Development Studies

Although change management and therefore effective adaptation to environmental complexity is considered a uniquely human cultural activity, the ext...

Across the globe, from established tourist destinations such as Venice or Prague to less traditional destinations in both the global North and Sout...

In the two largest countries in South America, successive waves of structural reforms adopted in the name of development invariably have ended in d...

This book examines the housing crisis in India and underlines the need for formal affordable housing markets. India is home to the worlds largest p...

Peacekeeping training centres play a crucial role in preparing peacekeepers for their deployment. However, despite their popularity within the inte...

This book examines the challenges and impacts of poor diets and nutrition from current food systems and the potential contribution of biodiversity ...

With growing awareness of environmental deterioration, atmospheric pollution and resource depletion, the last several decades have brought increase...

Since the industrial revolution, innovations in transportation technology have continued to re-shape the spatial organization and temporal occupati...

Now available in paperback, the Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Economics offers new insights into the rapidly developing economies of Southe...

Despite global economic disparities, recent years have seen rapid technological changes in developing countries, as it is now common to see people ...

Infrastructural Optimism investigates a new kind of twenty-first-century infrastructure, one that encourages a broader understanding of the interde...

Co-operativism and Local Development in Cuba brings together a series of pathbreaking essays that examine the role of co-operativism, and the new c...

This work of research by Taj Hashmi puts the issue of women's position in society in historical as well as Islamic perspectives to relate it to the...

The rise of fundamentalist movements in major religions has forced decision-makers, development organizations and academics to turn their attention...

This is the first book to offer a systematic analysis of human rights in the 21st century. The chapters, written from diverse methodological perspe...

This is the first book to offer a systematic analysis of human rights in the 21st century. The chapters, written from diverse methodological perspe...

Travel, Humanitarianism, and Becoming American in Africa uses observations of American travelers to southern Africa to ask: why is Africa so import...

Who should provide food, and through what relationships? Whose livelihoods should be protected? For over 20 years the peasant farmers of La Via Cam...

This edited volume explores development in the so-called 'fragile', 'failed' and 'pariah' states. It examines the literature on both fragile states...

Addressing the debate around what makes a good citizen, this work proposes a new form of post-colonial citizenship education which can be applied i...

Knowing what deep participation is, and how it works, can make a critical difference in solving 21st century economic, political, and social proble...

Sociology in Portugal provides the first English-language account of the history of sociology in Portugal from 1945 to the present day. Banned by t...

This book explores the significant role education plays in the promotion of human development and gender equality in India, situating this progress...

This widely adopted text starts with the fundamentals--what is economic growth, what is development, and what is the relationship between these two...

With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitio...

This book explores the possibilities and difficulties of living with HIV and ARVs, or antiretroviral treatment, today. It draws on HIV-positive peo...

Thirteen years ago, the first edition of Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Development examined the question: is the environmental doomsday scenari...

The political economy landscape has shifted as multinational corporations increase their investment efforts, changing the geographies of extraction...

Drawing evidence from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the contributors illustrate that even within the common framework...

Given the weaknesses of mainstream democratisation since the 1980s, the authors present a cutting edge examination of dynamics of political change ...

The authors critically evaluate the fair trade movement's role in pursuing a more just and environmentally sustainable society. Using fair trade as...

Michal Nahman traces different kinds of 'extraction': the practices of human egg harvesting in different national contexts; the political economic ...

Why are some transnational public-private partnerships (PPPs) highly effective, while others are not? The contributors compare 21 transnational PPP...

Looking beyond the materialistic boundary of the conventional development paradigm, this book identifies our spiritual underdevelopment which is be...

This edited collection outlines the accomplishments, shortcomings, and future policy prospects of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and ...

This book re-conceptualizes civil society engagement with global governance institutions in the field of development in terms of opposition. With a...

What is charity? How does it operate, who does it benefit and what should we expect it to do? This important book helps to tackle the most common m...

Foreign aid is about charity. International development is about technical fixes. At least that is what we, as donor publics, are constantly told. ...

Authoritative and trusted, Environmental Policy once again brings together top scholars to evaluate the changes and continuities in American enviro...

Behind India's high recent growth rates lies a story of societal conflict that is scarcely talked about. Across its villages and production sites, ...

The international development community invests billions of dollars to improve organisational capacity. But real-life practice is poorly understood...

Whilst classical approaches linked development with peace, security has become central to understandings of both war and peacetime. This book uniqu...

Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork in rural South India, the book uses a 'class-relational' approach to analyse continuity and change in process...

This book adds a whole new dimension to the editors previous work on the social, economic, and environmental effects of global trade. For the first...