Development Studies Supplementary Reading
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Working in International Development and Humanitarian Assistance
A Career Guide
This is an indispensable career guide for everyone wanting to work in or already working in the international development and humanitarian emergencies sector. It provides a general introduction and insight into the sector, for those exploring it as a potential career, and offers...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Resilience, Development and Global Change
Resilience is currently infusing policy debates and public discourses, widely promoted as a normative goal in fields as diverse as the economy, national security, personal development and well-being. Resilience thinking provides a framework for understanding dynamics of complex, inter-connected...
To Be Published January 29th 2014 by Routledge
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Human Development
Series: Global Institutions
The purpose of the book is to examine the conceptual evolution of ‘social development’ during the post-colonial era, and to see how various institutions of the UN system have tried to engage with this issue, both in terms of intellectual and technical advance, and operationally. The book examines...
To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
For a People Centered Development Agenda?
Series: Global Institutions
Millennium Development Goals (MDG) constitute one of the most important global institutions today because of their origins, their ambitions and their effective role in shaping international development efforts. In developing this argument, Sakiko Fukada-Parr analyzes: whether the goals are...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection, 2nd Edition
Series: Global Institutions
This revised and expanded second edition of The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) continues to offer a concise and comprehensive introduction to both the world of refugees and the organizations that protect and assist them. This updated edition also includes: up to date...
Published November 20th 2011 by Routledge
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Conflict, Security and Development
An Introduction
This textbook draws on academic theory, field research and policy developments to provide an overview of the connections between security and development, before, during and after conflict. Academics and policymakers increasingly argue that security and development are closely related and therefore...
Published June 8th 2011 by Routledge
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Management
A Developing Country Perspective
The global business world appears to be changing and there is an ever greater focus on developing countries. This change in the international business environment is not reflected in the range of management textbooks currently available, as most are written from a developed country perspective This...
Published December 18th 2011 by Routledge
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Water for Food in a Changing World
Series: Contributions from the Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy
There is not enough water globally for all the things humans need and want water to do for us. Water supply bubbles are bursting in China, the Middle East and India with potentially serious implications for the global economy and for political stability. Even the United States is depleting...
Published April 5th 2011 by Routledge
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Overseas Research II
A Practical Guide
Researchers in developing countries often find that the particular country in which they work presents a range of unforeseen challenges. Indeed, their ability to carry out effective scholarship is often highly dependent on these factors. The great differences between working in countries as varied...
Published February 24th 2010 by Routledge
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The Political Economy of Africa
The Political Economy of Africa addresses the real possibilities for African development in the coming decades when seen in the light of the continent’s economic performance over the last half-century. This involves an effort to emancipate our thinking from the grip of western economic models that...
Published May 10th 2010 by Routledge
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Poverty Capital
Microfinance and the Making of Development
Winner of the 2011 Paul Davidoff award! This is a book about poverty but it does not study the poor and the powerless; instead it studies those who manage poverty. It sheds light on how powerful institutions control "capital," or circuits of profit and investment, as well as "truth," or...
Published March 2nd 2010 by Routledge
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Wetland Management and Sustainable Livelihoods in Africa
In this book the authors argue for a paradigm shift in the way African wetlands are considered. Current policies and wetland management are too frequently underpinned by a perspective that views agriculture simply as a threat and disregards its important contribution to livelihoods. In rural areas...
Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Adaptive Collaborative Approaches in Natural Resource Governance
Rethinking Participation, Learning and Innovation
Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
The purpose of this book is to showcase a range of approaches that consider learning and collaboration as central processes in agriculture and natural resources governance and management. These include four related and overlapping adaptive collaborative approaches – Adaptive Collaborative...
Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
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Understanding Sport in International Development
Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
This book makes an important contribution to the growing literature on sport in international development. It introduces and explores the practice and efficacy of international sport development through the experiences of young people who become engaged in sport programmes, as described in their...
To Be Published May 14th 2014 by Routledge
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Contesting Development
Critical Struggles for Social Change
At a time when the development promise is increasingly in question, with dwindling social gains, the vision of modernity is losing its legitimacy and coherence. This moment is observable through the lens of critical struggles of those who experience disempowerment, displacement and development...
Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
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The Political Economy of Latin America
Reflections on Neoliberalism and Development
Neoliberalism has been at the centre of enormous controversy since its first appearance in Latin America in the early 1970s. Even neoliberalism’s strongest supporters concede that it has not lived up to its promises and that growth, poverty, and inequality all have performed considerably worse than...
Published December 7th 2010 by Routledge
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Arresting Development
The power of knowledge for social change
Scholars have become increasingly concerned about the impact of neo-liberalism on the field of development. Governments around the world have for some time been exposed to the forces of globalization and macro-economic reform, reflecting the power and influence of the world’s principal...
Published November 23rd 2008 by Routledge
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Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights
The Role of Multilateral Organisations
Series: Rethinking Globalizations
Severe poverty is one of the greatest moral challenges of our times. But what place, if any, do ethical thinking and questions of global justice have in the policies and practice of international organizations? This books examines this question in depth, based on an analysis of the two major...
Published January 14th 2009 by Routledge
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Development Beyond Neoliberalism?
Governance, Poverty Reduction and Political Economy
Development’s current focus – poverty reduction and good governance – signals a turn away from the older neoliberal preoccupation with structural adjustment, privatization and downsizing the state. For some, the new emphases on empowering and securing the poor through basic service delivery, local...
Published March 1st 2006 by Routledge
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NGOs as Advocates for Development in a Globalising World
This book traces the recent growth in NGO advocacy. Barbara Rugendyke presents empirical findings about the impacts of NGO advocacy activity on the policies and practices of global and regional institutions. The research reveals the mixed successes of advocacy as a strategy for addressing the...
Published November 7th 2007 by Routledge