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.
Social Development: Critical Themes and Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Manohar S. Pawar, David R. Cox
September 05, 2012
This edited collection demonstrates that the ideas inherent in social development are practical and not utopian. By discussing and delineating a social development approach, the book argues the need for practicing it at local or grassroots-level communities to promote universal social justice and ...
On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions
1st Edition
Edited
By Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian, Debashish Munshi
July 27, 2012
Big business, financial institutions, and capitalist powers have wreaked much havoc on the Third World in the name of development. This book re-imagines development through a careful and imaginative exploration of some of the many ways that culture – in the broadest sense of lived experience and ...
Rural Development Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Ruth McAreavey
July 27, 2012
Rural development is inherently viewed as a positive thing; it is seen as something that brings together groups of individuals with automatic positive implications and outcomes. Policy rhetoric frequently uses popular terms such as involvement, participation and power sharing to describe rural ...
The Political Economy of Water and Sanitation
1st Edition
By Matthias Krause
July 27, 2012
According to recent estimates, around 6,000 people – mostly children under five – die every day from diseases caused by inappropriate water and sanitation (WS) services. Much of the academic and political debate surrounding this issue has focused on private sector participation. By ...
Alternatives to Privatization: Public Options for Essential Services in the Global South
1st Edition
Edited
By David A. McDonald, Greg Ruiters
February 27, 2012
There is a vast literature for and against privatizing public services. Those who are against privatization are often confronted with the objection that they present no alternative. This book takes up that challenge by establishing theoretical models for what does (and does not) constitute an ...
Children, Structure and Agency: Realities Across the Developing World
1st Edition
By G.K. Lieten
February 03, 2012
The child labour debate, the Child Rights Convention and the target of universal primary education in the Millennium Development Goals have drawn increasing attention to children in developing countries. Alongside, a debate has waged on the need for child participation and the appropriateness of ...
Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability
1st Edition
Edited
By Jesse Dillard, Veronica Dujon, Mary C. King
February 03, 2012
The imperative of the twenty-first century is sustainability: to raise the living standards of the world's poor and to achieve and maintain high levels of social health among the affluent nations while simultaneously reducing and reversing the environmental damage wrought by human activity. ...
Global Migration and Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Ton van Naerssen, Ernst Spaan, Annelies Zoomers
December 09, 2011
The debate on international migration and development currently focuses on South-North migration, transnationalism, remittances and knowledge transfer. The potential positive role of migration for countries and regions the emigrants originate from has recently been acknowledged by, among others, ...
Marine Natural Resources and Technological Development: An Economic Analysis of the Wealth from the Oceans
1st Edition
By Marco Colazingari
December 09, 2011
This book offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the issues involved within Ocean Economics. The oceans are the last frontier on Earth, and research and exploration are key to developing and enhancing global economic activity that is necessary to sustain a growing human population. ...
Dislocation and Resettlement in Development: From Third World to the World of the Third
1st Edition
By Anjan Chakrabarti, Anup Kumar Dhar
October 05, 2011
Challenging the more conventional approaches to dislocation and resettlement that are the usual focus of discussion on the topic, this book offers a unique theory of dislocation in the form of primitive accumulation. Interrogating the ‘reformist-managerial’ and ‘radical-movementist’ approaches, it...
Development Poverty and Politics: Putting Communities in the Driver’s Seat
1st Edition
By Richard Martin, Ashna Mathema
August 15, 2011
Top down . . . bottom up . . . what works? This book explores development from theperspective of the poor. Who are they? What lives do they live? What matters tothem? And most importantly, what can they do about it? Martin and Mathema debate how people can be given legitimate control of theirown ...
Poverty Orientated Agricultural and Rural Development
1st Edition
By Hartmut Brandt, Uwe Otzen
March 06, 2009
Over the last twenty years the proportion of development cooperation resources earmarked for agricultural development has dwindled to between six and seven per cent of total bi- and multilateral Official Development Assistance. This is despite the fact that eighty per cent of the world's poor ...