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  • Planning African Development

    Edited by Glen Norcliffe, Tom Pinfold ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    First published in 1981, this book concerns specifically the Kenyan experience with regards to development planning but, given that the problems of hunger poverty and underdevelopment manifest themselves in slightly different forms across all African countries, this book has considerable relevance to development planning across the African continent.The first set of essays in this collection ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    by Andrew S. Natsios ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    For thirty years Sudan has been a country in crisis, wracked by near-constant warfare between the north and the south. But on July 9, 2011, South Sudan became an independent nation. As Sudan once again finds itself the focus of international attention, former special envoy to Sudan and director of USAID Andrew Natsios provides a timely introduction to the country at this pivotal moment in its ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Transitions to Sustainable Development

    New Directions in the Study of Long Term Transformative Change

    by John Grin, Jan Rotmans, Johan Schot ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions
    Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are transformed into a widely-shared sense of urgency, partly due to events such as the various pandemics threatening livestock, and increasing ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Lawlessness and Economics

    Alternative Modes of Governance

    by Avinash K. Dixit ...
    Series series The Gorman Lectures in Economics
    How can property rights be protected and contracts be enforced in countries where the rule of law is ineffective or absent? How can firms from advanced market economies do business in such circumstances? In Lawlessness and Economics, Avinash Dixit examines the theory of private institutions that transcend or supplement weak economic governance from the state.In much of the world and through much ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Distant Strangers

    Ethics, Psychology, and Global Poverty

    by Judith Lichtenberg ...
    What must affluent people do to alleviate global poverty? This question has occupied moral and political philosophers for forty years. But the controversy has reached an impasse: approaches like utilitarianism and libertarianism either demand too much of ordinary mortals or else let them off the hook. In Distant Strangers, Judith Lichtenberg shows how a preoccupation with standard moral theories ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Climate Change and Threatened Communities

    Edited by A. Peter Castro ...
    Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural landscapes, accentuating their existing social and economic marginalization. Planners and researchers of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Understanding Globalization

    The Social Consequences of Political, Economic, and Environmental Change

    by Robert K. Schaeffer ...
    Understanding Globalization introduces students to the concept of globalization, providing an essential history, overview of key themes and theories, and a wealth of engaging examples. The fifth edition has been completely revised to connect with students today, opening with a discussion of the far-reaching causes and effects of the recent financial crisis and including new material on global ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Sharing Nature's Interest

    Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability

    by Nicky Chambers, Craig Simmons, Mathis Wackernagel ...
    Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small-scale planning and development. This is an introduction to ecological footprint analysis, showing how it can be done, and how to measure the footprints of activities, lifestyles, organizations and regions. Case studies illustrate its effectiveness ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers

    New Partners or Old Patterns?

    by Adolfo Kloke-Lesch, Manmohan Agarwal, Ross Herbert, James Mackie, Enrique Saravia, Zhou Hong, Maximo Romero ...
    The current framework of development cooperation is dominated by the experiences of industrialized countries. But emerging economies have begun to accelerate their own development programmes, and attempts to bring them into existing aid models have been met with caution and reservation.This expert, topical volume explores the development policies of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Training for Transformation in Practice

    by Anne Hope ...
    Training for Transformation is an approach to community organization encompassed in three books which enables people to ‘read their reality and write their own history’ using a combination of group processes, socio-economic analysis and organizational development processes. Since its inception 40 years ago, Training for Transformation has been put into practice in over 60 countries globally. But ... Read more

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  • First World Hunger Revisited

    Food Charity or the Right to Food?

    Edited by G. Riches, T. Silvasti ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Is food aid the way of the future? What are the prospects for integrated public policies informed by the right to food? First World Hunger Revisited investigates the rise of food charity and corporately sponsored food banks as effective and sustainable responses to increasing hunger and food poverty in twelve rich 'food-secure' societies. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Children and Borders

    Edited by S. Spyrou, M. Christou ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This collection brings together an interdisciplinary pool of scholars to explore the relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders affect children's lives and how children play a constitutive role in the social life of borders. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD