Development Studies

  1. Add to Wish List Handbook of Rural Development

    Handbook of Rural Development

    Edited by Gary Paul Green
    Although most countries in the world are rapidly urbanizing, the majority of the global population – particularly the poor – continue to live in rural areas. This Handbook rejects the popular notion that urbanization should be universall...
    Hardback (2014)

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  2. Add to Wish List NGOs, Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution

    NGOs, Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution

    Daniela Irrera
    Daniela Irrera explores the relationship between non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and intergovernmental organisations (IGOs). The author reviews the issue of NGOs’ participation in the decision-making processes of intergovernmental...
    Hardback (2014)

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  3. Add to Wish List States, Banks and Crisis

    States, Banks and Crisis

    Thomas Marois
    Thomas Marois’ groundbreaking interpretation of banking and development in Mexico and Turkey builds on a Marxian-inspired framework premised on understanding states and banks as social relationships alongside crisis and labor as vital to...
    Paperback (2013)

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    Hardback (June 2012)

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  4. Add to Wish List Coordinating Urban and Rural Development in China

    Coordinating Urban and Rural Development in China

    Ye Yumin, Richard LeGates
    This detailed study offers a succinct yet comprehensive introduction to China’s crucial policy to coordinate urban and rural development. It describes the theoretical, political, and economic reasons why China allowed a large gap between...
    Hardback (2013)

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  5. Add to Wish List Handbook of Research Methods in Migration

    Handbook of Research Methods in Migration

    Edited by Carlos Vargas-Silva
    Covering both qualitative and quantitative topics, the expert contributors in this Handbook explore fundamental issues of scientific logic, methodology and methods, through to practical applications of different techniques and approaches...
    Paperback (2013)

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  6. Add to Wish List Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge

    Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge

    Edited by Tania Bubela, E. Richard Gold
    This fascinating study describes efforts to define and protect traditional knowledge and the associated issues of access to genetic resources, from the negotiation of the Convention on Biological Diversity to The Declaration on the Right...
    Paperback (2013)

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    Hardback (2012)

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  7. Add to Wish List Social Protection, Economic Growth and Social Change

    Social Protection, Economic Growth and Social Change

    Edited by James Midgley, David Piachaud
    This highly original and thought-provoking book examines the recent expansion of social protection in China, India, Brazil and South Africa – four countries experiencing rapid economic growth and social change.
    Hardback (2013)

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  8. Add to Wish List Order from Transfer

    Order from Transfer

    Edited by Günter Frankenberg
    Constitutional orders and legal regimes are established and changed through the importing and exporting of ideas and ideologies, norms, institutions and arguments. The contributions in this book discuss this assumption and address theore...
    Hardback (2013)

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  9. Add to Wish List Social Capital and Rural Development in the Knowledge Society

    Social Capital and Rural Development in the Knowledge Society

    Edited by Hans Westlund, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
    Social capital is often considered a key factor for local development. This book analyzes the role of social capital for rural areas’ survival and development in the current age of metropolitan growth – an era in which urban is the norm ...
    Hardback (September 2013)

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  10. Add to Wish List Islands at Risk?

    Islands at Risk?

    John Connell
    This book provides a wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary economic, social, political and environmental change in small islands, island states and territories, through every ocean. It focuses on those island realms conventio...
    Hardback (July 2013)

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  11. Add to Wish List Weak versus Strong Sustainability

    Weak versus Strong Sustainability

    Eric Neumayer
    This fourth edition of an enduring and popular book has been fully updated and revised, exploring the two opposing paradigms of sustainability in an insightful and accessible way. Eric Neumayer contends that central to the debate on sust...
    Paperback (2013)

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    Hardback (June 2013)

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  12. Add to Wish List Improving Irrigation in Asia

    Improving Irrigation in Asia

    Elinor Ostrom, Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan, Ganesh P. Shivakoti
    Improving Irrigation in Asia is based on a longitudinal study over two decades on innovative intervention for sustained performance of irrigation systems. The work identifies key factors that can help explain the performance of intervent...
    Paperback (April 2013)

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    Hardback (2011)

    List price $127.00

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