Geography

Disaster Diplomacy

How Disasters Affect Peace and Conflict

By Ilan Kelman

When an earthquake hits a war zone or cyclone aid is flown in by an enemy, many ask: Can catastrophe bring peace? Disaster prevention and mitigation provide similar questions. Could setting up a flood warning system bring enemy countries together? Could a regional earthquake building code set the...

Published August 30th 2011 by Routledge

Conservation and Sustainable Development

Linking Practice and Policy in Eastern Africa

Edited by Jonathan Davies

Series: Earthscan Conservation and Development

The links between policy and practice in natural resource management are often depicted as a cyclical and rational process. In reality, policymaking and implementation are often irrational, unpredictable and highly political. Many science and knowledge-based institutions undertake rigorous research...

Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge

Extending the Protection of Geographical Indications

Case Studies of Agricultural Products in Africa

Edited by Michael Blakeney, Thierry Coulet, Getachew Mengistie, Marcelin Tonye Mahop

The TRIPS Agreement (for trade-related intellectual property rights) provides for the general protection of geographical indications (GIs) of product origin, including for example the special protection of wines and spirits and for the creation of a multilateral register for wines. The African...

Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge

Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa

From Concept to Practice

Edited by Laura Anne German, Jeremias Mowo, Tilahun Amede, Kenneth Masuki

Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management

This book documents a decade of research, methodological innovation, and lessons learned in an eco-regional research-for-development program operating in the eastern African highlands, the African Highlands Initiative (AHI). It does this through reflections of the protagonists themselves—AHI site...

Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge

The Political Economy of Peacemaking

By Achim Wennmann

Series: Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding

This book focuses on the economic dimensions of peace processes and examines the opportunities and constraints for assisting negotiated exits out of conflict. Various works have addressed the economic characteristics and consequences of armed conflicts over the past two decades, including issues...

Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge

United Nations Industrial Development Organization

Industrial Solutions for a Sustainable Future

By Stephen Browne

Series: Global Institutions

The mandate of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is close to many of the core issues now confronting developing and transition economy countries, and this book offers the first concise and accessible guide to this important organization. As the only UN organization to...

Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge

Southern African Development Community Land Issues Volume I

Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy

Edited by Ben Chigara

This book constitutes Volume I of a set of two Volumes. Volume I attempts a holistic inter-disciplinary evaluation of the legitimacy of colonial and emergent post-colonial rule property rights in affected States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in light of intensifying...

Published August 25th 2011 by Routledge

Culture and the Environment in the Himalaya

Edited by Arjun Guneratne

Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

This book is concerned with human-environment relations in the Himalaya. It explores how different populations and communities in the region understand or conceive of the concept of environment, how their concepts vary across lines of gender, class, age, status, and what this implies for policy...

Published January 3rd 2010 by Routledge

Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka

Ethnic and Regional Dimensions

Edited by Dennis B. McGilvray, Michele R. Gamburd

Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

The Indian Ocean Tsunami, which devastated 70 percent of Sri Lanka’s coastline and killed an estimated 35,000 people, was remarkable both for the magnitude of the disaster and for the unprecedented scale of the relief and recovery operations mounted by national and international agencies. The...

Published March 8th 2010 by Routledge

Dispossession and Resistance in India

The River and the Rage

By Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Series: Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies

This book deals with the controversies on developmental aspects of large dams, with a particular focus on the Narmada Valley projects in India. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and research, the author draws on Marxist theory to craft a detailed analysis of how local demands for...

Published March 24th 2010 by Routledge

Industrialisation and Rural Livelihoods in China

Agricultural Processing in Sichuan

By Susanne Lingohr-Wolf

Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

Since the mid-1990s, "agricultural industrialisation" (AI) has been advocated in China to promote rural development by integrating agriculture with the post-harvest sectors such as agro-processing and marketing. Large-scale "Dragon head enterprises" (DHEs) and various forms of rural household...

Published July 13th 2010 by Routledge

China and Africa Development Relations

Edited by Christopher M. Dent

Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

China is among a number of large developing country or new powers on the ascendance in the international system, all of which are deepening their economic relations with Africa However, China is the largest and most powerful of this group. it has sought closer economic relationships with other...

Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge

India’s New Economic Policy

A Critical Analysis

Edited by Waquar Ahmed, Amitabh Kundu, Richard Peet

Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

Conventional interpretations of the New Economic Policy introduced in India in 1991 see this program of economic liberalization as transforming the Indian economy and leading to a substantial increase in the rate of India’s economic growth. But in a country like India, growth is not enough. Who...

