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Cities and Sustainability

Edited by Joan Fitzgerald, Michael Motta Jr.

Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

‘Sustainability’ is widely recognized as a key objective of urban development in the twenty-first century. But how is it realized in practice? What are its historical origins and its theoretical underpinnings? How does it connect to, or inform, related movements which seek to create more liveable...

Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
Law and Development

Edited by Julio Faundez

Series: Critical Concepts in Law

Law and Development emerged in the United States in the 1960s and rapidly spread throughout the world. Its intellectual origins can be traced back to the boundless confidence of some American legal academics about the possibilities of achieving democratic change in developing countries through...

Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
Agricultural Development

Edited by Christopher Barrett

Series: Critical Concepts in Development Studies

Virtually all national cases of rapid, widespread progress from poverty to wealth have been causally associated with the transformation of agricultural systems. From eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and North America to late twentieth-century East Asia, striking increases in agricultural...

Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
RLE: Development

By Various

Routledge Library Editions: Development will re-issue works which address economic, political and social aspects of development. Published over more than four decades these books trace the emergence of development as one of the most important contemporary issues and one of the key areas of study...

Published December 14th 2010 by Routledge
RLE: Development (111 vols)

By Various

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

Routledge Library Editions: Development will re-issue works which address economic, political and social aspects of development. Published over more than four decades these books trace the emergence of development as one of the most important contemporary issues and one of the key areas of study...

Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
Food Aid and the Developing World

Four African Case Studies

By Christopher Stevens

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

Food aid is a controversial form of development assistance and this book, first published in 1979, seeks to counter allegations from critics by taking account of both direct and indirect affects. Based on field research in Tunisia, Botswana, Upper Volta and Lesotho, it considers aid from the UK,...

Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
Food and Poverty

The Political Economy of Confrontation

By Radha Sinha

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

First published in 1976, this book deals with contemporary tensions between the West and the Third World, caused by hunger, malnutrition and poverty, perpetuated by an imbalance in the distribution of world resources. The book deals with the issue of malnutrition in the Third World, which owes much...

Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
The Green Revolution Revisited

Critique and Alternatives

Edited by Bernhard Glaeser

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

The Green Revolution – the apparently miraculous increase in cereal crop yields achieved in the 1960s – came under severe criticism in the 1970s because of its demands for optimal irrigation, intensive use of fertilisers and pesticides; its damaging impact on social structures; and its monoculture...

Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
Agrarian Reform in Contemporary Developing Countries

A Study Prepared for the International Labour Office within the Framework of the World Employment Programme

Edited by Ajit Kumar Ghose

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

Initially published in 1983, in association with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), this book is about the meaning, relevance and process of agrarian reform in contemporary developing countries. It includes seven detailed case studies – one each on Ethiopia, Peru, Chile, Nicaragua, Iran,...

Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
Aid and Inequality in Kenya

British Development Assistance to Kenya

By Gerald Holtham, Arthur Hazelwood

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

This reissue, first published in 1976, considers the rapid rate of economic growth in Kenya, combined with its apparent political stability, to determine whether or not this is indeed a case of ‘growth without development’ and, if so, where the responsibility for aid lies in this situation. The...

Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge