Development Studies

How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization seeks to shed understanding on how speaking or speech-acting affects how we ...

The fields of entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development are inextricably linked, with people, organisations and the environment or thei...

This book considers a wide range of key developments and key areas of debate in Chinas education system. Marketization, quality assurance, and issu...

This volume is about economists, economics, and issues of concern to Indian society. Some essays are expository, and some satirical. Together, they...

This book is focused on the street-naming politics, policies and practices that have been shaping and reshaping the semantic, textual and visual en...

Despite the growing academic interest in the development policy of the European Union (EU) and the booming literature on Europeanisation, the impac...

Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry. Its...

Northeast India is a multifaceted and dynamic region that is constantly in focus because of its fragile political landscape characterized by endemi...

Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South seeks to identify the drivers of urban violence in the cities of the Global South and how they relate t...

This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of microfinance initiatives in India. Through substantive field research and case studies ranging acr...

Omniconomics shows how we can make human society intrinsically sustainable, harmonically embedded in nature, with the help of a completely new appr...

This book focuses on the challenges and opportunities facing companies in emerging and developing countries. China and India have become the primar...

This book explores the social implications and challenges of low-carbon development. The argument of the book is that a broad understanding of low-...

Biofuels are a renewable source of energy used mainly for transportation. They link together food, energy and natural resources sectors, and involv...

Despite its impressive economic growth, East Asia is facing daunting challenges in mitigating its social problems, including chronic poverty and wo...

This book critically engages with the idea of decentralization as empowering cities and their residents to act innovatively and creatively. The con...

Soy in South America constitutes one of the most spectacular booms of agro-industrial commodity production in the world. It is the pinnacle of mode...

This volume departs from conventional historiography concerned with colonialism in the Malay world, by turning to the use of knowledge generated by...

Sustainable Economy and Emerging Markets provides a snapshot of the different dimensions of sustainability and analyses how they interact and confi...

Sustainability is a topic of great interest today, particularly for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, which have witnessed very rapid e...

Chinas extraordinary economic boom since the late 1970s has been accompanied by massive urbanization, with the proportion of the population living ...

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in...

Omniconomics shows how we can make human society intrinsically sustainable, harmonically embedded in nature, with the help of a completely new appr...

This book is a comprehensive examination of the society, polity and economy of South Asian countries and their future trajectories. The chapters in...

This volume brings together some of the most recent scholarship on government and civil society. It examines the axis of the relationship between n...

This book provides new insights into how the concept of bricolage is used to foster research on social entrepreneurship.The contributors assess the...

This volume offers new perspectives on the evolution of the tradedevelopment nexus in the European Union against dramatic changes in the internatio...

Most of Indonesian population live in rural areas, and the majority of poor people also live in rural areas, namely 13.47% in rural and 7.26 in urb...

First published in 1999, this study aims to develop a theoretical framework for the analysis of livestock farming systems and their conditions of c...

Life Cycle Approaches to Sustainable Regional Development explains the ways life cycle methodologies and tools can be used to strengthen regional s...

The book is a collection of essays written by scholars of global repute in honour of Professor Sunanda Sen. Each paper is well-researched and offer...

The book is the first attempt to offer a holistic and integrated exploration of the political-economic framework underpinning economic regionalism....

In the past businesses have viewed water as a minimal operational cost and not a strategic issue. However, water has now emerged as a critical issu...

In the last few decades, many global cities and towns have experienced unprecedented economic, social, and spatial structural change. Today, we fin...

Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development and polic...

This is an unusual book. Combining social science fiction, utopianism, pragmatism, sober analysis and innovative social theory, the authors address...

Community forestry focuses on the link between forest resources and livelihoods and contributes to forest conservation and reforestation. It is wid...

Contract farming has received renewed attention recently as developing economies try to grapple with how to transform the agricultural sector and i...

During the past 25 years the burden of managing economic policy for competitiveness has devolved to cities and to urban regions. National governmen...

If the political and social benchmarks of sustainability and sustainable development are to be met, ignoring the role of the humanities and social,...

This book investigates the globalization process of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in West Africa, primarily in Benin and Ghana, based on e...

The post-Mao period has witnessed rapid social and economic transformation in all walks of Chinese life much of it fuelled by, or reflected in, ch...

Why are some regions and cities so good at attracting talented people, creating high-level knowledge, and producing exciting new ideas and innovati...

Conservation and development share an intertwined history dating back to at least the 1700s. But what are the prospects for reconciling the two, an...

Celebrating twenty years of transition from socialism to capitalism, this book is designed to be the core textbook for undergraduate courses in tra...

This book discusses the European Unions approach to governance reform in its development assistance relationships with various groups of developing...

Biofuels and Rural Poverty makes an original contribution to the current controversial global debate on biofuels, in particular the consequences th...