Development Studies

First published in 1976, this book deals with contemporary tensions between the West and the Third World, caused by hunger, malnutrition and poverty, perpetuated by an imbalance in the distribution of world resources. The book deals with the issue of malnutrition in the Third World, which owes much ..

Exploring the relationship between gender and development, this looks at gender policy and planning practices based on creating gender awareness and negotiation for women's needs at household, civil society, state and global levels...

With more than half the world’s population now living in urban areas, urbanization is undoubtedly one of the most important phenomena of the 21st century. However, despite increasing recognition of the critical relationship between economic and social development in cities, gender remains an often o..

This book questions the conventional belief that development brings about greater gender equality and better environmental management. Based on participatory research and in-depth fieldwork, Arora-Jonsson studies struggles for local forest management, the making of women’s groups within them and how..

This book questions the conventional belief that development brings about greater gender equality and better environmental management. Based on participatory research and in-depth fieldwork, Arora-Jonsson studies struggles for local forest management, the making of women’s groups within them and how..

Gender, Planning and Human Rights explores the geographies and spatialities of human rights with particular emphasis on the connections between gender and human rights in planning and development...

Not only do the case study examples included in this volume transcend older understandings of production and consumption, they also explicitly tap into wider public debate about the meanings, origins, and biographies of commodities...

Market globalization and the globalization of environmental concerns have spurred demand for greater international accountability for forest stewardship. This book provides a uniquely detailed and systematic comparison of environmental forest policies and enforcement in twenty countries worldwide, c..

Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law presents original work from a panel of leading social scientists and legal scholars on the relationship between the rule of law and economic and political development...

This book aims to introduce globalization studies to new trends in police and military studies, highlight the cultural and political complexities of the global south, and develop new frameworks that articulate the best of feminist, political-economic, international-relations, and ethnographic perspe..

This book aims to introduce globalization studies to new trends in police and military studies, highlight the cultural and political complexities of the global south, and develop new frameworks that articulate the best of feminist, political-economic, international-relations, and ethnographic perspe..

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...