Development Studies Catalogue

Rural Migrants in Urban China

Enclaves and Transient Urbanism

Edited by Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang, Chris Webster

Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

After millions of migrants moved from China’s countryside into its sprawling cities a unique kind of ‘informal’ urban enclave was born – ‘villages in the city’. Like the shanties and favelas before them elsewhere, there has been huge pressure to redevelop these blemishes to the urban face of China’...

To Be Published August 4th 2013 by Routledge

Locating Right to the City in the Global South

Edited by Tony Samara, Shenjing He, Guo Chen

Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

Despite the fact that virtually all urban growth is occurring, and will continue to occur, in the cities of the Global South, the conceptual tools used to study cities are distilled disproportionately from research on the highly developed cities of the Global North. With urban inequality widely...

Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge

Impact Evaluation of Infrastructure Interventions

Edited by Henrik Hansen, Ole Winckler Andersen, Howard White

The focus on results in development agencies has led to increased focus on impact evaluation to demonstrate the effectiveness of development programmes. This book illustrates the broad range of methods available for counterfactual analysis of infrastructure programmes such as establishment,...

Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge

Promoting Silicon Valleys in Latin America

Lessons from Costa Rica

By Luciano Ciravegna

Series: Regions and Cities

The spectacular economic performance of China, East Asia and India during the last ten years has ignited some profound changes in the world economy. The share of global demand, investments, trade and production of the traditional industrialized powers, the US, Europe and Japan, has gradually yet...

Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge

Ecosystems and Integrated Water Resources Management in South Asia

Edited by E. R. N. Gunawardena, Brij Gopal, Hemesiri Kotagama

This book provides an ecosystem perspective in addressing the water resource management issues in the South Asian region. It argues that aspects such as sources of water, its distribution and users; land–water interrelations; drivers of change such as laws, policies and institutions; management of...

Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge India

Climate Change, Assets and Food Security in Southern African Cities

Edited by Bruce Frayne, Caroline Moser, Gina Ziervogel

Series: Earthscan Climate

There is overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. It is the poorest countries and people who are the most vulnerable to this threat and who will suffer the most. This book shows how increasing urbanization and growing poverty levels mean that it is imperative to ask how climate change...

Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge