Development studies Books
KIT Publishers Smart Hygiene Solutions: Examples of Hygiene
Book SynopsisThe provision of safe water and sanitation are key mechanisms for breaking the cycle of poverty. Access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation has therefore been included as one of the targets that constitute the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The risk of emphasising the number of people gaining access to water and sanitation, is that technical solutions are being pursued in isolation, while the importance of hygiene as a critical success factor of water and sanitation programs is overlooked. Promoting hygiene does not only contribute to improved health outcomes, but is a paramount factor in the sustainability of water and sanitation programs.
£14.44
KIT Publishers HIV & Culture Confluence: Cross-Cultural
Book SynopsisIn April 2010, Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) organised a forum to share experiences on implementing interventions to address HIV and AIDS, sexuality, gender and education. The conference sought to provide a platform for sharing good practices and examining the role of culture in HIV and AIDS prevention and mitigation among participants working in training, home-based care, education, advocacy, lobbying and information production and dissemination, among others. The book is one of the avenues through which key conference outcomes are being shared. It targets professionals involved in an array of projects or programmes in the areas of HIV and AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, gender and education mainly working with NGOs, faith-based organisations (FBOs) and community-based organisations (CBOs). It is also aimed at policy makers and programme managers in governmental institutions, international NGOs (INGOs), UN agencies, media personnel, researchers and teachers. The objective of the book is to empower these target readers with skills to improve the way they implement their programmes.
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KIT Publishers Facilitating Pro-Poor Business: Why Advice Goes
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KIT Publishers Learning & Earning: How a Value Chain Learning
Book SynopsisAs smallholder farmers switch to producing for the commercial market, they face a steep learning curve. To select a product and to market it effectively, they must understand both their immediate market situation and how the whole value chain works. Individual smallholders probably cannot grow enough on their own, so they have to get organised and sell their produce as a group. That takes leadership, organisation, mutual trust and a common vision. They need to access a range of business services: inputs, financial services, training, market information, transport, government support, and so on. And they need to plan their businesses: analyse their potential markets, identify customers, negotiate with buyers and suppliers, work out their costs and expected income, look at their longer term position in the value chain, develop a business plan, and put the plan into operation. How best to help groups of smallholders to gain these skills? This book describes a learning alliance approach that combines training, practical assignments to develop an enterprise, on-the-job coaching, and the sharing of experiences among several groups of farmers. The approach was piloted in Ethiopia from 2007 to 2010 with 18 groups of farmers in Amhara, Oromia, the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples (SNNPR) regional states. It covered a wide range of commodities, from staple grains to dairy, coffee, legumes, honey and incense. Where normal training courses impart skills that farmers find hard to apply to their own situation and soon forget, the learning alliance enables them to apply new skills to their own situations, reinforces their new knowledge, and gives them hands-on, guided experience with building their own businesses. That makes a learning alliance a highly effective way of enabling farmers to build their businesses in a sustainable way.
£20.99
KIT Publishers Women in Search of Citizenship: Experiences from
Book SynopsisThis book provides insights into what gender inclusive citizenship means as a practice, what can be achieved when it is promoted and what role participatory action research can play. It shares the experiences of women in local communities devising ways to exercise their citizenship. It is about women working on rights and thereby furthering their understanding of citizenship, beginning to speak for themselves and to make claims. It is about women developing their own agency and acting for themselves. And it is about women investigating and addressing institutional barriers in order to ensure their rights have concrete effects in their daily lives. These experiences arose out of an innovative regional programme that supported seven women''s rights and human rights organisations in Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. It was initiated because of the recognition by Oxfam Novib and KIT that despite many development efforts to mainstream gender, provide gender training and strengthen women''s leadership, women in many parts of the world are still not fully recognised as citizens with rights. These experiences demonstrate ways in which women can change that.
£20.99
KIT Publishers Innovation in Seed Potato Systems in Eastern
Book SynopsisThe potato (Solanum tuberosum L) has a high potential to raise smallholder income and improve food security in Eastern Africa. Improving the quality of seed potatoes can contribute to increasing its productivity. Few seed potatoes are currently sourced from specialised multipliers, as farmers largely rely on farm-saved seed potatoes. This often makes economic sense in the absence of affordable high quality seed potatoes and limited market security. Seed potato system interventions need to address the quality of specially multiplied and farm-saved seed potatoes simultaneously. Here it is shown that positive selection, the selection of healthy looking mother plants for the production of seed potatoes by ware potato farmers, can contribute to improving seed potato quality. When looking back an essential success factor of the research trajectory was the researchers'' room to manoeuvre and immerse in partnerships with practitioners, while innovation was made the central objective, rather than research results. The experience shows that it is worthwhile to search for opportunities for incremental innovation and that these can be of a surprising simple nature. For an effective contribution to innovation the mandate of research needs to allow for the active engagement in training, communication and scaling-up.
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Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Urban Africa - A Handbook For New Planned Cities
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Amsterdam University Press Banking for a Better World: Nanno Kleiterp in
Book SynopsisWhen we look at all the challenges facing the world, including inequality, population migration, and climate change, we can see a role for development banking in nearly all of them. But will that role be played for good or ill? This book brings together two people who collectively draw on their forty-five years of experience in that world to argue that development banking can-and must-play a constructive role. We only need to read the news to find public outrage at tales of short-sighted greed in the financial world. But what happens when banks invest in long-term sustainability? Readers will find a fascinating example in the journey of the Dutch development bank FMO. At times global in perspective, at other moments intimately personal, Banking for a Better World interweaves candid anecdotes with development history, as well as banking lessons with client interviews, to deliver a powerful argument for a business model that generates profit through impact, and impact through profit. This is an important and accessible must-read for anyone involved in banking, business, policy making, and civil society as a whole. Banking for a Better World challenges us to start finding overlaps between our own lives and global issues and to bridge the distance between our personal needs and those of our planet.
£23.95
Amsterdam University Press River Cities in Asia: Waterways in Urban
Book SynopsisRiver Cities in Asia uncovers the intimate relationship between rivers and cities in Asia from a multi-disciplinary perspective in the humanities and the social sciences. As rivers have shaped human settlement patterns, economies, culture and rituals, so too have humans impacted the flow and health of rivers. In Asia, the sheer scale of urbanization increases the urgency of addressing challenges facing urban rivers, leading to the importance of historically, socially, and culturally relevant solutions. However, cities are also uneven landscapes of power, affecting chances to achieve holistic ecological approaches. The central premise of River Cities in Asia is that a “river city” is one where proximity between a river and a city exists across time and space, natural and social dimensions. Recognition of these deep connections can help to better contextualize policy solutions aimed at rivers and their ecologies, including human life.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Captions Acknowledgments Chapter 1. River Cities in Asia: Waterways in Urban Development and History (Rita Padawangi, Paul Rabé, and Adrian Perkasa) Chapter 2. Water World to Inundation: River Cities in Southeast Asia, from Old to New Millenium (Howard Dick) Chapter 3. From the City to the Sea: Riverside Temple Networks in South India (Emma Natalya Stein) Chapter 4. The Political Economy of Banjarmasin’s River Landscape during the Sultanate Period (1526–1860) (Vera D. Damayanti) Chapter 5. Through the Passage and Across the Worlds: The Bridge-and-Temple Complex in the Popular Processions in a ‘Rurban’ Town in Jiangnan Region (Xiaomei Zhao) Chapter 6. Challenges to an Iconic River-City: Contesting Communities, Threatened Heritage and Endangered Ecology in Varanasi (Pralay Kanungo) Chapter 7. River-Edge Relationships: A Comparison of Riversides in Indonesian Cities (Michaela F. Prescott) Chapter 8. Recovering the Stream: River Access as a Catalyst for Political Mobilization in Suwon City, South Korea (Youngah Guahk) Chapter 9. Water’s Edge Urbanisms along the Buckingham Canal in Chennai (Karen Coelho) Chapter 10. The Social Downside of Flood Control: The Case of a Marginalized Community in Taipei (Kuei-Hsien Liao) Chapter 11. Hybrid Riverscapes: Governing River Cities beyond Land and Water Dichotomies—the Yamuna in Delhi, India (Alexander Follmann) Index
£116.85
Amsterdam University Press Highways and Hierarchies: Ethnographies of
Book SynopsisHighways and Hierarchies: Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean explores the contemporary proliferation of roads in South Asia and the Tibet-Himalaya region, showing how new infrastructures simultaneously create fresh connections and reinforce existing inequalities. Bringing together ethnographic studies on the social politics of road development and new mobilities in twenty-first-century Asia, this edited collection demonstrates that while new roads generate new forms of hierarchy, older forms of hierarchy are remade and re-established in creative and surprising new ways. Focused on South Asia but speaking to more global phenomena, the chapters collectively reveal how road planning, construction and usage routinely yield a simultaneous reinforcement and disruption of social, political and economic relations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface: Thinking with roads (Penny Harvey) 1 Why highways remake hierarchies (Luke Heslop and Galen Murton) 2 Stuck on the side of the road: Mobility, marginality, and neoliberal governmentality in Nepal (Galen Murton and Tulasi Sharan Sigdel) 3 A road to the 'hidden place': Road building and state formation in Medog, Tibet (Yi Huang) 4 Dhabas, highways, and exclusion (Swargajyoti Gohain) 5 The edge of Kaladan: A 'spectacular' road through 'nowhere' on the India-Myanmar Borderlands (Jasnea Sarma) 6 The making of a 'new Dubai': Infrastructural rhetoric and development in Pakistan (Mustafa A. Khan) 7 Encountering Chinese development in the Maldives: Gifts, hospitality, and rumours (Luke Heslop and Laura Jeffery) 8 Roads and the politics of thought: Climate in India, democracy in Nepal (Katharine Rankin and Edward Simpson) List of figures Photos by author Authors notes Index
£101.65
Amsterdam University Press Civil Society and the State in Democratic East
Book SynopsisCivil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth focuses on the new and diversifying interactions between civil society and the state in contemporary East Asia by including cases of entanglement and contention in the three fully consolidated democracies in the area: Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. The contributions to this book argue that all three countries have reached a new era of post high growth and mature democracy, leading to new social anxieties and increasing normative diversity, which have direct repercussions on the relationship between the state and civil society. It introduces a comparative perspective in identifying and discussing similarities and differences in East Asia based on in-depth case studies in the fields of environmental issues, national identities as well as neoliberalism and social inclusion that go beyond the classic dichotomy of state vs ‘liberal’ civil society.Trade Review"The book is a collection of chapters prepared by social scientists with expertise in the Eastern Asian matters, specializing mainly in sociology, comparative politics and civil society studies. The background of the authors enables to apply interdisciplinary lenses to analyze the civil society phenomenon in Eastern Asia. What is especially important and interesting, the book is written both by experts from outside the countries of interest and by specialists originating from these countries. The cultural knowledge from the inside of the states is of great value to the presented texts and the book as a whole."- Iwona Nowakowska, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations (2021)Table of Contents1. A New Era of Civil Society and State in East Asian Democracies - David Chiavacci & Simona A. Grano I Environmental Issues 2. Interactions between Environmental Civil Society and the State during the Ma Ying-jeou and Tsai Ing-wen Administrations in Taiwan - Simona A. Grano 3. Working with and around Strong States: Environmental Networks in East Asia - Mary Alice Haddad 4. The Campaign for Nuclear Power in Japan before and after 2011: Between State, Market, and Civil Society - Tobias Weiss II Identity Politics 5. The 'Pro-Establishment' Radical Right: Japan's Nativist Movement Reconsidered - Naoto Higuchi 6. The Religion-based Conservative Countermovement in Taiwan: The Origin, Tactics and Impacts - Ming-sho Ho 7. The Relationship between Mainstream and Movement Parties in Taiwan: The Case Studies of the New Power Party (NPP) and Green Party Taiwan-Social Democratic Party Alliance (GPT/SDP) - Tommy Kwan and Dafydd Fell 8. New Immigration, Civic Activism and Identity in Japan: Influencing the 'Strong' State - David Chiavacci III Neoliberalism and Social Inclusion 9. Japanese NPOs and the State Re-examined: Reflections 18 Years On - Akihiro Ogawa 10. Changing Patterns of South Korean Social Movements, 1960s-2010s: Testimony, Fire-bombs, Lawsuit, and Candlelight - Jin-Wook Shin 11. Opening Up the Welfare State to 'Outsiders': Pro-Homeless Activism and Neoliberal Backlashes in Japan - Mahito Hayashi 12. Legal Mobilization and the Transformation of State-Society Relations in the Realm of Disability Policy - Celeste L. Arrington Index
£111.15
Amsterdam University Press Development Zones in Asian Borderlands
Book SynopsisDevelopment Zones in Asian Borderlands maps the nexus between global capital flows, national economic policies, infrastructural connectivity, migration, and aspirations for modernity in the borderlands of South and South-East Asia. In doing so, it demonstrates how these are transforming borderlands from remote, peripheral backyards to front-yards of economic development and state-building. Development zones encapsulate the networks, institutions, politics and processes specific to enclave development, and offer a new analytical framework for thinking about borderlands; namely, as sites of capital accumulation, territorialisation and socio-spatial changes.Trade Review"Simultaneously wide-ranging and focused, Development Zones in Asian Borderlands traces the transformation of borderlands in South and Southeast Asia into a diverse array of official, de facto, and informal development zones. The empirically rich and absorbing collection provides a compelling conceptual framework for such zones, and is particularly strong in its focus on their temporalities and affective qualities. It will be of great value for borderland and infrastructural studies, as well as for scholars of contemporary Asia."- Emily T. Yeh, Professor of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder "Theoretically ambitious and empirically rich, this volume shows how development zones are much more than sites of capital accumulation. As places of economic, spatial and military experimentation, of imagination and desire, they are also critical sites for interrogating how life itself is 'zoned' in contexts of shifting geopolitical fortunes. An original and important contribution to our understanding of borderland lives in South and Southeast Asia."- Madeleine Reeves, author of Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central AsiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: "Enclave Development and Socio-spatial Transformations in Asian Borderlands" (Mona Chettri and Michael Eilenberg) Chapter 1. "Post-disaster Development Zones and Dry Ports as Geopolitical Infrastructures in Nepal" (Galen Murton) Chapter 2. "Onwards and Upwards: Aerial Development Zones in Nepal" (Tina Harris) Chapter 3. "Casinos as Special Zones: Speculative Development on Nation's Edge" (Juan Zhang) Chapter 4. "Thinking the Zone: Development, Climate, and Heterodystopia" (Jason Cons) Chapter 5. "From Shangri-La to De-facto SEZ: Land Grabs from 'Below' in Sikkim, India" (Mona Chettri) Chapter 6. "Development Zones in Conflict-affected Borderlands: The case of Muse, Northern Shan State, Myanmar" (Patrick Meehan, Sai Aung Hla and Sai Kham Phu) Chapter 7. "Smart Enclaves in the Borderland: Digital Obligations in Northeast India" (Duncan McDuie-Ra) Chapter 8. "Post-Disaster Economies at the Margins: Development, Profit, and Insecurities Across Nepal's Northern Borderlands" (Nadine Plachta) Chapter 9. "Development from the Margins: Failing Zones and Suspended Development in an Indonesian Border Village" (Sindhunata Hargyono) Chapter 10. "From Boom to Bust - to Boom Again? Infrastructural Suspension and the Making of a Development Zone at the China-Laos Borderlands" (Alessandro Rippa) Chapter 11. "Genealogies of Extraction: De Facto Development Zones in the Indonesian Borderlands" (Thomas Mikkelsen and Michael Eilenberg) Index
£101.65
Amsterdam University Press Borderland Anxieties: Shifting Understandings of
Book SynopsisBorderland Anxieties explores the complex relationships between liberalization, gender and migration in Nagaland, a state in Northeast India that is emerging from decades of armed conflict. In the wake of Nagaland’s conflict, liberalization and an ‘opening up’ of the state to new connections and flows take place alongside ongoing militarization, nationalist insurgency, and political unrest. Nagaland’s complex peace-conflict continuum has encouraged a reordering of possibilities for men and for women in the state, but also, attempts to maintain fundamental social roles that are seen as defining an ethnic group, as foundations of identity, and for many as uncompromisable. In exploring the complex dynamics of peace, conflict, and tension in Nagaland, Borderland Anxieties offers a window to understanding how gender, politics and anxiety intersect in a borderland state experiencing rapid social, political, and economic changes.Table of ContentsPart 1: Periphery 1. ‘The Nagaland State Co-operative Bank Ltd. Welcome You to Nagaland’ 2. Becoming a Borderland 3. Legacies of Conflict Part 2: Proximity 4. Nagaland Opening Up 5. ‘Spinsters and Divorced Women’ 6. New Politics of Gender at the Border Conclusion References Closing
£91.20
Siglo XXI Ediciones Las venas abiertas de America Latina
£20.80
University of the West Indies Press Education for Sustainable Development in the
Book SynopsisEducation for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean: Pedagogy, Processes and Practices offers a unique perspective on educational approaches to creating a sustainable world. Lorna Down and Therese Ferguson complement their theoretical discussions with practical, “real world” engagements. Case studies and current research ground teaching and learning for sustainability and enable diverse communities of learners, inside and outside of classrooms, to transform their societies.With its emphasis on the crucial role of education for the transformation to a peaceful, just, inclusive and environmentally sustainable world, this book is a valuable resource for students, lecturers and researchers working in education for sustainable development across disciplines. It also is a significant text for those working in community-based, non-governmental and intergovernmental fields.Education for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean: Pedagogy, Processes and Practices effectively addresses global sustainable development goals, the challenges of the climate crisis, environmental degradation, and social and economic injustices. In exploring and critically examining educational approaches to revisioning and transforming humanity’s relationships with self, others and the environment, Down and Ferguson distil what it means to educate for sustainability and to educate for the care and respect for all of life.
£21.56
The American University in Cairo Press Arab Human Development in the Twenty-first
Book SynopsisWith its emphasis on the primacy of change, this study arrives at a particularly auspicious moment, as the Middle East continues to be convulsed by the greatest upheavals in generations, which have come to be known as the Arab Spring. Originally prepared as the tenth-anniversary volume of the UNDP's Arab Human Development Report, Arab Human Development in the Twenty-first Century places empowerment at the center of human development in the Arab world, viewing it not only from the vantage point of a more equitable distribution of economic resources but also of fundamental legal, educational, and political reform. The ten chapters in this book follow closely this political economy framework. They look back at what Arab countries have achieved since the early 2000s and forward to what remains to be done to reach full development. Supported by a wealth of statistical material, they cover the rule of law, the evolution of media, the persistence of corruption, the draining of resources through armed conflict, the dominance and increase of poverty, the environment, and religious education. The concluding chapter attempts an inventory of the world literature and different experiences on democratic transition to explore where the region could be heading. This critical and timely study is indispensable reading to development specialists and to Middle East scholars and students alike, as well as to anyone with an interest in the future trajectory of the region.
