Development Studies

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...