Development Studies Textbooks

New and Published Textbooks

1. Transcultural Cities

   Border-Crossing and Placemaking

   Edited by Jeffrey Hou

   Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and activists in architecture, urban planning, urban studies, art,...

   Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Environmental Commodities Markets and Emissions Trading

   Towards a Low-Carbon Future

   By Blas Luis Pérez Henríquez

   Market-based solutions to environmental problems offer great promise, but require complex public policies that take into account the many institutional factors necessary for the market to work and that guard against the social forces that can derail good public policies. Using insights about...

   Published December 19th 2012 by RFF Press
3. 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
4. The Chinese City

   By Weiping Wu, Piper Gaubatz

   China’s cities are home to 10 percent of the world’s population today. They display unprecedented dynamism under the country’s surging economic power. Their remarkable transformation builds on immense traditions, having lived through feudal dynasties, semicolonialism, and socialist commands....

   Published October 11th 2012 by Routledge
5. Youth Studies

   An Introduction

   By Andy Furlong

   Youth Studies: an introduction is a clear, jargon-free and accessible textbook which will be invaluable in helping to explain concepts, theories and trends within youth studies. The concise summaries of key texts and the ideas of important theorists make the book an invaluable resource. The book...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Migration in World History

   2nd Edition

   By Patrick Manning

   Series: Themes in World History

   This fully revised and updated second edition of Migration in World History traces the connections among regions brought about by the movement of people, diseases, crops, technology and ideas. Drawing on examples from a wide range of geographical regions and thematic areas, noted world historian...

   Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. An Introduction to Sustainable Development

   4th Edition

   By Jennifer Elliott

   Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development

   This fourth edition has been comprehensively rewritten and updated to provide a concise, well illustrated and accessible introduction to the characteristics, challenges and opportunities of sustainable development with particular reference to developing countries. The contested nature of...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Connected City

   How Networks are Shaping the Modern Metropolis

   By Zachary P. Neal

   Series: The Metropolis and Modern Life

   The Connected City explores how thinking about networks helps make sense of modern cities: what they are, how they work, and where they are headed. Cities and urban life can be examined as networks, and these urban networks can be examined at many different levels. The book focuses on three...

   Published August 6th 2012 by Routledge
9. Agribusiness Management

   By Freddie Barnard, Jay Akridge, Frank Dooley, John Foltz

   Series: Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics

   Today’s food and agribusiness managers operate in a rapidly changing, highly volatile, international, high technology, consumer-focused world. This new edition of Agribusiness Management was written to help prepare students and managers for a successful career in this new world of food and fiber...

   Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge
10. Measuring Wellbeing: Towards Sustainability?

    By Karen Scott

    Improving wellbeing and sustainability are central goals of government, but are they in conflict? This engaging new book reviews that question and its implications for public policy through a focus on indicators. It highlights tensions on the one hand between various constructs of wellbeing and...

    Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge