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Gender and Agrarian Reforms

By Susie Jacobs

The redistribution of land has profound implications for women and for gender relations; however, gender issues have been marginalised from both theoretical and policy discussions...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37648-8 (Routledge)

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The Development Reader

Edited by Sharad Chari, Stuart Corbridge

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...

June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41505-7 (Routledge)

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Southeast Asian Development

By Andrew McGregor

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...

March 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-38152-9 (Routledge)

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Tourism at the Grassroots

Villagers and Visitors in the Asia-Pacific

Edited by John Connell, Barbara Rugendyke

In two regions where tourism is of considerable economic importance, eastern Asia and the Pacific, there have been remarkably few studies of the impacts of tourism...

March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40555-3 (Routledge)

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Sacred Ecology, Second Edition

By Fikret Berkes

Sacred Ecology examines bodies of knowledge held by indigenous and other rural peoples around the world, and asks how we can learn from this knowledge...

February 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95829-5 (Routledge)

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Environment and Tourism

By Andrew Holden

This second edition of Environment and Tourism reflects changes in the relationship between tourism, society and the natural environment in the first decade of the...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39955-5 (Routledge)

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Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods

Connecting People, Participation and Place

Edited by Sara Louise Kindon, Rachel Pain, Mike Kesby

Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches and methods have seen an explosion of recent interest in the social and environmental sciences. PAR involves collaborative research, education...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40550-8 (Routledge)

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Tourism and Development in the Developing World

By David J. Telfer, Richard Sharpley

Tourism is widely considered as an effective contributor to socio-economic development, particularly in less developed countries. However, despite the almost universal adoption of tourism as...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-37151-3 (Routledge)

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Family Farms: Survival and Prospect

A World-Wide Analysis

By Harold Brookfield, Helen Parsons

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...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41441-8 (Routledge)

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Tourism, Creativity and Development

Edited by Greg Richards, Julie Wilson

Destinations across the world are beginning to replace or supplement culture-led development strategies with creative development. This book critically analyzes the impact and effectiveness of...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42756-2 (Routledge)

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