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Rethinking Development eBook Series

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  • Popular Representations of Development

    Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media

    Edited by David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, Michael Woolcock ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    Although the academic study of development is well established, as is also its policy implementation, less considered are the broader, more popular understandings of development that often shape agendas and priorities, particularly in representative democracies.Through its accessible and provocative chapters, Popular Representations of Development introduces the idea that while the issue of ... Read more

    $96.35 CAD

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  • Reinventing Prosperity

    Managing Economic Growth to Reduce Unemployment, Inequality, and Climate Change

    by Graeme Maxton, Jorgen Randers ...
    "An important contribution to the global debate about growth, equality, climate change, and the path to a viable human future." —David Korten, international bestselling author of When Corporations Rule the WorldThe biggest challenges facing human wellbeing today—widening income inequality, continuing global poverty, and environmental degradation—may be simple to solve in theory. But, because we ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Celebrity Advocacy and International Development

    by Dan Brockington ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    Celebrity advocacy is a curious phenomenon. It occupies a significant proportion of the public domain, but does so without engaging particularly well with much of the public. Yet this may not matter very much. Many people at the core of advocacy, and in political and business elites, simply do not notice any lack of engagement. In these circles celebrity advocacy can be remarkably effective ... Read more

    $96.35 CAD

  • Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises

    Everyday Politics of Crisis Response

    Edited by Dorothea Hilhorst ...
    Series series Routledge Humanitarian Studies
    Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse – are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. In reality, there are many continuities and discontinuities between crisis and normality. What does this mean for our understanding of politics, aid, and local institutions during crises? This book ... Read more

    $81.42 CAD

  • Evaluating Communication for Development

    A Framework for Social Change

    by June Lennie, Jo Tacchi ...
    Evaluating Communication for Development presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating communication for development (C4D). This framework combines the latest thinking from a number of fields in new ways. It critiques dominant instrumental, accountability-based approaches to development and evaluation and offers an alternative holistic, participatory, mixed methods approach based on systems ... Read more

    $92.28 CAD

  • Governing African Gold Mining

    Private Governance and the Resource Curse

    by Ainsley Elbra ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book takes a fresh approach to the puzzle of sub-Saharan Africa’s resource curse. Moving beyond current scholarship’s state-centric approach, it presents cutting-edge evidence gathered through interviews with mining company executives and industry representatives to demonstrate that firms are actively controlling the regulation of the gold mining sector. It shows how large mining firms with ... Read more

    $116.09 CAD

  • Sustainable Development in Amazonia

    Paradise in the Making

    by Kei Otsuki ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    This book argues against the assumption that sustainability and environmental conservation are naturally the common goal and norm for everyone in Amazonia. This is the first book focusing on agency, reflexivity and social development to address sustainable development in the region. It discusses the importance of looking into societal dynamics in order to deal with deforestation and sustainable ... Read more

    $84.13 CAD

  • Reducing Urban Poverty in the Global South

    by David Satterthwaite, Diana Mitlin ...
    Urban areas in the Global South now house most of the world’s urban population and are projected to house almost all its increase between now and 2030. There is a growing recognition that the scale of urban poverty has been overlooked – and that it is increasing both in numbers and in the proportion of the world’s poor population that live and work in urban areas.This isthe first book to review ... Read more

    $105.85 CAD

  • Space Resource Utilization: A View from an Emerging Space Faring Nation

    Edited by Annette Froehlich ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The book speaks to the need for a regulatory framework with regards to space resource utilization. In doing so, significant elements of the subject matter have been explored, taking into account the different phases of a space mission and the perspectives of the various actors and participants in the space arena. The book tackles the subject matter from a number of angles. An analysis of the ... Read more

    $141.89 CAD

  • Business, Government and Sustainable Development

    by Gerard Keijzers ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
    The range of sustainability objectives has now developed from relatively simple issues of environmental protection to a full array of interwoven social, economic and ecological issues, nationally and internationally. The involved process of sustainable development has now become a permanent and increasingly complex process. In this insightful book, ... Read more

    $43.42 CAD

  • Climate Justice

    A Voice for the Future

    by T. Thorp ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)

    $64.49 CAD

  • Cross-border Oil and Gas Pipelines and the Role of the Transit Country

    Economics, Challenges and Solutions

    by E. Omonbude ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    With frequent discoveries of energy resources in remote and undeveloped areas, the importance of transnational oil and gas pipelines is set to grow ever more prominent. This study dissects the diplomacy and bargaining power of the transit country and the shifting economic relations involved in cross-border energy transportation. ... Read more

    $64.49 CAD