Development Studies

This edited volume provides a holistic compilation of the diverse range of emerging scholarship in critical environmental justice studies in Nepal....

The definitive one-volume guide to all sub-Saharan African countries, providing invaluable economic, political, statistical and directory data.Gene...

Forced population movements are a defining feature of almost any humanitarian crisis, shaping the design, targeting, and delivery of emergency resp...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of post-war labour market reconstructions, in the context of a regional bloc whose member states have e...

The Palgrave Handbook of Ubuntu, Inequality and Sustainable Development interrogates the multiple inequalities that subsist in the world and explor...

The concept of self-sufficiency involves the notion of sustainable, circular, and carbon-neutral cities. This book examines how urban planning can ...

This book explores multiple challenges faced by democratization in Southern Africa. Applying a wider lens to the concept of political transition an...

The Handbook introduces to readers (accessibly for specialist and non-specialist scholars, students and layman audiences) the diverse universe of n...

This edited volume provides an overview of inequality and stratification in contemporary China. A rare and timely resource, it presents key researc...

We live in an age of digital ID. Through the digitisation of our biometric and demographic selves, digital ID converts human beings into digital da...

We live in an age of digital ID. Through the digitisation of our biometric and demographic selves, digital ID converts human beings into digital da...

This book provides a comprehensive overview and systematic guide to the current state of knowledge on events and sustainability. Offering multidisc...

This book provides a comprehensive overview and systematic guide to the current state of knowledge on events and sustainability. Offering multidisc...

This book offers an up-to-date and comprehensive picture of the Vietnamese economy which is the fast-growing economy in Southeast Asia. The country...

Are we winning or losing the battle for safe environments? In 1984, leading disaster risk management professionals and researchers met in Jamaica f...

In our fast-changing urban world, the impacts of social and environmental change on children are often overlooked. Children and their Urban Environ...

The underpinning assumption of public management in the developing world as a process of planned change is increasingly being recognized as unreali...

This collection explores the complex dynamics of corporate land deals from a broad agrarian political economy perspective, with a special focus on ...

There is little doubt that in recent years, enterprise has been considered an essential approach in the alleviation of deprivation existing in the ...

A typical image of the making and administration of policy suggests that it takes place on an incremental basis, involving public servants, their m...

This collection adds to a burgeoning literature concerned with the roles played by religions in development. The authors do not assume that religio...

The ideas contained in Karl Poppers The Open Society and Its Enemiesone of the most important tracts in political philosophy in the twentieth centu...

Over the last several decades, historians of public health in Britains colonies have been primarily concerned with the process of policy making in ...

The unprecedented human mobility the world is now experiencing poses new and unparalleled challenges regarding the provision of social and educatio...

HUANG Yiping is Professor of Economics at the China Center for Economic Research, National School of Development, Peking University, China. He is a...

There is an urgent need to increase agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa in a sustainable and economically-viable manner. Transforming r...

This book illustrates the ways in which communities can strengthen the links and set the stage for long-term partnerships between sustainable agric...

Aquaculture technology has been evolving rapidly over the last two decades, led by an increasingly skilled cadre of researchers in developing count...

Aquaculture technology has been evolving rapidly over the last two decades, led by an increasingly skilled cadre of researchers in developing count...

This book is a succinct and distinctive presentation of current research addressing educational issues in relation to children and young people wit...

This book is a succinct and distinctive presentation of current research addressing educational issues in relation to children and young people wit...

The role of economic development in communities is multi-faceted, having an array of antecedents, impacts, and implications. This volume explores t...

Cultural Studies has evolved and continues to evolve primarily along regional lines. However uncomfortable this might be, the genie of British cult...

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429290626, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribut...

This book unveils how the world in the twenty-first century will need to manage our most fundamental resource need, water. It outlines how stakehol...

Rising concerns about agricultural productivity and food security in rapidly changing economic and environmental contexts have led to renewed inter...