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Book SynopsisHaving engaged in an intensified war against corruption for more than four decades since the period of reform and opening up, China is now at a turning point in its anti-corruption agenda. Many believe that building government integrity has been a top-down process in China, and the anti-corruption strategies taken by the current administration seem to have confirmed it. This book challenges the view by analyzing local anti-corruption innovations in recent years and argues for the importance of bottom-up efforts in controlling corruption.The book attempts to answer the question of whether the rise of local anti-corruption innovations has helped China to pursue anti-corruption reform more effectively and, if so, why. It proceeds to analyze the major patterns of local anti-corruption innovations, the ways in which they have been initiated and implemented, and the factors influencing their success or failure. The book includes more than 400 cases of local innovative anti-corruptiTable of Contents1. Introduction: Local Anti-Corruption Innovations in China 2. Rethinking Approaches to Study: Anti-Corruption in Post-Reform China 3. Historical Overview 4. Local Anti-Corruption Innovations 5. The Jiangmen Case 6. The Qianhai and Hengqin Cases 7. The Shenzhen Case 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book casts a light on the daily struggles and achievements of âgender expertsâ working in environment and development organisations, where they are charged with advancing gender equality and social equity and aligning this with visions of sustainable development.Developed through a series of conversations convened by the bookâs editors with leading practitioners from research, advocacy and donor organisations, this text explores the ways gender professionals â specialists and experts, researchers, organizational focal points â deal with personal, power-laden realities associated with navigating gender in everyday practice. In turn, wider questions of epistemology and hierarchies of situated knowledges are examined, where gender analysis is brought into fields defined as largely techno-scientific, positivist and managerialist. Drawing on insights from feminist political ecology and feminist science, technology and society studies, the authors and their collaborators reveal and reflect upon strategies that serve to mute epistemological boundaries and enable small changes to be carved out that on occasions open up promising and alternative pathways for an equitable future. This book will be of great relevance to scholars and practitioners with an interest in environment and development, science and technology, and gender and womenâs studies more broadly.The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351175180, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.Trade Review"I am recommending this book because I don’t think there is any that delves into this subject of the daily struggles and achievements of ‘gender experts’ working in environment and development organizations. As a "gender expert" myself, I think it is indeed very timely for such a collection to reveal how gender experts navigate through the challenges and professional cultures within development organisations, as "change agents" to bring about the transformation they are mandated to. Fascinating and intriguing – a much needed book to understand the workings within development organisations." -- Chanda Gurung Goodrich, PhD, Senior Gender Specialist – Gender Lead, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)"Feminist movement faces new "second generation" issues as it enters the third decade of the 21st century. Its three palpable seismic fault lines are: polarized North-South contexts, activists versus agency 'femocrats', and women professionals versus gender experts. Using polyvocal dialogues with representatives in these tectonic zones rather than monochrome essays, Resurrección and Elmhirst blend feminism's political economy, science technology studies in ecology and field activism to throw a powerful spotlight on the politicized pathways ahead. This is a book that must be read by professionals and gender experts thrown into uneasy company." -- Dipak Gyawali, former Nepali minister of water resources, leading IDRC-supported research on water-induced disasters, gender and climate change"This timely book reads like an act of solidarity, as it reviews debates around the struggles, compromises, and achievements of ‘gender experts’, and acknowledges their persistent efforts to disregard professional, personal and disciplinary boundaries. And it feels like a call to action, by reminding us that making gender justice central to addressing existential environmental threats must overcome all boundaries." -- Ines Smyth, Independent Consultant, former Senior Gender Advisor, Oxfam "At long last, a book we have been waiting for! Going past binaries of good feminists and co-opted femocrats, speaking to us directly through voices of ‘gender-experts’ and providing a sharp and reflective framework to think through their narratives, this is a book that speaks to all interested in bringing forth a more just and sustainable world. It highlights the work of the workers on the sustainability frontline, who everyday work across an epistemological interface, take charge and confront the vicissitudes of integrating, translating, embodying gender into environmental and development work, or in fact ‘genderizing a log-frame.’" -- Seema Arora-Jonsson, Professor of Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences"What happens when a marine biologist, a mechanical engineer, and a water engineer encounter gender expertise? In this exciting new book, Bernadette Resurrección and Rebecca Elmhirst help us understand how gender experts negotiate the tensions that arise from a clash of very different kinds of knowledge, that is positivist science and feminism. Effectively expanding cutting-edge feminist literatures in political ecology and science and technology studies, they shed long overdue light on mainstreaming gender into various areas of environment and development. The book is a smart exercise in feminist reflexivity and offers a stimulating firework of ideas of what happens when gender experts work with scientists on issues ranging from climate change to water insecurity, and when they insert themselves in technologies ranging from geospatial imaging to modelling futures. Highly recommended!" -- Elisabeth Prügl, Professor of International Relations, and Director, Gender Centre, Graduate Institute, Geneva"Highlighting the politics of gender, knowledge, and expertise among practitioners this volume addresses a key question—how do practitioners and professionals navigate gender-related challenges in their everyday work, and what might this suggest about the broader politics of knowledge and expertise? From fields as diverse as agrobiodiversity, disaster risk, or marine biology, exploring these dynamics represents a novel and welcome addition to ongoing debates in feminist political ecology, science studies, and the politics of environment and development. Sharing these experiences also has the potential to inspire and support those working to realize a more equitable and sustainable world." -- Leila M. Harris, Professor, University of British Columbia/ Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability"This book takes on the challenge of putting research into practice with curiosity and rigour. Through an exploration of the ‘gender expert’, the book shows the challenges of implementing conclusions from research. Gender and intersectional inequalities are well documented in development research, leading to the proliferation of ‘gender experts’ to address them. But such efforts encounter numerous obstacles at all levels of program design and implementation. By engaging the professional experiences of gender experts across a range of natural resource sectors, this book shows the importance of on-going dialogue between research and practice." -- Andrea Nightingale, Professor, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo"Understanding how change happens in environmental policy and practice in development organizations could scarcely be more urgent today. This book provides a fascinating and critical view into the world of ‘gender experts’, those who are simultaneously charged with transforming their institutions, while also coming up with policy ‘asks’, win-wins, technical fixes, and killer facts. By reflecting on their dilemmas, strategies and compromises, this book provides the inspiration and the insights that feminists need to continue chipping away at for change ‘from within.’" -- Laura Turquet, Policy Advisor, UN Women and co-founder of the UN Feminist Network "This is a stunning and original work by Bernadette Resurrección, Rebecca Elmhirst and their diverse writing collaborators, exploring the performance and organisational milieu confronting gender professionals in the pursuit of gender and environmental transformations. The gender experts’ fields of knowledge may clash with those of their professional colleagues; they themselves are often learning on the job but are expected to deliver on outsized work expectations, creating cross-cutting gender platforms and also mainstreaming gender into internal silos of environment and development work. How is it working out? Read this book and learn!" -- Meryl Williams, Chair, Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries Section, Asian Fisheries Society"It is with great pleasure I endorse this book. Through a series of conversations with ‘gender experts’, the two eminent scholars in the field of political ecology, Bernadette Resurrección and Rebecca Elmhirst, have successfully taken on the innovative task to unravel their daily struggles and achievements in environment and development organisations." -- Ragnhild Lund, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, Norwegian University of Technology (NTNU)"This collection of essays provides a much-needed critical conversation around constraints faced by gender experts in international environment and development organizations, and how feminist scholarly engagements inform epistemological and praxis shifts to foster more equitable outcomes in policies and interventions in the Global South. Through creative and collaborative narrations and reflections, the book draws from insights of a range of practitioners and academics to shed light on important work that is being done, and showcases pathways for more meaningful and sustainable engagements going forward." -- Farhana Sultana, Associate Professor and Research Director of Environment, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA"Bernadette Resurrección and Rebecca Elmhirst explore the opportunities and challenges for gender experts to advance a ‘slow revolution to social justice’ in technical environmental and development organizations. The editors are perfectly placed to explore the contested role of the ‘gender expert’, drawing from their rich experiences in academia, policy research, development practice and women’s activism. The feminist principle of reflexivity is central to the book, as the contributors emphasize the ‘conscious self-reflection on the implications of one’s situatedness within different axes of power, privilege and affective relations."International Affairs, Oxford AcademicTable of ContentsPart 1: The Politics of Identity and Boundary Marking 1. Strategic Reflexivity in Linking Gender Equality with Sustainable Energy 2. Is Epistemic Authority Masculine? 3. Epistemic Crossings of a Marine Biologist through Gender Encounters 4. Beyond the Business Case for Gender 5. Challenges and Dilemmas of Integrating Gender in the Field of Environment and Development at SEI Part 2: The Politics of Knowledge in Environment and Development Realms 6. The Politics of Feminist Translation in Water Management 7. Embodied Engagement with Gender and Agrobiodiversity 8. Please Genderise My Log Frame 9. The Gender Professional as Ethnographer 10. Disaster Risk Governance and Gender Professionals 11. Lifting the Barriers of Gender Integration in Livestock Production 12. We Build the Power in Empowerment Part 3: The Power of Gender Champions 13. Supporting Gender Experts 14. Gender Equality Work At USAID

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates urban tourism development in Sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting the challenges and risks involved, but also showcasing the potential benefits. Whilst much is written on Africa's rural environments, little has been written about the tourism potential of the vast natural, cultural and historical resources in the continent's urban areas. Yet these opportunities also come with considerable environmental, social and political challenges. This book interrogates the interactions between urban risks, tourism and sustainable development in Sub-Saharan African urban spaces. It addresses the underlying issues of governance, power, ownership, collaboration, justice, community empowerment and policies that influence tourism decision-making at local, national and regional levels. Interrogating the intricate relationships between tourism stakeholders, this book ultimately reflects on how urban risk can be mitigated, and how sustainable urban tourism can be harnesTrade Review"Urban tourism in the developing world is an underappreciated yet vital topic. Increased urbanisation, often poor public infrastructure, and increased threats, not least of which are global environmental change and the climate crisis, highlight the need for greater research on the interrelationships between urban tourism, risk and resilience at various scales. This edited volume on Sub-Saharan Africa is extremely timely and welcome and provides a rich source of insights and experiences that will prove extremely valuable for those concerned with tourism and urbanisation both now and in the future. This volume is strongly recommended." - Professor Michael Hall, Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand"Sustainability debates concerning tourism in sub-Saharan Africa traditionally are framed in the context of the continent’s rural and protected areas. This volume breaks new ground in African tourism scholarship by re-focussing sustainability debates upon Africa’s growing cities, acknowledging them as leading tourism destinations, and interrogating the linkages between urban risks, tourism and urban sustainability. Leonard, Musavengane and Siakwah have assembled a rich original collection of theoretical and empirical material which provides a new benchmark for researchers on sustainability and tourism in the global urban South in general and sub-Saharan Africa more specifically." - Professor Christian M. Rogerson, Research Professor, School of Tourism & Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, South Africa"This book is a highly recommended source for researchers who are interested in urban tourism development in sub-Saharan Africa. The book highlights the challenges and risks involved, but also showcases the potential benefits of tourism on natural, cultural, political, and historical resources of the continent’s urban areas by exploring four main themes: (1) urban tourism and environmental pollution risks, (2) peace tourism, battlefields and war risks, (3) tourism, climate change and flood risks, and (4) inclusive urban tourism and enclaves. This is a must have reference book for academics and practitioners who are interested in urban tourism development in sub-Saharan Africa." - Professor Dogan Gursoy, Taco Bell Distinguished Professor, School of Hospitality Business Management, Carson College of Business, Washington State University "Africa will be the epicentre of tourism in the future as it will be one of the few places offering authentic experiences. This book is a welcome addition to the literature about tourism in Africa supporting the continent to develop travel and link urban tourism, risks, and sustainable development. This book is highly recommended as it interrogates these relations in the sub-Saharan African urban spaces. It does this by drawing on themes such as governance, environmental justice, power, ownership, xenophobia, collaboration, empowerment, climate change, human settlements and policies that influence tourism and tourism decision-making at various local, regional and national levels. Through its rich theoretical and empirical contributions by African scholars the book will be of value to academics, decision makers, city planners, tourism managers and students alike to reflect on how sustainable urban tourism can be achieved in African urban spaces." - Professor Dimitrios Buhalis, Distinguished Professor, International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research, Bournemouth University Business School, United KingdomTable of ContentsChapter 1: Urban Risk and Tourism in Africa: An overview, Llewellyn Leonard, Regis Musavengane and Pius Siakwah Theme 1: Urban tourism and environmental pollution risks Chapter 2: Examining 'toxic tourism' as a new form of alternative urban tourism and for environmental justice: The case of the South Durban Industrial Basin, South Africa, Llewellyn Leonard and Robin Nunkoo Chapter 3: Waste management and urban risk in Livingstone City, Zambia: The sustainability of the hospitality sector, Wilma Sichombo Nchito and Euphemia Mwale Chapter 4: The political economy of unplanned urban sprawl, waste and tourism development in Ghana, Pius Siakwah Chapter 5: Environmental risk management and township tourism development in Alexandra, Johannesburg, South Africa, Llewellyn Leonard and Ayanda Dladla Theme 2: Peace tourism, battlefields and war risks Chapter 6: Megasport Events and Urban Risks: FIFA 2010, the African Bid and Xenophobic Violence, Brij Maharaj Chapter 7: Elections risk and urban tourism in Sub-Saharan African cities: Exploring peace through tourism in Harare, Zimbabwe, Regis Musavengane Chapter 8: The role of responsible tourism in peace-building and social inclusion in war risk cities: Evidence from Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Clément Longondjo Etambakonga and Dieudonné Trinto Mugangu Theme 3: Tourism, climate change and flood risks Chapter 9: Factors influencing tourism accommodations’ lack of preparedness for flooding in Lagos, Nigeria, Eromose Ebhuoma and Llewellyn Leonard Chapter 10: Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies for tourism hotspots Mombasa and Cape Town, Francini van Staden Chapter 11: Risk of flood impacts on tourism in coastal cities of West Africa: a case study of Accra, Ghana, Raphael Ane Atanga and Tembi Tichaawa Chapter 12: The nexus of climate change and urban tourism in South Africa: Triaging challenges and optimising opportunities, Felix Donkor and Kevin Mearns Theme 4: Inclusive urban tourism and enclaves Chapter 13: Human Settlements and Tourism Development in Kenya: Prospects for Tackling Urban Risks in Informal Settlements, Prudence Khumalo Chapter 14: Conservation tourism challenges and opportunities on the Cape Flats, South Africa, Michael Dyssel Chapter 15: Resilience, Inclusiveness and Challenges of Cosmopolitan Cities’ Heritage Tourism: The Case of the Balancing Rocks in Epworth, Harare, Zibanai Zhou Chapter 16: Prospects and challenges of sustainable urban tourism in Windhoek: poverty, inequality and urban risks linkages, Erisher Woyo Chapter 17: Navigating urban tourism amidst environmental, political and social risks: Conclusion, Regis Musavengane, Llewellyn Leonard and Pius Siakwah

