Development studies

This book is a guide to energy efficiency and environmental impact assessment in high-performance buildings projects.

This book provides unique insights into the complex issue of water security in South Africa.

This book explores the impact of population aging on energy use patterns in society from both a theoretical and an empirical angle, with a specific focus on Japan and Spain.

South Africa's struggle in balancing its domestic needs while playing a dynamic developmental role in the African region and global context exposes a complex web of relations shaped by its geostrategic location on the continent, and the world, and the staggering legacies of colonialism and apartheid.

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 argues that capitalism has practically failed to deliver the long-desired economic transformation and inclusive development in postcolonial Africa.

This book examines the UN 2030 SDGs Agenda and its comprehensive, multi-stakeholder approach to achieving a more human rights-based and environmentally sustainable development process.

This volume focuses on the wider wellbeing costs within European countries as a result of the outbreak of the pandemic and the control measures implemented thereafter.

In this comprehensive Handbook, scholars from across the globe explore the relationships between workers and nature in the context of the environmental crises.

This book sheds new light on the limits of adaptation to anthropogenic climate change.

This book suggests that our notions of civil society have undergone radical changes-including structural changes in the nature of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).

This book introduces readers to a powerful method for cross-cultural due diligence in mergers and organizational collaborations.

This book explores how and why the labor practices of the world's largest employer, supermarket giant Walmart, were contested by unions and government regulators as it expanded to Latin America starting in the 1990s.

This book addresses the global need to transition to a low-carbon society and economy by 2050.

This book offers a comparative analysis of value and identity changes in several post-Soviet countries.

This book is a critical and multidisciplinary IPE of the unequal structures of South American development and uneven insertions in the global order following the decline of the commodities boom.

Development Discourse and Global History introduces readers to the shifting ways in which people have been talking and writing about 'development' over time, and the rules governing the conversation.

This book offers fresh and exciting new directions of inquiry into the highly contentious issue of conflict resolution in South Asia.

This book presents an ethnographic case study of the personal motivations, advocacy, and activation of social capital needed to create and sustain the Immortelle Children's Centre, a private school that has served children with disabilities in Trinidad/Tobago for four decades.

Most Western-driven theories do not have a place in Black communicative experience, especially in Africa.

This book looks at the changing continuum that links individuals, communities and society.

This book presents a socio-economic and livelihood analysis of agriculturally-dependent communities of Mizoram, the eastern extension of the Himalaya, using the sustainable livelihood approach.

This book presents interdisciplinary research and scientific outcomes in sustainable development acquired from the BHAAAS International Conference on Sustainable Development-ICSD2022 as part of the 13th Days of Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences held in Sarajevo, June 23-26, 2022.

This book presents a snapshot of a major challenge, and shares subjective views on various areas of conflict in Africa and the diverse - theoretical and practical - efforts to achieve peace.

This book examines the direction of the BRICS association.

This book is a critical political and institutional reflection on UN peace operations.

This book fills an existing academic literature gap by providing a sound and synthetic analysis on the process of European Territorial Cooperation over the last 30 years.

This book explores the impact of disintegrity on various aspects of governance, as the disregard of ecological conditions produce grave direct effects to human rights (to water or food) and, indirectly, also to human security in several ways.

This book articulates a practice and theory of education that aims to facilitate the emergence of sustainable peace and conflict-resilient communities in societies plagued by conflict.

This book explores the politics of local economic development in Northern England.

This book evaluates the potential for the transformative mediation framework to be adopted in a non-western context.

This book analyses the past and ongoing decline of Zimbabwe under the rule of ZANU-PF, with a primary focus on the period 1997 to the present.

This study investigates the complex link between natural disasters, individual behaviour - in the form of an individual's risk-taking propensity and level of trust - and the demand for microinsurance.

This edited volume critically engages with ecofeminist scholarship.

This book offers new perspectives on global phenomena that play a major role in today's society and deeply shape the actions of individuals, organizations and nations.

This book explores rurality and education in sub-Saharan Africa through a lens of social justice.

This book constitutes a critical review of Nigeria's attempts to achieve rapid industrial development since independence from Britain in 1960.

The book addresses the issue of disease diffusion across the geographical span of India during the colonial period.

This book presents a systems thinking approach in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals for sustainable national development in vulnerable countries.

"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 examines and analyzes the challenges programmes for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development are facing in global management practice.

This book analyzes conflicting political views and narratives held by different forces, both at the local and regional levels in the Middle East.

This book considers the promises and challenges of globalization for Africa.

This book brings together new research that engages with the concept of diaspora from a uniquely Australian perspective and provides a timely contribution to the development of research-informed policy, both in the Australian context and more broadly.

This book emphasizes the significance of affects, feelings and emotions in how we think about politics, gender and sexuality in Latin America.

This book focuses on current trends in development, arguing that the digital revolution will shape today's race for global supremacy.

This book examines the experience of post-colonial territories and their attempts to manage ethnic communities within their countries.

This book uses qualitative research methods to examine why students in an Indian context are being identified as having learning disabilities on criteria that are largely drawn from the context of the Global North.

This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, and in-depth empirical research.

This books examines the increased prominence of children's rights in education to ask whether we are witnessing a paradigm shift within the education system.