Development Studies

Development policy makers and practitioners are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their ability to target development interventions and the ps...

Since the mid-1970s, a series of international declarations that link environment and sustainable development to all aspects of higher learning hav...

Longlisted for the Fleck Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Citizen scienceresearch involving nonprofessionals in the resear...

The Information Economy Report 2017 analyses the evolving digital economy and its implications for trade and development. While these are still ear...

Many cities have sought to replicate the urban bus public-private partnership (PPP) structures that succeeded at the beginning of the millennium, s...

This report lays the foundations for the World Bank to fully integrate a social contract lens in its development policy toolkit in SSA. This report...

Many volunteer workers have questioned their efforts and wondered if their actions truly made a difference. Questions about the state of the wor...

Many people see American cities as a radical departure in the history of town planning because of their planned nature based on the geometrical div...

This Handbook provides a cutting-edge survey of the state of research on religions and global development. Part one highlights critical debates tha...

This book explores the role that arts and culture can play in supporting global international development. The book argues that arts and culture ar...

Sustainability Science: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduates, postgraduates, and participants in executive trainings from any ...

A New World-System: From Chaos to Sustainability examines the present crisis in the social and ecological environment that is producing profound, p...

Whilst education has been widely recognised as a key tool for development, this has tended to be limited to the incremental changes that education ...

For founder and CEO of Emmis Communications Jeff Smulyan, the path to success has been anything but straightforward. When youve owned a Major Leagu...

This sourcebook compiles analytical work that has been cultivated over the past several years by the World Bank and partner organizations of Libya....

This book thus takes issue with the characterisation of the South African state as developmental. The crucial aspect of care is missing from the pr...

In An Ethnography of Hunger Kristin D. Phillips examines how rural farmers in central Tanzania negotiate the interconnected projects of subsistence...

Far-reaching changes in technology, climate, and global economic integration are transforming the world of work in ways that we do not yet fully un...

This book investigates Chinas contemporary development cooperation mentality and modality through the case of its agricultural engagement with Afri...

Managing the Complexities of Real Estate Development provides a concise summary of the real estate development process, allowing the reader to lear...

This volume outlines the specific conditions and responses to climate change in India. It discusses various aspects of the planetary crisis that ha...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-BC-ND 4.0 International License. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online ...

The closure of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015 prompted the need for a book of this kind. An interdisciplinary group of global heal...

This report presents the highlights of the 2018 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects, which contains the latest estimates of the urban and rura...

Understanding Contemporary Asia Pacific provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most complex and rapidly changing regions in the world ...

The oil palm industry has transformed rural livelihoods and landscapes across wide swathes of Southeast Asia, generating wealth along with economic...

While many older American cities struggle to remain vibrant, New Brunswick has transformed itself, adapting to new forms of commerce and a changing...

This is the official report submitted to the Economic and Social Council by the Economic Commission for Africa covering the period from 31 March 20...

Over the past decade, substantial resources have been spent on tackling avian influenza and building a global capacity for a pandemic response. The...

Principles of Agricultural Economics, now in its fourth edition, continues to showcase the power of economic principles to explain and predict issu...