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Book SynopsisReveals the nature of Russian capitalism following the fall of the Soviet Union, showing the impact of both Soviet bureaucracy and global capital.Trade Review'An important contribution to understanding capitalism in Russia, more than 20 years after the break-up of the USSR' -- Simon Pirani, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies'Takes a novel theoretical approach to understanding the corporate enterprise that will fundamentally change how heterodox economists will think them' -- Professor Frederic S. Lee, editor of American Journal of Economics and SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Global accumulation and the capitalist world-system 2. From central planning to Capitalism 3. Russian Big Business: Corporate Governance and Time Horizon 4. Rent Withdrawal, Social Conflict and Accumulation 5. Insider Rent and Conditions of Growth in the Russian Economy 6. Accumulation of capital by Russian corporations: some empirical evidence Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisPublic Space Reader is a one-of-a-kind collection that brings together classic and contemporary writings on public space by a cross-disciplinary group of urban scholars as well as by urban professionals involved in the fields of design, architecture, urbanism, planning, management and policy. Table of ContentsIntroduction. Section 1. Public Space: State of the question. Section 2. Diversity and inclusion in public space. Section 3. From the Just City to the Right to Public Space. Section 4. Public space as site of activism, protest and dissent. Section 5. Governance and management of public space. Section 6. Public art and public culture in/of public space. Section 7. Public space infrastructures. Section 8. Experiential Dimensions and Evaluation of Public Space. Section 9. Global and comparative perspectives on public space.

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Book Synopsis This volume documents and explains the remarkable resilience of emerging market nations in East Asia and Latin America when faced with the global financial crisis in 2008-2009. Their quick bounceback from the crisis marked a radical departure from the past, such as when the 1982 debt shocks produced a decade-long recession in Latin America or when the Asian financial crisis dramatically slowed those economies in the late 1990s. Why? This volume suggests that these countries'' resistance to the initial financial contagion is a tribute to financial-sector reforms undertaken over the past two decades. The rebound itself was a trade-led phenomenon, favoring the countries that had gone the farthest with macroeconomic restructuring and trade reform. Old labels used to describe neoliberal versus developmentalist strategies do not accurately capture the foundations of this recovery. These authors argue that policy learning and institutional reforms adopted in response to previous crises prompted policymakers to combine state and market approaches in effectively coping with the global financial crisis. The nations studied include Korea, China, India, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil, accompanied by Latin American and Asian regional analyses that bring other emerging markets such as Chile and Peru into the picture. The substantial differences among the nations make their shared success even more remarkable and worthy of investigation. And although 2012 saw slowed growth in some emerging market nations, the authors argue this selective slowing suggests the need for deeper structural reforms in some countries, China and India in particular.

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Book SynopsisThe subject of bank stability has been under a great amount of political and legislative scrutiny since the mid-2007 to late-2009 global financial crisis. However, these efforts have centred on developed economies. Little coverage is given to strategies adopted by many developing economies. While there is a global discourse on the subject of insolvency generally, there is ample scope to contribute to the growing body of work on the narrow subject of bank insolvencies. This book provides a unique perspective on an emerging theme in at least two respects. First is the focus on selected developing economies and selected developed economies in the EMEA region alongside cross-border developments, with the objective of deciphering the regulatory approach to bank insolvencies. The second is the analytical consideration of methods that may be implemented to preclude or resolve bank insolvencies in developing economies. This book explores the nexus between developing economies and their bankTable of Contents♦ Foreword Andrew Campbell ♦ Acknowledgement ♦ Dedication Part IBank Insolvencies in Developing Economies1. Prologue - The Management of Distressed Banks in Developing Economies Kayode Akintola & Folashade Adeyemo2. Distressed Banks and Asset Management Companies: Evaluating ‘AMCON’ as a Bank Resolution Tool for Managing Non-Performing Loans in Nigeria Anthony Idigbe3. Unravelling the Mystery behind Bank Insolvencies in the East African Community (EAC) – The case for Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania Hamiisi Nsubuga4. Towards Early Intervention in the Resolution of Banks’ Financial Distress in in Ghana Kenneth Ghartey5. Deposit Protection Schemes in Effective Bank Resolution Regimes: Kenya’s Experience Joy MalalaPart IIBank Insolvency Law: Selected Cross-Border Paradigms 6. Institutional Development of the Dubai International Financial Centre and the Qatar Financial Centre: The Insolvency Law Framework Horace Yeung & Saleh Al-Brashidi7. Cyprus after the 2013 Banking Crisis: The Journey towards Recovery Sofia Ellina8. Bank Insolvencies and the UNCITRAL Model Law Clara Souza & Pedro FerreirinhaPostscript♦ (Re-)Balancing the Priorities of Bank Insolvency Law in Developing Economies Kayode Akintola

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Book SynopsisMany anti-corruption efforts have had only a minimal effect on curbing the problem of corruption. This book explains why that is, and shows readers what works in the real world in the fight against corruption, and why. Counter-corruption initiatives often focus on the legal, institutional, and contextual factors that facilitate corrupt behavior, but these have had only nominal impacts, because most of these reforms can be circumvented by government officials, powerful citizens, and business people who are relentless in their quest for self-interest. This book argues that instead, we should target the key individual and group drivers of corrupt behavior and, through them, promote sustainable behavioral change. Drawing on over 25 years of practical experience planning, designing, and implementing anti-corruption programs in over 40 countries, as well as a wealth of insights from social psychological, ethical, and negotiation research, this book identifies innovative tools that Trade Review"Spector disentangles the dilemmas of corruption control by asking 'what works?' – a question he answers on levels ranging from history and institutions to human psychology. Corruption is often a process of negotiation, and this book shows how we can help such negotiations fail. In these pages, reformers, scholars and citizens will find new challenges and fresh perspectives on age-old problems." Michael Johnston, Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, Colgate University, USA"Spector brings his decades-long experience in combating corruption to produce an impressive analysis of why reform efforts to eradicate corruption have had only minimal success. It is a must-read for policymakers concerned with finding new pathways to sustainably tackle corruption." Shaukat Hassan, former Senior Policy Advisor, Canadian International Development Agency"Fighting corruption is incredibly hard. Few have more experience designing, implementing, and assessing anti-corruption programs than Dr. Spector. Students of governance, reformers, and anti-corruption practitioners should keep this book nearby to chart their course through treacherous waters." Juhani Grossmann, Team Leader, Basel Institute on Governance, SwitzerlandTable of Contents1. Since the Dawn of Humankind PART 1. LESSONS LEARNED 2. Are We on the Right Track? 3. Legal and Institutional Reform Programming: What Works? 4. Preventing Corruption through Accountability, Transparency and Governance Programming: What Works? 5. Civil Society Engagement: What Works? 6. Anti-Corruption Programming in Post-Conflict Societies PART 2. NEW STRATEGIES 7. Activating Behavioral Change Initiatives 8. The View through an Ethical Lens 9. The Social Psychological Lens 10. Deconstructing Negotiations to Make Bribery Fail PART 3. PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION 11. What’s Next? Assessments, Strategies and Implementation 12. Case Study: Ukraine Assessment (2005) 13. Additional Implementation Issues to Consider 14. Sustaining Anti-Corruption Reforms 15. Making Corruption Fail

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Book SynopsisThis book breaks new ground by providing a structured and cohesive set of contributions on the actions, developments, problems and theories of corporate social responsibility (CSR). With new case studies from the UN's Least Developed Countries (LDCs), contributors in this book investigate how firms in Eastern and Western countries are responding to and making use of evolving CSR guidelines.The book addresses the following questions: is CSR simply greenwashing or an authentic commitment to responsible corporate citizenship? Has globalization drawn CSR conduct in LDCs closer to that of industrialized countries? Stakeholder theory, actornetwork theory and a new orbital theory of accountability are applied to give coherence to the case studies. Other chapters address greenwashing in reports, the impact of CSR in socially stigmatized occupations, an analysis on what responsibility precisely entails in CSR, and the interface between law and CSR. The book also considers the impact oTrade Review'A real strength of the compilation is its substantial, although not exclusive, focus on CSR in Eastern and developing countries, areas much in need of rich investigation. To that end, Comparative CSR and Sustainability: New Accounting for Social Consequences offers new insights on where we stand and where we need to go.'Dennis M. Patten, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Accounting, Illinois State UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction: CSR at the peak of the globalisation movement Part 1: CSR: Extinction, disasters, and the new paradigm 2. The transition from biodiversity to extinction accounting in the Chinese context 3. Responsive approaches to community involvement in resettlement schemes to prevent conflict: A case study in the Chibuto district, Mozambique 4. Sustainability reporting during COVID-19: A study of the hospitality industry 5. The reciprocal nature of CSR: A case study of Macau 6. The impact of COVID-19 on social responsibility in stigmatized occupations Part 2: CSR challenges in developing and least developed countries 7. The role of NGOs in CSR: A comparison of NGOs’ practices of and influences on CSR in developing and developed countries 8. The process model of inclusive innovation from an MNE perspective: A case study of India 9. CSR by regulators: The case of sustainable villages for development (SV4D) in Mozambique 10. Using "actor-network theory and friends" to explore CSR reporting in the information and communication technology sector under the Belt and Road Initiative Part 3: CSR: Greenwashing and window-dressing 11. Corporate green initiatives as real circular economy or window-dressing? 12. Why are the Japanese companies publishing integrated reports? Perceiving through the lens of institutional theory 13. Conceptualizing CSR avoidance and engagement Part 4: CSR and new underlying assumptions 14. CSR and the Orbital Theory of Accountability 15. Companies’ responsibilities and political dissent: The new frontier of corporate social responsibility? 16. Do businesses have a responsibility or an obligation to society? Setting out the terms for business engagement 17. Managing stakeholder relationships within corporate social responsibility communication Part 5: Sustainability goals and ESG 18. The road towards an internationalized Sustainable Development Goals Disclosure (SDGD) practice in China 19. The general overview of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) guidelines in Hong Kong: Past, present and future 20. Corporate social responsibility and countries’ reputation: A study from a global strategic management perspective 21. Concluding remarks: Comparative CSR and sustainability research – An axial analysis

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Book SynopsisThis book is a practitioner’s guide to sustainable development, laying out strategies for attracting investment for communities and their partners. It is aimed at sustainable development practitioners, including government agencies, financiers, developers, lawyers and engineers.Trade Review"Saskia’s study of what works when investing in sustainable energy in remote and Indigenous communities will be a great boon to both those communities and potential investors. The text makes fascinating reading. Her conceptual tool, the Sustainable Development Proposition, makes application of that knowledge a little easier in practice." Stephen Keim SC, Barrister-at-Law, recipient of the Law Council of Australia’s 2020 President’s Award and recipient of the Human Rights Medal, 2009, by the Australian Human Rights Commission. "The tools in this book will ensure that your return on investment goes beyond a monetary return. You will have a sound basis to expect that your investments, and the partnerships that are formed with communities, are building capacity at the local level, and enhancing connectivity and opportunities with the broader economy in a way that is, dare I say, sustainable in perpetuity." Craig Cowled, Engineer, Researcher, Educator, Worimi man."Saskia Vanderbent has provided a comprehensive insight into the diverse energy challenges being confronted globally and how communities are moving to address them. This prescient perspective takes its currency in the present circumstances facing the world." Allan Fife OAM, Chief Investment Officer, Fife Capital.Table of Contents1. The Sustainable Investment Market 2. Sustainable environment 3. Sustainable governance 4. Sustainable economy 5. Sustainable technology 6. Case studies 7. Attracting Investment 8. Sustainable Community Investment Indicators (SCIIs) 9. Hypothetical case studies 10. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an innovative approach to understanding the governance of resource communities, by showcasing how the past and present informs the future.Resource communities have complicated relationships with the past, and this makes their relationship with the future, and the future itself, also complicated. The book digs deeply into the myriad legacies left by a history of resource extraction in a community and makes use of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives to understand the complex issues being faced by a range of different communities that are reliant on different types of resources across the world. From coal and gold mining, to fishing towns and logging communities, the book explores the legacies of boom and bust economies, social memory, trauma and identity, the interactions between power and knowledge and the implications for adaptive governance. Balancing conceptual and theoretical understandings with empirical and practical knowledge of Table of Contents1. Introduction: Resource communities in the imperfect grip of the past2. History, memory and legacy in resource communities3. Identity and reinvention in resource communities4. Symbolic violence and healing in resource communities5. Trauma and healing in resource communities: Invisible legacies and sources for optimism6. Power knowledge and the governance of resource communities7. Concentration problems and resource communities8. Legacies and futures in the governance of resource communities9. Tripping over the Real: Why strategies often do not work in resource communities10. Strategy and community in resource communities11. Conclusions: Legacies, (in) accessible parts, and navigating the futures of resource communities12. A practical methodology: Self-analysis and strategy in resource communities

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Book SynopsisPrinciples of Agricultural Economics, now in its fourth edition, continues to showcase the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, and agribusiness sectors. This key text introduces economic principles in a succinct and reader-friendly format, providing students and instructors with a clear, up-to-date, and straightforward approach to learning how a market-based economy functions and how to use simple economic principles for improved decision-making.The field of agricultural economics has expanded to include a wide range of topics and approaches, including macroeconomics, international trade, agribusiness, environmental economics, natural resources, and international development, and these are all introduced in this text. For this edition, new and enhanced material on agricultural policies, globalization, welfare analysis, and explanations of the role of government in agriculture and agribusiness is incTable of Contents1. Introduction to the Economics of Agriculture 2. The Economics of Production 3. The Costs of Production 4. Profit Maximization 5. Optimal Input Selection 6. Optimal Output Selection 7. Consumer Choices 8. Supply 9. Demand 10. Markets 11. Government Policies 12. The Competitive Firm 13. Market Power 14. Agriculture and the Global Economy 15. Economics, Agriculture, and the Environment 16. Farm and Agribusiness Management

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Book SynopsisWhy does authoritarian China provide a higher level of public goods than democratic India? Studies based on regime type have shown that the level of public goods provision is higher in democratic systems than in authoritarian forms of government. However, public goods provision in China and India contradicts these findings. Whether in terms of access to education, healthcare, public transportation, and basic necessities, such as drinking water and electricity, China does consistently better than India. This book argues that regime type does not determine public goods outcomes. Using empirical evidence from the Chinese and Indian municipal water sectors, the study explains and demonstrates how a social contract, an informal institution, influences formal institutional design, which in turn accounts for the variations in public goods provision.Trade Review'An excellent study on the differential performances of China and India in distributing public goods provisions. With the aid of case studies of water supply in four Chinese and Indian cities, Selina Ho captures an enduring puzzle as to why India lags behind China in offering collective goods to its population, despite its democratic credentials. A must read for all interested in development as well as all politicians and bureaucrats in India!' T. V. Paul, James McGill Professor of International Relations, McGill University, Canada'Selina Ho's Thirsty Cities is an original, ingenious, and admirably researched account that sets out to explain why China's cities provide a much higher level of drinking water than do India's. But the book goes far beyond that. It introduces a novel concept, the 'social contract' - an informal institution that serves as an implicit agreement between leaders to rule in a manner that, to establish their own legitimacy, meets citizens' expectations. Using it, Ho skillfully contrasts China's with India's mode of governance in recent decades and thereby explicates a great deal about their divergent regimes. China's government, which fosters capacity and local government autonomy, is grounded in material-cum-moral performance, while India's (despite its democracy) is situated in ideals of socialism and populism, which afford far less administrative efficacy, she demonstrates. A book with wide applicability across the globe today.' Dorothy J. Solinger, Professor Emerita, University of California, Irvine'This book wrestles intelligently with the puzzle of why an authoritarian regime, China, is more proficient at providing essential public goods than a robust democracy, India. This counter-intuitive outcome is the subject of this important work by Selina Ho. She highlights the crucial role of informal institutions and normative principles in explaining service provision as determinant rather than regime type or other factors. The work is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between the politics of welfare, regime type and public goods provision.' Tony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy SchoolTable of Contents1. Public goods provision in China and India; Part I. Social Contracts: 2. Social contracts, institutional design, and public goods provision; 3. The Chinese social contract; 4. The Indian social contract; Part II. Comparing Urban Water Management in China and India: 5. Comparing China's and India's water institutional frameworks; 6. Quenching thirst in China's first-tier cities: Shenzhen and Beijing; 7. Water constraints in India's megacities: New Delhi and Hyderabad; 8. Conclusion: types of social contracts and can social contracts change?

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Book SynopsisContract farming has received renewed attention recently as developing economies try to grapple with how to transform the agricultural sector and its associated value chains. This book examines different contract arrangements for selected crops, applying both qualitative and quantitative approaches in order to examine how contract farming affects smallholders and value chain dynamics in Tanzania.Major themes covered in the book include: contract farming policy; contract farming and value chain dynamics; contract farming adoption decisions; contract farming and income diversification. The authors also discuss alternative aspects of contract farming such as trust, conspiracy, empowerment and corporate social responsibility. The book presents original research from case studies conducted in Tanzania on sugarcane, tobacco, sunflower and cotton. These crops have a history of trials and errors with contract farming involving smallholders. Furthermore, they are targeted in national Table of ContentsPart 1: Contract farming in context 1.Researching the potentials and limitations of contract farming in sub-Saharan Africa 2.Contract farming: fluid concept on firm grounds 3.Overview of the agricultural sector in Tanzania Part 2: Contract farming and value chain dynamics 4.Evolving governance structures and contract farming in the tobacco value chain in Tanzania 5.Successes and Barriers regarding small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in the value chain for sunflower in Tanzania: Does contract farming reduce value chain coordination problems for SMEs? 6.Contract farming and upgrading possibilities for smallholder sugarcane growers 7.Coordination and upgrading in agricultural value chains: Contract farming arrangements in the Tanzanian cotton sector Part 3: Contract farming and household economics 8.Tobacco contract farming in the Urambo District of Tanzania: Which farmers obtain inputs on credit and which buy them for cash? 9.Income diversification of small-scale sugarcane contract farmers in Kilombero and Turiani, Tanzania Part 4: Alternative aspects of contract farming 10.Trusting your partner? Sunflower contract farming in central Tanzania 11.Contract farming in a covert sphere: conspiracy theories as counter-knowledge about sugarcane production in Tanzania 12.Does contract farming empower smallholder agricultural producers? Lessons from sunflower contract farming in Tanzania 13.Embedding the global tobacco value chain in social and environmental concerns: contract farming and corporate social responsibility projects in the Tanzanian tobacco sector

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses zero-waste' (ZW) as an emerging waste management strategy for the future, which considers waste prevention through innovative design and sustainable consumption practices. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies from Australia, Bangladesh, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, and the USA, this book explores why urban waste management systems still remain a major challenge for almost all cities around the world. Rejecting waste as an end-of-life' problem, Atiq Zaman and Tahmina Ahsan instead consider waste prevention through the ZW model, in which resources are utilized and consumed with minimum environmental degradation. In addition, the authors give extended discussion on why embracing the ZW concept will be beneficial for the circular economy (CE).Providing a strategic zero-waste framework and an evaluation tool to measure waste management performance aimed towards ZW goals, this book will be of great relevance to studenTrade Review'This book is very timely, given the fact that the world is currently experiencing the third wave of environmentalism: the environment and climate emergency. Zaman and Ahsan propose an alternative zero-waste approach to tackle the critical waste problems we have in our society. We cannot continue to deplete our global natural resource in the name of consumerism. The book argues an alternative circular design and systems thinking where zero-waste practice is a central approach to solving the core challenge of global waste.' -- Greg Morrison, Professor of Sustainable Cities, Director of Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute, Curtin University, Australia'The opportunity presented by striving for zero waste and building a circular economy shouldn’t be underestimated by businesses wanting to improve their triple bottom line or governments seeking jobs growth and a better environment. This book documents examples and gives hope that we can achieve these goals.' -- Vaughan Levitzke, PSM, Chief Executive, Green Industries SA, Adelaide, Australia'The global waste crisis has made the issues addressed in this book ever more urgent: we need a clear waste reduction and elimination goal to aim for, a mix of "hard and soft" strategies to reshape systems towards this goal, and ways of measuring progress towards its achievement. This valuable book addresses all three essentials together, showing how they depend upon each other, and does so in an accessible yet scholarly and balanced way. This is a substantial achievement.' -- Robert Crocker, DPhil (oxon), Deputy Director, China Australia Centre for Sustainable Development, University of South Australia, Australia 'This book is in response to the enormous waste problem plaguing the planet’s ecosystems from urban settlements to landfills and contaminated sites, and severely impacting the once pristine marine environments. We need a drastic change in the way "waste" is perceived. Zaman and Ahsan offer the zero-waste approach as an alternative to the current practices and management systems. They tackle the challenges of plastics use, e-waste, consumerism and planned obsolescence through zero-waste strategies and solutions. The readers will find insights and examples which help understand better the essence and solutions of the problem created by industrial society and human behaviour.' -- Dora Marinova, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute, Curtin University, AustraliaTable of ContentsIntroduction: zero-waste and beyond Part 1: The anatomy of zero-waste: zero-waste and beyond Chapter 1: Background of waste management system Chapter 2: Plastics and the throwaway society Chapter 3: Production, consumption, and waste management: the missing link Chapter 4: Zero-waste in urban system Part 2: Case studies of zero-waste Chapter 5: Zero-waste practices in our society Chapter 6: Zero-ewaste Chapter 7: The whole house reuse project Chapter 8: Zero-waste in the global cities Part 3: Zero-waste strategy and tool Chapter 9: Zero-waste strategy Chapter 10: Smart zero-waste tracking system Chapter 11: Measuring tool for zero-waste Chapter 12: Application of the zero-waste Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThis handbook contributes with new evidence and new insights to the on-going debate on the de-colonization of knowledge on urban planning in Africa.African cities grew rapidly since the mid-20th century, in part due to rising rural migration and rapid internal demographic growth that followed the independence in most African countries. This rapid urbanization is commonly seen as a primary cause of the current urban management challenges with which African cities are confronted. This importance given to rapid urbanization prevented the due consideration of other dimensions of the current urban problems, challenges and changes in African cities. The contributions to this handbook explore these other dimensions, looking in particular to the nature and capacity of local self-government and to the role of urban governance and urban planning in the poor urban conditions found in most African cities. It deals with current and contemporary urban challenges and urban policy responses,Table of Contents1. Ancient, Colonial and Post-Colonial Urban Planning in Africa - An Introduction Part 1: Colonial Urban Planning and Pre-Colonial Urban Heritage in Africa 2. The Birth of a Town. Indigenous Planning and Colonial Intervention in Bolgatanga, Northern Territories of the Gold Coast 3. History of the Urban Planning of the City of Zinder in the Niger Republic 4. Mise En Valeur and Repopulation in Colonial Rural Development in French Morocco 5. Infrastructure and Urban Planning: The Port and City of Algiers under French Colonial Rule, 19th - 20th Century 6. Living in Lourenco Marques in the Early 20th Century: Urban Planning, Development and Well-Being 7. Colonizing and Infra-Structureing the Angolan Territory Through Colonist Settlements: The Case of the Cela Settlement 8. Diamang's Urban Project - Between the Peace of Versailles and the Colonial Act Part 2: Post-Colonial Urban Planning in Africa 9. Local Governance and Urban Planning: Centralization, De-Concentration and Decentralization in Africa 10. The Resilience, Adaptability and Transformation of the South African Planning Profession 11. Setting Standards and Competencies for Planners 12. African Design and Ciam Expansion after the Charter of Athens 13. To Survey, Control and Design: Doxiadis and Fathy on Africa's Future and Identity, 1959-63 14. New Towns in Algeria: Planned Process to Control the Accelerated Urbanization, Case of Sidi Abdellah and Ali Mendjeli 15. Emergent Urbanism in Angola and Mozambique: Management of the Unknown 16. The Africanisation of Public Space in South Africa: A Moment of Opportunity 17. Missed the Stop? Incremental Upgrading or Waiting For Housing in Buffalo City 18. Framing Power in Co-Production Engagements in Kampala City, Uganda 19. Power-Shifts in the Organisational Landscapes of Transport Provision - The Introduction of BRT in Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam 20. Informality, Urban Transport Infrastructure, and the Lessons of History in Accra, Ghana 21. Moroccan Towns - Nourishing Urban Spaces? 22. Planning for less Planning: Supporting Informal Food Systems in Nairobi

