Development Policy Books

New and Published Books

1. Drought, Risk Management, and Policy

   Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

   Edited by Linda Courtenay Botterill, Geoff Cockfield

   Series: Drought and Water Crises

   Australia and the United States face very similar challenges in dealing with drought. Both countries cover a range of biophysical conditions, both are federations that provide considerable responsibility to state governments for water and land management, and both face the challenges in balancing...

   Published January 27th 2013 by CRC Press
2. Case Studies in Disaster Response and Emergency Management

   By Nicolas A. Valcik, Paul E. Tracy

   Series: ASPA Series in Public Administration and Public Policy

   Each emergency comes with its own set of challenges, however, many emergencies of the past can be used as tools to evaluate the decisions made and apply them to similar situations. Designed to enable public officials to conduct this kind of evaluation, Case Studies in Disaster Response and...

   Published January 3rd 2013 by CRC Press
3. Cybercrime, Cyberconflict & Cyberpower

   By Solange Ghernaouti-Helie

   This work develops perspectives and approaches to crucial cyber-security issues that are non-political, non-partisan, and non-governmental. It informs readers through high-level summaries and the presentation of a consistent approach to several cyber-risk related domains, both from a civilian and a...

   Published December 14th 2012 by EFPL Press
4. Evaluating Communication for Development

   A Framework for Social Change

   By June Lennie, Jo Tacchi

   Evaluating Communication for Development presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating communication for development (C4D). This framework combines the latest thinking from a number of fields in new ways. It critiques dominant instrumental, accountability-based approaches to development and...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
5. Development Policies of Central and Eastern European States

   From Aid Recipients to Aid Donors

   Edited by Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň, Simon Lightfoot

   The states from Central and Eastern Europe that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007 provide a fascinating series of case studies for scholars interested in politics, IR and development studies. The interest comes from the fact that never before had so many recipients of EU aid joined the Union and taken...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Domestic Politics of Foreign Aid

   By Erik Lundsgaarde

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

   In spite of shared rhetorical commitments to tackling poverty worldwide, donors have varied considerably in their use of aid as an instrument for global poverty reduction. This book explains varied donor priorities by examining how societal actors, governmental actors, and the institutions that...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. A Tale of Two Crises

   A Mutidisciplinary Analysis

   Edited by Seetharam Kallidaikurichi

   Some analysts looked at the 1997/98 East Asian crisis not as one crisis but as a combination of crises, beginning with a crisis of confidence and evolving into a currency crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis and a political crisis. This book is a ...

   Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
8. Public Debt Sustainability in Developing Asia

   Edited by Benno Ferrarini, Raghbendra Jha, Arief Ramayandi

   Addressing the global financial crisis has required fiscal intervention on a substantial scale by governments around the world. The consequent buildup of public debt, in particular its sustainability, has moved to center stage in the policy debate. If the Asia and Pacific region is to continue to...

   Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
9. Child Protection in Development

   Edited by Michael Bourdillon, William Myers

   Series: Development in Practice Books

   Every day millions of children in developing countries face adversities of many kinds, yet there is a shortage of sound evidence concerning their plight and an urgent need to identify the most appropriate and effective policy responses from among the multiple approaches that exist. This collection...

   Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
10. Post-Disaster Reconstruction and Change

    Communities' Perspectives

    Edited by Jennifer E. Duyne Barenstein, Esther Leemann

    Successful recovery following a disaster depends upon transcending the disciplinary divides of architecture, engineering, and planning and emphasizing the importance of community perspectives in the post-disaster reconstruction process. Effective results in community recovery mandate that we...

    Published October 28th 2012 by CRC Press