Development studies

With empirical evidence and theoretical critique, this book unveils the myths and debates (e.

Interrogating the notion of developmental regionalism as applies to Southern Africa, this volume explores the policy options and interventions necessary to ensure a peaceful and stable regional development process.

A risk conundrum can be viewed as a risk that poses major issues in assessment, and whose management is not easily engaged.

Water has always been a crucial catalyst for human development.

First published in 2008, La Faim et la Sant is a valuable contribution to the field of Environment and Sustainability.

This volume sheds new light on the refugees and forced migration at the Horn of Africa and East Africa.

The book uses a multi-disciplinary approach to address lessons learned and challenges encountered over the years in different ecological, economic, political and cultural contexts.

Exploring the evolution of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), this book fills a lacuna in literature on the agency.

Land settlement schemes, sponsored by national governments and businesses, such as the Ford Corporation and the Hudson's Bay Company, took place in locations as diverse as the Canadian Prairies, the Dutch polders, and the Amazonian rainforests.

Despite the efforts of Southeast Asian governments and of ASEAN, transboundary haze continues to be a major environmental problem in Southeast Asia.

With the rapid growth in urban poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America, most cities now have 30 to 60 per cent of their population living in shanty towns.

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

Development and the ending of mass poverty require a massive increase in productive capabilities and production in developing countries.

2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria demonstrate uses of new technologies and the impact of law, colonialism, and continuing marginalization.

This thematically structured text offers an ideal introduction to the positive and negative effects of globalization on human welfare in industrial and developing societies.

Many urban and transportation problems, such as traffic congestion, traffic accidents, and environmental burdens, result from poor integration of land use and transportation.

Bananas are the fifth most widely traded farm product.

Economic Development Strategies and the Evolution of Violence in Latin America explores the links between Latin American governments' economic policies and the nature and dynamics of inter-group violence.

The urbanisation of China over the last three decades has been a hugely significant development, both for China's reform process and for the world more generally.

The United States contributes more foreign aid than any other state in the world, and it is often recognized as a leader in engaging religious organizations in aid delivery.

This book provides a comprehensive approach to the perspectives, lived experiences, and socio-cultural beliefs of Indigenous scholars regarding disabilities through a distinctions-based approach.

This book explains how, and why, economics has been applied to a terrible pandemic, using a range of examples mostly drawn from the region most affected, sub-Saharan Africa.

The Indian state of Kerala has invoked much attention within development and gender debates, specifically in relation to its female capital- an outcome of interrelated historical, cultural and social practices.

China's rapid economic development has not translated automatically into political development, with many of its institutions still in need of major reform.

The world faces a 'perfect storm' of social and ecological stresses, including climate change, habitat loss, resource degradation and social, economic and cultural change.

Structural adjustment programmes are the largest single cause of increased poverty, inequality and hunger in developing countries.

Current urban planning systems are not equipped to deal with the major urban challenges of the twenty-first century, including effects of climate change, resource depletion and economic instability, plus continued rapid urbanization with its negative consequences such as poverty, slums and urban informality.

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.

Climate change and urbanization are two of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, and their effects are converging in dangerous ways.

This book examines China's fertility transition over the past seven decades and explores the socioeconomic impacts of the two-child policy.

Hydropower generation by construction of large dams attracts considerable attention as a feasible renewable energy source to meet the power demand in Asian cities.

In this book on urban poverty in the Caribbean, Michel S.

This book brings together Indigenous, Third World and Settler perspectives on the theory and practice of decolonizing law.

This book traces the mobilization process leading up to the January 25 Uprising, and furthers our understanding of the largely unexpected diffusion of protest during this Egyptian Revolution.

This book demonstrates how the theoretical concepts of the capabilities approach can be applied in the context of engineering education, and how this could be used to add nuance to our understanding of the contribution higher education can make to human flourishing.

How Can You Represent Those People?

This book presents a fresh approach to poverty alleviation by bridging the fields of international development and social entrepreneurship.

Nigerian drug lords in UK prisons, khat-chewing Somali pirates hijacking Western ships, crystal meth-smoking gangs controlling South Africa's streets, and narco-traffickers corrupting the state in Guinea-Bissau: these are some of the vivid images surrounding drugs in Africa which have alarmed policymakers, academics and the general public in recent years.

The ways we understand processes of agrarian change are pressing issues for policy makers and development practitioners.

The book documents the history of the prevention-of-mother-to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) program in Guyana, as well as the impact of HIV on pregnant and postpartum women's adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART).

Interrogates the idea of capacity building theoretically and explores the variety of meanings, constructions and practices of capacity building.

Enterprises located in rural regions face various challenges in the globalised and digitised world.

Recent years have seen a sustained research effort exploring the African development experience.

The most important theme of the discourse on sustainable development and sustainability challenges concerns the relationship between innovation and sustainability.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research and developments in the field of root and tuber crops from a sustainable production and protection perspective.

It has been almost two decades since conditional cash transfer programs first appeared on the agendas of multilateral agencies and politicians.

The EU has been portrayed as a leader in international climate change negotiations.

Communities throughout the world are increasingly diverse in their racial, ethnic and religious make up.