Development studies

This book features papers addressing a broad range of topics including psychology, religious studies, natural heritage, accounting, business, communication, education and sustainable development.

This book introduces the "e;Belt and Road"e; in its entirety, including what it is, what it aims to do, what it can do and how.

This book develops an understanding of workplace justice and labour rights in Vietnam from factory workers' voices and their resistance against abuse and exploitation.

This book is intended for policy-makers, academics and students of development studies, area studies, political economy, geography and political science.

This book analyzes contemporary issues relating to energy, environment, and globalization in the Indian context.

This book explores the struggle between China and the United States to expand their influence in Asia through economic assistance and defensive alliances.

This book translates the latest theoretical perspectives on the emerging field of Planetary Health Studies into the practical reality of global political decision makers.

This book is more or less a companion volume of the author's book Introduction to Social Systems Engineering published by Springer in March, 2018.

This book gathers together invited presentations from the 12th International Congress on Logistics and SCM Systems (ICLS2017) held in Beijing, China, August 20-23, 2017.

This book is a timely publication to address the issue of the government's policy execution capabilities.

This book seeks to go beyond conventional literature on the North Korean nuclear issue by examining the chances of survival of the Kim Jong Un regime, both with and without the nuclear weapons program.

This book explores the need for deep-seated social change in Myanmar if the country's democratic transition and peace process is to deliver tangible benefits for those that have long faced profound vulnerability and marginalisation.

This book addresses some key strategic questions related to agriculture in the context of major contemporary developments and emerging challenges in Nepal such as the changing role of agriculture with economic growth, structural transformation in reducing poverty, improving nutritional outcomes, and addressing the challenges of climate change.

This book investigates various experiences of teaching sexual and reproductive health to adolescents with disabilities.

This book by influential policymaker Chi Fulin lays out in issue-oriented and detailed chapters, at a time when China is at a crossroads, exactly how the government plans to deal with the social, political and economic issues the world's second-largest economy faces.

This book explores the changing face of development assistance.

This book examines the history of the political demography of Indonesia.

This book addresses central issues related to population and sustainable development in India, the second most populous country in the world.

This book offers an intimate and personal look at what China's poverty alleviation has meant for individuals.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the pre-Covid-19 and post-Covid-19 situation and public policy measures needed to revive the economy in the light of the recent initiatives by the state government, including a committee to suggest post-Covid-19 revival strategy.

This book scrutinizes the frequently ignored agency of Global South sub-national actors in their interactions with China, using a multidisciplinary approach and eleven case studies.

This book aims to bring together a series of analyses on international development assistance in the BRICS, the group of countries that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

This book explores how Indonesia is imagined differently by young people in the three cities of Jakarta, Kupang and Banda Aceh.

The book includes empirical research papers and case studies embracing human capital, relational capital and structural capital in context to services and manufacturing sectors.

This book presents a rough sketch of Dr.

This book is about optimizing the use of medicines and medical tests in primary care.

This book considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the realisation of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

This book explores the nature and type of prevalent collective behavior that influences women empowerment, women workforce participation and behavior change in sanitation.

This book examines the role of voluntary organizations (VOs) in rural development in the south Asian context.

This edited volume focuses on the largest single tract contiguous mangrove forest in the world- the Sundarbans- exploring traditional knowledge, customary sustainable use and community-based innovation.

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).

The book presents debates around the concept of representation and how these ideas apply to representation for selected disadvantaged groups in India.

This edited volume examines key questions about evidence-informed policymaking in Indonesia.

This book is the first-ever volume which provides comprehensive information on demographic, health and development at the level of 640 districts in India.

The world is changing at a fast pace, so is the Government and Governance style.

The aim of this 2-volume book is to highlight how Sustainability Science approaches can help solve some of the pervasive challenges that Africa faces.

This book is an extensive and thorough exploration of the ways in which the middle class in India select their spouse.

This book highlights historical and current perspectives on population issues in the Bengali-speaking states of India (i.

This book presents contemporary trends and challenges in agricultural land use, drawing on an array of global case studies.

This book is devoted to go beyond the traditional contests and traditional theoretical framework to a new combination of domestic, regional, global visions of China's Opening-up.

The aim of this book is to provide the international readership a collection of articles authored by Chinese scholars on the subject of globalization and localization.

This book assesses Iran's role in contemporary geopolitics.

Addressing the unprecedented international interest in China's high-speed railways, this book adopts a global perspective to examine the success of the system and probes into its going-global strategy in the context of the "e;Belt and Road"e; initiative, providing readers around the world a better understanding of infrastructure construction under the "e;Belt and Road"e; plan, as well as the global vision of communication and mutual exchange and prosperity among the countries along the Belt and Road route.

This book provides a focus on some of the main markers and challenges that are at the core of the study of structural transformations in contemporary capitalism and their implications for labour in the Global South.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the close cultural links between India and Vietnam.

In this edited volume, academics and practitioners from various disciplines investigate the challenges, opportunities and frameworks in the implementation of Smart Cities in the Gulf.

This book is a collection of 15 case studies on China's foreign aid and economic cooperation with developing countries.

This book presents a collection of chapters that examine various dimensions of development.

This book is an ethnography of urban-to-urban migration and its role in middle-class formation in Ethiopia.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of spatial and environmental governance in contemporary Bali.