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Book SynopsisPeople scratching a living from parched land, women walking miles for scraps of firewood are both familiar images of Africa. But, in many places, people, with the help of governments and aid agencies, are putting the land into good shape, growing more food and creating a healthy cover of trees. This book joins the ?literature of hope? by looking at these advances from the viewpoint of the energy crisis of the poor. This crisis can only be solved by going beyond the narrow confines of energy to consider all the needs of local people and the potential for change. Drawing on a wide range of case histories, the authors describe the gains in farming and forestry ? and woodfuel supply ? that have come about through this broader, people-centered approach. They also write about woodfuel prices, markets and other key elements of survival strategies for the cities. Huge efforts will be needed to recover from the failures of the past, but Leach and Mearns show that important lessons are at last bTable of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction Woodfuel Gaps and the Death of the Forests Where do Woodfuels Come From? Giving Scarcity a Human Face Part I: Rural Areas 1. Trees for Rural People Popular Knowledge and Empowerment Farmer-led Initiatives Supporting Local Initiatives The Economics of Rural Trees New Thinking on Tree Economics 2. Forestry for Land Management Definitions and Types of Agroforestry Options for Agricultural Areas Options for Livestock-keeping Areas A Note of Caution 3. Constrains on Change Household Economics, Labour and Conflicting Needs Tenure and Rights Gender Roles 4. Meeting the Constraints Governments and the Legacy of History Crossing Institutional Bridges Institutional Partnerships Building on Local Organizations New Government Structures The Extension Challenge Towards Project Design 5. Rural Cases 1. Farmer-led Initiatives in Shinyanga, Tanzania 2. Paddocks in Mwenezi, Zimbabwe 3. Building on Indigenous Practices in Turkana, Kenya 4. The Koumpentoum Entente, Senegal 5. Learning together: Forestry Developments in Konso, Ethiopia 6. Research in the Mazvihwa, Zimbabwe 7. Chitemene Shifting Cultivation, Zambia 8. Alley Farming and Dairy Development in Kenya 9. The Kenya Woodfuel Development Programme 10. Water Harvesting in Yatenga, Burkina Faso 11. Community Forestry in Northern Sudan 12. The Majia Valley Windbreaks, Niger 13. The HAD0 Project in Kondoa, Tanzania 14. Woodlots or Fuelsticks in Kenya? 15. Agroforestry in Koro village, Mali 16. Agroforestry Diagnosis and Design in Kathama, Kenya 17. The Village Afforestation Programme in Tanzania 18. Agroforestry Outreach in Haiti 19. Co-operative Forest Management in Guesselbodi, Niger 20. Refugee Forestry in Somalia: the 'Step' Plan 21. Putting Trees into Non-tree Projects in Kenya 22. The Naam Movement in Burkina Faso 23. Project Campfire, Zimbabwe 24. Rapid Rural Appraisal in Welo, Ethiopia Part II: Urban Centres 6. Paying the Price Urban Issues and Contexts Goals for Urban Energy Initiatives Soaring Prices? Woodfuel Markets Towards more Efficient Markets 7. Trees for the Cities Taxing and Guarding the Forests Managing the Forests Community Control of the Forests Peri-urban Plantations 8. Fuel Switching and Saving Is the Energy Transition Happening? Fuel Switching and Urban Size Fuel Switching and Income Fuel Prices Fuel Switching versus Fuel Saving Encouraging Fuel Saving Encouraging Fuel Switching Foreign Exchange Constraints? 9. Urban Cases 1. The Firewood Trade in Gaborone, Botswana 2. The Charcoal Trade in Tanzania 3. The Charcoal Business in the Sudan 4. Household Fuel Use and Switching in Dar es Salaam 5. Forest Taxes in Malawi 6. Successful Forest Controls in Rwanda References and Notes

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive analysis of how European development policy was shaped, this book explores the role of former colonial officials in shaping the policy agenda and explores this example of 'recycled empire.' Dimier argues that this post-colonial agenda only changed as a result of pressure from the OECD and World Bank in the 1980s and 1990s.Trade Review“It succeeds in combining analytical rigour and extensive use of citations with a writing style that is both highly readable and engaging, giving the reader a unique peek into the personalities, convictions and conflicts of the key figures that gave DG8 its shape. … As a result, this book is essential reading for a wide and varied audience, in both the European studies and international development communities.” (Floor Keuleers, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 54 (2), 2016)Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. "Grandeurs et Servitudes Européennes en Afrique" 3. Brussels or the last French Colony: French Colonial Administrators' Leadership in Designing DG8 4. "Du Bon Usage de la Tournée": DG8's Quest for Legitimacy 5. Flag Dictatorship within the European Commission? The Construction of DG8's Autonomy 6. Fachoda Revisited: the Effects of the first EEC Enlargement on DG8 7. EEC Development Policy: a Sedimentation of Empire? 8. In the Name of Efficiency 9. From Indirect to Direct Rule: Towards Normative Power Europe? 10. 'Adieu les Artistes, Here are the Managers' 11. EEC Bureaucracy in Action 12. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe interaction of failed states, terrorism and the need for 'nation building' is at the top of the international agenda, with particular focus on Afghanistan and Iraq.Trade Review"It is the unfortunate case that policymakers engaged in nation-building have time and again failed to tap existing knowledge about the countries that are the object of their efforts, and lessons from other nation-building exercises. Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan begins to correct this deficit by providing invaluable background to the problem of reconstructing one of the world's most troubled countries." - Francis Fukuyama, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University "This is the best place to start for increasing understanding of the challenges facing those who would engage in 'nation building.' Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan provides dispassionate and richly informed analysis of the troubled attempts to reconstruct and restore a devastated land. While every country is unique, the lessons drawn from Afghanistan and other, previous, attempts at nation building clearly have import for Iraq and any other potential cases. And one lesson surely is that caution is wisdom." - Alex Inkeles, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsPreface: Reconstruction in Afghanistan Introduction; J.D.Montgomery PART I: HOPES BEYOND RECONSTRUCTION International Goals and Strategies for Afghanistan'sDevelopment: Reconstruction and Beyond; D.A.Rondinelli Supporting Postwar Aspirations in an Islamic Society; J.D.Montgomery Between Reconstruction and Restoration: Three Historical Case Studies; J.M.Heffron The Afghan Experience with International Assistance; Y.V.Bossin Lessons from Post-Aid Conflict Experience; R.J.Muscat PART II: TOWARD A STABLE CIVIL SOCIETY The Rule of Law as a Goal in Afghanistan; C.H.Norchi Economic Growth and Development Policy in Afghanistan: Lessons from Experience in Developing Countries; D.A.Rondinelli Ethnic Diversity and the Structure of Government; M.J.Esman Warlordism and Development in Afghanistan; K.N.Abdullaev Health, Human Security, and Social Reconstruction in Afghanistan; P.Gutlove , G.Thompson & J.Hale Russell PART III: REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF RECONSTRUCTION The Afghan Neighborhood and Future Stability: A Regional Approach to Reconstruction and Development; E.Naby & R.N.Frye Reconstruction, Development, and Nation-Building: Prospects for Afghanistan; D.A.Rondinelli & J.D.Montgomery

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Book SynopsisDeveloping broad, holistic notions of 'impact' to measure the effects of international development assistance, this book makes a significant contribution to understanding the international political economy. Leading experts focus on enhancing aid's ability to reduce poverty in poor countries.Trade Review"Aid Impact and Poverty Reduction is an edited volume that conceptualizes a broad notion of impact as the appropriate metric for the analysis of development aid. In so doing, it is poised to make a significant impact on our understanding of international development assistance as a prominent feature of the international political economy, and of the societies in which (and on which) it operates." - David Simon, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Aid Relations, Aid Impact and Poverty Reduction; S.Folke & H.Nielsen PART I: AID RELATIONS: APPROACHES AND DILEMMAS Challenging the Injustice of Poverty: Rethinking Aid Strategies; R.Sobhan Flexible Standards for Controlled Empowerment? Microfinance as a Case Study of Aid Management; J.Copestake Aid Modalities and the Arts of Government; J.Gould From Humanitarianism to Good Governance? Reflections on a Danish-Ethiopian Aid Model; F.Wilson PART II: AID IMPACT: CASES AND CONTEXTS Assessing Impact with Limited Outcome Data: Experience from a Theory-Based Approach to the Evaluation of Social Funds; S.Carvalho & H.White Reaching the Poor in an Integrated Rural Development Project in Bangladesh; S.Folke The Impact of a Joint NGO Programme in North Wollo, Ethiopia: Enhanced Food Security for the Poor?; P.Sørensen Domestic Water, Bikas and Modernity: Exploring the Impacts of a Finnish-aided Water Supply Project in Nepal; S.Sharma Coping Strategies Within a Development Project: An Impact Study from Mozambique; H.Nielsen & Y.Adam

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world. This new edition has been fully revised and expanded to incorporate the key events, trends and debates that are shaping development today, such as humanitarianism and the global refugee crisis, the growing number of fragile states, and the contested nature of trade and trade deals. Building on the book's original framework, the second edition also includes three new chapters which explore development in relation to global policy formation, focusing on the end of the UN Millennium Development Goals in 2015 and the start of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which will run until 2030. Designed to offer something different to the standard introductions to the topic, this issues-driven text examines the debates that have generated the most interest and passion among practitioners and non-practitioners alike. Always attentive to the contested and plural nature of the field, it makes the case for a genuinely interdisciplinary approach which takes full account of the impact of globalization. Both wide-ranging and critical, Understanding Development is the essential student guide to one of the most challenging subjects of our age.Trade Review"With three new chapters, this revised and updated edition of Understanding Development is essential reading for anyone wishing to explore the intersection of development, globalization and politics in the contemporary world. Paul Hopper offers an interdisciplinary perspective on vital themes, from poverty to international migration and humanitarianism, drawing from a range of academic and policy materials." Gareth Jones, London School of Economics "Paul Hopper’s book remains an excellent introduction to development studies. Ideal for an undergraduate audience, this well-structured textbook is a great companion for teaching and stimulating debates about some of the most pressing issues of our time." Tobias Denskus, Malmö University “Dr. Paul Hopper offers an exemplary exploration of the many dimensions and constantly expanding frontiers of international development. Revised and updated, few accounts of this kind provide readers with a more comprehensive look at the field, from theory to practice. Suffused with contemporary events and cases, Understanding Development is a pristine piece of scholarship and is ideal for anyone new to development studies as well as seasoned scholars and practitioners across a broad range of disciplines.”African Studies Quarterly

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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Though a globally shared experience, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected societies across the world in radically different ways. This book examines the unique implications of the pandemic in the Global South. With international contributors from a variety of disciplines including health, economics and geography, the book investigates the pandemic’s effects on development, medicine, gender (in)equality and human rights, among other issues. Its analysis illuminates further subsequent crises of interconnection, a pervasive health provision crisis and a resulting rise in socioeconomic inequality. The book’s assessment offers an urgent discourse on the ways in which the impact of COVID-19 can be mitigated in some of the most challenging socioeconomic contexts in the world.Table of ContentsForeword – Colm Brophy Introduction – Gerard McCann, Nita Mishra and Pádraig Carmody Part I: Perspectives and Theory 1. Surviving Necropolitical Development amid Democratic Disinformation: A Pandemic Perspective from Brazil – Su-Ming Khoo and Mayara Floss 2. COVID-19, International Development and the Global Economy – Stephen McCloskey and Amit Prakash 3. Global Finance and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa – Howard Stein and Rick Rowden 4. COVID-19 Vaccine Inequality and Global Development: A Primer – Rory Horner Part II: Policy Context 5. Corporate Social Responsibility in the Time of Pandemic: An Indian Overview – Sujay Ghosh and Naveen Das 6. Local Community and Policy Solutions to a Global Pandemic – Pieternella Pieterse 7. Pandemic Structure and Blowback: Endemic Inequality and the New (ab)Normal – Pádraig Carmody and Gerard McCann 8. Ending the Pandemic – Zeke Ngcobo and Thomas Pogge Part III: Regional and Community Responses 9. Coping Mechanisms of Communities in Odisha: A Human Rights-Based Approach to the COVID-19 Pandemic – Nita Mishra, Sushree Sailani Suman and Anuradha Mohanty 10. To Lockdown or Not to Lockdown: A Pragmatic Policy Response to COVID-19 in Zambia – Chrispin Matenga and Munguzwe Hichambwa 11. Latin America: Politics in Times of COVID-19 – Salvador Martí i Puig and Manuel Alcántara Sáez 12. Vietnam’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic – Edward Lahiff, Pham Quang Minh and Nguyễn Trọng Chính Conclusion – Ashok Acharya

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Book SynopsisRooted in an international political economy theoretical framework, this book provides unique insights into the global forces and local responses that are shaping education systems in Central America and the Latin Caribbean (CALC). The book covers all Spanish-speaking countries of the CALC region and examines the effects of macro-economic pressures, geopolitical intervention, neo-colonial relationships, global pandemics, transnational gang networks, and the influence of international organizations. Chapters analyse the challenges and opportunities these global forces present to education systems in the region as well as highlighting the local efforts to address, mitigate, and counteract them. In doing so, the book illuminates how education can contribute to either maintaining or challenging inequalities and exclusion in the face of pressures from the global to local levels.Table of ContentsPART 1: INTRODUCTION, CONTEXT AND FRAMEWORK 1. Neglect of Central America and the Latin Caribbean - D. Brent Edwards Jr., Mauro C. Moschetti, Pauline Martin and Ricardo Morales-Ulloa 2. The Political Economy of Education and Development in Central America and the Latin Caribbean: Regional Dynamics & a Framework for Analysis - D. Brent Edwards Jr. PART 2: CENTRAL AMERICA 3. Comparative Analysis of Education Reform in Central America: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua—1990-2010 - D. Brent Edwards Jr. 4. Deconcentration of Education in Honduras: Restriction and Ritualization of a Chimeric Reform - Ricardo Morales-Ulloa and Mauro C. Moschetti 5. Locally-Driven Innovation Through Teacher Peer Mentoring in Times of COVID: A Professional Learning Community in Rural El Salvador - Kristin Rosekrans, Celia Morán and Carolina Bodewig 6. Learning Convivencia at School: Lessons on Peaceful Coexistence Policy Enactment from El Salvador – Pauline Martin 7. When Schools Become Gang Turf: Schools and Government-Sponsored Prevention Programs in El Salvador - Wim Savenije 8. Bridging the Curricular Divide: Open Education Resources and the Digitization of Guatemala’s National Basic Curriculum - Matthew Aruch, Felix Alvarado, Rachel Dyl, Michael Lisman, Shue-kei Joanna Mok, Katherine Summers and Kate Maloney Williams 9. Balancing Global Education Policy and Inclusive Education in Costa Rica: Capitalist Pressures, Social-Democratic Tendencies, and Technological Responses - Vanessa Pietras 10. Edtech and Equity in Panama: Mobile Technology for Leveling the Learning Field – Nanette Archer Svenson and Mariana Leon 11. Education as an Antidote to Underdevelopment, and the Epistemicide that it has Entailed – Tobias Roberts PART 3: THE LATIN CARIBBEAN 12. The Impact of the Opening of the Market Economy on Education and Teachers in Cuba: An Analysis of the Special Period - Changha Lee 13. Contrasting Trends of Low-Fee Private Schools in the Dominican Republic and Honduras: Dialectical Relationships and the Ethos of Privatization - Alejandro Caravaca, Mauro Moschetti, D. Brent. Edwards Jr. and Xavier Bonal 14. Educational Policies on Gender Perspective in Puerto Rico in the Face of the Transnational Anti-Gender Crusade - Loida M. Martínez Ramos PART 4: CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 15. The Dialectics of Education and Development in Central America and the Latin Caribbean - D. Brent Edwards Jr. 16. Whither Education and Development in Central America and the Latin Caribbean? Dialectical Reflections, Decolonial Options - D. Brent Edwards Jr.

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Book SynopsisHumanitarianism has a narrative problem. Far too often, aid to Africa is envisioned through a tale of Western heroes saving African sufferers. While labeling white savior narratives has become a familiar gesture, it doesn’t tell us much about the story as story. Humanitarian Fictions aims to understand the workings of humanitarian literature, as they engage with and critique narratives of Africa. Overlapping with but distinct from human rights, humanitarianism centers on a relationship of assistance, focusing less on rights than on needs, less on legal frameworks than moral ones, less on the problem than on the nonstate solution. Tracing the white savior narrative back to religious missionaries of the nineteenth century, Humanitarian Fiction reveals the influence of religious thought on seemingly secular institutions and uncovers a spiritual, collectivist streak in the discourse of humanity. Because the humanitarian model of care transcends the boundaries of the state, and its networks touch much of the globe, Humanitarian Fictions redraws the boundaries of literary classification based on a shared problem space rather than a shared national space. The book maps a transnational vein of Anglophone literature about Africa that features missionaries, humanitarians, and their so-called beneficiaries. Putting humanitarian thought in conversation with postcolonial critique, this book brings together African, British, and U.S. writers typically read within separate traditions. Paustian shows how the novel—with its profound sensitivity to narrative—can enrich the critique of white saviorism while also imagining alternatives that give African agency its due.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The White Savior Narrative and the Third Sector Novel | 1 1. The Moral Cause | 33 2. The Emancipated African | 67 3. The Universal Human | 101 4. The Benevolent Gift | 134 5. The Nongovernmental Organization | 169 Epilogue: Rearticulating the Humanitarian Atlantic | 207 Acknowledgments | 215 Notes | 219 Works Cited | 251 Index | 267

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Book SynopsisThis volumes presents classic readings on the theory of economic development, from the origins of "development studies" as an academic discipline through its critiques and responses to the present day.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Oeuvre of Development Studies--An Overview Rajani Kanth PART I: EARLY MAINSTREAM PERSPECTIVES1. An Interpretation of Economic Backwardness H. Myint 2. Some International Aspects of the Problem of Economic Development Ragnar Nurkse3. Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour W Arthur Lewis 4. The Five Stages-of-Growth--A Summary W W Rostow 5. Reflections on the Concept of "Prerequisites" of Modem Industrialization A. Gerschenkron PART II: EARLY CRITICAL CHALLENGES6. On the Roots of Backwardness P. Baran 7. The Development of Underdevelopment Andre Gunder Frank8. The Origin and Development of Underdevelopment S. Amin 9. The Latin American Periphery in the Global System of Capitalism Raul Prebisch 10. For a Theory of Colonial Modes of Production Jairus Banaji PART III: AFTERTHOUGHTS ON DEVELOPMENT11. The Rise and Decline of Development Economics A. Hirschman12. Development: Which Way Now? Amartya Sen 13. The Misconceptions of "Development Economics" Deepak Lal14. Development, Ecology and Women V Shiva 15. Postscript: Self Determination-Birth of a Notion Rajani Kanth

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Book Synopsis Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day-to-day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. It argues that the amplification of uncertainty in some cases and its extenuation in others can be better understood by focusing on forms that can either hold the world together or invite doubt. Uncertainty, then, need not be seen solely as a debilitating problem, but also as an opportunity to create other futures.Trade Review “… [The text] is distinctly original in the way the research was carried out, and in its focus on the experience of uncertainty: not an easy thing to do and quite a challenge to social anthropology.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
 (JRAI) “Calkins’s Who Knows Tomorrow? is a refreshingly unconventional exploration of living with uncertainty in Sudan… while richly grounded in the ethnography and history of Sudan, the book compellingly rises to the level of an existential predicament that all people share… the book will interest those looking for fresh approaches that complement more familiar concerns in the study of African worlds.” • African Studies Quarterly “Taking French pragmatic sociology as point of departure for her analysis, Calkins comes very near the actual experiences of individual actors. Her emphasis on uncertainty about the future (including the outcome of fieldwork) and the way people deal with it through accepting, modifying or rejecting established forms (of which this book is an outstanding example) is – in any case for me – a welcome enlargement of our understanding of human behaviour.” • Social Anthropology “…a thought-provoking text for all preoccupied by theoretical, philosophical, and development-related issues regarding lived unpredictability and how its culturally diverse configurations could be translated into ‘uncertainty’.” • Anthropos “The book is a rich ethnographic and theoretical contribution to the anthropology not only of uncertainty but of the future, which is after all where much of our uncertainty lies. It substantiates the point that ‘culture’ and ‘institutions’ are not completed and stabilized products of the past but are ongoing accomplishments of the present, oriented to circumstances of imperfect knowledge, contested interests and perspectives, and open horizons." • Anthropology Review Database “This book is a sophisticated, compelling, and innovative piece of work… The analysis of forms in dealing with uncertainty is a major contribution… In exploring how people in Sudan mobilize and reflect upon these forms, [Calkins] creates a novel kind of ethnography… Fluent, intriguing, and intelligent.” • Susan Reynolds Whyte, Department of Anthropology, Copenhagen University “Calkins has elegantly written an unconventional ethnography that presents new perspectives on issues of marginalization, poverty and hunger. This is a must read for everyone concerned with Sudan and the fundamental uncertainty of human existence.” • Musa Adam Abdul-Jalil, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of KhartoumTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Transliteration List of Abbreviations and Glossary Map Introduction: Taming Unknowns in Sudan Chapter 1. Towards an Anthropology of Uncertainty Chapter 2. Contesting Forms: Translating Poverty and Uncertainty Chapter 3. Insisting on Forms: Bracketing Uncertainties in Gold Mining Chapter 4. Standardizing Forms: Uncertain Food Supplies Chapter 5. Establishing Urgent Forms: Uncertainties of Ill Health Conclusion: Uncertainty and Forms: Asking New Questions References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade connections and cultural exchange between Africa and the rest of the global South have existed for centuries. Since the end of the Cold War, these connections have expanded and diversified dramatically, with emerging economies such as China, India, and Brazil becoming increasingly important both as sources of trade and as a destination for African migrants. But while these trends have attracted growing scholarly attention, there has so far been little appreciation of the sheer breadth and variety of this exchange, or of its deeper social impact. This collection brings together a wide array of scholarly perspectives to explore the movement of people, commodities, and ideas between Africa and the wider global South, with rich empirical case studies ranging from Senegalese migrants in Argentina to Lebanese traders in Nigeria. The contributors argue that this exchange represents a form of ‘globalization from below’ which defies many of the prevailing Western assumptions about migration and development, and which can only be understood if we consider the full range and complexity of migrant experiences. Multidisciplinary in scope, Mobility between Africa, Asia and Latin America is essential reading for students and scholars across the social sciences interested in the interconnected economic and social make-up of the global South.Trade ReviewIlluminating in shedding light on what are relatively little-known aspects of contemporary globalization … would be read with reward by those interested in the developing economic and social components of the global South. * Pacific Affairs *This important collection offers compelling accounts of geopolitical histories, personal trajectories, and unexpected cultural outcomes. The volume is recommended to anyone interested in Africa's diverse transnational connections. * Heidi Østbø Haugen, University of Oslo *Empirically rich and conceptually astute, this volume gives the reader unparalleled insight into the lives of mobile traders crisscrossing the Global South. Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary globalization and its historical roots. * Neil Carrier, University of Oxford *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Landscapes of Opportunity, Mobility, and Entrepreneurial Perspectives - Ute Röschenthaler and Alessandro Jedlowski Part I: Historical Relationships and Economic Networks 2. Chinese Migration to Africa: Historical Perspectives and New Developments - Li Anshan 3. Karimjee Jivanjee & Co. in Tanzania, 1860–2000: A Case for ‘Diasporic Family Firms’ - Gijsbert Oonk 4. The Lebanese Community of Ibadan: A Portrait of Successful Entrepreneurship - Azeez Olaniyan 5. Importing Goods to Khartoum: Traders between Sudan, China, and Dubai - Raphaelle Chevrillon-Guibert 6. The Senegalese in Argentina: Migratory Networks and Small-Scale Trade - Bernarda Zubrzycki Part II: Biographies of Mobility and Aspirations of Success 7. Migration, Successes and Liminal Spaces: A Contemporary Perspective on Africans in India - Renu Modi 8. African Businesses in Malaysia: ‘You Just Have to Be Smart’ to Survive - Ute Röschenthaler 9. Senegalese Women in International Trade: From Dakar to Asia - Mohamadou Sall 10. African Entrepreneurs in China: True Actors of Globalization - Laurence Marfaing and Alena Thiel Part III: Knowledge Transfer and Cultural Interactions 11. Chinese Textile Production in East Africa: Cooperation through the Experience of Tanzanian Managers - Sarah Hanisch 12. Mandarin Education for Economic Empowerment: The Confucius Institute in Lagos, Nigeria - Philip Ademola Olayoku 13. Africans in China: Agents of Soft Power? - Adams Bodomo 14. Rumberos and Guerrilleros: Angélique Kidjo, Freddy Ilanga, and African-Cuban Relations - Hauke Dorsch 15. Culture on the Move: Cape Verde between Africa and Latin America - Livio Sansone