£44.99
Malthouse Press Governance and Border Security in Africa
£64.79
Springer Verlag, Singapore The Cost of Development in China
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the future of China and its sustainable development, and summarizes the implications, forms, causes, countermeasures and related rules of the main costs generated during a country’s period of development, so as to provide a theoretical reference and decision-making consulting tools for institutions and scientific governance and management professionals. Combining China’s national situation and development characteristics with the country as a unit, it uses case studies to propose the concept of cost theory and the theoretical system of national development cost. Focusing on the goals of innovation in nation building, common development and prosperity, as well as enhancement of people’s net welfare, the book summarizes and draws conclusions about various aspects of national development, including economic development cost; political, social and cultural development cost; foreign opening-up development cost and nature development cost. It primarily establishes an indicator system of national development cost for promoting full-factor productivity and reducing development cost, and provides a theoretical basis for implementing the scientific political-achievement view.Table of ContentsPart I Proposition of Development Cost in China.- Chapter I Learning and Practice of Scientific Outlook on Development: Considering Maximization of Net Welfare as the Scientific Political Achievement View.- Chapter II Scientific Development of China in the Future: Inspiration of Chinese Dream to Development Cost.- Chapter III Innovation Powerhouse: Build a Society of Joint Development and Common Prosperity.- Chapter IV Economic Growth Cost in China.- Chapter V Cost of Economic Transformation in China.- Chapter VI Cost of Economic Disturbance in China.- Chapter VII Cost of Economic Regulation and Control in China.- Summary of Economic Development Cost in China.- Chapter VIII Political Reform Cost in China.- Chapter IX Chinese Political System Construction Cost.- Chapter X Cost of Chinese Political Decision-making System.- Chapter XI Cost of Chinese Ruling Party Construction.- Chapter XII Cost of Chinese Political consultation and Crossing of Information Gap.- Chapter XIII Cost of Chinese Democracy Construction.- Summary of Chinese Political Development Cost.- Part IV Cost of Chinese Social Development.- Chapter XIV Chinese Social Livelihood Issues and Their Cost.- Chapter XV Cost of Population Change in Chinese Society.- Chapter XVI Chinese Social Management Cost.- Chapter XVII Chinese Social Stability Cost.- Chapter XVIII Chinese Social Advancement Cost.- Summarization of Chinese Social Development Cost.- Chapter XIX China’s Cost of Civilization Inheriting and National Customs Protection.- Chapter XX Cost of Chinese Ideological Evolution and Modern Media System Construction.- Chapter XXI Cost of Chinese Soft Power Construction and Response to International Cultural Invasion.- Summary of the Cost of Chinese Cultural Development.- Chapter XXII China’s Opening Development Thoughts and Their Cost.- Chapter XXIII China’s Cost of International Exchange and Consensus.- Chapter XXIV China’s Cost of Investment and Construction of Investment Environment.- Chapter XXV Cost of International Trade Development.- Chapter XXVI Construction Cost of China’s Three-dimensional Transportation.- Chapter XXVII The Cost of China’s Creditability Construction and Handling of Threats.- Summary of the Cost of Foreign Opening-up Development.- Chapter XXVIII Cost of China’s Resource and Energy.- Chapter XXIX Cost of China’s Ecological Environment.- Chapter XXX Cost of Disasters in.- Chapter XXXI China’s Cost of Handling Climate Change.- Chapter XXXII Cost of Harmony between Human and NatureSummary of China’s Cost of Nature Development.- Part VIII Inspiration of China’s Development Cost Theory for China’s Development.- Chapter XXXIII Indicator System Foundation of Development Cost Chapter XXXIV Promote the Enhancement of Total Factor Productivity and Reduce Development Cost.- Chapter XXXV Benchmarking of Scientific Achievement View.- References.
£104.99
Springer Verlag, Singapore Xi Jinping's New Development Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis book is devoted to the analysis of the Six Development Concepts of China titled “Xi Jinping's New Development Philosophy”, namely Innovative Development, Coordinated Development, Green Development, Open Development, Sharing Development, and Security Development. The book pursues three major objectives: firstly, to accurately portray the theoretical sources, practical innovation and major contents of these development ideas; secondly, to analyze what are the major relationships among these development ideas and their main common point is “people centered”, which is the largest theoretical innovation of this book. Thirdly, through analyzing China’s development idea, this book provides development paths, strategy, theories, and practical experiences for other developing countries.Trade Review“This informative book underscores the existing intricacies in China’s development stages throughout the history, and would be helpful for scholars and researchers who want to better understand Chinese development.” (Behzad Abdollahpour, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Vol. 25, 2020)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Innovative Development.- Chapter 2: Coordinated Development.- Chapter 3: Green Development.- Chapter 4: Open Development.- Chapter 5: Shared Development.- Chapter 6: Security Development.- Chapter 7: China’s Unique Development Road.
£52.88
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Collected Readings On Community Development In
Book SynopsisThe book carries a collection of articles written by Professor S Vasoo over the past three decades or so on community development work and its issues in the Singapore context. Organised around seven themes that can be or are being addressed by community development, the articles illustrate how community development intervention has been applied on social issues like juvenile deliquency, ageing population, family values, and urban dwelling. Topics on volunteer management and grassroots participation are also discussed. This volume concludes by sketching the future of community development in Singapore.Community and social workers can find some resonance to the work and challenges they are facing in community problem-solving and meeting the needs of people in various neighbourhoods. The readings will give them a framework to find innovative ways for encouraging community problem-solving.
£202.50
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Climate And Development
Book SynopsisThe 2015 Paris Accord stated the aim to limit the increase in global mean temperatures to 2ºC compared to pre-industrial levels and if possible, keep it down to 1.5ºC. Achieving this is possible, but the costs incurred are uncertain and the distribution of costs among nations is indistinct. Furthermore, even if the goal is realised, significant impacts from climate change can be expected. Evidence indicates that these will be felt most severely in countries that are relatively poor. These effects of climate change will be added to by the measures taken to reduce GHGs. Together, they will determine how climate change affects the prospects for development across the globe. The analysis of the interplay between climate change and policies to combat it on the one hand and development on the other are the focus of this book.
£130.50
Springer Verlag, Singapore The Limits of Authoritarian Governance in
Book SynopsisThis book delves into the limitations of Singapore’s authoritarian governance model. In doing so, the relevance of the Singapore governance model for other industrialising economies is systematically examined. Research in this book examines the challenges for an integrated governance model that has proven durable over four to five decades. The editors argue that established socio-political and economic formulae are now facing unprecedented challenges. Structural pressures associated with Singapore’s particular locus within globalised capitalism have fostered heightened social and material inequalities, compounded by the ruling party’s ideological resistance to substantive redistribution. As ‘growth with equity’ becomes more elusive, the rationale for power by a ruling party dominated by technocratic elite and state institutions crafted and controlled by the ruling party and its bureaucratic allies is open to more critical scrutiny.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Authoritarian Governance in Singapore’s Developmental State.- 2. Singapore and the Lineages of Authoritarian Modernity in East Asia.- 3. Independence: The Further Stage of Colonialism in Singapore.- 4. Albert Winsemius and the Transnational Origins of High Modernist Governance in Singapore.- 5. Social Policy Reform and Rigidity in Singapore’s Authoritarian Developmental State.- 6. New Politics and Old Managerialism: Welcome to the New Normal.- 7. Intra-Party Dynamics in the People’s Action Party: Party Structure, Continuity and Hegemony.- 8. The Growing Challenge of Pluralism and Political Activism: Shifts in the Hegemonic Discourse in Singapore.- 9. PAP Vulnerability and the Singapore Governance Model: Findings from the Asian Barometer Survey.- 10. Aligning Media Policy with Executive Dominance.- 11. Pragmatic Competence and Communication Governance in Singapore.- 12. Legislating Dominance: Parliament and the Making of Singapore’s Governance Model.- 13. Governing Authoritarian Law: Law as Security.- 14. Conclusion: Democratising Singapore’s Developmental State.
£98.99
Springer Verlag, Singapore Factors Influencing Child Survival in Tanzania:
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the essential topic of child survival in Tanzania, especially focusing on the role of mutual assistance, which has received little attention to date. Further, it identifies a range of key factors for child survival by combining a literature review, regional data analysis, and case studies. These studies center on rural villages in high Under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) regions and assess their strengths and weaknesses regarding child survival. By focusing on deprived rural areas as of 2002 and evaluating the improvements in the 2012 census data, the book also highlights the potential held by rural semi -subsistence economies. An analysis of the focus villages indicates that children in food-sharing circles had better chances of survival. However, food sharing is not necessarily inclusive; a significant number of children have fallen out of such circles, especially in mainland villages. Furthermore, monetary support for children’s medicine has often failed to arrive in time. Lastly, the book argues that, in addition to direct factors such as access to health services, water and sanitation, food intake, and education, it is essential that children receive inclusive support at various levels: family, community, village, national, and international.Table of Contents
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Competition and Compromise among Chinese Actors
Book SynopsisThis book explains why conflict exists among Chinese foreign-policy actors in Africa and argues against the concept that China has a grand strategy in relation to Africa. It does so by examining Sino-African relations by focusing on how China’s Africa policy is constructed and implemented concluding that a large number of actors are active in its formulation and implementation. The book argues that China’s Hegemonic Political Discourse (HPD), the goal of achieving a Harmonious Society and later the Chinese Dream through the Scientific Concept of Development, has dominated Chinese political discourse. It is this HPD that acts as the structural imperative that allows for collective action in the Chinese foreign-policy process in Africa rather than a Chinese grand strategy since the actors are unwilling to break the social norms of the collective process for fear of exclusion. This book will be of great interest to China watchers and those eager to understand how China's rise will impact the developing world. Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Sino-African Relations Research.- 3. Research Structure.- 4. Path Towards Chinese Foreign Policy.- 5. Chinese Foreign Policy: Formation and Implementation.- 6. Chinese Foreign-Policy Actors in Africa.- 7. Hegemonic Political Discourse in China’s Foreign-Policy Making Process.- 8. Hegemonic Political Discourse: China’s African Policy 2006 and China’s African Policy 2015.- 9. Conclusion.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy among
Book SynopsisThe book documents the history of the prevention-of-mother-to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) program in Guyana, as well as the impact of HIV on pregnant and postpartum women’s adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART). The book shows research work by reviewing the literature to investigate relevant adherence studies, presenting in-depth interviews on adherence perspectives of clinic patients and healthcare providers, and a cross-sectional descriptive study of pregnant women that investigated general adherence to pregnancy-related behaviours and ART, and the efficacy of a theoretical model (Health Belief Model) to understand and predict ART adherence within this group. Author discusses the factors affecting ART adherence among pregnant and postpartum women, since existing studies may not account for cultural and other local variations. The findings provide insight into the local situation, and will also inform policy and practice in Guyana, and the wider Caribbean Community (CARICOM).Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: HIV and AIDS in Guyana.- Chapter 3: Factors affecting antiretroviral therapy adherence among HIV-positive pregnant and postpartum women: an adapted systematic review.- Chapter 4: Characteristics of pregnant women in Guyana with and without HIV.- Chapter 5: Antiretroviral perspectives of pregnant and postpartum women in Guyana: barriers and facilitators.- Chapter 6: Adherence patterns to prenatal vitamins and pregnancy health behaviors.- Chapter 7: Predictors of ART adherence.- Chapter 8: Predicting adherence to antiretroviral therapy among pregnant women in Guyana: utility of the health belief model.- Chapter 9: Discussion and Key Implications.
