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1. Agrarian Angst and Rural Resistance in Contemporary Southeast Asia

   Edited by Dominique Caouette, Sarah Turner

   Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

   Agrarian transformations, market integration and globalization processes are impacting upon rural Southeast Asia with increasingly complex and diverse consequences. In response, local inhabitants are devising a broad range of resistance measures that they feel will best protect or improve their...

   Published October 3rd 2011 by Routledge
2. Social Conflict, Economic Development and Extractive Industry

   Evidence from South America

   Edited by Anthony Bebbington

   Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

   The extraction of minerals, oil and gas has a long and ambiguous history in development processes – in North America, Europe, Latin America and Australasia. Extraction has yielded wealth, regional identities and in some cases capital for industrialization. In other cases its main heritages have...

   Published September 26th 2011 by Routledge
3. Public Policy and Agricultural Development

   Edited by Ha-Joon Chang

   Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

   This book critically re-examines the currently dominant paradigm of agricultural development policy from historical and comparative perspectives. Examining the experiences of 11 developed countries in their earlier stages of development and the experiences of 10 developing and transition economies...

   Published August 21st 2011 by Routledge
4. Risk and Social Change in an African Rural Economy

   Livelihoods in Pastoralist Communities

   By John G. McPeak, Peter D. Little, Cheryl R. Doss

   Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

   Pastoralists’ role in contemporary Africa typically goes underappreciated and misunderstood by development agencies, external observers, and policymakers. Yet, arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL), which are used predominantly for extensive livestock grazing, comprise nearly half of the continent’s land...

   Published July 20th 2011 by Routledge
5. Reforming Land and Resource Use in South Africa

   Impact on Livelihoods

   Edited by Paul Hebinck, Charlie Shackleton

   Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

   This book debates the emergent proprieties of rural and peri-urban South Africa since land and agrarian reforms were initiated after the transition to democracy in 1994. It explores how these reforms have broadened options for the use of land and natural resources. Reform-minded policies in South...

   Published October 24th 2010 by Routledge
6. Peasants and Globalization

   Political economy, rural transformation and the agrarian question

   Edited by A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Cristóbal Kay

   Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

   In 2007, for the first time in human history, a majority of the world’s population lived in cities. However, on a global scale, poverty overwhelmingly retains a rural face. This book assembles an unparalleled group of internationally-eminent scholars in the field of rural development and social...

   Published April 14th 2010 by Routledge
7. The Political Economy of Rural Livelihoods in Transition Economies

   Land, Peasants and Rural Poverty in Transition

   Edited by Max Spoor

   Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

   Rural poverty is a phenomenon that is widespread yet often ignored by policy makers and researchers. This edited volume looks critically at rural poverty in Central Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, China and Vietnam in relation to land reform, farm restructuring and the...

   Published April 14th 2010 by Routledge
8. Water, Environmental Security and Sustainable Rural Development

   Conflict and cooperation in Central Eurasia

   Edited by Murat Arsel, Max Spoor

   Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

   This co-edited volume provides a unified scholarly treatment of intensifying debates on the relationship between water scarcity and environmental security in Central Eurasia. Using discussions of sustainable rural development as its conceptual backdrop, the chapters in this volume combine solid...

   Published October 14th 2009 by Routledge
9. Land, Poverty and Livelihoods in an Era of Globalization

   Perspectives from Developing and Transition Countries

   By A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Cristóbal Kay

   Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

   A host of internationally eminent scholars are brought together here to explore the structural causes of rural poverty and income inequality, as well as the processes of social exclusion and political subordination encountered by the peasantry and rural workers across a wide range of countries...

   Published February 18th 2009 by Routledge