Development Studies: Regional Development

By Emanuel de Kadt, Gavin Williams

Originally published in 1974 Sociology and Development are a selection papers from the British Sociological Association’s conference on development. The book combines both theoretical discussion and empirical material drawn from both urban and rural areas in Africa, Latin America, China, the USSR…

Hardback – 2018-05-09
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Routledge Library Editions: British Sociological Association

By Mary Ann Maslak

This book examines the ways in which formal and non-formal education can contribute to women’s successful design, development and operation of small businesses in rural settings. Calling on varied, pertinent social theories, the book examines profitable businesses operated by Dongxiang Muslim women…

Paperback – 2018-04-25
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By Mònica Guillen-Royo

The idea that we can meet human needs and simultaneously conserve and even enhance the natural environment is an attractive one. Since the Brundtland report popularised a definition of sustainable development based on the concept of needs, there has been a widespread belief that it should be…

Paperback – 2018-04-25
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Edited by Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Patrik Oskarsson

Rapid industrialisation is promoted by many as the most feasible way of rejuvenating the Indian economy, and as a way of generating employment on a large scale. At the same time, the transfer of land from rural communities and indigenous groups for industrial parks, mining, or Special Economic…

Paperback – 2018-04-25
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Edited by Yamini Narayanan

Conceptions of 'sustainable cities' in the pluralistic and multireligious urban settlements of developing nations need to develop out of local cultural, religious and historical contexts to be inclusive and accurately respond to the needs of the poor, ethnic and religious minorities, and women.…

Paperback – 2018-04-25
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Edited by Ryo Fujikura, Mikiyasu Nakayama

Hydropower generation by construction of large dams attracts considerable attention as a feasible renewable energy source to meet the power demand in Asian cities. However, large development projects cause involuntary resettlement. Of the world’s forty to eighty million resettlers, many resettlers…

Paperback – 2018-04-25
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Edited by Chen Hongjie, W. James Jacob

This book considers a wide range of key developments and key areas of debate in China’s education system. Marketization, quality assurance, and issues of inequality and gender are all discussed, as are expansion in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors, the impact of globalization, and the…

Paperback – 2018-04-20
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Comparative Development and Policy in Asia

Edited by Tony Binns, Kenneth Lynch, Etienne Nel

This handbook presents an extensive new overview of African development – past, present and future. It addresses key core themes and topics that are pertinent to the continent’s development – including sections on history, health and food, politics, economics, rural and urban development, and…

Hardback – 2018-04-18
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Routledge International Handbooks

By Erualdo R. Gonzalez

American cities are increasingly turning to revitalization strategies that embrace the ideas of new urbanism and the so-called creative class in an attempt to boost economic growth and prosperity to downtown areas. These efforts stir controversy over residential and commercial gentrification of…

Paperback – 2018-04-17
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Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City

Edited by Sharlene Mollett, Thembela Kepe

In the context of sustainable development, recent land debates tend to construct two porous camps. On the one side, norms of land justice and their advocates dictate that people’s rights to tenure security are tantamount and even sometimes key to successful conservation practice. On the other hand,…

Hardback – 2018-04-16
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Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development

Edited by Tania Lewis

Economic development in Asia is associated with expanding urbanism, overconsumption, and a steep growth in living standards. At the same time, rapid urbanisation, changing class consciousness, and a new rural–urban divide in the region have led to fundamental shifts in the way ecological concerns…

Paperback – 2018-04-10
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Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia

By Sandagsuren Undargaa

The grazing of animals on common land and associated property rights were the original basis of the concept of "the tragedy of the commons". Drawing on the classic work of Elinor Ostrom and the readings of political ecology, this book questions the application of exclusive property rights to mobile…

Paperback – 2018-04-10
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