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.
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
Edited
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
Edited
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
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
Community Development in Asia and the Pacific
1st Edition
By Manohar S. Pawar
September 25, 2012
There is a tremendous need for community development practice in the Asia-Pacific region due to its size and prevailing diverse socio-economic, political and cultural needs and issues. Both developed and developing countries have been reemphasizing the importance of community development and have ...
Technical Knowledge and Development: Observing Aid Projects and Processes
1st Edition
By Thomas Grammig
September 10, 2012
Development and aid projects often fail to improve technological capacity. Their reform has been a widely acknowledged challenge for three decades. This book demonstrates theoretically and empirically how aid practitioners shape the organizational, social and inter-cultural dynamics of development ...
India’s New Economic Policy: A Critical Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Waquar Ahmed, Amitabh Kundu, Richard Peet
September 05, 2012
Conventional interpretations of the New Economic Policy introduced in India in 1991 see this program of economic liberalization as transforming the Indian economy and leading to a substantial increase in the rate of India’s economic growth. But in a country like India, growth is not enough. Who ...
Protecting Biological Diversity: The Effectiveness of Access and Benefit-sharing Regimes
1st Edition
By Carmen Richerzhagen
September 05, 2012
During the last ten years the enormous global loss of biodiversity has received remarkable attention. Among the numerous approaches undertaken to stop or lessen this process, access and benefit-sharing (ABS), a market-based approach, has emerged as among the most prominent. In theory, ABS turns ...