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  • Tourism, Land Grabs and Displacement

    The Darker Side of the Feel-Good Industry

    by Andreas Neef ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Global Land and Resource Grabbing
    This book examines the global scope of tourism-related grabbing of land and other natural resources.Tourism is often presented as a peaceful and benevolent sector that brings people from different cultural backgrounds together and contributes to employment, poverty alleviation, and global sustainable development. This book sheds light on the lesser known and much darker side of tourism as it ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Climate-Induced Disasters in the Asia-Pacific Region

    Response, Recovery, Adaptation

    Edited by Andreas Neef, Natasha Pauli ...
    Series Book 22 - Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management
    Climate-induced disasters constitute a major risk to peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region. Drawing on case studies from Cambodia, Fiji, Solomon Islands and Samoa, the contributions in this volume examine local response, recovery and adaptation strategies, incorporating the perspectives and knowledge of affected individuals and communities. Asia-Pacific is the world's most disaster-prone ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • Risk and Conflicts

    Local Responses to Natural Disasters

    Edited by Andreas Neef, Rajib Shaw ...
    Series Book 14 - Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management
    Communities affected by natural disasters are often stigmatized as being passive with regard to disaster prevention, mitigation and adaptation, waiting only for government assistance in the aftermath of such events. However, many innovative community initiatives have been developed to address natural disasters, which are often characterized as "local responses". While scrutinizing the potential ... Read more

    $136.19 USD

  • The Tourism-Disaster-Conflict Nexus

    Edited by Andreas Neef, Jesse Hession Grayman ...
    Series Book 19 - Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management
    This volume sheds light on the complex linkages between tourism, disaster and conflict. In many countries, tourism crises have been precipitated by natural disasters. At the same time, the tourism industry has often been assigned a pivotal role in the reconstruction and recovery efforts. Prospective tourists have been lured into supporting post-disaster rehabilitation simply through visiting ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing

    Edited by Andreas Neef, Chanrith Ngin, Tsegaye Moreda, Sharlene Mollett ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    This handbook provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of global land and resource grabbing.Global land and resource grabbing has become an increasingly prominent topic in academic circles, among development practitioners, human rights advocates, and in policy arenas. The Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing sustains this intellectual momentum by advancing methodological, ... Read more

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  • Global Migration and Development

    Edited by Ton van Naerssen, Ernst Spaan, Annelies Zoomers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development and Society
    The debate on international migration and development currently focuses on South-North migration, transnationalism, remittances and knowledge transfer. The potential positive role of migration for countries and regions the emigrants originate from has recently been acknowledged by, among others, the World Bank, United Nations Commissions and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). This ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Global Land Grab

    Beyond the Hype

    by Annelies Zoomers, Mayke Kaag ...
    The last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media interest in the increasingly contentious issue of land grabbing - the large-scale acquisition of land in the global South. It is a phenomenon against which locals seem defenceless, and one about which multilateral organizations, such as the World Bank, as well as civil-society organizations and action NGOs have become ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Governing Global Land Deals

    The Role of the State in the Rush for Land

    Edited by Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, Ben White ...
    Series series Development and Change Special Issues
    This collection of essays in Governing Global Land Deals provides new empirical and theoretical analyses of the relationships between global land grabs and processes of government and governance.Reframes debates on global land grabs by focusing on the relationship between large-scale land deals and processes of governanceOffers new theoretical insights into the different forms and effects of ... Read more

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  • Human Rights and the Environment

    Conflicts and Norms in a Globalizing World

    Edited by Lyuba Zarsky ...
    The impact of environmental damage on human rights - civil, political or welfare and labour rights - is becoming ever-more widely appreciated and has direct bearing on the behaviour of companies and their norms of conduct. In this volume, contributors draw on the tools and insights of a range of disciplines, including law, anthropology, economics, geography and social science, to analyze the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Asian and Pacific Cities

    Development Patterns

    Edited by Ian Shirley, Carol Neill ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies
    The cities of Asia and the Pacific are at the epicentre of development in what is arguably, the most populous, culturally distinctive, and economically powerful region in the world. 16 major cities such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Manila, Jakarta, Bangkok, Singapore, Auckland, Kuala Lumpur and Santiago, located in countries as diverse as Mexico and Vietnam, Samoa and India, China and Australia, exemplify ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Development

    Edited by Andrew McGregor, Lisa Law, Fiona Miller ...
    Southeast Asia is one of the most diverse regions in the world – hosting a wide range of languages, ethnicities, religions, economies, ecosystems and political systems. Amidst this diversity, however, has been a common desire to develop. This provides a uniting theme across landscapes of difference.This Handbook traces the uneven experiences that have accompanied development in Southeast Asia. The ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • State Structure, Policy Formation, and Economic Development in Southeast Asia

    The Political Economy of Thailand and the Philippines

    by Antoinette R. Raquiza ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
    Why do some small, developing countries industrialize and others don’t? What factors account for different economic performance among states that are vulnerable to external shocks, crony capitalism, and political instability? This book argues that the answer lies in the structuring of state power, specifically the way different sets of governing elites – political leaders and economic technocrats ... Read more

    $77.99 USD