Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods
About the Book Series
Editorial Board: A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi (Trent University), Saturnino M. Borras Jr. (Institute of Social Studies), Cristóbal Kay (Chair) (Institute of Social Studies) and Max Spoor (Institute of Social Studies).
Routledge and the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, The Netherlands publish a book series together in rural livelihoods. The series includes themes such as land policies and land rights, water issues, food policy and politics, rural poverty, agrarian transformation, migration, rural-oriented social movements, rural conflict and violence, among others. All books in the series offer rigorous, empirically grounded, cross-national comparative and inter-regional analysis. The books are theoretically stimulating, but are also accessible to policy practitioners and civil society activists.
For a complete list of titles in this series, please visit https://www.routledge.com/series/ISSRL
Risk and Social Change in an African Rural Economy: Livelihoods in Pastoralist Communities
1st Edition
By John G. McPeak, Peter D. Little, Cheryl R. Doss
December 08, 2016
Pastoralists’ role in contemporary Africa typically goes underappreciated and misunderstood by development agencies, external observers, and policymakers. Yet, arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL), which are used predominantly for extensive livestock grazing, comprise nearly half of the continent’s land...
The Ecotourism-Extraction Nexus: Political Economies and Rural Realities of (un)Comfortable Bedfellows
1st Edition
Edited
By Bram Büscher, Veronica Davidov
December 08, 2016
Ecotourism and natural resource extraction may be seen as contradictory pursuits, yet in reality they often take place side by side, sometimes even supported by the same institutions. Existing academic and policy literatures generally overlook the phenomenon of ecotourism in areas concurrently ...
Public Policy and Agricultural Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Ha-Joon Chang
January 03, 2014
This book critically re-examines the currently dominant paradigm of agricultural development policy from historical and comparative perspectives. Examining the experiences of 11 developed countries in their earlier stages of development and the experiences of 10 developing and transition economies ...
Reforming Land and Resource Use in South Africa: Impact on Livelihoods
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Hebinck, Charlie Shackleton
November 08, 2013
This book debates the emergent proprieties of rural and peri-urban South Africa since land and agrarian reforms were initiated after the transition to democracy in 1994. It explores how these reforms have broadened options for the use of land and natural resources. Reform-minded policies in South ...
Water, Environmental Security and Sustainable Rural Development: Conflict and cooperation in Central Eurasia
1st Edition
Edited
By Murat Arsel, Max Spoor
November 08, 2013
This co-edited volume provides a unified scholarly treatment of intensifying debates on the relationship between water scarcity and environmental security in Central Eurasia. Using discussions of sustainable rural development as its conceptual backdrop, the chapters in this volume combine solid ...
Social Conflict, Economic Development and Extractive Industry: Evidence from South America
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthony Bebbington
August 07, 2013
The extraction of minerals, oil and gas has a long and ambiguous history in development processes – in North America, Europe, Latin America and Australasia. Extraction has yielded wealth, regional identities and in some cases capital for industrialization. In other cases its main heritages have ...
Agrarian Angst and Rural Resistance in Contemporary Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Dominique Caouette, Sarah Turner
April 10, 2011
Agrarian transformations, market integration and globalization processes are impacting upon rural Southeast Asia with increasingly complex and diverse consequences. In response, local inhabitants are devising a broad range of resistance measures that they feel will best protect or improve their ...
Peasants and Globalization: Political economy, rural transformation and the agrarian question
1st Edition
Edited
By A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Cristóbal Kay
July 06, 2010
In 2007, for the first time in human history, a majority of the world’s population lived in cities. However, on a global scale, poverty overwhelmingly retains a rural face. This book assembles an unparalleled group of internationally-eminent scholars in the field of rural development and social ...
The Political Economy of Rural Livelihoods in Transition Economies: Land, Peasants and Rural Poverty in Transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Max Spoor
July 06, 2010
Rural poverty is a phenomenon that is widespread yet often ignored by policy makers and researchers. This edited volume looks critically at rural poverty in Central Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, China and Vietnam in relation to land reform, farm restructuring and the ...
Land, Poverty and Livelihoods in an Era of Globalization: Perspectives from Developing and Transition Countries
1st Edition
By A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Cristóbal Kay
February 18, 2009
A host of internationally eminent scholars are brought together here to explore the structural causes of rural poverty and income inequality, as well as the processes of social exclusion and political subordination encountered by the peasantry and rural workers across a wide range of countries...