Forthcoming Development Studies Books

Forthcoming Books

1. International Watercourses Law in the Nile River Basin

   Three States at a Crossroads

   By Tadesse Kassa Woldetsadik

   The Nile River and its basin extend over a distinctive geophysical cord connecting eleven sovereign states from Egypt to Tanzania, which are home to an estimated population of 422.2 million people. The Nile is an essential source of water for domestic, industrial and agricultural uses throughout...

   To Be Published February 5th 2013 by Routledge
2. Planning, Risk and Property Development

   Urban regeneration in England, France and the Netherlands

   By Nikos Karadimitriou, Claudio de Magalhães, Roelof Verhage

   Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series

   Urban regeneration schemes involving a wide range of actors and dependent on private investment are increasingly deployed in Europe’s cities with the aim of delivering private, merit and public goods. This book explores the relationships, objectives and strategies of the actors engaging in these...

   To Be Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. Democratic Governance and Social Entrepreneurship

   Civic Participation and the Future of Democracy

   By Denise M. Horn

   Series: Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy

   This book explores the connection between strong democracy and neoliberal development schemes based on the concept of ‘social entrepreneurship’ in Thailand and Southern India. With an original approach, this book addresses the intersection between emerging approaches to development; namely...

   To Be Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
4. Migration and Inequality

   Edited by Tanja Bastia

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   The ‘migration-development’ nexus has emerged as an important area of both research and policy over the last ten years. However, most of the interest has focused on the potential that migration holds for poverty alleviation. Relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between...

   To Be Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
5. Environmental Regulation and Public Disclosure

   The Case of PROPER in Indonesia

   By Shakeb Afsah, Allen Blackman, Jorge H. Garcia, Thomas Sterner

   Series: Environment for Development

   This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. In 1995 the Indonesian Ministry of Environment took the bold step to launch an environmental disclosure initiative called the Program for Pollution...

   To Be Published February 17th 2013 by RFF Press
6. Land and Resource Scarcity

   Capitalism, Struggle and Well-being in a World without Fossil Fuels

   Edited by Andreas Exner, Peter Fleissner, Lukas Kranzl, Werner Zittel

   Series: Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy

   This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources. The contributors to this volume argue that these scarcities will put an end to the capitalist system as we know it and alternatives must be...

   To Be Published February 19th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Shanghai Alleyway House

   A Vanishing Urban Vernacular

   By Gregory Bracken

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   As a nineteenth-century commercial development, the alleyway house was a hybrid of the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the Western terraced one. Unique to Shanghai, the alleyway house was a space where the blurring of the boundaries of public and private life created a vibrant social...

   To Be Published February 19th 2013 by Routledge
8. Macroeconomics and Human Development

   Edited by Deepak Nayyar

   In the conventional discourse on macroeconomics, the subject of human development is at best marginal and at worst irrelevant. In the unconventional discourse on human development, macroeconomics or its constraints are seldom recognised, even if its consequences are often highlighted. There are,...

   To Be Published February 19th 2013 by Routledge
9. Participatory Action Research

   Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry

   By Jacques M. Chevalier, Daniel J. Buckles

   This book addresses a key issue in higher learning, university education and scientific research: the widespread difficulty researchers, experts and students from all disciplines face when trying to contribute to change in complex social settings characterized by uncertainty and the unknown. More...

   To Be Published February 24th 2013 by Routledge
10. Islam, Development, and Urban Women’s Reproductive Practices

    By Cortney Hughes Rinker

    Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

    Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Rabat, Morocco, this ethnography analyzes the relationship between neoliberal development policies, women’s reproductive practices, and popular understandings of Islam. In the 1990s, Morocco shifted its attention from economic to human development, as economic...

    To Be Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge