Development Studies

In a world grappling with refugee crisis, political unrest and economies on the verge of collapse, temporary migration has become an increasingly c...

When it comes to water, we flush and forget. We use, abuse and almost never recycle. Water sector in India, since the 1990s, has seen some new idea...

When it comes to water, we flush and forget. We use, abuse and almost never recycle. Water sector in India, since the 1990s, has seen some new idea...

Economic development of frontier and remote regions has long been a central theme of development studies. This book examines the development experi...

Economic development of frontier and remote regions has long been a central theme of development studies. This book examines the development experi...

Animal products are vital components of the diets and livelihoods of people across sub-Saharan Africa. They are frequently traded in local, unregul...

Recent technological advancements and other related factors and trends are contributing to the production of an astoundingly large and rapidly acce...

There is a broad and long-standing debate on possible solutions to the regional vulnerabilities of globalisation. In 2014, the European Commission ...

This collection brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars exploring how development financing and interventions are being shaped by a ...

This book explores developmental policymaking across the multiple levels of Mexicos contemporary state, arguing that many of the innovations in ind...

Due to the economic and social effects of globalization democracy is currently in crisis in many states around the world. This book suggests that s...

Social protection serves as an important development tool, helping to alleviate deprivation, reduce social risks, raise household income and develo...

This book draws on the expertise of faculty and colleagues at the Balsillie School of International Affairs to both locate the Sustainable Developm...

Sustainability Appraisal is a sourcebook of the state-of-the-art of this rapidly emerging and diversifying area. It draws on a wealth of internatio...

This book assesses the causes and consequences of environmental change in East Africa, asking whether local African communities are sufficiently re...

This book examines the extent to which a space has opened up in recent years for the so-called rising powers of the global South to offer an altern...

A world of 9 billion people by mid-century will demand fundamental changes in our mindsets, behaviors, cultures, and overarching paradigm. Just as ...

Processes of multi-scalar regional urbanization are occurring worldwide. Such processes are clearly distinguishable from those of the nineteenth an...

During the period 2000 to 2010, tea plantations in India experienced a crisis and were at the threshold of transformation, framed by conflict and t...

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent...

This book explores the complex relationship between energy and development and discusses the core issues and concepts surrounding this growing area...

This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to thinking about inequality, and to understanding how inequality is produced and reprod...

Rapid urbanization, higher density and more compact cities have brought about a new science of urban climatology. An understanding of the mapping o...

This book interrogates the validity of longstanding claims that Gambians and Senegalese are 'one' people in two countries and explores how that cla...

There is a striking scarcity of work conducted on rural labour markets in the developing world, particularly in Africa. This book aims to fill this...

Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape brings together various disciplinary perspectives and diverse theories on arts dialecti...

Rising as a global power and regarding the existing world order unjust and unreasonable enough to meet the interests of both itself and other emerg...

At the turn of the millennium, the unanimous adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the United Nations General Assembly marked a ne...

At the global level, international actors have repeatedly expressed their desire to end hunger and food insecurity. However, food insecurity has pe...

Due to the economic and social effects of globalization democracy is currently in crisis in many states around the world. This book suggests that s...

Economic Development in Ghana and Malaysia investigates why two countries that appeared to be at more or less the same stage of economic developmen...

Innovation Platforms (IPs) form the core of many Agricultural Research for Development programmes, stimulating multi-stakeholder collaboration and ...

Across Europe there is a rapidly changing context for undertaking regional development. In the 20th century, development of the former planned econ...

Regional Autonomy, Cultural Diversity and Differentiated Territorial Government assesses the current state of the international theory and practice...

The European Union has increasingly taken on a role as international security provider that extends beyond the geographical scope of its membership...

On Vulnerability maps out an array of perspectives for critically examining the nature of vulnerability, its unequal patterning across different so...

This title was first published in 2000: Up-to-date information on socio-economic issues in contemporary Swaziland is not always readily accessible....

Research on global norm diffusion and institutional transfer has often neglected the agency of the governed. This collection argues that limited st...

Although Britains formal imperial role in the smaller, oil-rich Sheikhdoms of the Arab Gulf Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates ...

Although the Genocide Convention was already adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1945, it was only in the late 1990s that groups of activists eme...

Chinas food security has never failed to attract the publics attention. Feeding Chinas large population has always been a huge challenge. The lates...

Originally published in 1985, New Nationalisms in the Developed West is a collection of interdisciplinary and insightful essays on modern nationali...

Social protection serves as an important development tool, helping to alleviate deprivation, reduce social risks, raise household income and develo...

This book empirically examines health care financing reforms and popular responses in three major cities in East Asia: Shanghai, Singapore, and Hon...

Agriculture productivity, growth and regional change in post-colonial India from a spatial perspective are yet to be rigorously examined. In partic...

This book considers how the establishment and/or improvement of gender equality impacts on the social, economic, religious, cultural, environmental...

Discussions of the illicit and the illegal have tended to be somewhat restricted in their disciplinary range, to date, and have been largely confin...

The field of humanitarianism is characterised by profound uncertainty, by a constant need to respond to the unpredictable, and by concepts and prac...