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Rethinking Development eBook Series

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  • 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

    64,53 €

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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

    12,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grassroots Postmodernism

    Remaking the Soil of Cultures

    by Gustavo Esteva, Madhu Suri Prakash ...
    Series series Critique Influence Change
    With the publication of this remarkable book in 1998, Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash instigated a complete epistemological rupture.Grassroots Post-modernism attacks the three sacred cows of modernity: global thinking, the universality of human rights and the self-sufficient individual. Rejecting the constructs of development in all its forms, Esteva and Prakash argue that even alternative ... Read more

    13,24 €

  • 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

    54,78 €

  • 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

    62,09 €

  • 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

    85,85 €

  • Investigative Journalism, Environmental Problems and Modernisation in China

    by J. Tong ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines how the news media in general, and investigative journalism in particular, interprets environmental problems and how those interpretations contribute to the shaping of a discourse of risk that can compete against the omnipresent and hegemonic discourse of modernisation in Chinese society. ... Read more

    47,69 €

  • Global City Challenges

    Debating a Concept, Improving the Practice

    by M. Acuto, W. Steele ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The contributors illustrate what twin analytical and practical challenges emerge from juxtaposing cultural, economic, historical, postcolonial, virtual, architectural, literary, security and political stances to the concept of the 'global city'. ... Read more

    47,69 €

  • 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

    71,83 €

  • 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

    104,93 €

  • 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

    29,21 €

  • HIV and East Africa

    Thirty Years in the Shadow of an Epidemic

    by Janet Seeley ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Development
    By tracing the shadow of the epidemic over the last 30 years in Uganda and more broadly in the region, HIV and East Africa investigates the impact of the epidemic on people’s lives and livelihoods, placing the epidemic within the context of the social, political and economic changes that have occurred over the last three decades.Whilst it inevitably touches on loss and suffering, the message is ... Read more

    71,83 €