Development Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. The Capability Approach

   Development Practice and Public Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region

   Edited by Francesca Panzironi, Katharine Gelber

   Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

   This book provides a unique laboratory of ‘capabilities in practice’ in the Asia-Pacific region. It explores the application of the capability approach in development practice and public policy from a multidisciplinary perspective by bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis

   Edited by Salvatore Babones, Christopher Chase-Dunn

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach spanning all of the social sciences. The best world-systems scholarship, however, is spread across multiple methodologies and...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
3. Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity

   Lessons from Cuba

   By Julia Wright

   When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: that of Cuba in the 1990s. Based on the first and – up till now – only systematic and empirical study to come...

   Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge
4. Human Rights and the Capabilities Approach

   An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

   Edited by Diane Elson, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Polly Vizard

   Among several contesting views about the purpose of development and how progress should be evaluated, human rights and capabilities (or human development) stand out as two approaches that are concerned first and foremost with the well-being of individuals, their freedom, dignity and empowerment....

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
5. Equity and Well-Being

   Measurement and Policy Practice

   By Hyun Hwa Son

   Equity is an abstract concept covering philosophical issues such as fairness and social justice, making its definition and measurement complex. This volume tackles these complexities head-on. The book is enriched with many empirical analyses and provides a comprehensive analysis of equity...

   Published October 13th 2011 by Routledge
6. Global Modernity, Development, and Contemporary Civilization

   Towards a Renewal of Critical Theory

   By José Maurício Domingues

   Series: Routledge Studies in Emerging Societies

   This book investigates modern global civilization, offering an alternative to post-colonial theories and the "multiple modernities" approach (as well as the civilizational theory linked to it). It argues that modernity has become a global civilization that is heterogeneous and intertwined with...

   Published September 25th 2011 by Routledge
7. Global Trends and Regional Development

   Edited by Nikolai Genov

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

   For millennia, contact between societies was limited to trade or wars, a situation that changed profoundly with the development of global markets serving industrialization. The outcome was the emergence of one global human civilization, and one common future that will depend on the capacity of...

   Published September 22nd 2011 by Routledge
8. Measuring Vulnerability in Developing Countries

   New Analytical Approaches

   Edited by Wim Naude, Amelia Santos-Paulino, Mark McGillivray

   In all of the major challenges facing the world currently, whether it be climate change, terrorism and conflict, or urbanization and demographic change, no progress is possible without the alleviation of poverty. New approaches in development economics have in recent years started from the premise...

   Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge
9. Transforming Urban Water Supplies in India

   The Role of Reform and Partnerships in Globalization

   By Govind Gopakumar

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   The absence of water supply infrastructure is a critical issue that affects the sustainability of cities in the developing world and the quality of life of millions of people living in these cities. Urban India has probably the largest concentration of people in the world lacking safe access to...

   Published September 13th 2011 by Routledge
10. 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 August 14th 2011 by Routledge