£113.99
Springer Verlag, Singapore China's Grand Strategy: A Framework Analysis
Book SynopsisThis book aims to build the ideal model of China's grand strategy framework, which is based on three key variables: national power, strategic concept and international institution. Taking the rise of China as an opportunity, this book adopts the assessment of national strategic resources as the beginning, focuses on the evaluation of strategic capability, the choice of strategic orientation, the establishment of strategic objectives, the planning of strategic content and the implementation of strategic means. Further, following this main line, this book establishes a China's grand strategy framework based on active participation and integration-transformation-shaping process. This book emphasizes that to achieve the goals of China's grand strategy; China should uphold this strategic attitude: It should not be seduced by praise and should not be made aggressive by criticism. It should learn to be glorious but remain humble, maintain a wealthy, influential but modest position by restraint. This book can be regarded as the essence of the author's 20 years long-term focus and research on the China's grand strategy. The author's postdoctoral tutor Professor Hu Angang’s comment of this book can hit the nail on the head: "This book is a pioneering theoretical study of China's great strategic research and makes a significant contribution to this research field. The basic arguments of this book have been submitted through various approaches to decision-making references or published in academic papers, and have received numerous positive responses and resonance. In my opinion, the basic ideas and important findings of this book will provide imperative reference to long-term strategy decision-making process. In addition, the fundamental theory and analysis method of the book will have an important influence in both domestic and international academic field."Trade Review“There is much to commend about this fine work. Honghua Men offers a richly detailed and nuanced understanding of China’s rise and its grand strategy. … China’s Grand Strategy: A Framework Analysis is an important work that provides an intriguing view of China’s grand strategy. I would recommend the book to a broad readership interested in China studies and strategic studies.” (Behzad Abdollahpour, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Vol. 26, 2021)“This book would be useful for scholars who study about Chinese foreign policies, especially on comprehending the discrepancy of strategic mindset between China and the western world.” (Edward Sing Yue Chan, Global Change, Peace & Security, August 2, 2020)Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foundation for Chinese Research on Grand Strategy.- Chapter 2 Evaluation of China’s National Power.- Chapter 3 Optimization of China’s Strategic Ideas.- Chapter 4 China’s Participation in International Institutions.- Chapter 5 China's Grand Strategy: A Framework.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Ends of Empire: The Last Colonies Revisited
Book SynopsisThis book offers a fresh analysis of constitutional, economic, demographic and cultural developments in the overseas territories of Britain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Ranging from Greenland to Gibraltar, the Falklands to the Faroes, and encompassing islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and the Caribbean, these territories command attention because of their unique status, and for the ways that they occasionally become flashpoints for rival international claims, dubious financial activities, illegal migration and clashes between metropolitan and local mores. Connell and Aldrich argue that a negotiated dependency brings greater benefits to these territories than might independence.Table of ContentsChapter 1 A Decolonised World?.Chapter 2 Constitutions: The Constancy of Change.Chapter 3 Identity, Culture and Politics.Chapter 4 New Caledonia: The Infinite Pause?.Chapter 5 Economics: Niche Markets and Global Contexts.Chapter 6 Migration: Holding on to Home?.Chapter 7 Geopolitics: The Local and the Global.Chapter 8 Anomalies on the Map.Chapter 9 Plus ça change? From Last Colonies to Overseas Territories.
£58.49
Springer Verlag, Singapore State on Board!: Navigating Corporate Governance
Book SynopsisResearch in this book focuses on the strategic behaviour of the State as a shareholder in businesses, and the implications it has for the other shareholder(s) and business performance. It investigates the institutional characteristics of State-linked and State-owned firms (SIEs & SOEs), in emerging markets using Vietnam as a case study with comparative analysis on China and selected ASEAN countries.In doing so, the book adopts an evidence-based approach to explain the State’s role as a shareholder in the different aspects of corporate governance, including CEO appointment, board structure and impact of State ownership on business strategy and performance. It highlights the influence of the State as a shareholder by investigating institutional factors consistent with “path dependence” theory, which postulates that the initial and underlying structure of an economy influences its performance. In addition, the book presents empirical evidence of the dynamics of corporate governance arising from interactions between the State and other shareholders, which has not yet been addressed in the literature, and is distinctive in providing new insights from both qualitative and empirical research on how to successfully navigate the emerging market business environments from the perspective of the State as an “owner-participant”. Explaining the theoretical constructs in corporate governance in State-invested firms, empirical research methodologies, and results to draw and validate inferences, the book is comprehensive and provides a practical guide for practitioners as well as a reference for academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students. The new theoretical models proposed integrate traditional political-economic and agency theories, which also underpin tertiary business courses and academic research. Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Changing Role of State-Invested Enterprises in Emerging Markets 3 Beyond the Local Economy 4 Corporate Governance of State-Invested Enterprises 5 The Empirical Research: Design and Methods 6 Qualitative Findings: M&A Motivations and Performance Drivers 7 Quantitative Findings on the Impacts of State Ownership on M&A Performance 8 State Control, Corporate Governance and M&A Performance 9 Model Building and Concluding Thoughts
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Rebalancing Asia: The Belt and Road Initiative
Book SynopsisThis book explores the struggle between China and the United States to expand their influence in Asia through economic assistance and defensive alliances. It brings together the diverse viewpoints of scholars from various countries on how Asian countries will exploit this geo-strategic competition to pursue their national interests, while also balancing their relations with the two great powers. The book offers a valuable asset for all those who have an interest in great power politics and international relations, especially academics, policymakers and security experts.Table of Contents1. Rebalancing Asia: Belt and Road Initiative and Indo-Pacific Strategy 2. Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision– In Pursuing a Valid and Substantive Initiative 3. Spatial Conquest by Other Means: Assessing the Geopolitical Impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative4. CPEC: The Buckle in China’s BRI5. China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its Concerns for India6. Connectivity, Cooperation, and Collaboration: China-South Asia Partnerships under the Scientific Belt &Road Initiative7. Opportunities for new trend of labour mobility from Vietnam as a result of Doi Moi, ASEAN Connectivity and One Belt, One Road Initiative8. China’s Geopolitical, Geo-economic and Geostrategic gameplay in the Indian Ocean Region9. China and the BRI: Challenges and Opportunities for Southeast Asia10. Sitting on the Fence? Australia’s Balancing of the Belt and Road Initiative and Indo-Pacific Strategy in the new Multipolar World System11. Belt and Road Initiative Vs. Indo-Pacific Strategy: Increasing US-China Strategic Distrust12. China’s Maritime Ambition in South Asia vis-à-vis Bangladesh: A Concern for India?13. India’s China Policy in the ‘Indo-Pacific’: A Balancing Act14. Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS): Challenges and Opportunities for Sri Lanka15. China's Belt and Road: Is it a Game Changer?16. The US and the Indo-Pacific: Trump’s Policy Towards the Region17. A Real Conundrum for ASEAN: How to Cope with America and China?
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia Pacific:
Book SynopsisThis book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from across the Asia Pacific region, covering four main sections: 1) Governance, 2) Education and Capacity, 3) Science, Technology, Risk Assessment and Communities, and 4) Recovery. The chapters address different dimensions of Sendai Framework of Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR), which are linked to Sustainable Development Goals, as well as Paris Agreement on Climate Change.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Disaster risk reduction and resilience: Practices and challenges in Asia Pacific (by Rajib Shaw, Helen James, Vinod Sharma and Anna Lukasiewicz).- Part 1. Governance.- Chapter 2. Policy learning for disaster risk reduction (by Stephen Dovers) .- Chapter 3. Na ara ahurea: Envisioning collaborative governance in disaster risk reduction in Aotearoa (by Christine M Kenney) .- Chapter 4. Improving multi-agency governance arrangements for preparedness, planning and response: implementing the integrated approach in Australia (by Alan Ryan) .- Chapter 5. Blackfella way, our way of managing fires and disasters bin ignored but ‘Im still here’: Australian Aboriginal governance structures for emergency management (by Bev Sithole, Dave Campbell, Steve Sutton, with contributions from Campion O., Brown C., Daniels G., Daniels A., Brian C, Campion J., Yibarbuk, D, Phillips E., Daniels G., Daniels K., Hedley B., Radford M., Campion A., Hunter-Xenie H; Sutton I., and Pickering S) .- Part 2. Education and Capacity.- Chapter 6. Facilitating effective disaster risk reduction education and human survival: intentionally engaging the transformative education – paradigm shift spiral (by Petra Buergelt and Douglas Paton) .- Chapter 7. All singing from the same song sheet: DRR and the visual and performing Arts (by Douglas Paton, Petra Buergelt, Etan Pavavalung, Kirby Clark, Li-Ju Jang and Grace Kuo).- Chapter 8. High expectations, low recognition: the role of principals and teachers in disaster response and recovery in the Asia-Pacific (by Carol Mutch) .- Chapter 9. Planning and capability requirements for catastrophic and cascading events (Andrew Gissing, Michael Eburn and John McAneney) .- Chapter 10. Development and Implementation of Disaster Risk Management Specialization Program: Philippine School of Business Administration-Manila and Quezon City Government Collaboration towards Sustainable Development Solutions (by Tabassam Raza, Jose F. Peralta, Thess Khaz S. Raza and Carmelita R.E.U. Liwag).- Part 3. Science Technology, Risk Assessment, Communities.- Chapter 11. Vulnerability and Resilience Science: Concepts, Tools, and Practice (by Susan L. Cutter) .- Chapter 12. Flood hazards and disciplinary silos (by Robert J. Wasson and Daryl Lam) .- Chapter 13. Theorizing Disaster Communitas (by Steve Matthewman and Shinya Uekusa) .- Chapter 14. Use of Scientific Knowledge and Public Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction and Response in the State of Sikkim, India (by Vinod K. Sharma). - Part 4: Recovery.- Chapter 15. Post-disaster Recoveries in Indonesia and Japan: Building Back Better ( by Minako Sakai) .- Chapter 16. Housing continuum: Key determinants linking post-disaster reconstruction to resilience in the long term (by Mittul Vahanvati) .- Chapter 17. Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery in Samoa (by Tautala Mauala) .- Chapter 18. Towards a resilient Asia Pacific region ( Vinod Sharma, Helen James, Rajib Shaw and Anna Lukasiewicz).
