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Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
Fundamental changes have taken place in China in ownership and control of, as well as access to livelihood assets in the context of transition and globalisation. This book examines the political economy of China's rural livelihoods transformations during the past three decades and in contemporary...
To Be Published December 1st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods
Poverty is still a serious global phenomenon, and remains concentrated in rural areas of developing countries. Much literature has been devoted to understanding the lives and prospects for small poor producers (smallholder farmers) and micro-entrepreneurs, but much less is known and written about...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
Identity and the State in Malaysia examines the formation of national identities in post-colonial states. In particular, it demonstrates the importance of the connection between lived experience and identity and belonging. It focuses on the case study of the Kadazan of Sabah in the Malaysian...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
This book charts important social and political transitions in Nepal through the lens of medicine. It engages with a range of issues - mission health care institutions, tuberculosis as a sight of ethnographic inquiry and medical intervention, the pharmaceuticalization of mental health and public...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics
This new text extends the traditional reach of ecological economics into the fields of management and economic policy. Its theoretical basis is brought to bear on actual real world problems and a wider range of policy instruments are introduced as a way of emphasizing that the critical...
To Be Published January 9th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Earthscan Conservation and Development
The Asian elephant is an endangered species and a cultural icon in both Asia and the West, while in India it is both deified and demonized. Human-elephant encounters and relationships are the focus of this book, which shows how these are politicized and pose challenges for rural development and...
To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture
Over the last three decades there has been a rapid expansion of intensive production of fresh fruit and vegetables in the Mediterranean regions of south and west Europe. Much of this depends on migrating workers for seasonal labour, including from Eastern Europe and North Africa. This book is the...
To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics
The most important issue facing how water is used and developed is that most basic of economic questions: how to allocate scarce resources among competing uses over time. Until recently, issues of supply and quality had dominated the literature on water. It was seen as a cheap commodity and...
To Be Published January 20th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics
It is increasingly recognized that sustainable economic development and poverty reduction requires investment in a broad range of private and public assets and economics as a discipline has been at the forefront in emphasizing the importance of human capital and integral to these efforts. Many...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Regions and Cities
Across much of rural Europe, economic and social restructuring have now proceededto the extent that it is possible to talk in terms of a New Rural Economy andperhaps even a New Rural Society. In a number of respects this shift leaves these rural economies and societies both more closely linked to...
To Be Published February 4th 2014 by Routledge
