Development Studies

Global Production Networks and Rural Development

Edited by Bill Pritchard

Bill Pritchard provides an important update on how current trade methodologies are implemented as China becomes one of the world’s largest fresh fruit importers from countries such as Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.

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Urban Planning, Management and Governance in Emerging Economies

Edited by Jan Fransen, Meine P. van Dijk, Jurian Edelenbos

Exploring how urban professionals plan, manage and govern cities in emerging economies, this insightful book studies the actions and instruments they employ. It highlights how the paradigms of interventions and approaches to urban manage...

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Upgrading the Global Garment Industry

Edited by Mohammad B. Rana, Matthew M.C. Allen

This timely book focuses on the upgrading of firms within the global garment industry, examining how garment manufacturers and retailers in different countries internationalize, develop their capabilities and enhance their sustainability...

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Field Guide for Research in Community Settings

Edited by M. R. Islam, Niaz A. Khan, Siti H.A.B. Ah, Haris A. Wahab, Mashitah B. Hamidi

This insightful book offers practical advice to fieldworkers in social research, enabling robust and judicious applications of research methods and techniques in data collection. It also outlines data collection challenges that are commo...

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Human Rights in Eastern Civilisations

Surya P. Subedi

Based on the author''s first-hand experience as a UN Special Rapporteur, this thought-provoking and original book examines the values of Eastern civilisations and their contribution to the development of the UN Human Rights agenda. Rejec...

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Pandemic Economics

Peter A.G. van Bergeijk

Discussing the Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDs, SARS and Ebola against the background of Covid-19, Pandemic Economics demonstrates how scientists consistently warned the world about pandemics, and how, despite this, the possibility of global lockd...

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The Diffusion of Public and Private Sustainability Regulations

Edited by Etsuyo Michida, John Humphrey, David Vogel

This book focuses on the spread of public and private environmental and food safety regulations from Europe and North America to Asia and Africa. It explores the growth of policy diffusion and standard alignment on sustainability observe...

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Catch-up and Radical Innovation in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Xielin Liu, Xiao Wang, Yimei Hu

This original book is a unique and original study on how, in the past decade, Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have achieved technological innovation in the large infrastructure sector. It reveals a ‘new world’ of Chinese innovatio...

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China’s Maritime Silk Road

Gerald Chan

This innovative book examines the maritime component of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), focusing on three key trade routes and addressing the question of how China protects its overseas assets. Gerald Chan explores China’s rising...

Hardback (2020)

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A Research Agenda for Tourism and Development

Edited by Richard Sharpley, David Harrison

Tourism is integral to local, regional and national development policies; as a major global economic sector, it has the potential to underpin economic growth and wider development. Yet, transformations in both the nature of tourism and t...

Hardback (2019)

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Communities, Land and Social Innovation

Edited by Pieter Van den Broeck, Asiya Sadiq, Ide Hiergens, Monica Quintana Molina, Han Verschure, Frank Moulaert

This timely and thought-provoking book examines the contemporary struggle of communities over land ownership and use rights in rapidly urbanising areas, analysing 12 key case studies from across four continents. Contributions from an int...

Hardback (2020)

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