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Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Providing valuable insights into the successes and failures of the management of wildlife, forests and coastal resources in Tanzania, this study draws from 'New Partnerships for Sustainability' (NEPSUS), a 5-year collective research project. Respond..
35.05£
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
'Informative and refreshing, these short studies from around the world provide fertile ground for discussion, analysis and positive ways forward. In this book, corrupt practices from around the world are examined by experienced practitioners and res..
38.59£
At the end of World War II, several Latin American countries seemed to be ready for industrialization and self-sustaining economic growth. Instead, they found that they had exchanged old forms of political and economic dependence for a new kind of d..
47.30£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
This comprehensive reference work gives an overview of the industrial development and current state of industrialization and deindustrialization in Asia, specifically Southeast Asia and China. It introduces typologies of industrial policies and disc..
52.89£
Brand: SAGE Publications
This book provides an invaluable guide to undertaking development fieldwork in both the developing world and in western contexts. It takes you through all the key stages in development research and covers: Research design and the roles of quantit..
48.36£
Brand: Springer Publishing
Developing countries have made rapid but highly varied progress since the 1990s. So much so that the boundaries to the traditional industrialized countries have become partially blurred. On the other hand, there are a number of mostly fragile states ..
61.67£
Brand: Springer Publishing
This book, exploring the theoretical and practical implications of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of leading researchers in the areas of p..
102.34£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Many have praised the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), first adopted by the UN in 2006, as a revolutionary step towards disability rights in Africa. But how real is the progress towards equality for person..
28.26£
Brand: Springer Publishing
This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from across the Asia Pacific region, covering four main sections: 1) Governance, 2) Education and Capacity, 3) Science, Technology, Risk Assessment and Communities, and 4) Recovery. The chapte..
139.86£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Nowhere has a range of case studies of Sudan been brought together in a single volume. Given the concern with the growing number and complexity of conflicts in Sudan and South Sudan there is a significant readership in academic circles and from thos..
73.19£
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Documenting Death is a gripping ethnographic account of the deaths of pregnant women in a hospital in a low-resource setting in Tanzania. Through an exploration ..
32.49£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
deals with contemporary challenges and new developments in the dryland regions of Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia interlinked topics and dimensions are explored in this book, following an introduction and an historical chapter that focuses ..
136.46£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
There is much discussion about global poverty and the billions of people living with almost nothing. Why is it that governments, development banks, think-tanks, academics, NGOs and many others can't just fix the problem? Why is it that seemingly obv..
16.08£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
This title explores the place of education in development debates and provides a systematic as well as a theoretical overview of the main approaches to education and development. It emphasises the fact that education is profoundly shaped by national..
43.53£
Brand: OUP Oxford
How can effective and legitimate governance be ensured where state institutions are weak? This is a key question for domestic and international politics. One answer to this question that has received considerable attention in political science, but ..
92.51£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
A rare and timely intervention from Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, on development in Africa.To many, Africa is the new frontier. As the West lies battered by financial crisis, Africa is seen as offering limi..
15.39£
Brand: The New Press
"A well-rendered and -documented tale of exploitation in the developing world" (Kirkus Reviews) with deep resonance in the present day In a book Paul Farmer called "a gem of a social history linking two countries stuck in uncomfortable embrace for w..
15.91£
Brand: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231038737Publisher: Columbia University PressImprint: Columbia University PressPublished date: 22 Dec 1974DEWEY: 331.1091724Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 428Weight: 452gHeight: 250mmWidth: 200mmSpine width: 33mm..
92.11£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Engendering Development demonstrates how gender is a form of inequality that is used to generate global capitalist development. It charts the histories of gender, race, class, sexuality and nationality as categories of inequality under imperialism, ..
50.79£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
It's time for a new kind of economy We're overusing the earth's finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. In Enough Is Enough, Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perp..
26.18£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
2017 Nautilus Book Awards: Silver Award Winner2018 Great Northwest Book Festival: Winner 2018 Hollywood Book Festival: WinnerEntrepreneurship at the Bottom of the Pyramid seeks to demonstrate to students the range of entrepreneurial activities that ..
65.65£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
This book examines the role of the media in environmental politics and activism in the 21st century. It highlights how politics is mediated in myriad ways through newspapers and news channels, through mobile telephony and through social networking s..
147.84£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
This fully updated third edition of the classic text, widely cited as the most important and useful book for health engineering and disease prevention, describes infectious diseases in tropical and developing countries, and the effective measures th..
55.58£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
It is increasingly apparent that human activities are not suitable for sustaining a healthy global environment. From energy development to resource extraction to use of land and water, humans are having a devastating effect on the earth's ability to..
53.91£