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Jabuti Book Prize The Zika virus is devastating lives and communities. Children across the Americas are being born with severe disabilities because of it. Yet during the desolating outbreak, Brazil played host to both the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup, leading many to suspect that the true impact of the virus has been subject to a cover-up of international proportions. Beginning in the northeast, where the devastation has been most felt, professor of bioethics and award-winning documentary filmmaker Debora Diniz travels across Brazil tracing the virus’s origin and spread. Along the journey she meets a host of fearless families, doctors and scientists uncovering the virus’s impact on local communities. In doing so Diniz paints a vivid picture of the Zika epidemic, exposing the Brazilian government’s complicity in allowing the virus to spread while championing the efforts of local doctors and mothers who, working together, are raising awareness of the virus and fighting for the rights of children affected by Zika.Trade ReviewCaptivating … the reader is moved through the interviews on a page-turning, well written, and carefully constructed narrative arch. Nevertheless, the book’s greatest strength is that it is based on scientifically sound and well conducted ethnographic research. * The Lancet *Ingeniously crafted and affectingly narrated, Zika is a momentous contribution to the critical study of science and global health. * João Biehl, Princeton University *A masterfully researched and wide-ranging narrative of Zika in Brazil. Unforgettable. * Kearsley Stewart, Duke University *A compassionate and inclusive look at the impact of the Zika epidemic: from the mothers of affected babies to the race for an effective treatment. * Laura Rodrigues, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine *Diniz illustrates the devastating effects that Zika’s spread has had on impoverished women, and how government scientists and policy makers failed to live up to their responsibilities toward those affected. A brilliant read, highly recommended! * Udo Schuklenk, Queen’s University, Canada *Table of ContentsTranslator’s Note Principle Characters Timeline Map 1. Telling the Story 2. Positive for Zika Where it All Began Deciphering an Allergy Epidemic A Mysterious Illness Strikes Bahia 3. The First Generation of Women The Foreigner The Northeasterners 4. Footprints of the Virus The Paralyzing Syndrome The Neuropediatricians from Recife The Doctor from Rural Paraíba 5. Patient Zero 6. The Aftermath 7. Implications for Women Worldwide

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Book SynopsisHome to eighty thousand people, Accra’s Old Fadama neighbourhood is the largest illegal slum in Ghana. Though almost all its inhabitants are Ghanaian born, their status as illegal ‘squatters’ means that they live a precarious existence, marginalised within Ghanaian society and denied many of the rights to which they are entitled as citizens. The case of Old Fadama is far from unique. Across Africa, over half the population now lives in cities, and a lack of affordable housing means that growing numbers live in similar illegal slum communities, often in appalling conditions. Drawing on rich, ethnographic fieldwork, the book takes as its point of departure the narratives that emerge from the everyday lives and struggles of these people, using the perspective offered by Old Fadama as a means of identifying wider trends and dynamics across African slums. Central to Stacey’s argument is the idea that such slums possess their own structures of governance, grounded in processes of negotiation between slum residents and external actors. In the process, Stacey transforms our understanding not only of slums, but of governance itself, moving us beyond prevailing state-centric approaches to consider how even a society’s most marginal members can play a key role in shaping and contesting state power.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Origins and Destinations 2. Seeking Shelter and Freedom 3. Gaining and Losing Land, and Soft Property 4. Shifting Yam, and Market Place Citizenship 5. Solving Problems and Emerging Authority Conclusions and Policy Perspectives

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Book SynopsisThe Bushbuckridge region of South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. Having first arrived in the area in the early 1990s, the disease spread rapidly, and by 2008 life expectancies had fallen by 12 years for men and 14 years for women. Since 2005, public health facilities have increasingly offered free HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) treatment, offering a degree of hope, but uptake and adherence to the therapy has been sporadic and uneven. Drawing on his extensive ethnographic research, carried out in Bushbuckridge over the course of 25 years, Isak Niehaus reveals how the AIDS pandemic has been experienced at the village-level. Most significantly, he shows how local cultural practices and values have shaped responses to the epidemic. For example, while local attitudes towards death and misfortune have contributed to the stigma around AIDS, kinship structures have also facilitated the adoption and care of AIDS orphans. Such practices challenge us to rethink the role played by culture in understanding and treating sickness, with Niehaus showing how an appreciation of local beliefs and customs is essential to any effective strategy of AIDS treatment. Overturning many of our assumptions on disease prevention, the book is essential reading for practitioners as well as researchers in global health, anthropology, sociology, epidemiology and scholars interested in public health and administration in sub-Saharan Africa.Trade ReviewA brilliant and vivid ethnographic account of how people’s understanding and treatment of HIV/AIDS intersects with existing social and symbolic meanings around disease, death, witchcraft, healing strategies and everyday social interactions in Bushbuckridge, South Africa. * Alcinda Honwana, author of Youth and Revolution in Tunisia *Building on some three decades of experience, Niehaus offers a superb analysis of the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic. A necessary reminder of how anthropological questions of kinship and misfortune remain highly significant to any understanding of HIV/AIDS. * Julie Livingston, New York University *Niehaus returns us to the fundamentals of anthropology, offering a subtle but sharp critique of the Foucauldian turn in health. This is a superb ethnography – among its contributions the best critique of mainstream views on AIDS orphans I have seen. * Mark Hunter, author of Love in the Time of AIDS *Niehaus captures the diversity of experiences of those living with HIV/AIDS in Bushbuckridge, South Africa. He reminds us that effective community engagement and efforts to counter stigma must be at the forefront of the global response to HIV/AIDS. * Peter Piot, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine *Table of ContentsMaps Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Death 3. Blame 4. Words 5. Knowledge 6. Dreams 7. Care 8. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisGenetically modified crops have become a key element of development strategies across the Global South, despite remaining deeply controversial. Proponents hail them as an example of ‘pro-poor’ innovation, while critics regard them as a threat to food sovereignty and the environment. The promotion of biotechnology is an integral part of ‘new Green Revolution for Africa’ interventions and is also intimately linked to the rise of ‘philanthrocapitalism,’ which advances business solutions to address the problem of poverty. Through interviews with farmers, policymakers and agricultural scientists, Jacqueline Ignatova shows how efforts to transform the seed sector in northern Ghana – one of the key laboratories of this ‘new Green Revolution’ – may serve to exacerbate the inequality it was notionally intended to address. But she also argues that its effects in Ghana have been far more complex than either side of the debate has acknowledged, with local farmers proving adept at blending traditional and modern agricultural methods that subvert the interests of global agribusiness.Trade ReviewIgnatova’s important book illuminates profound problems with public-private partnerships that skirt democratic accountability and empower wealthy interests at the expense of local communities. But it’s not a despairing account: she centres Ghanaian activists and policy-makers who are pioneering a new type of philanthropy, one emphasizing interdependency and social justice over anti-democratic efforts to privatize seed commons. A revelatory and insightful study. * Professor Linsey McGoey, University of Essex, UK *Like a combine through a field of genetically modified maize, Jacqueline Ignatova cuts through the rhetoric surrounding the 'Green Revolution for Africa' to reveal the underlying power, politics and inequities that shape agricultural development in contemporary Ghana. Full of rich empirics and analytical insights, this book is essential reading for those seeking a comprehensive understanding of how public-private partnerships and philanthropy-driven initiatives are reshaping smallholder agriculture across the African continent. * Marcus Taylor, Associate Professor & Head of Department, Global Development Studies, Queen’s University, Canada *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of abbreviations Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Green Revolution discourse, structural adjustment, and the “enabling environment” for agribusiness Chapter 2: Philanthrocapitalism and the politics of public-private partnerships Chapter 3: Biocapital, “pro-poor” biotechnology, and legislative changes in the seed sector Chapter 4: Technological savior or terminator gene? Biotechnology, food security, and the political economy of hype Chapter 5: Experts, entrepreneurs, and the “last mile user” Interlude: On “mixing” Chapter 6: Neocolonial anxieties Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe Myth of Development boldly states that the benefits of development, so long promised over the past sixty years, have not come about for most people. Nor are they going to. State-driven and market-led development models have both failed. Many countries, and their cities in particular, are collapsing into ungovernable chaotic entities. De Rivero shows that the root of this chaos is not simply economic, but stems from a much more profound crisis of our way of life and of our unsustainable global urban civilization. Arguing that the 'wealth of nations' agenda must be replaced by a 'survival of nations' agenda in order to prevent increasing human misery and political disorder, De Riviero explains why many countries must abandon dreams of development and adopt instead a policy of national survival based on providing basic water, food, renewable energy, and stabilizing their populations. Featuring a new introduction by the author, this edition engages with the latest findings on climate change and assesses the prospects for our species in the decades ahead.Trade ReviewHighly readable, The Development Myth is a useful tool for understanding the enormous problems for survival that will have to be faced by the poverty-stricken, exploding urban populations of the wrongly called "developing countries". * Javier Perez de Cuellar, United Nations *Bristling with new ideas, the author provides us with an intelligent way into understanding better the world's present disorders. * Le Monde Diplomatique *This provocative and well-written book may stimulate discussion and promote sound survival and development policies. * The Choice *Table of ContentsPreface to the New Edition Introduction 1. The Twilight of the Nation-State 2. Global Empowerment and National Impoverishment 3. International Darwinism 4. The Search for El Dorado 5. Human and Natural Depredation 6. The Crisis of the California Model Index

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Book SynopsisA Radical History of Development Studies traces the history of the subject from the late colonial period all the way through to contemporary focus on poverty reduction. In this now classic genealogy of development, the authors look at the contested evolution and roles of development institutions and explore changes in development discourses. Combining personal and institutional reflections with an examination of key themes, including gender and development, NGOs, and natural resource management, A Radical History of Development Studies challenges mainstream development theory and practice and highlights concealed, critical discourses that have been written out of conventional stories of development. The volume is intended to stimulate thinking on future directions for the discipline. It also provides an indispensable resource for students coming to grips with the historical continuities and divergences in the theory and practice of development.Trade ReviewOverall, it is a stimulating book ... very well documented, it facilitates a retracing of the history of the field and it also highlights how individuals involved had to continually rethink or revisit what they had been doing. * Development and Change *Provides a critical analysis of the history of international development...the contributors adopt a distinct radical perspective on the subject. * International Review of Social History *Table of Contents1. A Radical History of Development Studies: Individuals, Institutions and Ideologies - Uma Kothari 2. Great Promise, Hubris and Recovery: A Participant's History of Development Studies - John Harriss 3. From colonialism administration to development studies: a postcolonial critique of the history of development studies - Uma Kothari 4. Critical Reflections of a Development Nomad - Robert Chambers 5. Secret Diplomacy Uncovered: Research on the World Bank in the 1960s and 1980s - Teresa Hayter 6. Development Studies and the Marxists - Henry Bernstein 7. Journeying in Radical Development Studies: A Reflection on Thirty Years of Researching Pro-Poor Development - John Cameron 8. The Rise and Rise of Gender and Development - Ruth Pearson 9. Development Studies, Nature and Natural Resources: Changing Narratives and Discursive Practices - Phil Woodhouse and Admos Chimhowu 10. Individuals, Organisations and Public Action: Trajectories of the 'Non-Governmental' in Development Studies - David Lewis

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Book SynopsisSet in one of the world’s most unequal and violent places, this ethnographic study reveals how insurance companies discovered a vast market of predominantly poor African clients. After apartheid ended in 1994, South Africa became a ‘testing ground’ for new insurance products, new marketing techniques and pioneering administrative models with a potentially global market. Drawing on Rorty’s notion of irony for understanding how the contradictions inherent to solidarity affect inequality and conflict as well as drawing on a vast array of case studies, Ironies of Solidarity examines how both Africans enjoy the freedoms that they have gained in financial terms and how the onset of democracy effected the risks faced in everyday life. Bähre examines the ways in which policies are sold and claims are handled, offering a detailed analysis of South Africa’s insurance sector.Trade ReviewThis work is a rich tapestry of ethnography and theory, simultaneously a narrative of various dynamics in contemporary South Africa as well as an excavation of many concepts central to economic and social inquiry. * The Economic Record *This important book explores how the growing market in insurance services for the poor in South Africa mitigates risks for some while precipitating family conflicts. Bähre’s thoughtful and compassionate study confronts simplistic assertions about neoliberalisation by showing how financial mechanisms can enable practices of solidarity which have both positive and negative dimensions. * Maia Green, The University of Manchester *Bähre warns us against nostalgic notions of social relationships as inherently good and caring, and the market and money as polluting this imagined paradise. This book should be required reading for every student of society in the 21st century. * Mamphela Ramphele *In this book’s surprising and sharp argument, Bähre questions the association between neoliberalism and financialization in the context of post-apartheid South Africa. Offering a mode of analysis attendant to the ironies of political economy, prying open the iron cages of our own limited analytical imagination, Bähre revises old concepts and introduces refreshingly new ones. * Bill Maurer, University of California *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. An ironic analysis 3. Hope and redistribution 4. Penetrating a new market 5. The Janus face of inclusion 6. The enchantment of abstract finance 7. Transforming mutualities in business 8. Death as moral hazard 9. Conclusion: Ironies of solidarity

