four relatively large African economies will create regional development poles, from which industrialization will spread to the smaller African countries.

Gender Inequality and Women's Citizenship combines cases across Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to highlight the range of systemic inequalities that impact women in the Anglo-Caribbean.

Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development offers a unified, transdisciplinary approach for transforming the industrial state in order to promote sustainable development.

Development studies textbooks and courses have sometimes tended to avoid significant economic content.

Social Provision in Rural Wiltshire was first published in 1952.

Domination consists in subjection to the will of others and manifests itself both as a personal relation and a structural phenomenon serving as the context for relations of power.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it appeared that the only option for developing countries was integration into the world economy.

Is it possible to see famines coming, to be prepared and to save possibly hundreds of thousands of lives?

This book makes a significant interdisciplinary contribution to existing scholarship on ethnicity, conflict, nation-making, colonial history and religious minorities in the Philippines, which has been confronted with innumerable issues relating to their ethnic and religious minority populations.

In the face of growing environmental challenges, including climate change and energy security, countries across the globe are developing new policies and programs to address these challenges, and China is no exception.

Peasants are a majority of the world's poor.

This book examines the gender dimensions of large-scale mining in the oil industry and how oil exploitation has produced long-term economic, political, social and environmental risks and benefits in developing countries.

Bordered Cities and Divided Societies is a provocative, moving, and poetic encounter with the hearts and minds of individuals living in nine cities of conflict, violence, and healing-Jerusalem, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia, Sarajevo, Mostar, Barcelona, Bilbao, and Beirut.

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This book investigates uneven regional development in China - with particular focus on the cases of Guangdong and Zheijiang provinces - which have been at the forefront of debate since Chinese economic reform.

In all of the major challenges facing the world currently, whether it be climate change, terrorism and conflict, or urbanization and demographic change, no progress is possible without the alleviation of poverty.

The 20th century witnessed the large-scale displacement and dispersal of populations across the world because of major political upheavals, among them the two European wars, decolonization and the Cold War.

This book analyses the rapidly increasing role of African states, leaders and other political actors in international politics in the 21st Century.

This book brings to the forefront the significance of local everyday economic practices to development policymaking.

The UN is able to recognize key global challenges, but beset by difficulties in trying to resolve them.

This book addresses a conundrum for the international development community: The law of development cooperation poses major constraints on delivering aid where it is needed most.

This book deals in different ways with the politics of death, with art and politics and with the politics of refuge and asylum.

Designing the Compassionate City outlines an approach to urban design that is centred on an explicit recognition of the inherent dignity of all people.

Is resilience simply a fad, or is it a new way of thinking about human-environment relations, and the governance of these relations, that has real staying power?

This is the story of the early life and escape from the Chinese of a young tulku of Tibet, an incarnate lama of high rank.

A major transformation of Chinese higher education (HE) has taken place over the past decade - China has reshaped its higher education sector from elite to mass education with the number of graduates having quadrupled to three million a year over six years.

This volume demonstrates how to conduct case study research that is both methodologically rigourous and useful to development policy.

This book focuses on the modernization of Bangladesh.

Anthropos, in the sense of species as well as cultures and ethics, locates humans as part of much larger orders of existence - fundamental when thinking about climate change.

Disasters, Gender and Access to Healthcare: Women in Coastal Bangladesh emphasizes women's experiences in cyclone disasters being confined with gendered identity and responsibilities in developing socio-economic conditions with minimum healthcare facilities.

Chicago went from nothing in 1830 to become the second-largest city in the nation in 1900, while the Midwest developed to become one of the world's foremost urban areas.

This Handbook brings together scholars whose essays discuss significant issues with regard to international organization as a process and international organizations as institutions.

Mining has played a key role in the growth of many towns in South Africa.

This is a new introductory text providing an up-to-date account of leading theories of development.

Media coverage of climate change has attracted much scholarly attention because the extent of such coverage has an agenda-setting effect and because the ways in which the coverage is framed can influence public perception of and engagement with the issue.

Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming.

This book analyses the present global financial and economic crisis, the most severe in nearly a century, and a wider set of multiple and converging crises with aspects and repercussions that go well beyond the current economic climate.

Based on the author's long experience in academic life and the public realm, especially in foreign policy, this book argues that a single categoric classification of cities is inadequate, and that cities have had different and varied impacts and positions throughout the history of civilization.