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In Asia, where authoritarian-developmental states have proliferated, statehood and social control are heavily contested in borderland spaces. This handbook... Læs mere
Over 60 of the world’s leading scholar address key core themes and topics in an extensive critical new overview of African development – including sections on history, health and food, politics, economics, rural and urban development and development policy and practice.
Multinational and multidisciplinary attempt to establish and allocate costs for adapting to and reducing the greenhouse effect.
Economic Growth and Urbanization in Developing Areas is a wide-ranging collection of research studies focused on urban economic growth at various levels of urban and national development.
Challenges the utopian view of Western knowledge as uniquely successful in its application to economic and social development. The contributors offer an enthographic critique using case studies from Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America.
By approaching zoning from a social science and planning perspective, this text engages students of urban planning, policy and design with several key questions relevant to the realities of zoning and land regulation they encounter in practice.
Translation in World Politics brings together analysis from across politics, international relations, policy, area studies and development studies to explore how the concept of translation can be reconfigured to enhance our understanding of cooperation in global politics.
This book demonstrates the limitations of science and economics, as the foundation on which valuations are traditionally based. It proves the importance of and provides justification for the personal, cultural values and norms which underpin our assessment of "value".
The volume explores the aspect of gender in the course of post-disaster reconstruction. The essays use case studies from disasters... Læs mere
This book analyses the opportunities and challenges of decolonizing and transforming a modern, hierarchical and globally-immersed nation-state on the basis of indigenous terminologies.
This book systematically and comprehensively analyzes the legal development of the concept of water as a human right; its implications for the national governments, as well as the impact of the implementation of this concept for international and national organizations.