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Book SynopsisFor many liberal commentators at the turn of the 1990s, the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a final victory for Western reason and capitalist democracy. But, in recent years, liberal norms and institutions associated with the post-Cold War moment have been challenged by a visceral and affective politics. Electorates have increasingly opted for a closing inwards of the nation-state, not just in the democratic heartlands of Europe and North America, but also on the periphery of the world economy. As the popular appeal of the 'open society' is thrown into question, it is necessary to revisit assumptions about the permanence of its enabling political and ethical projects. Previously promoted by the US and its allies as a necessary complement to liberal capitalist culture and the globalisation of markets, humanitarian multilateralism seems to have lost strategic currency. In this collection of essays, public intellectuals, scholars, journalists and aid workers reflect on the relationship between humanitarianism and 'liberal order'. What role has humanitarianism played in processes of liberal ordering? Amidst challenges to liberal order, what are the implications for the political economy of humanitarianism, and for the practices of humanitarian agencies?Trade Review'This brilliantly curated and genuinely troubling collection shows how, amid anxiety over the "liberal order", humanitarian moralities have been pressed back into service, entrenching existing hierarchies and obscuring noxious continuities. Essential reading for our moment.' -- Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale University, and author of 'Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World''A fascinating collection. Its impressive contributors deploy history, memoir and political theory, reflecting on the high watermark of neoliberal humanitarian aid, and wondering if the next era of humanitarianism can ever be free of economic oppression, racism and human damage.' -- Hugo Slim, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, University of Oxford'Discusses every question that has perplexed me as a humanitarian actor for 25 years. Is humanitarian work humane? Is humanitarianism above politics, or intimately connected to the world in which it operates? What is genuine solidarity? Read this book and find out.' -- Lynne Jones, FXB Center for Health & Human Rights, Harvard University, and author of 'The Migrant Diaries''With probing and informed contributions from humanitarians and commentators across the globe, this important work raises many pertinent questions about humanitarianism in the current era. Amongst its many virtues, the book will stimulate debate about the international liberal order.' -- Michael Newman, Emeritus Professor, London Metropolitan University, and author of 'Humanitarian Intervention: Confronting the Contradictions'

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Book SynopsisWomen in conflict zones face steep challenges, and nowhere is this clearer than in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, regions that face reduced foreign aid, foreign occupation, violence, instability, ingrained social conservatism and perpetual political crisis. Yet the stereotypical view that women are unable to act politically in the socially conservative contexts of the Middle East is a long way from the truth. Here Ibrahim Natil shines a spotlight on how young Palestinian women work through civil society organizations (CSOs) to improve their communities’ and their own resilience and empowerment. He first outlines the impact of CSOs upon peaceful struggle, human rights and community development relief assistance, highlighting how CSOs respond rapidly to the needs of the population by delivering social, health, cultural and educational services to all sectors of society during humanitarian crises. He then asks how empowered Palestinian women contribute to CSO missions and how CSO missions reciprocally contribute to Palestinian women’s empowerment. Ultimately, young Palestinian women’s engagement with CSOs proves to strengthen cooperation, communication and cross-fertilization between CSO groups, which in turn increases these young women’s agency. Conflict, Civil Society, and Women’s Empowerment: Insights from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is a little-known success story, one that makes for required reading for scholars of development, peace studies, conflict resolution and conflict strategy, and which will inspire women’s rights activists around the globe.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. History of Civil Society Organisations: Activism, Intervention and Shifts Chapter 3. Leadership of Civil Society: Culture and Constraints Chapter 4. Challenges of Violence to Participatory Civic Engagement Chapter 5. Internationally Sponsored Programs: EU Aid and Women Empowerment Chapter 6. Women’s Grassroots Peacebuilding Engagement Chapter 7. Grassroots Non-violent Activism and Engagement Chapter 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe African continent is colloquially referred to as the youngest in the world. Seizing on a topic underexplored in African research, Youth Development in South Africa: Harnessing the Demographic Dividend confronts the issues, challenges, and opportunities facing South Africa’s youth, resulting in a rich exploration of the South African corpus on youth development. Bringing together a diverse range of topics and research methodologies, contributors focus on the demographic dividend, South Africa’s relatively large population of young people, and the implications of harnessing this for economic growth and development within this country. Analysing model institutional and policy initiatives for youth development, contributors present a unique translation of ideas into practice, as well as attention to solutions. Highlighting challenges such as health pandemics, social media, and climate change, chapters cover questions surrounding youth aspirations, employment, and inclusivity. Showcasing the voices of researchers from across South Africa and the larger African continent, Youth Development in South Africa: Harnessing the Demographic Dividend is a compelling snapshot of thirty years of South Africa’s democratic dispensation and what it has meant for the youth of the country, as well as how its demographic dividend can be harnessed for a fairer society in the future.Trade ReviewThere are numerous studies by scholars and policy-makers about youth, particularly youth in the developing world. Many of these studies fall under two categories: the youth as a market, or the youth as either a demographic dividend or a demographic time-bomb. The youth tend to be studied out of curiosity – an anthropological subject that is observed but not engaged. This book presents a paradigm shift in how youth is studied. It offers insights into the complex contradictions, geo-histories, ideologies and experiences that shape the present realities and futures of South African youth. It presents youth not only as products of history, but as architects of new thinking and imaginations that are futuristic. -- Malaika Mahlatsi, Bestselling Author of Memoirs of a Born Free: Reflections on the Rainbow Nation and Corridors of Death: The Struggle to Exist in Historically White InstitutionsTable of ContentsIntroduction PART ONE – UNDERSTANDING YOUTH AND THEIR DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND Chapter 1. Demographic dynamics of South Africa’s youth and the implications for harnessing the demographic dividend; Nompumelelo Nzimande PART TWO – PANDEMICS AND YOUTH Chapter 2. Youth and HIV in South Africa: LIVING AND THRIVING WITH HIV; Nompumelelo Zungu, Warren Parker, Inbarani Naidoo, Mokhantšo Makoae, and Salome Sigida Chapter 3. Young People, Social Media and Exposure to STIs: A Semi-Ethnographic Experiment; Busani Ngcaweni PART THREE – YOUTH TRANSITIONS Chapter 4. Building Maps of the Future; Botshabelo Maja Chapter 5. Youth Career Decision Making: The Influence of Horizon for Action and Navigational Capacity; Lucky Maluleke and Lesley Powell Chapter 6. Breaking Barriers, Transforming Lives – Youth Transitions to Work and what it takes: A Case Study of the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator; Sharmi Surianarain and Rob Urquhart PART FOUR – YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH Chapter 7. Right to Quality Education in Africa: A Critical tool for a sustainable development agenda; Rita Ozoemena Chapter 8. A Holistic Approach to Personal Transformation in the Youth Sector; Lucille Meyer and Rajendra Chetty PART FIVE – YOUTH EMPLOYMENT Chapter 9. A conceptual frame for reviewing Youth Employment Interventions: based on a review of opportunities for youth in South Africa; Carmel Marock, Sindile Moitse, and Josephilda Nhlapo-Hlope PART SIX – YOUTH PARTICIPATION, INCLUSIVITY, AND SOCIAL PROTECTION Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe first detailed account in English of an unprecedented moment in Sri Lanka’s history, Debt Crisis and Popular Social Protest in Sri Lanka chronicles the 2022 popular uprising where mass protests forced the country’s autocratic president to flee. Exploring how the uprising, triggered by a debt crisis, relates to deeper problems of democracy, civil war and development, Janaka Biyanwila challenges numerous misunderstandings about the protests and uncovers how global financial markets and platform economies contributed to the upheaval. Locating the crisis within Global North-South dynamics, Biyanwila outlines how market-driven economic growth strategies restrain public involvement in decision making while asserting ethno-centric collective identities and hypermasculine cultures. Framing citizenship as well as justice in terms of cultural recognition, economic redistribution and political representation, chapters foreground the role of democratic social movements that encourage artistic engagement and collective learning as central for renewing citizenship as well as democracy. Reimagining development that embeds Global Production Networks within local communities and rethinking democracy across multiple tiers of governance, Biyanwila concludes by shifting his narrative to a broader focus on the Global South, and South Asia specifically. Fusing the regional with the global, Debt Crisis and Popular Social Protest in Sri Lanka widens its perspective from a distinct, national moment to an international interdependency with the power to ripple across every corner of the globe.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: The Challenges of Democracy, Development and Popular Movements Chapter 2. The Popular Uprising: Collective Action, Activists and Strategies Chapter 3. The Rajapaksa Regime: Development, Regional Alliances, Militarization and the Pandemic Chapter 4. Reasons for the Crisis: Financialisation, Commercialization of the State, Popular Discontent and Inequality Chapter 5. Prospects of Democratic Renewal: Patrimonial Capitalism, Representative and Movement Politics Chapter 6. Lessons: De-Militarization, Development and Democracy

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Book SynopsisNew Frontiers in Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Peace Science explores the uncharted land of conflicts, human security and peace. Bringing together a diverse, world-leading researchers, this 29th volume of Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development focuses on some of the most serious challenges to human security posed by intra-state conflict and terrorism, interstate wars, predatory globalisation, failed development, poverty and inequality, environmental problems and climate shocks, inefficient governance and man-made and natural disasters. In so doing, this book contributes to the crafting of well-grounded academic and policy responses to global problems that urgently require novel solutions. For its breadth and depth of research, this book is essential reading for researchers working in peace studies, conflict studies, sustainability studies and economics. It is also of keen interest to policymakers in all of these areas.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Partha Gangopadyay Chapter 1. Rethinking Augustines Law: Armament Costs and Evolving Military Technology; Jurgen Brauer, Keith Hartley and Stefan Markowski Chapter 2. Multilateral Arms Races; Frank C. Zargare Chapter 3. Build Back Better, even Before Disaster: Adaptive Design of Communicative Process, Place and Practice; Norio Okada Chapter 4. Managing Climate-Related Financial Risk: Prospects and Challenges; Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay Chapter 5. Spillover Effects of Transport Infrastructure And Regional Conflicts In Spain; Fernando Barreiro-Pereira Chapter 6. Conflict and Migration; Uma Segal Chapter 7. On the Impacts of Globalisation on Public Employment and Human Security in India: A Long-run Analysis; Partha Gangopadyay, Agung Suwandaru and Walid Bakry Chapter 8. Is India backing out from its Commitment to No First Use of Nuclear Weapons?; P. M. Kamath Chapter 9. Health Security and Equity: A Global Health Histories Perspective; Sanjoy Bhattacharya Chapter 10. Business and Violence; Laszlo Zsolnai Chapter 11. Gender & Conflict with special reference to Representation of Women in EUs Energy Sector; Madhumita Chatterji and Anindita Chakrabarti

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Book SynopsisInternational Investment for Sustainable Development critically examines the interface between sustainability, development, and the governance of international investment. It challenges the conventional view that foreign direct investment is a 'miracle drug' for developing countries and exposes serious shortcomings in the current international investment regime. Composed of norms, agreements, treaties and regulations, the emerging investment regime expands the rights of transnational corporations (TNCs) without commensurate rewards for the common good. Drawing on both research and engaged advocacy, the contributors ultimately map out a new way forward, towards the creation and implementation of international investment rules that will promote global sustainability and equity.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Balancing Rights and Rewards in Investment Rules * Part 1: Links Between Foreign Direct Investment, Development and Sustainability * No Miracle Drug: Foreign Direct Investment and Sustainable Development * FDI and the Environment: What Empirical Evidence Does and Does Not Tell Us? * Governing Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policies and Practices Reconsidered * Sustainable Development and Foreign Direct Investment: The Emerging Paradigm in Asia * Part 2: The Governance of International Investment * All Roads Lead Out of Rome: Divergent Paths of Dispute * Settlement in Bilateral Investment Treaties * The Road to Hell? Investor Protections in NAFTA's * The Environment and the Principle of Non-discrimination in Investment Regimes: International and Domestic Institutions * Corporate Governance and Global Disclosure: Let the Sun Shine In * Bibliography, Index

