Development Studies Catalogue

The Human Capacity for Transformational Change

The Future of the Collective Mind

By Valerie A. Brown, John Harris

Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour. This book presents the case that to succeed individually the power systems of society will need to work collectively. Working collectively goes further than collaboration to the development of a...

To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge

The Human Capacity for Transformational Change

The Future of the Collective Mind

By Valerie A. Brown, John Harris

Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour. This book presents the case that to succeed individually the power systems of society will need to work collectively. Working collectively goes further than collaboration to the development of a...

To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge

HIV and East Africa

Thirty Years in the Shadow of an Epidemic

By Janet Seeley

Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

By tracing the shadow of the epidemic over the last 30 years in Uganda and more broadly in the region, HIV and East Africa investigates the impact of the epidemic on people’s lives and livelihoods, placing the epidemic within the context of the social, political and economic changes that have...

To Be Published September 8th 2013 by Routledge

Ecologies and Politics of Health

Edited by Brian King, Kelley A. Crews

Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

Human health exists at the interface of environment and society. Decades of work by researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers has shown that health is shaped by a myriad of factors, including the biophysical environment, climate, political economy, gender, social networks, culture, and...

Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge

Global Variations in the Political and Social Economy of Care

Worlds Apart

Edited by Shahra Razavi, Silke Staab

Series: Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development

Care work, both paid and unpaid, contributes to well-being, social development and economic growth. But the costs of providing care are unequally borne across gender and social class. Feminist scholarship on the gendered construction of welfare provisioning and welfare regimes has produced a...

Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge

Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia

Edited by Liping Bu, Darwin H. Stapleton, Ka-Che Yip

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

This book examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the twentieth century until now. It discusses the transfer of scientific knowledge of medicine and public health approaches from Europe...

Published March 11th 2012 by Routledge

Water Quality Management

Present Situations, Challenges and Future Perspectives

Edited by Asit Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada, Rafael Izquierdo

Series: Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

The global attention in recent years has focused primarily on water quantity and allocation issues. Water quality has received significantly less attention than water quantity. Commendable progress has been made by the developed world to control point sources of pollution, but commensurate progress...

Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge

Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia

Edited by Liping Bu, Darwin H. Stapleton, Ka-Che Yip

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

This book examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the twentieth century until now. It discusses the transfer of scientific knowledge of medicine and public health approaches from Europe...

Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge