Development Studies

Water is an integral part of our daily lives, yet most of us have little idea about how much water we use to maintain our lifestyles and the extent...

Water is an integral part of our daily lives, yet most of us have little idea about how much water we use to maintain our lifestyles and the extent...

Echoing the famous The Limits to Growth report from 1972, this edited volume analyses the changes that the World System has undergone to the presen...

City greening has been heralded for contributing to environmental governance and critiqued for exacerbating displacement and inequality. Bringing t...

In the five years since the first edition of Conflict and Development was published the awareness of the relationship between conflicts and develop...

In this book, influential development practitioners reflect on their careers by writing letters of advice to their younger selves. Sharing their su...

This book examines the dynamics of natural resource conflicts in Africa and explores the different governance approaches for securing sustainable p...

Beginning in the early 1990s, Africa has been experiencing a major ground swell of social, economic, and political changes. An array of declaration...

This volume presents the first systematic review of public bank lending in the water sector in the Global South.Many public banks have an explicit ...

This book sets out to develop a policy design process that is more inclusive by creating space for emotions and feelings. Rather than focus solely ...

With international human rights under challenge, this book represents a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent poli...

Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich auf unterschiedliche Weise mit der Politik des Todes, mit Kunst und Politik sowie mit der Politik von Zuflucht und Asy...

Tracking Bengalurus dramatic urban transformation through the entanglements of finance, land frenzy, real estate volatility, and livelihood upheava...

This book investigates how women in Africa are being impacted by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which describes the twenty-first-century prolife...

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 c...

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 c...

Each year, approximately a million tourists visit slum areas on guided tours as a part of their holiday to Asia, Africa or Latin America. This book...

Reflecting on the legacies of Timor-Leste's remarkable journey from colonialism to sovereign and democratic Independence, the Routledge Handbook of...

As global warming advances, regions around the world are engaging in revolutionary sustainability planning - but with social equity as an afterthou...

Anthropology for Development: From Theory to Practice connects cross-cultural social theory with the concerns of development policy and practice. I...

Based on principles of the conservation and optimization of biodiversity and of equity and sustainability, this book focuses on the ecology of the ...

Throughout history and around the world, community members have come together to build places, be it settlers constructing log cabins in nineteenth...

This book provides a novel approach to governance relating to biodiversity and human well-being in complex tropical landscapes, including forests a...

The movement of displaced people, migrants and refugees has become increasingly important around the world, leading to a need for increased scrutin...