Published September 12th 2010 by Routledge

Family Farms: Survival and Prospect

A World-Wide Analysis

By Harold Brookfield, Helen Parsons

Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

Marx, Lenin and Kautsky all regarded family farming as doomed to be split into capitalist farms and proletarian labour. Most modern economists regard family farming as an archaic form of production organization, destined to give way to agribusiness. Family Farms refutes these notions and analyses...

Published November 7th 2007 by Routledge

Aid from International NGOs

Blind Spots on the AID Allocation Map

By Dirk-Jan Koch

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

International NGOs are increasingly important players within the new aid architecture but their geographic choices remain uncharted territory. This book focuses on patterns of development assistance, mapping, while analysing and assessing the country choices of the largest international NGOs....

Published February 2nd 2009 by Routledge

On the Edges of Development

Cultural Interventions

Edited by Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian, Debashish Munshi

Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

Big business, financial institutions, and capitalist powers have wreaked much havoc on the Third World in the name of development. This book re-imagines development through a careful and imaginative exploration of some of the many ways that culture – in the broadest sense of lived experience and...

Published February 10th 2009 by Routledge

Rural Development Theory and Practice

By Ruth McAreavey

Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

Rural development is inherently viewed as a positive thing; it is seen as something that brings together groups of individuals with automatic positive implications and outcomes. Policy rhetoric frequently uses popular terms such as involvement, participation and power sharing to describe rural...

Published May 13th 2009 by Routledge

Community Development in Asia and the Pacific

By Manohar S. Pawar

Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

There is a tremendous need for community development practice in the Asia-Pacific region due to its size and prevailing diverse socio-economic, political and cultural needs and issues. Both developed and developing countries have been reemphasizing the importance of community development and have...

Published June 25th 2009 by Routledge

Water Policy Processes in India

Discourses of Power and Resistance

By Vandana Asthana

Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

The privatization of water is a keenly contested issue in an economically-liberalizing India. Since the 1990s, large social groups across India's diverse and disparate peoples have been re-negotiating their cultural relationships with each other as to whether they support or oppose...

Published July 21st 2009 by Routledge

Rural-Urban Dynamics

Livelihoods, mobility and markets in African and Asian frontiers

Edited by Jytte Agergaard, Niels Fold, Katherine Gough

Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

It has increasingly been recognised that rural and urban areas are inextricably interlinked. This book adopts a fresh approach to the issue of rural-urban dynamics through a study of the changing nature of livelihoods, mobility and markets in ten study sites across four countries of Africa and Asia...

Published September 6th 2009 by Routledge

Japanese Aid and the Construction of Global Development

Inescapable Solutions

Edited by David Leheny, Kay Warren

Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

Instead of asking the usual questions about Japanese aid — Why is Japanese aid so different from that of other donors? Is Japanese aid effective? — this collection takes it as axiomatic that Japanese aid actors are now working in a contentious environment affected by changing global norms of aid....

Published October 7th 2009 by Routledge

Development Poverty and Politics

Putting Communities in the Driver’s Seat

By Richard Martin, Ashna Mathema

Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

Top down . . . bottom up . . . what works? This book explores development from theperspective of the poor. Who are they? What lives do they live? What matters tothem? And most importantly, what can they do about it? Martin and Mathema debate how people can be given legitimate control of theirown...

Published November 23rd 2010 by Routledge

Economic and Human Development in Contemporary India

Cronyism and Fragility

By Debdas Banerjee

Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

This book deals with issues in economic development in India. It highlights those factors that are indicative of India’s emergence in the global economy yet indicates negative "trickle down" effects, such as malnutrition, poverty, bonded labourers, high adult unemployment and the widespread use of...

Published November 29th 2009 by Routledge

Development Poverty and Politics

Putting Communities in the Driver’s Seat

By Richard Martin, Ashna Mathema

Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

Top down . . . bottom up . . . what works? This book explores development from theperspective of the poor. Who are they? What lives do they live? What matters tothem? And most importantly, what can they do about it? Martin and Mathema debate how people can be given legitimate control of theirown...

Published December 1st 2009 by Routledge

The Comparative Political Economy of Development

Africa and South Asia

Edited by Barbara Harriss-White, Judith Heyer

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

This book illustrates the enduring relevance and vitality of the comparative political economy of development approach promoted among others by a group of social scientists in Oxford in the 1980s and 1990s. Contributors demonstrate the viability of this approach as researchers and academics become...

Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge