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By Gufu Oba

This book explores how and why the idea of the African environmental crisis developed and persisted through colonial and post-colonial periods, and why it has been so influential in development discourse. From the beginnings of imperial administration, the idea of the desiccation of African…

Hardback – 2020-06-09 
Routledge

Edited by Paul Martin, Marcia Leuzinger, Solange Teles da Silva, Gabriel Coutinho

This volume systematically analyses why legal doctrines for the protection of biodiversity are not sufficiently effective. It examples implementation in Australia and Brazil, two megadiverse countries with very differing legal and cultural traditions and natural environments. Substantial effort…

Hardback – 2020-06-07 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Biodiversity Politics and Management

By Althea Maria Rivas

Security, Development and Violence in Afghanistan provides a unique insight into the lived realities of the international intervention in Afghanistan and highlights the diversity, relationships and interdependence of various groups including both external actors and Afghan communities. Analysis of…

Hardback – 2020-06-05 
Routledge
Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

By Anjalee Cohen

Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand examines how young people in urban Chiang Mai construct an identity at the intersection of global capitalism, state ideologies and local culture. Drawing on over 15 years of ethnographic research, the book explores the impact of rapid urbanisation…

Hardback – 2020-05-31 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Anthropology

By María Eugenia D’Aubeterre, Alison Lee, Maria Leticia Rivermar Pérez

Using a gender-sensitive political economy approach, this book analyzes the emergence of new migration patterns between Central Mexico and the East Coast of the United States in the last decades of the twentieth century, and return migration during and after the global economic crisis of 2007.…

Hardback – 2020-05-15 
Routledge
Gender in a Global/Local World

By Kurtuluş Gemici

Why did many emerging countries pursue risky financial opening policies in a reckless manner, even after the painful example of the Latin American debt crisis? Unlike trade liberalization, which has mostly been beneficial in emerging countries, the removal of capital controls has led to boom-bust…

Hardback – 2020-05-06 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Development Economics

By Christine Ngo

Rent seeking continues to be a topic of much discussion and debate within political economy. This new study challenges previous assumptions and sets out a new analysis of the dynamics of rent and rent seeking in development, using Vietnam as a case study. This book provides an alternative approach…

Hardback – 2020-04-29 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Development Economics

Edited by Tiago A. Santos, C. Guedes Soares

This book provides a thorough understanding of Short Sea Shipping (SSS) and its role in transport chains, presenting a revision of EU policies for SSS. Infrastructure and equipment required for the success of SSS are discussed, including critical features of modern roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) ships…

Hardback – 2020-04-21 
Routledge

Edited by Shamim Samani, Dora Marinova

This book explores the changing role of Muslim women in the economy in the twenty first century. Sociological developments such as secular education, female-focused policies, national and global commitments to gender equality as well as contemporary technological advances have all served to shift…

Hardback – 2020-04-17 
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Routledge Research in Religion and Development

Edited by Katrina Lee-Koo, Lesley Pruitt

Through a range of case studies in Asia and the Pacific, this edited collection highlights the extent of the unique ways in which young women lead to create change in their own lives and their communities, as well as in the structures, cultures and institutions in which they live and work. This…

Hardback – 2020-04-16 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics

By Jon Marco Church

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of environmental regionalism at the international level, analyzing the concept and identifying recurring patterns from six in-depth case studies. While ecoregions or environmental regions are defined on ecological boundaries rather than…

Hardback – 2020-04-15 
Routledge

Edited by Claudia Dolezal, Alexander Trupp, Huong T. Bui

This book analyses the role tourism plays for sustainable development in Southeast Asia. It seeks to assesses tourism’s impact on residents and localities across the region by critically debating and offering new understandings of its dynamics on the global and local levels. Offering a myriad of…

Hardback – 2020-04-13 
Routledge
Routledge Contemporary Asia Series