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Book Synopsis'This book aims to inspire the conservation community not to regard poverty reduction as someone else's job but to take responsibility for it as part of ecosystem restoration. Though no solutions are perfect,the text and examples given offer encouraging and useful guidance.' Gill Shepherd, poverty and landscapes thematic leader, IUCN Forest Conservation Programme. 'This book could be the catalyst for a real paradigm shift - not just in capital cities and international conference centres, but also on the ground in locations where poor people are struggling to make a living.' Policy Matters (praise for the first edition). High levels of rural poverty in many of the world's ecosystems make it an ethical and practical imperative to find more equitable and realistic ways of achieving conservation. Livelihoods of the rural poor and options for conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity are so intimately entwined that they are better addressed through an integrated approach, irrespective of whether the primary motivation is one of development or one of conservation. This highly accessible book, a revised edition of the 2005 book Poverty and Conservation: Landscapes, People and Power, offers a grand overview of the issues and a conceptual framework for addressing poverty reduction in the context of conservation, and conservation in the context of poverty reduction. It will appeal to professionals working in the field as well as to students across the fields of conservation, development and sustainability. It looks at the rationale for addressing the links between conservation and poverty reduction, arguing that such a focus is both ethically essential and a source of opportunities. It alsoreviews experiences in dealing with people and conservation and identifies some key lessons and concepts. The book presents cases studies illustrating various approaches and a discussion of some of the issues that appear when implementing combined conservation and poverty reduction. The book emphasizes the importance of multiple spatial scales and negotiating trade-offs between scales. It also tackles the complex issue of institutional landscapes and the way in which changes at various institutional levels can lead to different and often more positive outcomes. The Final part summarizes some of the main features of the authors' integrated approach and identifies some of the challenges involved in efforts to combine conservation and poverty reduction. Published with IUCN - The World Conservation Union.Trade Review'The message is clear - conserving the environment makes sound economic sense' CTA Spore.Table of ContentsForeword Introduction Past Experiences Case Studies Scale, Landscapes, Boundaries and Negotiation Structures, Institutions and Rights Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction

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Book SynopsisAimed at undergraduates and post-graduates in the social sciences, as well as development practitioners, this textbook provides an introduction to the human development and capability approach; it also clarifies key concepts and fosters debate on a number of critical issues. The book offers new perspectives on a wide range of topics, which include the conceptualisation and measurement of well-being and inequality; the role of markets and economic growth in promoting development; the importance of democracy and public debate; culture and religion; health; equality and justice; and the connections between social and economic policy in addressing poverty and inequality. Case studies from across the world are used to illustrate concepts and highlight the relevance of the approach in addressing contemporary development challenges. A set of questions accompanies each chapter for seminar discussion to help readers assimilate central points and apply the approach to diverse realities. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the human development and capability approach for students and practitioners world-wide.Trade Review'This book is essential reading for all those who wish to understand the Human Development and Capability approach to development. It both explains and advances thought on this important and increasingly influential perspective.' Frances Stewart, President, Human Development and Capability Association 'One of the most important influences of the human development approach has been through educational and teaching at all levels. In this tradition, it is great to see this new volume, which provides excellent academic foundations in ways that are accessible for a wide range of potential audiences.' Jeni Klugman, Director and Lead Author of the Human Development Report 'As poverty reduction has become the predominant objective of socio-economic development, the human development and capabilities approach provides the best methodological path to its achievement. The present volume is a major contribution towards operationalizing this approach.' Erik Thorbecke, H.E. Babcock Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Graduate School Professor and former Director of the Program on Comparative Economic Development, Cornell University 'A commendable pioneering effort, which... represents an invaluable guide for all those interested in learning about a new, if still controversial, perspective on development.' Gustav Ranis, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 'a success...represents an excellent introduction to a would-be new paradigm that is currently in the ascendancy..represents an invaluable guide for all those interested in learning about a new, if still controversial, perspective on development.' Gustav Ranis, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2010.Table of ContentsIntroductory Note Part I: Concepts 1. A Normative Framework for Development 2. The Human Development and Capability Approach 3. Ideas Related to Human Development Part II: Topics 4. Economic Growth 5. Equality and Justice 6. Measurement 7. Institutions, Markets and Economic Development 8. Democracy and Political Participation 9. Education 10. Health 11. Culture and Religion Part III: Policy 12. Public Policy Analysis 13. Policy Case Studies Appendix 1: A Human Development Pedagogy Appendix 2: Pictures

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Book SynopsisAlthough climate change affects everybody it is not gender neutral. It has significant social impacts and magnifies existing inequalities such as the disparity between women and men in their vulnerability and ability to cope with this global phenomenon. This new textbook, edited by one of the authors of the seminal Women and the Environment in the Third World: Alliance for the Future (1988) which first exposed the links between environmental degradation and unequal impacts on women, provides a comprehensive introduction to gender aspects of climate change. Over 35 authors have contributed to the book. It starts with a short history of the thinking and practice around gender and sustainable development over the past decades. Next it provides a theoretical framework for analyzing climate change manifestations and policies from the perspective of gender and human security. Drawing on new research, the actual and potential effects of climate change on gender equality and women's vulnerabilities are examined, both in rural and urban contexts. This is illustrated with a rich range of case studies from all over the world and valuable lessons are drawn from these real experiences. Too often women are primarily seen as victims of climate change, and their positive roles as agents of change and contributors to livelihood strategies are neglected. The book disputes this characterization and provides many examples of how women around the world organize and build resilience and adapt to climate change and the role they are playing in climate change mitigation. The final section looks at how far gender mainstreaming in climate mitigation and adaptation has advanced, the policy frameworks in place and how we can move from policy to effective action. Accompanied by a wide range of references and key resources, this book provides students and professionals with an essential, comprehensive introduction to the gender aspects of climate change.Trade Review'This book gives a profound and informative introduction and presents a wide range of case studies that will inform and inspire scholars, policymakers, advisors and students about the relevance of the interlinkages between gender and climate change. Moreover, it guides us towards appropriate policies and calls us to action.' Dr. Nafis Sadik, Former Head of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS Asia and Pacific 'The book Gender and Climate Change: An Introduction brings together a wide range of perspectives, insights and experiences from women and men from all around the world on the nexus between gender and climate change...IUCN's active involvement in gender mainstreaming and capacity building in environment and climate change will certainly benefit from this rich publication.' Julia Marton-Lef vre, Director-General , International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)Table of ContentsForeword Testimony 1. Introduction: Exploring Gender, Environment and Climate Change Part I THE ANALYSIS 2. Gender, Environment and Climate Change: understanding the linkages 3. Climate Change, Human Security and Gender Case 3.1 Climate Change and Women's Voices from India 4. Cities, Climate Change and Gender: A Brief Overview Case 4.1 Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases by Informal Waste Recyclers in Delhi, India Case 4.2 Gender Mainstreaming in the Climate Change Response of Sorsogon City, the Philippines Part II REALITIES ON THE GROUND 5.2 Gender Dimensions, Climate Change and Food Security of Farmers in Andhra Pradesh, India 5.3 The Gender Impact of Climate Change in Nigeria 5.4 Gendered Vulnerability to Climate Change in Limpopo Province, South Africa 5.5 Gender Perspectives in Adaptation Strategies: the Case of Pintadas Solar in the Semi-Arid Region of Brazil 5.6 Climate Change and Indigenous Women in Colombia 5.7 Gender Aspects of Climate Change in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region 5.8 Women at Work: Mitigation Opportunities at the Intersection of Reproductive Justice and Climate Justice Part III STRATEGIES AND ACTION 6. Establishing the Linkages between Gender and Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Lorena Aguilar, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Costa Rica 7. Climate Change and Gender: Policies in Place 8. Why More Attention to Gender and Class Can Help Combat Climate Change and Poverty 9. Women Organizing for a Healthy Climate 9.1 Climate Justice through Energy and Gender Justice: Strengthening Gender Equality in Accessing Sustainable Energy in the EECCA region 9.2 National Federation of Women's Institutes: Women Organizing for a Healthy Climate 9.3 Women and the Environmental justice Movement in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria 10. Epilogue: From Divergence towards Convergence 10.1 Gender-disaggregated Data for Assessing the Impact of Climate Change 10.2 Gender and Climate Information: A Case Study from Limpopo Province, South Africa Index

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Book SynopsisFrom international NGOs to UN agencies, from donors to observers of humanitarianism, opinion is unanimous: in a context of the alleged 'clash of civilizations', our 'humanitarian space' is shrinking. Put in another way, the freedom of action and of speech of humanitarians is being eroded due to the radicalization of conflicts and to the reaffirmation of state sovereignty over aid actors and policies. The purpose of this book is to challenge this assumption through the analysis of the events that have marked MSF's history since 2003 (when MSF published its first general work on humanitarian action and its relationships with governments). It addresses the evolution of humanitarian goals, the resistance to these goals and the political arrangements that overcame this resistance (or that failed to do so). The contributors seek to analyze the political transactions and balances of power and interests that allow aid activities to move forward, but that are usually masked by the lofty rhetoric of 'humanitarian principles'. They focus on one key question: what is an acceptable compromise for MSF. This book seeks to puncture a number of the myths that have grown up over the last forty years since MSF was founded and describes in detail how the ideals of humanitarian principles and 'humanitarian space' to operate in conflict zones are in reality illusory. How in fact it is the grubby negotiations with varying parties, each of whom have their own vested interests, that may allow organisations such as MSF to operate in a given crisis situation -- or notTrade ReviewThis book challenges the perception that humanitarian organisations cannot speak or act freely and that their influence is on the wane. * Law Society Journal *Thank goodness for MSF. Where else would we find such candour and self-criticism? Laid out here are unblinking accounts of the dilemmas facing the humanitarian agencies in a chaotic world, and clear-eyed appraisals of how MSF tries, and sometimes fails, to respond with its principles intact. Let's hope the other relief agencies are paying attention. -- Peter Gill, journalist and author of 'Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia since Live Aid'These stories and reflections illustrate the tragic humanitarian paradox: to act morally, one can't always be principled. Neutrality and impartiality disappear into the pantheon of defunct ideals, as MSF defends a robust opportunism in the best sense of the word: reality-based situational ethics. -- Dirk Salomons, director of the Program for Humanitarian Affairs at the School of International Public Affairs, Columbia UniversityThis is a book about realism: the art of doing what's possible in impossible situations, and preserving reputation and skills to provide relief in the next crisis, in the next country. Through seven case studies and an insightful history of modern humanitarian action, this collection of essays represents a maturing of MSF's view of the world. Gone is the fundamentalist rant of 'our principles at any price' and in its place is a more nuanced pragmatic approach which keeps its eye firmly on the goal of alleviating suffering but understands the need to compromise and invent, choosing the best possible path to reach the goal. -- Dr. Peter Walker, Director, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University'Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed' is a very good and extremely useful book. It brings important new information and candid discussions of ethical and operational decision-making to important parts of humanitarian studies and international relations. ... Clear, practical, and easy to read, this book is exceptional for its frank and public self-scrutiny. In this respect, it breaks new ground, demonstrating a truly reflective NGO that is not afraid to learn in public. A rare text in humanitarian and organizational studies. -- Hugo Slim, author of 'Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War'For many commentators, the 'golden age' of humanitarian intervention is over. The War on Terror and the rise of strong states in the global South has reduced the room for manoeuvre for humanitarian agencies. Western governments are once again constructing value-blind international alliances as a cornerstone of their own national security. Drawing on its own history and recent experiences, in this important and timely book MSF unflinchingly surveys this new operational terrain. The result is highly readable and challenging appraisal of what it means to be a humanitarian actor in today’s rebalancing world. With a refreshing honesty, it explores the thin line that humanitarian agencies tread between saving lives and supporting oppressors. This brave and informative book reconfirms MSF as an organisation that thinks as well as acts. -- Mark Duffield, Professor of Development Politics and Director, Global Insecurities Centre, University of BristolThe most detailed and self-critical inside account of the deals aid agencies are forced to negotiate, often with groups and regimes which abuse human rights, to continue their work. -- Peter Beaumont, GuardianWhilst MSF has acquired a reputation for 'speaking out' on behalf of the victims of conflicts and disasters, this fascinating and timely book shows that this tradition, always rather ambiguously adhered to, is today very much under threat. Longstanding concerns that public declarations will jeopardise MSF's aid operations have now been supplemented by concerns that these declarations will add weight to calls for military intervention and for prosecutions in international courts, thereby further jeopardising MSF operations on the ground. Meanwhile, a range of governments in conflict-affected countries are reining in free speech through formal contracts with NGOs. Using a series of illuminating case studies, the book highlights the shifting dilemmas faced by aid workers. It brings out the perennial dangers of silence and stresses the continuing need to highlight the hidden victims of 'just wars' (whether these are civil wars, Western wars, or both). The book also exemplifies MSF's traditions of self-criticism and internal disagreement, traditions that -- in an age of public relations and self-promotion -- are now more valuable than ever. -- David Keen, Professor of Conflict Studies, London School of Economics and Political ScienceA great fact-filled book that will broaden your horizons on the very admirable work of people involved in the Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) organization. * Bizindia *

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