Development Studies

  1. Add to Wish List Social Protection, Economic Growth and Social Change

    Social Protection, Economic Growth and Social Change

    Edited by James Midgley, David Piachaud
    This highly original and thought-provoking book examines the recent expansion of social protection in China, India, Brazil and South Africa – four countries experiencing rapid economic growth and social change.
    Hardback (2013)

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  2. Add to Wish List Order from Transfer

    Order from Transfer

    Edited by Günter Frankenberg
    Constitutional orders and legal regimes are established and changed through the importing and exporting of ideas and ideologies, norms, institutions and arguments. The contributions in this book discuss this assumption and address theore...
    Hardback (2013)

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  3. Add to Wish List Social Capital and Rural Development in the Knowledge Society

    Social Capital and Rural Development in the Knowledge Society

    Edited by Hans Westlund, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
    Social capital is often considered a key factor for local development. This book analyzes the role of social capital for rural areas’ survival and development in the current age of metropolitan growth – an era in which urban is the norm ...
    Hardback (September 2013)

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  4. Add to Wish List Islands at Risk?

    Islands at Risk?

    John Connell
    This book provides a wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary economic, social, political and environmental change in small islands, island states and territories, through every ocean. It focuses on those island realms conventio...
    Hardback (July 2013)

    List price $171.00

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  5. Add to Wish List Weak versus Strong Sustainability

    Weak versus Strong Sustainability

    Eric Neumayer
    This fourth edition of an enduring and popular book has been fully updated and revised, exploring the two opposing paradigms of sustainability in an insightful and accessible way. Eric Neumayer contends that central to the debate on sust...
    Paperback (2013)

    List price $74.95

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    Hardback (June 2013)

    List price $164.00

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  6. Add to Wish List Improving Irrigation in Asia

    Improving Irrigation in Asia

    Elinor Ostrom, Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan, Ganesh P. Shivakoti
    Improving Irrigation in Asia is based on a longitudinal study over two decades on innovative intervention for sustained performance of irrigation systems. The work identifies key factors that can help explain the performance of intervent...
    Paperback (April 2013)

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    Hardback (2011)

    List price $127.00

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  7. Add to Wish List Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities

    Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities

    Edited by Zachary D. Kaufman
    Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities provides crucial insight into social entrepreneurship from visionaries in the field as well as other experienced practitioners and renowned theorists. While this book focuses on social ent...
    Paperback (November 2012)

    List price $64.95

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    Hardback (November 2012)

    List price $170.00

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  8. Add to Wish List Private Standards and Global Governance

    Private Standards and Global Governance

    Edited by Axel Marx, Miet Maertens, Johan Swinnen, Jan Wouters
    The expert contributors assess the state-of-the-art with regard to private regulation of food, natural resources and labor conditions. They begin with an introduction to, and discussion of, several leading existing private standards, and...
    Hardback (October 2012)

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  9. Add to Wish List Sustainable Development Drivers

    Sustainable Development Drivers

    Edited by Kees Zoeteman
    Sustainable development cannot be prescribed – rather, it results from conscious personal choices in government, business and NGOs. This thought-provoking book explores both the origins and future of the global sustainable development mo...
    Hardback (2012)

    List price $174.00

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  10. Add to Wish List The Asia-Pacific, Regionalism and the Global System

    The Asia-Pacific, Regionalism and the Global System

    Edited by Christopher M. Dent, Jörn Dosch
    The expert contributors shed critical light on how significant developments are impacting on the global system. In particular, they consider emerging forms of global governance, and how the Asia-Pacific as a region, individual countries ...
    Hardback (August 2012)

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  11. Add to Wish List Intellectual Property, Human Rights and Development

    Intellectual Property, Human Rights and Development

    Duncan Matthews
    This insightful and important new book explores the role played by non-governmental-organizations (NGOs) in articulating concerns at the TRIPS Council, the WIPO, the WHO, the CBD-COP and the FAO that intellectual property rights can have...
    Paperback (June 2012)

    List price $63.95

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    Hardback (March 2011)

    List price $157.00

    Member price $141.30

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  12. Add to Wish List Regional Integration and Economic Development in South Asia

    Regional Integration and Economic Development in South Asia

    Edited by Sultan Hafeez Rahman, Sridhar Khatri, Hans-Peter Brunner
    This book considers the leadership of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and the interaction with civil society in the process of South Asian regional cooperation and integration, and discusses how the emerging ...
    Hardback (June 2012)

    List price $212.00

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