Rural Development Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Grassroots Social Security in Asia

   Mutual Aid, Microinsurance and Social Welfare

   Edited by James Midgley, Mitsuhiko Hosaka

   Series: Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia

   Grassroots Social Security in Asia investigates the role of mutual associations in providing income protection to low-income people in Asia and in particular the region's developing countries. Historically, these associations have consisted of small groups of people with common interests who save...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Geography of the Third World

   Progress and Prospect

   By Michael Pacione

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1988, this reissue presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary developments and research into the geography of the Third World, at a time when economies and societies there were changing at a much more rapid rate than their counterparts in the developing world. It covers...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Green Revolution Revisited

   Critique and Alternatives

   Edited by Bernhard Glaeser

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   The Green Revolution – the apparently miraculous increase in cereal crop yields achieved in the 1960s – came under severe criticism in the 1970s because of its demands for optimal irrigation, intensive use of fertilisers and pesticides; its damaging impact on social structures; and its monoculture...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
4. Learning From China?

   Development and Environment in Third World Countries

   Edited by Bernhard Glaeser

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1987, this volume was written to shed some light upon the nature and environmental consequences and wider relevance of development strategies in the Peoples’ Republic of China. It covers industrialisation, food production, energy use and landscape and settlement planning. The...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
5. Urbanisation, Housing and the Development Process

   By David Drakakis-Smith

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   Initially published in 1981, this book examines the problems of housing provision for the urban poor in developing countries, within the context of the development process as a whole. The investigation concentrates on the political economy of housing investment and illustrates how programmes and...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
6. Urbanisation and Planning in the Third World

   Spatial Perceptions and Public Participation

   By Robert Potter

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1985, this book reconsiders the whole question of urbanisation and planning in the Third World. It argues that public involvement, which is now an accepted part of Western planning, should be used more in Third World cities. It shows that many inhabitants of Third World cities...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
7. Re-conceiving Property Rights in the New Millennium

   Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy

   Edited by Ben Chigara

   This book constitutes Volume II of a set of two Volumes. Volume II considers the possibility of a new, sustainable land relations policy for Southern African Development Community States (SADC) that are currently mired up in land disputes that have become subject of domestic, regional and...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
8. 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 April 11th 2013 by Routledge
9. Informal Institutions and Rural Development in China

   By Biliang Hu

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

   Providing an account of the role of informal institutions in Chinese rural development, this book, based on a decade of fieldwork of village life in the Chinese countryside, puts forth a distinctive argument on a very important topic in Chinese economic and social affairs. Focusing in particular on...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. The Politics of Family Planning in the Third World

    Edited by T. E. Smith

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    First published in 1973, this book is an attempt to examine the political determinants (as opposed to the more usual emphasis upon consequences) of contemporary population policy formation and action in developing countries, with particular reference to policy relating to family limitation....

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge