Development studies

This book investigates whether and how reconciliation in Australia and other settler colonial societies might connect to the attitudes of non-Indigenous people in ways that promote a deeper engagement with Indigenous needs and aspirations.

This book presents an in-depth study on and summary of the current practice and theories for the construction of eco-cities in China in the context of the country's rapid urbanization.

This book examines the public stockholding policies of selected developing countries from the perspective of WTO rules and assesses whether the provisions of the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) could hamper these countries' efforts to address the challenges of food security.

This book analyzes the changes in and development of China's Foreign Aid Policy and Mechanisms over the past 60 years.

This book argues that embeddedness and community participation bring unique propositions for social entrepreneurship to foster social inclusion.

Marine environment is the largest habitat covering approximately 70% of the total earth surface.

The first edition of State and Society in Nigeria, published in 1980, was and remains a dominant influence in teaching, research, policy and practice of state-society relations in Nigeria for more than a generation.

This book contains the 9th Inaugural Lecture Series 2018 of the University of Lagos, Nigeria, delivered by Dafe Otobo on 4 July 2018.

El presente libro es el resultado de investigación de distintos proyectos en América Latina que se enlazan desde el Programa-Red Estudios del Rururbano en América Latina (ELER).

This edited volume explores the crucial intersections between Indigenous Land-Based Knowledge (ILK), sustainability, settler colonialism, and the ongoing environmental crisis.

Este segundo libro conmemorativo de tres décadas de existencia de desarrollo familiar en Colombia, tiene como objetivo reconocer y construir a la apropiación de los significativos aportes realizados por la profesora Dalia Restrepo para sentar las bases de la nueva perspectiva académica disciplinar en el campo de familia u consolidar como una línea de pensamiento crítico, de saber y de acción desde la Universidad de Caldas.

In the last decade, the international development sector has been re-examining its ways of thinking, being, and doing, and we have seen a growing consensus around the need to centre communities in development.

This Volume of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law explores emerging trends and key developments in international economic law.

This volume focuses on research and practical issues linked to Calcined Clays for Sustainable Concrete.

This book provides a strategic blueprint for understanding how pioneering emerging markets are leveraging the digital economy to challenge global economic hierarchies.

Heavy-metal contamination is one of the world's major environmental problems, posing significant risks to agro-ecosystems.

This book is an authoritative account of rural development in Iran, spanning 60 years and 2 distinct political regimes.

This book provides multinational evidence on active and healthy ageing.

This cutting edge book explores the role of the media in the highly disputed area of China-Africa relations, notably how various aspects of the issue have been portrayed, negotiated and contested in media and academic discourses.

This book investigates how strategic marketing is influencing organizations' innovation performance.

The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenland's society, environment, and resource spaces.

This book harnesses the theory and practice of dramatic arts for the applied use in communication education.

In this book the authors review initiatives in improving the quality of care for family planning in India and bring them to the broader forum of policy-level discussions.

In 2005, starving members of the Bhuiya clan in one of Bihar's poorest villages dug up a long-buried dead goat, cooked and ate it.

In 2005, starving members of the Bhuiya clan in one of Bihar's poorest villages dug up a long-buried dead goat, cooked and ate it.

Economic deprivation, insurgencies and deadly ethnic clashes have driven thousands of impoverished men and women from the Northeastern region of India to seek a better life in the towns and cities of mainland India and further abroad.

This book identifies the most effective water policy tools and innovations, and the circumstances that foster their successful implementation by taking a comparative look at a world-leading 'laboratory' of water law and governance: Australia.

To this day, women globally are subjected to forms of control over their bodies, and their ability to exercise their reproductive rights in particular is still constrained.

To this day, women globally are subjected to forms of control over their bodies, and their ability to exercise their reproductive rights in particular is still constrained.

This book explores how formal-legalism, as the dominant paradigm of explanation, has sought to explain the phenomenon of secessionism among its practitioners as a problem for the modern state.

This book presents the impact and scope of Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) in the growth of intelligent digital farming and smart agriculture.

What happens 'in the name of development'?

This book provides a detailed overview of governance for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Shandong is a thriving economic centre with a Gross Regional Domestic Product of RMB 6.

This book focuses on understanding urban vulnerability and risk mitigation, advancing good health and wellbeing, and analysing resilience measures for various Asian cities.

This book analyses and discusses the multiple dimensions of social exclusion/inclusion seen in South Asia.

This book examines how property rights are linked to socio-economic progress and development.

"e;The world economy was still reeling from the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 when the COVID-19 pandemic struck like a bolt of lightning in late 2019.

This book examines clean energy financing and approaches in hydropower and demand-side energy efficiency projects.

This publication was prepared for the Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum (CSIF) to support its efforts to establish central securities depository and real-time gross settlement linkages.

Local currency bond markets in ASEAN+3 play an important role in diversifying financial intermediary channels and mitigating the impacts of financial crises.

The quarterly Asia Bond Monitor reviews developments in emerging East Asian local currency bond markets.

The annual Asian Development Outlook, now in its 30th year, analyzes economic performance in the past year and forecasts performance in the next 2 years for the 45 economies in Asia and the Pacific that make up developing Asia.

This publication explores how Sri Lanka could boost its exports by addressing nontariff barriers to trade.

This new strategy for transport development in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) consists of a strategic framework covering 2018-2030 and a set of performance indicators initially covering 2018-2022.

This publication presents a factual overview of the design and implementation of the Korea Emissions Trading Scheme, focusing on lessons from its implementation and opportunities under the Paris Agreement.

This publication showcases 50 innovative case studies from cities in the People's Republic of China that are mitigating against and adapting to climate change.

Asia and the Pacific continues to embrace financial technology advances that are reshaping the traditional banking and financial services industry.

This special supplement to the Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2018 showcases the role that technology can play in improving the quality, timeliness, and frequency of agricultural statistics.

This study looks into the role of special economic zones in strengthening the competitiveness of economic corridors in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS).