Routledge Studies in Development and Society
About the Book Series
The development of different societies is a complex and diverse matter. This series incorporates a multidisciplinary approach to explore the impact of development theory and practice. In particular, the series highlights the importance of current research on:
* gender and equality
* sustainable development
* environment protection
* security.
Titles in the series offer authoritative insights into developmental issues of regional and global importance.
The End of the Developmental State?
1st Edition
Edited
By Michelle Williams
September 08, 2015
The End of the Developmental State? brings together leading scholars of development to assess the current status of the "developmental state" in several developing and transitional economies of South Korea, Taiwan, Ireland, the United Kingdom, China, South Africa, Brazil and India. Has the concept ...
Gender, Ethnicity and Place: Women and Identity in Guyana
1st Edition
By Linda Peake, D. Alissa Trotz
December 01, 2014
This book is concerned with the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context of the external and internal dynamics of households in Guyana. Using detailed data collected from male and female respondents in three separate locations, two urban and one rural, and ...
Psychology of Aid
1st Edition
By Stuart Carr, Mac MacLachlan
December 01, 2014
Psychology of Aid provides an original, psychological approach to development studies, focusing as it does on the social aspects of aid and the motivational foundations. Designed as a practical tool for looking at development projects in a new and structured way, the authors bring many of the ...
The Life Region: The Social and Cultural Ecology of Sustainable Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Per Raberg
December 01, 2014
This book launches a strategy for sustainable development, starting from a socio-ecological position and developing a model for a socially and culturally supportive community, or 'Life Region'. Special emphasis is placed on the situation of the provincial and peripheral regions of Europe and the ...
Neoliberalism, Development, and Aid Volunteering
1st Edition
By Nichole Georgeou
June 02, 2014
This work comes at an important time of global crisis and change, where the world is ravaged by natural disasters, wars and poverty. This has increased the pressure on governments and other organisations, such as volunteer sending agencies, which provide aid, and we have seen an upward trend ...
Mining and Social Transformation in Africa: Mineralizing and Democratizing Trends in Artisanal Production
1st Edition
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By Deborah F Bryceson, Eleanor Fisher, Jesper Bosse Jønsson, Rosemarie Mwaipopo
April 24, 2014
After more than three decades of economic malaise, many African countries are experiencing an upsurge in their economic fortunes linked to the booming international market for minerals. Spurred by the shrinking viability of peasant agriculture, rural dwellers have been engaged in a massive search ...
Information Technology, Development, and Social Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Fay Patel, Prahalad Sooknanan, Giselle Rampersad, Anuradha Mundkur
April 09, 2014
The speed and cost effectiveness of new information technology has prompted many to view these innovations as a panacea for social and economic development. However, such a view flies in the face of continuing inequities in education, health, food, and infrastructure. This volume explores these ...
Rural Transformations and Rural Policies in the US and UK
1st Edition
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By Mark Shucksmith, David L. Brown, Sally Shortall, Jo Vergunst, Mildred E. Warner
April 09, 2014
This book examines the transformations of rural society and economy in the UK and US during the last half-century, and explores the significance of these trends and changes for community sustainability, quality of life and the environment. While both the UK and US are highly urbanised, rural people...
The Paradigm of International Social Development: Ideologies, Development Systems and Policy Approaches
1st Edition
By Murli Desai
October 23, 2013
This book takes a historical approach to analyse ideologies, policy approaches and development systems that have constructed the paradigm of international social development. It aims to review the social construction of "development" by tracing the historical dynamics of the modern ideologies and ...
Local Governance and Poverty in Developing Nations
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicky Pouw, Isa Baud
September 20, 2013
This volume examines the persistence of poverty - both rural and urban - in developing countries, and the response of local governments to the problem, exploring the roles of governments, NGOs, and CSOs in national and sub-national agenda-setting, policy-making, and poverty-reduction strategies. It...
Towards Sustainable Rural Regions in Europe: Exploring Inter-Relationships Between Rural Policies, Farming, Environment, Demographics, Regional Economies and Quality of Life Using System Dynamics
1st Edition
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By John M. Bryden, Sophia Efstratoglou, Tibor Ferenczi, Karlheinz Knickel, Tom Johnson, Karen Refsgaard, Kenneth J. Thomson
June 24, 2013
This book presents the methodology and results of a three-year, eleven-country science-to-policy research project – Toward a Policy Model of Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development – undertaken between 2005 and 2008 and financed under the European Union's Sixth Framework program...
Global Trends and Regional Development
1st Edition
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By Nikolai Genov
May 23, 2013
For millennia, contact between societies was limited to trade or wars, a situation that changed profoundly with the development of global markets serving industrialization. The outcome was the emergence of one global human civilization, and one common future that will depend on the capacity of ...