Development Studies Textbooks
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The Development Reader
The Development Reader brings together fifty-four key readings on development history, theory and policy: Adam Smith and Karl Marx meet, among others, Robert Wade, Amartya Sen and Jeffrey Sachs. It shows how debates around development have been structured by different readings of the roles...
Published June 16th 2008 by Routledge
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Conflict and Development
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Over the past decade, a new awareness of the relationship between conflicts and development has grown. Developmental factors can act as a trigger for violence, as well as for ending violence and for triggering post-conflict reconstruction. This book explores the complexity of the links between...
Published March 23rd 2009 by Routledge
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Southeast Asian Development
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Southeast Asia has long fascinated development practitioners and researchers for being one of the few regions of the world that has resisted global trends to become a successful developing region. Divided into accessible thematic chapters, this book adopts a unique perspective of equitable...
Published March 9th 2008 by Routledge
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Disaster and Development
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Development to a large extent determines the way in which hazards impact on people. Meanwhile the occurrence of disasters alters the scope of development. Whilst a notion of the association of disaster and development is as old as development studies itself, recent decades have produced an...
Published June 3rd 2009 by Routledge
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Postcolonialism and Development
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
While the possibility of producing a de-colonized, postcolonial knowledge in development studies became a subject of considerable debate in the 1990s, there has been little dialogue between postcolonialism and development. However, the need for development studies that is postcolonial in theory and...
Published November 19th 2008 by Routledge
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Environmental Management and Development
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
The environment and its management has been, and continues to be a very topical issue. Existing environment and development texts place emphasis is on listing problems, making warnings and voicing advocacy, but by focusing on environmental management, this informative book offers a very different...
Published December 8th 2004 by Routledge
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Children, Youth and Development
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Children constitute a large part of the population of developing countries. Throughout the developing world, experiences of childhood are extremely diverse, both between places and between children in particular places, from the international level through to the different treatment of a boy and a...
Published November 9th 2004 by Routledge
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Rural-Urban Interaction in the Developing World
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Sustaining the rural and urban populations of the developing world has been identified as a key global challenge for the twenty-first century. Rural-Urban Interaction in the Developing World is an introduction to the relationships between rural and urban places in the developing world and shows...
Published December 22nd 2004 by Routledge
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An Everyday Geography of the Global South
Taking a broad perspective of livelihoods, this book draws on more than ninety case studies from thirty-six countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America to examine how people are engaging and living with modernity. This extends from changes in the ways that households operate, to how...
Published June 20th 2007 by Routledge
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Geographies of Developing Areas
The Global South in a changing world
This significant new textbook questions traditional conceptions of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to provide a new understanding of the ‘Global South’, highlighting the rich diversity of regions that are usually only viewed in terms of their ‘problems’. Providing a positive but...
Published April 5th 2009 by Routledge
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Africa
Diversity and Development
For many, Africa is regarded as a place of mystery and negative images, where reports of natural disasters and civil strife dominate media attention, with relatively little publicity given to any of the continent’s more positive attributes. Africa has at last begun to receive the depth of interest...
Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
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Green Development
Environment and Sustainability in a Developing World, 3rd Edition
The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and development and the way governments, business and environmental groups respond to it. Green Development provides a clear and coherent analysis of sustainable development in both theory and practice. This third...
Published July 29th 2008 by Routledge
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Theories and Practices of Development
2nd Edition
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Global economic crisis and the implications of global environmental change have led academics and policy-makers to consider how ‘development’ in all parts of the world should be achieved. However, ‘development’ has always been a contested idea. While often presented as a positive process to improve...
Published February 23rd 2011 by Routledge
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Food and Development
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
The relationship between food and development has always been controversial. Over the last thirty years, development in the north and south has failed to deliver people a decent diet. While some people have too little food and die as a consequence, some people have too much food and die from...
Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Climate Change and Development
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Climate change is the defining developmental challenge of our times. First, its impacts threaten to reverse hard won developmental achievements of past decades. Poor countries and peoples will generally be hit soonest and hardest despite them contributing least to causing the problem. Second, our...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
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An Introduction to Sustainable Development
4th Edition
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
This fourth edition has been comprehensively rewritten and updated to provide a concise, well illustrated and accessible introduction to the characteristics, challenges and opportunities of sustainable development with particular reference to developing countries. The contested nature of...
Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
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Children, Youth and Development
2nd Edition
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Children, Youth and Development explores the varied ways in which global processes in the form of development policies, economic and cultural globalization, and international agreements combine with more locally specific practices to shape the lives of young people living in the poorer regions of...
To Be Published January 29th 2014 by Routledge
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Global Finance and Development
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
The question of money and how to provide and acquire it where needed is axiomatic to development: how to fund development has been central to the growth of the discipline and the project of development ever since its inception. But the relationship between finance and development is more contested...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Development Organizations
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Continuing debates over the meaning of development and awareness of the persistence of poverty have resulted in increasing concern over how to ‘do’ development. There are growing numbers of development organizations, undertaking different activities, at different scales, with different motivations,...
Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
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Water Resources and Development
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Since the start of the twenty-first century there has been an unprecedented focus upon water as a key factor in the future of both society and environment. Water management lies at the heart of strategies of development as does the added the hazard of climate change. Water Resources and...
Published October 31st 2010 by Routledge
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Economics and Development Studies
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Development studies textbooks and courses have sometimes tended to avoid significant economic content. However, without an understanding of the economic aspects of international development many of the more complex issues cannot be fully comprehended. Economics and Development Studies makes the...
Published August 3rd 2010 by Routledge
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Gender and Development
2nd Edition
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Global financial problems, rising food prices, climate change, international migration – increasingly by women – conflict situations in many poor countries, the spread of tropical diseases such as malaria and dengue fever and the increased incidence of HIV/AIDS and TB, and changing...
Published December 1st 2009 by Routledge
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Cities and Development
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
By 2030 more than sixty percent of the world's population will live in urban areas, with most of the world’s population growth over the next twenty-five years being absorbed by cities and towns in low and middle income countries. What are the consequences of this shift?...
Published June 18th 2009 by Routledge
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Non-Governmental Organizations and Development
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are high profile actors in the field of international development, both as providers of services to vulnerable individuals and communities and as campaigning policy advocates. This book provides a critical introduction to the wide-ranging topic of NGOs and...
Published June 7th 2009 by Routledge
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Population and Development
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Population and Development addresses important issues at the heart of the problems of developing countries. How these countries address the common difficulties of population growth, including mortality and fertility decline, population redistribution including internal migration and urbanization,...
Published December 2nd 2008 by Routledge
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The Politics of Development
A Survey
Series: Europa Politics of ... series
A unique and insightful guide to the politics surrounding development. This new title presents a wealth of information and case studies covering the global politics of development. Includes: in-depth essays profiling today's critical topics an A-Z of key terms maps statistical tables....
To Be Published September 4th 2013 by Routledge
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Re-Envisioning Global Development
A Horizontal Perspective
Series: Critical Issues in Global Politics
Re-Envisioning Global Development offers an original conceptualisation of capitalist development from its origins to the present day. Most approaches to understanding contemporary development assume that industrial capitalism was achieved through a process of nationally organised economic growth,...
Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
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Theories of Development
In Comparative and Historical Perspective
This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of theories of development, from its earliest formulations to the challenges posed by the globalizing world of the twenty-first century. Rather than simply discussing theories in an abstract way, this book clearly tracks their...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge