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Handbook on Food
Edited by Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha, Anil B. Deolalikar
The global population is forecasted to reach 9.4 billion by 2050, with much of this increase concentrated in developing regions and cities. Ensuring adequate food and nourishment to this large population is a pressing economic, moral and...eBook:Find out more£39.16
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Handbook of International Development and Education
Edited by Pauline Dixon, Steve Humble, Chris Counihan
This Handbook considers the myths and untruths that currently exist in international development and education. Using historic and contemporary evidence, this compendium redefines the international development narrative through a new und...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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Handbook on Agriculture, Biotechnology and Development
Edited by Stuart J. Smyth, Peter W.B. Phillips, David Castle
This book is a compendium of knowledge, experience and insight on agriculture, biotechnology and development. Beginning with an account of GM crop adoptions and attitudes towards them, the book assesses numerous crucial processes, conclu...eBook:Find out more£48.76
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Corruption, Grabbing and Development
Edited by Tina Søreide, Aled Williams
All societies develop their own norms about what is fair behaviour and what is not. Violations of these norms, including acts of corruption, can collectively be described as forms of ‘grabbing’. This unique volume addresses how grabbing ...eBook:Find out more£24.76
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Gender, Development and Disasters
Sarah Bradshaw
Sarah Bradshaw critically examines key notions, such as gender, vulnerability, risk, and humanitarianism, underpinning development and disaster discourse. Case studies are used to demonstrate how disasters are experienced individually an...eBook:Find out more£19.96
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Regulatory Worlds
Mark Findlay, Lim Si Wei
This ambitious book takes up the grand challenge to design regulatory thinking for a global future beyond wealth and growth, and towards social sustainability. Assuming a ‘South World’ perspective on market regulation and social sustaina...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Social Policy in a Developing World
Edited by Rebecca Surender, Robert Walker
This volume provides a critical analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing social protection systems in the global south, and examines current strategies for addressing poverty and welfare needs in the region. In particular, the...eBook:Find out more£24.76
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Environmental Entrepreneurship
Laura E. Huggins
In this innovative book, Laura E. Huggins finds path breaking entrepreneurial solutions to difficult environmental challenges in some of the world’s poorest areas. The approaches entrepreneurs are taking to these challenges involve esta...eBook:Find out more£19.96
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Local Societies and Rural Development
Edited by Shinichi Shigetomi, Ikuko Okamoto
The importance of community-based and participatory approaches to rural development in developing countries has long been emphasized. Rural people, who are economically and politically weak as individuals, can only participate in develop...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Handbook of Research on Development and Religion
Edited by Matthew Clarke
With eighty percent of the world’s population professing religious faith, religious belief is a common human characteristic. This fascinating and highly unique Handbook brings together state-of-the-art research on incorporating religion ...eBook:Find out more£43.96
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The International Handbook on Social Innovation
Edited by Frank Moulaert, Diana MacCallum, Abid Mehmood, Abdelillah Hamdouch
The contributors provide an overview of theoretical perspectives, methodologies and instructive experiences from all continents, as well as implications for collective action and policy. They argue strongly for social innovation as a key...eBook:Find out more£34.36
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Innovation and Inequality
Edited by Susan Cozzens, Dhanaraj Thakur
Inequality is one of the main features of globalization. Do emerging technologies, as they spread around the world, contribute to more inequality or less? This unique interdisciplinary text examines the relationships between emerging tec...eBook:Find out more£25.00