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Post-Capitalist Futures: Paradigms, Politics, and
Book SynopsisAs the crises of capitalism continue to intensify, radical thinkers must conjure realistic and inspirational alternative futures beyond this failing social order. This book presents a stimulating array of essays exploring such post-capitalist futures. With contributions and perspectives from the Global North and Global South, central topics include ecosocialism, ecofeminism, degrowth, community economies, and the Green New Deal. There are also chapters offering analyses of land, energy, technology, universal basic services, and (re)localisation of economies. The book is in three parts. The first presents various alternative paradigms for thinking about – and working toward – post-capitalist futures. The second section offers perspectives on alternative governance strategies and approaches for post-capitalist futures. The closing section gathers various analyses of post-capitalist geographies and resistance. Going beyond critique and instead envisioning alternative imaginaries, this collection should challenge and inspire readers to think and act upon the range of possibilities immanent in our crisis-ridden present.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part I: Alternative Paradigms for Post-Capitalist Futures.- The Race to Replace a Dying Neoliberalism.- Ecosocialism from a Post-development Perspective.- Post-Capitalism Now: A Community Economies Approach.- Collective Sufficiency: Degrowth as a Political Project.- China: Capitalism and Change?.- Part II: Governing for Post-Capitalist Futures.- From Technological Utopianism to Universal Basic Services.- Ecofeminist Political Economy: Critical Reflections on the Green New Deal.- The Macroeconomics of Degrowth: Can Planned Economic Contraction be Stable?.- Post-capitalist Techno-futures – Beyond Instrumental Utopianism.- Crises, COVID, and the Climate State.- Part III: Post-Capitalist Geographies and Resistance.- Localisation – the World Beyond Capitalism.- Indigenous Australians and their Lands: Post-capitalist Development Alternatives.- Environmental Justice Movements as Mediums of Post-capitalist Futures: Perspectives from India.- Careful Thinking –Pensar Cuidando –Henvupen Yaconso.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Periphery and Small Ones Matter: Interplay of
Book SynopsisThis open access book analyzes the dualism and inequality in Indonesia insofar as how it affects micro, Small & Medium enterprises. The author considers how the general direction of policy should be to mitigate the effects of agglomeration forces leading towards concentration of activities in developed areas, and exploit the same forces by encouraging small businesses to operate in a close proximity and enable them to enjoy the external economies. If serious efforts to foster inclusive growth are to be made, conducting these two tasks should be the focus of social planners. The question is, how? The book addresses this question by focusing on the role of interactions between policies and institutions, of which social capital is an important part. Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Development and Dualism.- 3. Agglomeration, Institutions, and Social Capital: Main Concepts & Methodologies.- 4. Mitigating Dualism and Exploiting the Interplay of Policy-Social Capital.- 5. Summary.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Chinese Agricultural Technology Aid in Africa
Book SynopsisThe book presents findings of anthropological studies conducted by researchers from Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center in a number of African countries, including Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Mozambique. The aim of these ethnological studies is to understand the Center’s experience in these countries as well as the way it works in terms of institutional arrangement, interaction between Chinese and local staff and technology transfer. A basic contention of the book is that insofar as these Centers showcase China’s achievements in domestic development for purpose of sharing the country’s experiences with host countries, what they do essentially points toward a new and innovative approach to foreign aid.Table of ContentsThe book presents findings of anthropological studies conducted by researchers from Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center in a number of African countries, including Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Mozambique. The aim of these ethnological studies is to understand the Center’s experience in these countries as well as the way it works in terms of institutional arrangement, interaction between Chinese and local staff and technology transfer. A basic contention of the book is that insofar as these Centers showcase China’s achievements in domestic development for purpose of sharing the country’s experiences with host countries, what they do essentially points toward a new and innovative approach to foreign aid.Xiaoyun Li, Chair Professor and Honorary Dean of College of International Development and Global Agriculture, China Agricultural University. Lixia Tang, Professor of the College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University. Jixia Lu, Professor of the College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University. Xiuli Xu, Dean of the College of International Development and Global Agriculture (CIDGA) at China Agricultural University. Yue Zhang, Assistant Professor at College of Humanities and Development Studies and College of International Development and Global Agriculture (CIDGA), China Agricultural University. Gubo Qi, Professor at the College of Humanities and Development Studies and the College of International Development and Global Agriculture, China Agricultural University. Chuanhong Zhang, Associate professor of College of Humanities and Development Studies/ and Director of Center for International Development Aid Studies at College of International Development and Global Agriculture (CIDGA), China Agricultural University.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore SDGs, Transformation, and Quality Growth: Insights from International Cooperation
Book SynopsisThis is an Open Access book. The primary objective of this book is to seek out insights into the concept of high-quality growth (HQG). It explores the essential attributes of HQG, such as inclusiveness, sustainability, and resilience, as well as its relationship with transformation, by drawing principally on illustrative cases and instances of international cooperation. The United Nations document on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) states that “We resolve to create conditions for sustainable, inclusive and sustained economic growth, shared prosperity and decent work for all.” As such, the concept of quality growth is inherent in many aspects of the SDGs. A similar approach can be seen in the Development Cooperation Charter announced by the Japanese government in 2015. According to the Charter, one of the most important challenges of development is quality growth and the reduction of poverty achieved through such growth. The approach in the Charter emphasizes inclusiveness, sustainability, and resilience.This volume is a pioneering study on quality growth as well as its relationship with SDGs and transformation. Comprehensive studies on quality growth are very few. The case study approach distinguishes the present volume from some previous literature that discussed quality growth within the framework of general policy. Instead, in this book, concrete cases and experiences provide insights into hands-on “ingredients”. Through the case studies, it can be seen more clearly that transformation and quality growth are phenomena that do not occur automatically but, rather, ones that require specific, properly designed strategies and approaches. Another unique feature of this book is that it aims to make explicit some of the consistent, but implicit, principles of Japan’s international cooperation.Table of ContentsSDGs, Transformation, and Quality Growth: An Overview.- Transforming Economies for Jobs and Inclusive Growth.- Quality growth focusing on resilience to disaster risks.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore China in the Global South: Impact and Perceptions
Book SynopsisThis book scrutinizes the frequently ignored agency of Global South sub-national actors in their interactions with China, using a multidisciplinary approach and eleven case studies. Contributors examine China’s presence in the Global South on a country-by-country basis, analyzing how various non-state and sub-state actors are responding to the rise of China and whether they are attracted by the cooperation models that China proposes or deterred by its new assertiveness. Contributions cover diverse and heterogeneous geographies of the Global South, ranging from Papua-New Guinea to Argentina and from Madagascar to the Russian Far East. Examining such diverse cases, contributors focus on two interrelated questions: What is the actual economic, political, and social impact of China’s growing presence in the Global South? And, critically, how do the citizens of the Global South understand and interpret China’s rise? Taken together, the case studies develop a comprehensive picture of a complex and sometimes problematic process of China’s inclusion into the economic, social, and political realities of the Global South.This book identifies and fills the gaps in the existing literature on China’s rise by offering a nuanced perspective on China’s relations with the countries of the Global South that captures such variables as social context, intersubjective meanings, and identities. By focusing China’s relations with the Global South, it also provides an important addition to the literature on international politics of development and China’s role in the transformation of the South-South cooperation. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Not the Relationship You Would Expect: China, Sub-National Actors, and Structural Factors(Anna Kuteleva and Theodor Tudoroiu).- Chapter 2. Images and Models of China-led South-South Cooperation: What does Rising China Offer to the Global South?( Anna Kuteleva).- Part I: China’s Image and Its Reception in the Global South.- PART 1 China’s Image and Its Reception in the Global South.- Chapter 3 Manufacturing Sameness: Reconstructing Brand-China in Africa (Tara Mock).- Chapter 4 The Unguaranteed Hegemony of China in Global South: A Reception Analysis of China Central Television in Africa(Yu Xiang).- Chapter 5 China’s global media in Latin America: Exploring the impact and perception in Mexico and Argentina(Pablo Sebastian Morales).- Chapter 6 Kung Fu vs. Radio Calisthenics: The Confucius Institute and Chinese Culture Education in Madagascar(Mingyuan Zhang).- PART 2 China as a Dividing Factor within Countries of the Global South.- Chapter 7 Melanesian Self-Reliance Discourses and Chinese Investment: The Ramu Nickel Mine in Papua New Guinea(Henryk Szadziewski).- Chapter 8 China’s Tied Aid to Trinidad and Tobago: Impact and Perceptions(Theodor Tudoroiu and Amanda Reshma Ramlogan).- Chapter 9 Indonesian Elite Perception of China during the Presidency of Joko (Jokowi) Widodo(Johanes Herlijanto).- PART 3 China’s Acceptance as a Function of Partner Country’s Structural Features.- Chapter 10 China's Colombia Conundrum: from Warm Reception to Failure, Apathy and Prejudice(Sabrina van den Bos).- Chapter 11 The impact of China’s rise on the Russian Far East: Opportunities and Challenges(Anna Kuteleva and Sergei Ivanov).- PART 4 Chapter 12 Normative Power China, Subnational Agency, and Structural Factors in the Global South(Theodor Tudoroiu).
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Grassroots Democracy and Governance in India:
Book SynopsisThis book approaches grassroots governance and democracy from a sociological perspective, focusing on the interaction between the community and the State. It explores the interrelationship between state, governance and community and demonstrates the performativity aspects of both political actors and citizens in various elections in India. It also highlights the need to understand the dynamics of governance in a multi-ethnic society and democracy like India both at the micro and macro levels. Offering detailed explanations of formal and informal governance in people’s everyday lives, it reviews some of the key debates on governance with respect to the engagement of the community. This book is intended for academics, researchers, activists, planners and policymakers from a range of disciplines, such as sociology, public policy, social anthropology, development studies, politics and regional development, interested in governance and development in India.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: The Magical State and the Notion of Governance Chapter 2: Documenting the Body and Paper Citizenship Chapter 3: The Magic and Miracle of Elections: Polls and Performance Chapter 4: Seeing Like a Citizen: People’s Perception and Everyday Engagement with State and Governance Chapter 5: The Grassroots Democracy, Grasshoppers and the Janus Faced Dalal Chapter 6: Corporatization of the State in the Neoliberal Era Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Beginning of New Governance
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Impact Assessment for Developing Countries: A
Book SynopsisImpact Assessment (IA) is introduced in this book, with a guide to the process, scope, content, and management of IA for the governments of developing economies. In doing so, evidence-based policy making is taken into full consideration. After the principles of IA are set forth, its procedures are described, illustrated by typical cases from the United States and Japan. Then an explanation follows of the components of IA such as necessity, alternatives, and assessment of cost and benefit, with a description of competition assessment. In developing economies, it is not effective to simply import a system from developed countries directly into developing countries, especially for economic regulation and in consideration of compliance and competition issues. Thus the book provides recommendations on how to appropriately modify developed countries’ systems for countries that are still developing. The book concludes by taking up several issues surrounding IA, especially nudge theory and public involvement.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Outline and Necessity of Impact Assessment (IA).- Chapter 2 Role of Evidence-Based Assessment in Democracy.- Chapter 3 Procedure of Impact Assessment (IA) and Concept of Institution Design for Conducting Impact Assessment (IA).- Chapter 4. IA Procedure and Organization in the U.S.- Chapter 5. Economists’ Role in IA in the United States and the United Kingdom.- Chapter 6. Economists’ Optimal Placement Within Relevant Organizations.- Chapter 7 Analysis and viewpoints in Impact Assessment (IA).- Chapter 8 Role of Causal Inference in IA.- Chapter 9 Competition Assessment in the UK, the US, Japan, and Pakistan.- Chapter 10 Competition Assessment in the US.- Chapter 11: How to Incorporate Behavioral Science and Using Nudges in Regulation and IA.- Chapter 12: COVID-19 Pandemic and Impact Assessment.- Chapter 13 Regulation for the Digital Era and IA for Smart Regulation.- Ch 14. Concluding Remark.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore African Perspectives on Poverty, Indigenous
Book SynopsisThis book examines the connections between poverty and innovation in Africa. Through case studies and theorizations from a distinctly African perspective, it stands in contrast to current theoretical works in the field, which remain very much rooted in Western-orientated thinking. The book investigates the application of methodologies which explain numerous African contexts in connection with issues of poverty and inequality. It reflects on comparative practices and praxes on the African continent, including commonplace traditions and practices in alleviating poverty, taken against a background of the failure of current prescriptions for poverty alleviation, such as the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP). There is a dire need for new practical perspectives which move Africa forward using its indigenous knowledge. Owing to a general lack of recorded African theories and methodologies on poverty, inequality and innovation, this book represents a pioneering corpus of African knowledge addressing poverty and inequality through local innovations. Adopting a transdisciplinary approach, it is relevant to students and scholars in development studies and economics, African studies, social studies, political history and political economy, climate studies, anthropology and geography.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Tackling poverty and inequality.- Part 1 Povery and Indigenous Knowledge Systems.- Chapter 1. Onomastic and Conceptual Pathologisation of African Culture as a Creation and Perpetuation of African Poverty in Zimbabwe.- Cha.pter 2. Empirecrafting or Statecrafting Africa? Beyond Banal “Traditional” Witchery and Towards Rebuilding the Moral Economy.- Chapter 3. Impoverishment as a Constraint to Africa’s Social Development.- Chapter 4. Indigenous Knowledge and Poverty Alleviation in Contemporary Zimbabwe.- Chapter 5. The Efficacy of Traditional Institutions in the Conservation of Sacred Heritage Resources in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 6. Kinship Relations and Urban Poverty: A Case Study of Budiriro in Harare, Zimbabwe.- Chapter 7. Processes, Policies and Systems Needed to End Poverty on the African Continent.- Chapter 8. Valuing Common Good in Addressing Inequalities and Poverty in African Economies.- Chapter 9. Indigenous Knowledge and Poverty Alleviation: Experiences from Cameroon.- Part 2 Innovation.- Chapter 10. Interrogating a Developmental State: Opportunities and Priorities for Development using Policy and Innovation in Agricultural Production.- Chapter 11. Technological Opportunities and Challenges: A Review of Bottled Gas Smart Metering Technology - An Experience from Tanzania.- Chapter 12. Examining the Role Incubation Centres Play at Universities in Supporting Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 13. 13. Indigenous Knowledge and Innovations in Tanzania: Opportunities for Smallholder Farmers to Adapt to Climate Change.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Global Zero
Book SynopsisThis open access book shows how the adoption of global justice, such as eradication of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), has given rise to controversy, resistance, and transformation at the national, regional, and grass-roots levels in African and Asian countries where FGM/C has been practiced. It provides readers with up-to-date information about the effects of the campaign to eradicate FGM/C and the present situation of those countries, to which preceding books on FGM/C have scarcely referred. Adopting “zero tolerance” as a policy of eradication, WHO and other UN agencies have opposed any type of FGM/C, and many African countries have criminalized the practice. Although the campaign is based on the human rights discourse which is shared globally, the controversies concerning eradication of FGM/C on the national level and the responses of communities on the local level in those countries are diverse and complicated. Various actors such as NGOs, government officials, religious leaders, medical workers, and local inhabitants are embroiled and negotiate with each other concerning its eradication.With this book, readers are provided with an in-depth analysis of the complicated controversies and responses of local communities, referring to their particular historical and social backgrounds. The book provides two chapters on FGM/C in Asian countries, where not many studies have done yet. It also presents readers with a study of the arguments and responses to FGM/C of African immigrants by Australian health-care professionals as well as a study of male circumcision eradication campaigns, which have been carried on in tandem with FGM/C eradication campaigns but still not have been successful. With its many elaborate case studies, this book is highly recommended to readers who seek an in-depth and up-to-date integrated overview of the FGM/C studies as well as studies on the applicability of global justice to local communities.This book won the 13th (2023) Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS) Award for Social CollaborationTable of ContentsPreface (Nakamura, Kyoko) Acknowledgement Introduction (Nakamura, Kyoko) Ch.1 Global Discourse and the Patriarchal Norms of FGM: Beyond the Zero Tolerance Policy (Toda, Makiko) Ch.2 Virtuous Cuts: Female Genital Circumcision in an African Ontology (Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa) Ch.3 How Did the Discourses of Globalized Eradication Campaign Reach Grassroots Communities? Female Genital Cutting and Its Eradication Activities among the Yellow Bull in Ethiopia (Miyawaki, Yukio) Ch.4 Cursed or blessed? Female Genital Cutting in the Gamo Cultural Landscape, South Western Ethiopia (Getaneh Mehari) Ch.5 Female Circumcision in Transformation: Medicalization and Ritual Changes among Gusii People in Western Kenya (Miyachi, Kaori) Ch.6 A Grassroots Movement to Eradicate Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and the Local’s Reaction: A Case Study of the Maasai, Kenya (Hayashi, Manami) Ch.7 An Ethnography of Diversity and Flexibility around Female Circumcision and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A Case of a Local Community Response to the Abolition Movement of Kenya (Nakamura, Kyoko) Ch.8 Genealogy of the Movement to Abolish FGC in Sudan: Focusing on the Role of Religion (Abdin, Mohamed) Ch.9 Female Genital Cutting in Asia: A case of Malaysia (Rashid, Abdul) Ch.10 Female Genital Cutting in Southeast Asia from the Viewpoint of the Female Body and Sexuality (Iguchi, Yufu) Ch.11 The Role of Men in the Abandonment of FGM/C (Varol, Nesrin) Ch.12 Autonomy and Bodily Integrity and Male Circumcision (Higashi, Yuko) Index
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Global Zero Tolerance Policy and Diverse Responses from African and Asian Local Communities
Book SynopsisThis open access book shows how the adoption of global justice, such as eradication of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), has given rise to controversy, resistance, and transformation at the national, regional, and grass-roots levels in African and Asian countries where FGM/C has been practiced. It provides readers with up-to-date information about the effects of the campaign to eradicate FGM/C and the present situation of those countries, to which preceding books on FGM/C have scarcely referred. Adopting “zero tolerance” as a policy of eradication, WHO and other UN agencies have opposed any type of FGM/C, and many African countries have criminalized the practice. Although the campaign is based on the human rights discourse which is shared globally, the controversies concerning eradication of FGM/C on the national level and the responses of communities on the local level in those countries are diverse and complicated. Various actors such as NGOs, government officials, religious leaders, medical workers, and local inhabitants are embroiled and negotiate with each other concerning its eradication.With this book, readers are provided with an in-depth analysis of the complicated controversies and responses of local communities, referring to their particular historical and social backgrounds. The book provides two chapters on FGM/C in Asian countries, where not many studies have done yet. It also presents readers with a study of the arguments and responses to FGM/C of African immigrants by Australian health-care professionals as well as a study of male circumcision eradication campaigns, which have been carried on in tandem with FGM/C eradication campaigns but still not have been successful. With its many elaborate case studies, this book is highly recommended to readers who seek an in-depth and up-to-date integrated overview of the FGM/C studies as well as studies on the applicability of global justice to local communities.This book won the 13th (2023) Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS) Award for Social CollaborationTable of ContentsPreface (Nakamura, Kyoko) Acknowledgement Introduction (Nakamura, Kyoko) Ch.1 Global Discourse and the Patriarchal Norms of FGM: Beyond the Zero Tolerance Policy (Toda, Makiko) Ch.2 Virtuous Cuts: Female Genital Circumcision in an African Ontology (Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa) Ch.3 How Did the Discourses of Globalized Eradication Campaign Reach Grassroots Communities? Female Genital Cutting and Its Eradication Activities among the Yellow Bull in Ethiopia (Miyawaki, Yukio) Ch.4 Cursed or blessed? Female Genital Cutting in the Gamo Cultural Landscape, South Western Ethiopia (Getaneh Mehari) Ch.5 Female Circumcision in Transformation: Medicalization and Ritual Changes among Gusii People in Western Kenya (Miyachi, Kaori) Ch.6 A Grassroots Movement to Eradicate Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and the Local’s Reaction: A Case Study of the Maasai, Kenya (Hayashi, Manami) Ch.7 An Ethnography of Diversity and Flexibility around Female Circumcision and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A Case of a Local Community Response to the Abolition Movement of Kenya (Nakamura, Kyoko) Ch.8 Genealogy of the Movement to Abolish FGC in Sudan: Focusing on the Role of Religion (Abdin, Mohamed) Ch.9 Female Genital Cutting in Asia: A case of Malaysia (Rashid, Abdul) Ch.10 Female Genital Cutting in Southeast Asia from the Viewpoint of the Female Body and Sexuality (Iguchi, Yufu) Ch.11 The Role of Men in the Abandonment of FGM/C (Varol, Nesrin) Ch.12 Autonomy and Bodily Integrity and Male Circumcision (Higashi, Yuko) Index
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Evolution of China’s Anti-Poverty Strategies:
Book SynopsisThis open access book presents the findings of the author’s 3 decades of studying China’s evolving anti-poverty strategies. It argues that much of the billions that nations spend yearly on economic aid is used inefficiently or to treat the symptoms but not the root causes of poverty. China, however, has evolved an effective sustainable alternative by providing the means for self-reliance to not only relieve economic poverty but also poverty of spirit. As a result, the success of China’s historic war on poverty has been due not only to top-down visionary leadership but also to the bottom-up initiatives of an empowered populace unswervingly united in ending poverty.From 1993 to 2019, the author drove over 200,000 km around China and interviewed hundreds of people from all walks of life as he explored the evolution of China’s anti-poverty strategies from simplistic aid and redistribution, which often engendered dependency and poverty of spirit. Over time, the philosophy shifted to empowerment by fostering self-reliance—or as Chinese put it, “blood production rather than blood transfusion.” The primary method of empowerment was to provide modern infrastructure, “Roads first, then riches,” so rural dwellers in remote Inner Mongolia or the Himalayan heights of Tibet had the same access to markets, jobs and internet for e-commerce as their urban counterparts. People who seized the opportunities and prospered first then used their newfound wealth and experience to help others.The stories in this book include a Tibetan entrepreneur whose family was impoverished in spite of 300 years of service to the Panchen Lama, or the farm girl with 4 years of education who now has several international schools, a biotechnology company and poverty alleviation projects across China, or the photographer who walked 40,000 km through deserts to chronicle the threat of desertification. Their tales underscore how diverse people across China helped make possible China’s success in alleviating absolute poverty and why Chinese are now confident in achieving a “moderately prosperous society.”Trade Review“It is highly recommended reading for social issues students interested in alternative anti-poverty strategies that have proven successful in the real world. … For those interested in the social issues of various nations and China in particular, The Evolution of China's Anti-Poverty Strategies provides a blueprint of entrepreneurial efforts that demonstrates how prosperity may be encouraged at all levels of society.” (California Bookwatch, Vol. 18 (4), April, 2023)Table of Contents- Chapter 1: Mogan Mountain’s Tang Hairong- Chapter 2: Liu Yunguang: An Entrepreneur With a Passion for Youth - Chapter 3: Jing Xuhua — A Loving Mother Triumphs at Home and in Business - Chapter 4: Ye Nan Brings a Bright Future to West China - Chapter 5: Yang Ying— From House Maid to Millionaire Philanthropist - Chapter 6: Gerile — Making Snacks to Put Her Daughter Through College - Chapter 7: Zhang Fang — Documenting Inner Mongolia’s Environmental Fight - Chapter 8: Zhao Xuan, A Retired Teacher From Xi’an - Chapter 9: Bu Wenjun: Inheriting Wei-family’s Brick-Carving Craftsmanship - Chapter 10: Zhang Jianlong — From Migrant Worker to Cattle King - Chapter 11: Xin Baotong— Helping the Helpless to Dream Again - Chapter 12: Wang Zenghao — Young Volunteer Working in Tibet - Chapter 13: Dawa Wangdui: A Tibetan Serf -turned Entrepreneur - Chapter 14: Xia Jiangping — Greening the Roof of the World! - Chapter 15: Wu Qiong (吴琼) — Educated to Serve Tibet - Chapter 16: How Self-made Man Xu Lidao Found He Needed Society - Chapter 17: Zhu Qingfu — Passionate About Photography - Chapter 18: Chen Qiaodi, The Yangshuo of Guangxi - Chapter 19: Lin Ruiqi, Huawei’s Senior Vice President Chapter 20: Lucy: The Youthful Heart of Huawei
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Sustainable Qatar: Social, Political and Environmental Perspectives
Book SynopsisThis open access book provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-political perspective. The transition to a sustainable Qatar requires engagement with diverse areas of social-political, human, and environmental development. On the environmental aspects, the contributors address climate change, food security, water reuse and desalination, energy, and biodiversity. The socio-political section examines state strategy and regulation, the place of environmental law and geopolitics and sustainability innovators and catalysts. The human section considers economics, sustainability education, the knowledge economy, and waste management. In doing so, the book demarcates the ways in which the country encounters and grapples with significant challenges and delves into the range of options for future pathways to sustainability in Qatar. Relevant to policymakers and scholars in energy and environment, urban and developmental studies, as well as the arenas of politics, climate change and policy, this book is a landmark collection on environmental policy in the Gulf and beyond.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Sustainable Qatar.- Chapter 2. The Evolvement of Qatar’s Environmental Sustainability Policy: The Strategies, Regulations, and Institutions.- Chapter 3. Law and Governance Innovations on Sustainability in Qatar: Current Approaches and Future Directions.- Chapter 4. FIFA World Cup 2022 as a Catalyst for Environmental Sustainability in Qatar.- Chapter 5. Qatar Foundations: A Sustainability Innovator.- Chapter 6. Qatar's Energy Policy and the Transition Towards a Renewable and Carbon-Neutral Future.- Chapter 7. Qatar in the Energy Transition: Low Carbon Economy Challenges and Opportunities.- Chapter 8. A Systems Perspective on the Sustainable Development of Qatar .- Chapter 9. Sea Level Rise and the National Security Challenge of Sustainable Urban Adaptation in Doha and other Arab Coastal Cities.- Chapter 10. Assessing and Reporting Potential Environmental Risks Associated with Reefing Oil Platform During Decommissioning in Qatar.- Chapter 11. The Domestic Water Sector in Qatar.- Chapter 12. Contribution of Non-Profit Organizations to Food Security Sustainability in the State of Qatar.- Chapter 13. Terrestrial Biodiversity in Arid Environments: One Global Component of Climate Crisis Resilience.- Chapter 14. Doha as a 15-Minute City – An Urban Fareej.- Chapter 15. Post-Oil Urbanism: A Need for Smart and Sustainable Urban Development Strategies and Framework in the Gulf States.- Chapter 16. Towards the Circular Qatari Zero-Waste Management Sector.- Chapter 17. Education for Sustainable Development in Qatar.- Chapter 18. Developing A Vibrant Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Qatar: A Sustainable Pathway Toward the Knowledge-based Economy?.- Chapter 19. Pathways for a Sustainable Future.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
Book SynopsisThis open access book seeks effective strategy to realize a rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa based on more than ten years of research team’s inquiries into determinants and consequences of new technology adoption in rice farming in seven countries in this region. Rigorous statistical analyses are carried out by using valuable household data of rice farmers. The book is actually sequel to the two earlier books on the same subject published by Springer and edited by K. Otsuka and D.F. Larson, An African Green Revolution published in 2013 and In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution in 2016. The main message of the first book was that rice is the most promising cereal crop in SSA because of the high transferability of Asian rice technology, whereas that of the second book was that rice cultivation training programs are effective in significantly increasing rice yield in SSA. This third book has wider coverage in terms of topics, study periods, and study sites. It continues to show the significant impacts of rice cultivation training on productivity and newly demonstrates the high sustainability of the productivity impact of the training and the existence of spillover effects from trainees to other farmers by using panel data. We newly assess the important role of mechanization in intensification of rice farming, high returns to large-scale irrigation schemes, and the critical role of rice millers in improving the quality of milled rice. Based on these studies, this book provides clear pathways toward full-fledged Green Revolution in rice farming in sub-Saharan Africa.Table of ContentsPrefacePART I: EXTENSIFICTION, INTENSIFICATION, AND REVOLUTION Chapter 1: Issues of Rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa Keijiro Otsuka, Yukichi Mano, and Kazushi Takahashi 1-1. Failure in the Past 1-2. Prospects in Future 1-3. Structure of the Book Chapter 2: Role of Extension for Green Revolution Kazushi Takahashi and Keijiro Otsuka 2-1. Role of Extension in Dissemination of New Technology 2-2. Impact of Rice Cultivation Training 2-3. Missing Issues Chapter 3: Mechanization and Irrigation for Intensification of Rice Farming Hiroyuki Takeshima and Yukichi Mano 3-1. Role of Mechanization in SSA 3-2. Role of Irrigation in SSA 3-3. Missing Issues PART II: IMAPCT OF RICE CULTIVATION TRAINING Chapter 4: The Case of Tanzania Yuko Nakano 4-1. An Overview 4-2. From Key Farmers to Ordinary Farmers 4-3. Impact of Rice Intensification Program Chapter 5: The Case of Uganda Yoko Kijima 5-1. An Overview 5-2. Sustainability of Rice Cultivation Training Program Chapter 6: The Case of Cote d’Ivoire Kazushi Takahashi, Yukichi Mano, and Keijiro Otsuka 6-1. An Overview 6-2. Extension from Treated to Controlled Farmers Chapter 7: The Case of Mozambique Kei Kajisa 7-1. An Overview 7-2. An Impact Assessment of Rice Cultivation Training PART III: MECHANIZATION AND INTENSIFICATION Chapter 8: The Case of Cote d’Ivoire Yukichi Mano, Kazushi Takahashi, and Keijiro Otsuka Chapter 9: The Case of Tanzania E.F. Magezi, Yuko Nakano, and Takeshi Sakurai PART IV: RETURN TO LARGE-SCALE IRRIGATION INVESTMENT Chapter 10: The Case of Kenya Masao Kikuchi, Yukichi Mano, Timothy Njagi, D. Merrey and K. Otsuka Chapter 11: The Case of Senegal Takeshi Sakurai Part V: RICE MILLERS AND RICE QUALITY Chapter 12: The Case of Kenya Yukichi Mano, Tim Njagi, and Keijiro Otsuka Chapter 13: The Case of Ghana Tetsuya Ogura, Joseph A. Awuni, and Takeshi Sakurai PART VI: CONCLUSION Chapter 14: Towards Full-Fledged Rice Green Revolution in SSA Keijiro Otsuka, Yukichi Mano, and Kazushi Takahashi
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change
Book SynopsisThis book presents essential insights on the interaction between rising risks and raising the bar for resilience during the climate crisis. Its timeliness lies in applying important findings on risk and resilience to runaway climate change. When risk and resilience are brought together in the context of climate catastrophes, three key messages emerge.The first is that accounting for the root causes of these calamities, and not just their symptoms, is essential to slowing the spike in these events. It is therefore vital to link carbon emissions from human activity to the sharp rise in climate disasters globally. The second is that growth economics and policy must factor in the failure of governments and businesses to tackle spillover harm from economic activities, as seen dramatically with global warming. With climate risks rising, this calls for a fundamental revision in the teaching and practice of business and economics. And third, prevention must become a far bigger part of resilience building, with greater preparedness for more intense destruction built into interventions. This emphasis on prevention deems disaster recovery as not just returning to how things were but building back better.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Opening Summary.- Part I: Risk and Resilence.- Chapter 2: Troubled Times.- Chapter 3: Understanding Risk.- Chaper 4: Resilence That Shapes Risk.- Chapter 5: New Highs in Risk and Resilence.- Part II: the Climate Catastrophe.- Chapter 6: Intractability of Climate Change.- Chapter 7: A Persistently False Dichotomy.- Chapter 8: Integrating Resilence in Policy.- Chapter 9: Transformative Change.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Development And Demographic Change In Taiwan
Book SynopsisThis book describes and analyzes the demographic changes that took place in Taiwan between 1945 and 1995. It uses an interdisciplinary methodology so that different approaches to demographic change can be compared and contrasted. It attempts to evaluate Taiwan's experience so that lessons for the Third World can be extracted. The content and presentation of the material are deliberately designed to replicate the 1954 work of Barclay, Demographic Change and Colonial Development in Taiwan. As such the book seeks to provide the reasons that economic development without demographic change took place under the Japanese while development with demographic change took place under the Chinese. The volume is richly illustrated with some 82 original maps and graphs.Table of ContentsGrowth, Distribution, Structure, and Composition; Fertility; Mortality and Morbidity; Migration; Population Policies; Summary and Conclusions.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Globalization And Localization: The Chinese
Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to provide the international readership a collection of articles authored by Chinese scholars on the subject of globalization and localization. In a world where no country is an island isolated from others, globalization is bound to be contested, debated, and de- and re-constructed at different levels across the international community. For this very reason, it is important to present this concept as developed, interpreted and discussed by the Chinese community.The scope of book is broad, ranging from theoretical reflection to more concrete opinions given by the Chinese academic community, and finally to case studies on globalization and localization. It includes eleven articles by leading Chinese scholars in the past decades.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd China's Change: The Greatest Show On Earth
Book Synopsis'Importantly, China's Change: The Greatest Show on Earth provides a welcome contrast to such fashionable pessimism … demolishes a series of popular urban myths … and a very convincing case he makes. This, to my mind, is a wholly original approach to understanding present-day China and the book is well worth reading for this alone. … readers are likely to end up considerably wiser about how the Chinese economy has developed and how it currently works. It's difficult to do justice to the exceptionally wide-ranging scope of the book. It is, furthermore, well-written (as befits a former journalist) and highly readable. … a useful corrective for the innate pessimism which has pervaded so much Western economic and financial commentary in recent years.'The Society of Professional Economists (SPE)China's Change injects timely, original ideas into the world's most important, if confused, debate over how to manage the twin challenges of anaemic economic growth and accelerating global disruption. Change is the cry from the US to Europe, Asia to Australasia. The snag is the West has no playbook to help. China however, to regain control of its future, has regularly reinvented itself by understanding change's nature through traditional philosophy.This is not idle conjecture. It is what China has done time and again, including most recently with COVID-19 where it identified clear goals, priorities and means to bring the coronavirus under control.This book argues it is time to 'Look at China' but stresses China's approach to managing change only supplies the process not individual policies: the how not the what. Policies have to be created locally. In managing change, traditional thought is China's X-Factor, the key to China's record-breaking economic transformation. To grasp this, China's Change provides an understanding of China's past, present and future through its philosophy, history, economics, business, politics, prospects and impact in a way that no other book has done.Two big global questions are answered. Can other countries, firms and individuals find paths out of their dim twilight by adapting China's change process? Can China continue to create one-third of world growth, more than the US, EU and Japan combined, to help cure the last decade's global economic malaise?China's roadmap for change enables anyone to navigate growing global disruption. Ironically China's process is built on such ignored-in-the-West ideas as long-term thinking, clear priorities, gradualism and non-ideological pragmatism that earlier powered two centuries of Western economic dominance. If the West and rest of Asia learn from China to manage change, the next global surprise could be another turning of the tables. There is no end to history, only more turns of the wheel: for now China's Change is again the Greatest Show on Earth.Related Link(s)
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd China's Change: The Greatest Show On Earth
Book Synopsis'Importantly, China's Change: The Greatest Show on Earth provides a welcome contrast to such fashionable pessimism … demolishes a series of popular urban myths … and a very convincing case he makes. This, to my mind, is a wholly original approach to understanding present-day China and the book is well worth reading for this alone. … readers are likely to end up considerably wiser about how the Chinese economy has developed and how it currently works. It's difficult to do justice to the exceptionally wide-ranging scope of the book. It is, furthermore, well-written (as befits a former journalist) and highly readable. … a useful corrective for the innate pessimism which has pervaded so much Western economic and financial commentary in recent years.'The Society of Professional Economists (SPE)China's Change injects timely, original ideas into the world's most important, if confused, debate over how to manage the twin challenges of anaemic economic growth and accelerating global disruption. Change is the cry from the US to Europe, Asia to Australasia. The snag is the West has no playbook to help. China however, to regain control of its future, has regularly reinvented itself by understanding change's nature through traditional philosophy.This is not idle conjecture. It is what China has done time and again, including most recently with COVID-19 where it identified clear goals, priorities and means to bring the coronavirus under control.This book argues it is time to 'Look at China' but stresses China's approach to managing change only supplies the process not individual policies: the how not the what. Policies have to be created locally. In managing change, traditional thought is China's X-Factor, the key to China's record-breaking economic transformation. To grasp this, China's Change provides an understanding of China's past, present and future through its philosophy, history, economics, business, politics, prospects and impact in a way that no other book has done.Two big global questions are answered. Can other countries, firms and individuals find paths out of their dim twilight by adapting China's change process? Can China continue to create one-third of world growth, more than the US, EU and Japan combined, to help cure the last decade's global economic malaise?China's roadmap for change enables anyone to navigate growing global disruption. Ironically China's process is built on such ignored-in-the-West ideas as long-term thinking, clear priorities, gradualism and non-ideological pragmatism that earlier powered two centuries of Western economic dominance. If the West and rest of Asia learn from China to manage change, the next global surprise could be another turning of the tables. There is no end to history, only more turns of the wheel: for now China's Change is again the Greatest Show on Earth.Related Link(s)
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