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“rob dyball”

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  • Social Learning in Environmental Management

    Towards a Sustainable Future

    Edited by Rob Dyball, Meg Keen ...
    Social Learning in Environmental Management explores and expands the approaches to collective learning most needed to help individuals, communities, experts and governments work together to achieve greater social and ecological sustainability. It provides practical frameworks and case studies to assist environmental managers in building partnerships that can support learning and action on issues ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    by Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    The “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization—by the world’s leading urbanist (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize–winning author)According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Why Doesn't Microfinance Work?

    The Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism

    by Milford Bateman ...
    Since its emergence in the 1970s, microfinance has risen to become one of the most high-profile policies to address poverty in developing and transition countries. It is beloved of rock stars, movie stars, royalty, high-profile politicians and 'troubleshooting' economists.In this provocative and controversial analysis, Milford Bateman reveals that microfinance doesn't actually work. In fact, the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Why Growth Matters

    How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries

    by Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya ...
    In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best addresses India's, and by extension the world's, greatest moral challenge: lifting a great number of extremely poor people out of poverty?Bhagwati and Panagariya ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Anthropology and Development

    Challenges for the Twenty-First Century

    by Katy Gardner, David Lewis ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Western aid is in decline. Non-traditional development actors from the developing countries and elsewhere are in the ascendant. A new set of global economic and political processes are shaping the twenty-first century.This book engages with nearly two decades of continuity and change in the development industry. In particular, it argues that while the world of international development has ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why States Recover

    Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

    by Greg Mills ...
    State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. The country's prolonged civil war led to the collapse of central authority, with state control devolving to warlord-led factions that competed for the spoils of local commerce, political power, and international aid. Malawi, on the other hand, is at the other end of the scale. During President Bingu's second term in office, the country's ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Geography of Power

    Making Global Economic Policy

    by Richard Peet ...
    This work looks at how contemporary global economic policies are made: by which institutions, under what ideologies, and how they are enforced. The author reveals the central roles played by organizations such as the IMF and the World Bank in supervising the livelihoods of over 2.5 billion people. He shows that neoliberal economic policy is enforced by a few thousand unelected and unaccountable ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Rise of Political Islam in Turkey

    Urban Poverty, Grassroots Activism and Islamic Fundamentalism

    by Kayhan Delibas ...
    Turkey, officially a secular state, voted in an Islamist party in 2002, 2007 and 2011. How far does this reflect the trend which has seen the rise of political Islam across the Middle East? Does this indicate a growing tendency in the direction of Islamisation amongst the Turkish population? If not, what are the underlying reasons behind the electoral triumphs of the Islamist Justice and ... Read more

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  • Dynamic Sustainabilities

    Technology, Environment, Social Justice

    Edited by Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Andy Stirling ...
    Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies and economies, and globalised, fragmented governance arrangements. Yet despite growing international ... Read more

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  • Black Africa 1945-1980

    Economic Decolonization and Arrested Development

    by D K Fieldhouse ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    In what ways did economic considerations affect the decision by Britain and France to make their Black African colonies independent? Why were early expectations that independence would lead to rapid and sustained economic development in Africa for the most part disappointed? This title, originally published in 1986, seeks to tackle these two important and strongly debated issues.The main aim and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Democratization in the Global South

    The Importance of Transformative Politics

    Edited by K. Stokke, O. Törnquist ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Given the weaknesses of mainstream democratisation since the 1980s, the authors present a cutting edge examination of dynamics of political change in the direction of more substantive democracy. While focusing on the Global South, they also draw comparisons from historical and contemporary experiences from Scandinavia. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Gender, Power and Knowledge for Development

    by Lata Narayanaswamy ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
    Knowledge-for-development is under-theorised and under-researched within development studies, but as a set of policy objectives it is thriving within development practice. Donors and other agencies are striving to improve the flow of information within and between decision-makers and so-called ‘poor and marginalized groups’ in order to promote economic and social development, including the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD