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Book SynopsisFor a company, managing its social and environmental performance is no longer just a matter of reducing its impact; it must also be able to assess its contribution to resolving or aggravating social and environmental problems. This book argues that the current work on accounting for sustainability has not yet given organisations a tool to integrate their performance within the planetary and social framework that conveys actual planetary and social budgets, and that business organisations lack the possibility to go beyond incremental performance measurement.It offers an inâdepth examination of multiâcapital accounting, which has already been integrated within the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and will follow on from sustainability reporting. The LIFTS model (Limits and Foundations Towards Sustainability Accounting Model) used in this book combines various scientific and practical contributions to develop budgets for environmental impacts and social obligations o

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Book SynopsisBy January 2015 the worldâs richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the worldâs population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct. So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring inequality between the rich and poor? Are ever-expanding tourism markets a smoke-free, socioculturally sensitive form of human industrialisation? Is alternative tourism really a credible lever for reducing global inequality and eliminating poverty? Tourism and Sustainability critically explores the most significant universal geopolitical norms of the last half century â development, globalisation and sustainability â and through the lens of new forms of tourism demonstrates how we can better get to grips with the rapidly changing new global order. The fourth edition has been exTrade ReviewComments on the fourth edition:"This book meets the continuing need for a clear-eyed, critical look at the global tourism industry and its sometimes uncomfortable relationship with ongoing problems of uneven development and inequality, especially in the less developed world. Mowforth and Munt write incisively of complex matters, yet their work has a real humanity at its core. This new edition will be a key resource for another generation of students and researchers."Dr Mark Hampton, Reader in Tourism Management, University of KentCommonly associated with lightness and frivolity, with sand beaches and holidays, the authors fully succeed in their goal of repositioning tourism as a serious and important discipline within political science and development. In this fourth edition Mowforth and Munt masterfully accomplish what seemed impossible: they deepen further the enquiry, updating throughout with new events and case studies, and adding three new chapters bridging the links between tourism and poverty, human security, migration, terrorism and urbanisation. Never before has an analysis been so far-reaching, so present-to-day, so perceptive. An essential volume for students and academics across a wide range of disciplines and for all those interested in understanding our contemporary world through the powerful lens that tourism offers.Professor Andréa Sousa Dantas, Department of Tourism, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil In short, this fourth edition updates the states of matter and analysis of the debates raised in the past, and introduces new issues that increasingly abundant academic literature has generated in recent years. It does so by staying away from the conformist or slightly reformist visions, as already mentioned, they are dominant. Thanks to all this, it remains a necessary reference text, essential to understand the development of the tourism phenomenon (especially in countries of the global South) and to meet the academic analysis done about it.Jordi Gascón, Universitat de Barcelona & Foro de Turismo ResponsableReviews on previous editions of Tourism and Sustainability:‘This book should be compulsory reading for all those engaged in tourism research.’ – Erlet Cater, In Focus, Tourism Concern ‘…one of the most significant books produced on tourism in the past few years.’– Geoffrey Wall, Annals of Tourism Research ‘A valuable and overdue contribution to a multi-disciplinary area. This book meets the challenge to say something clear and interesting in a quicksand of ambiguities.’ – Professor John Lea, University of Sydney ‘Informative, stimulating, and provocative, the book deserves to be read by a wide audience … It is absolutely essential reading for all those serious scholars of tourism studies wishing to appreciate "the bigger picture".’– Brian Wheeller, Annals of Tourism Research ‘…the book is quite simply one of the most important theoretical contributions to the growing subdiscipline of tourism geography and is likely to be a mainstay for many years to come.’– Keith Debbage, Annals of the Association of American Geographers ‘…a far-reaching, timely and quite penetrating critique of some of the forms of tourism that have emerged as a direct response to the clarion call for sustainable tourism development’– Michael Parnwell, Journal of Development StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction Part 1 2. Globalisation, Sustainability, Development 3. Power and Tourism 4. Tourism and Sustainability Part 2 The Actors 5. A New Class of Tourist: trendies on the trail 6. Socio-Environmental Organisations: where shall we save next? 7. The Industry: lies, damned lies and sustainability 8. 'Hosts' and Destinations: for what we are about to receive..9. Governance, Governments and Tourism: selling the Third World Part 3 New Issues 10. Climate Change, Carbon Accounting and New Tourism 11. New Tourism and the Poor 12. New Tourism in Cities: guess who's coming to town? 13. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn todayâs society we increasingly create and consume written content and images. This includes a range of sources, from social media posts to records held within organisations, and everything in between, including news articles, blogs, shopping lists and official government documents. Critically reading these âdocumentsâ can help us to understand a huge amount about society. Doing Excellent Social Research with Documents includes guidance on how to âread between the linesâ, and provides an overview of six research projects which use documents as data.Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Trade Review'Grant’s text offers an excellent overview of the practicalities attendant on the use of documents in social research. It will no doubt prove to be an indispensable guide for both novice and practiced researchers, and is worthy of a prime slot on the bookshelf.'- Lindsay Prior, Emeritus Professor of Sociology & Honorary Professor, School of Public Health, Queen’s University of Belfast'This truly is an excellent resource for both students and fully-fledged academics seeking to get their teeth into documentary research. Aimee Grant's style is clear and accessible, whilst also unflinching in its approach to dealing with the nitty-gritty of the practicalities of accessing, sampling and analysing documents for effective scholarship. The 'how' of documentary research is clearly underpinned by the 'why', tutoring the reader in the theoretical and ethical context of research with documents. The practical approach, complete with hands-on activities and detailed examples, makes this an essential resource for anyone looking for a step-by-step guide to doing documentary research.'- Nadia von Benzon, Lecturer in Human Geography, Lancaster University'Documents, be they digital or paper, are central to our social life, yet they often receive little attention. Aimee Grant’s excellent book really helps us think about the practical and conceptual issues we can face when working with documents. She shows us, through a range of really useful examples, the wonderful possibilities of doing social research with documents.'- Tim Rapley, Professor of Applied Health Care Research, Northumbria University"This book makes a compelling case for why documents make great data for social science research. Doing EXCELLENT social research with documents is an accessible guide and a very welcome addition to the methods literature." - Amanda Coffey, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Student Experience and Academic Standards, Cardiff University'This is essential reading for anyone using documentary analysis in their research – I only wish it had been available during my doctoral studies! It is interdisciplinary in nature and, as a socio-legal scholar using documentary analysis in researching the influence of non-governmental organisations in international human rights law, I found much of the content to be really valuable. The author notes that many researchers may have been improvising up until now. Improvise no more, the handbook for documentary analysis has arrived.'- Fiona McGaughey, Director of Higher Degrees (Coursework), University of Western Australia Law School"This fantastic text will support those conducting research with documentary sources, especially through its practical examples and guidance. The author skilfully discusses both historical and contemporary documents in this lively, engaging and accessible text for researchers and students."- Sarah Mills, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Loughborough University'This is a well written and highly useful book. It covers theoretical and empirical issues in an accessible way, and enables researchers to improve the quality and impact of their work.'- Kirstein Rummery, Professor of Social Policy and Co-Director of Centre for Gender and Feminist Studies, University of StirlingTable of Contents1. Introduction: Documents, Documents Everywhere 2. How to Do Excellent Research with Documents: General Principles Section I: Documents Found in Isolation from Their Authors 3. Traditional Media: Investigating the Construction of Societal Norms 4. Historical and Official Documents: Moving Beyond Simple Interpretations 5. Documents Created by Individuals: Collection and Analysis of Multi-Modal Content Section II: Documents as An Addition to Existing Qualitative Research Methods 6. Triangulation of Findings from Primary Research: Things We Might Not Have Otherwise Been Able to Establish 7. Documents in Ethnographic Research: Things We Might Not Have Been Able to Observe 8. Participant Created Documents as An Elicitation Tool: Things We Might Not Have Otherwise Been Told 9. Reviewing and Applying Concepts to Your Research Project

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates how the theoretical concepts of the capabilities approach can be applied in the context of engineering education, and how this could be used to add nuance to our understanding of the contribution higher education can make to human flourishing. In demonstrating the usefulness of the capability approach as a lens through which to evaluate the outputs of engineering education, the author also shows how the capability approach can be informed by, and informs, the concept of sustainable development' and discusses what pedagogical and curricula implications this may have for education for sustainable development (ESD), particularly in engineering. As such, the book builds on the work of scholars of engineering education, and scholars of university education at the nexus of development and sustainability.Engineering employers, educators and students from diverse contexts discuss both the capabilities and functions that are enlarged by engineering eTrade Review"Mathebula’s book is extremely timely and important. In the South African context it echoes many of the questions that South African students and proactive educators have been raising in the engineering education space for the past decade. The perspective that this book presents on the pivotal contribution of engineering education for sustainable development is an essential contribution to global discussions about technical autocracy and the need for empathy among engineers. This book is essential for all students and educators engaged in the engineering education system, employers seeking to hire millennial engineers and those looking to use technology for sustainable development." — Wiebke Toussaint, Co-founder Engineers Without Borders (EWB) South Africa, Board member EWB InternationalTable of ContentsChapter 1: Sustainable human development: the overarching goalChapter 2: A capabilities lens on researching engineering educationChapter 3: Becoming a public-good engineer: students’ perspectivesChapter 4: Teaching for public-good engineering: lecturers’ perspectivesChapter 5: Public-good engineering: employers’ perspectivesChapter 6: Advancing sustainable human development through engineering educationChapter 7: Being a public-good engineer and doing socially-just engineering

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development seeks to engage with comprehensive, contemporary, and critical theoretical debates on Latin American development. The volume draws on contributions from across the humanities and social sciences and, unlike earlier volumes of this kind, explicitly highlights the disruptions to the field being brought by a range of anti-capitalist, decolonial, feminist, and ontological intellectual contributions.The chapters consider in depth the harms and suffering caused by various oppressive forces, as well as the creative and often revolutionary ways in which ordinary Latin Americans resist, fight back, and work to construct development defined broadly as the struggle for a better and more dignified life. The book covers many key themes including development policy and practice; neoliberalism and its aftermath; the role played by social movements in cities and rural areas; the politics of water, oil, and other environmentalTrade Review"The scope and ambition of this volume is truly impressive. Sensitive to the profound ambivalence and ambiguity of development, the editors have coordinated a fascinatingly agile and dexterous approach to the topic, full of robust critique and alternative perspectives. For students and scholars interested in the multi-scalar processes of change - social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental - that shape Latin America, this is an essential inter-disciplinary companion." - Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK"The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development creates a profound and rich dialogue among cases that confronted and resignified notions of development not only from their critical decolonial, feminist, anti-capitalist and pluriversal perspectives but also by their interconnected multidisciplinary approaches. The editors carefully selected diverse texts that arise from local contexts and social dynamics (of indigenous, afro-descendant, peasants, migrants, urban collectivities) that bring forward new concepts of genders, sexualities, humans, non-humans, knowledges, justice and ways of living. They also include theoretical approaches and analysis that call for understanding the partial connections of social actors with economic, environmental, political and territorial socio-historical contexts in different scales, in order to open innovative critics, debates and perspectives around different notions of development." - Astrid Ulloa, Professor, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, ColombiaTable of ContentsLatin American development: Editors’ introduction PART I Debates and provocations 1. Modernization and dependency theory 2. Culture and development in Latin America 3. Indigenous development in Latin America 4. Coloniality, colonialism and decoloniality: Gender, sexuality and migration 5. Post-development 6. Neoliberal multiculturalism 7. The rise and fall of the pink tide 8. Religion and development PART II Globalization, international relations and development 9. Post‐Neoliberalism and Latin America: Beyond the IMF, World Bank and WTO? 10. The Sustainable Development Goals 11. The war on drugs in Latin America from a development perspective 12. Diversities of international and transnational migration in and beyond Latin America 13. Regional organizations and development in Latin American 14. Latin America and the United States 15. Latin America and China 16. Latin America and the European Union PART IIIPolitical and cultural struggles and decolonial interventions 17. More-than-human politics 18. Intercultural universities and ways of learning 19. Indigenous activism in Latin America 20. Afro-Latino-América: Afro-descendant struggles and movements 21. Zapatismo: Reinventing revolution 22. Counter-mapping development PART IV Gender and sexuality, cultural politics and policy 23. Gender, poverty and anti-poverty policy 24. Gender, health and religion in a neoliberal context: Reflections from the Chilean case 25. Men and masculinities in development 26. LGBTQ Sexualities and Social Movements PART VLabour and campesino movements 27. Rural social movements 28. Labour movements 29. Labour, unions and mega-events 30. Street vendors 31. Maquila labour 32. Fairtrade certification in Latin America: Challenges and prospects for fostering development PART VI Land, resources and environmental struggles 33. Development and Nature: Modes of appropriation and Latin American extractivisms 34. Land-grabbing in Latin America: Sedimented landscapes of dispossession 35. Protected areas and biodiversity conservation 36. Mining and development in Latin America 37. Towers of indifference: Water and politics in Latin America 38. Energy violence and uneven development 39. The oil complex in Latin America: Politics, frontiers, and habits of oil rule 40. Food security and sovereignty 41. Climate change PART VII Latin American cities 42. Just another chapter of Latin American gentrification 43. Gang violence in Latin America 44. Informal settlements 45. Urban mobility in Latin America 46. Oppressed, segregated, vulnerable: Environmental injustice and conflicts in Latin American cities 47. Rethinking the urban economy: Women, protest, and the new commons

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Book SynopsisThe Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will not only be Africa's largest dam, but it is also essential for future cooperation and development in the Nile River Basin and East African region. This book, after setting out basin-level legal and policy successes and failures of managing and sharing Nile waters, articulates the opportunities and challenges surrounding the GERD through multiple disciplinary lenses. It sets out its possibilities as a basis for a new era of cooperation, its regional and global implications, the benefits of cooperation and coordination in dam filling, and the need for participatory and transparent decision making. By applying law, political science and hydrology to sharing water resources in general and to large-scale dam building, filling and operating in particular, it offers concrete qualitative and quantitative options that are essential to promote cooperation and coordination in utilising and preserving Nile waters. The book incorporatesTrade Review"The multidisciplinary volume The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin: Implications for Transboundary Water Cooperation is published at the right time to take a closer look at the impacts of the GERD on the Nile and its riparians from the perspectives of law, political science, economics and hydrology.[The book] serves as an initial platform for the urgently needed analysis and discussion of pertinent problems and potential solutions for transboundary water cooperation in the Eastern Nile Basin at a crucial point in time. By providing ample space for varying views within and between disciplines, it makes a valuable contribution to the future resolution of conflicts and the fostering of cooperation on the sharing of the Nile waters in the future." - Götz Reichert in the Ethiopian Yearbook of International Law 2017 "This important and unique collection captures a living experiment in the Nile Basin. Ethiopia shattered the basin's status quo by launching construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Africa's largest hydroelectric project. Important precedents in managing transboundary resources may be set as Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia thrash out sharing benefits as well as water. The contributors address the legal issues, the regional politics and the projected economic impact of Ethiopia's unilateral action." - John Waterbury, President Emeritus, the American University of Beirut, Lebanon 'This important volume examines the impacts of the GERD project through an interdisciplinary lens, incorporating insights from the fields of law, political science, economics and hydrology. As the contributors show, the game-changing nature of the GERD may introduce a new era of cooperation on the Nile." - Stephen McCaffrey, Distinguished Professor of Law, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, USA"Cooperative management of transboundary fresh waters is a great challenge of our time – nowhere more so than in the Nile basin, with eleven riparian nations and the world’s longest river. This scholarly book makes an invaluable contribution at a turning point in Nile history. The authors, many with long experience studying Nile issues, have woven together an important interdisciplinary study of the risks and opportunities arising from the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile, linking Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt." - David Grey, Visting Professor of Water Policy, University of Oxford, UKTable of Contents1. A Multi-disciplinary Analysis of the Risks and Opportunities of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam for Wider Cooperation in the Nile 2.The Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement: Disentangling the Gordian Knot? 3.Agreement on Declaration of Principles on the GERD: Levelling the Nile Basin Playing Fields? 4.International Law developments on the Sharing of Blue Nile Waters: a fairness perspective 5.Changing cooperation dynamics in the Nile Basin and the role of the GERD 6. GERD and hydropolitics in the Eastern Nile: from water to benefit sharing? 7. Analyzing the Economy-Wide Impacts on Egypt of Alternative GERD Filling Policies 8. Economic Impact Assessment of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Under Different Climate and Hydrological Conditions 9. From Projecting Hydroclimate Variability to Filling the GERD: Upstream Hydropower Generation and Downstream Releases 10. Managing risks while filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

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Book SynopsisLead firms, development organisations, donors and governments view value chains and voluntary standards as vital instruments for achieving millennium development goals through trade and market-related interventions. The precise foundations for these development strategies, which suggest positive development outcomes from integration of poor actors into value chains, are as yet underdeveloped. The interdisciplinary work in this volume shows how trade is managed and asks theory-driven questions about how value chains relate to locally-rooted development processes.Policy makers and development practitioners are increasingly using value chain analysis to frame pro-poor development interventions. This book offers multiple conceptualizations of development outcomes of inclusion of small producers, firms and workers in value chains. Processes of inclusion at different scales are unpacked in order to identify the terms of participation of small producers, firms and workers. AsTable of Contents1. Governance, inclusion and embedding: raising the issues A.H.J. (Bert) Helmsing and Sietze Vellema Part 1: Governance and Inclusion 2. Unpacking the discourse on social inclusion in value chains Otto Hospes and Joy Clancy 3. Voluntary governance initiatives and the challenges of inclusion and upscaling Peter Knorringa, Gerdien Meijerink and Greetje Schouten 4. Comparing fair and responsible coffee standards in East Africa Ruerd Ruben and Simone Verkaart 5. Agricultural cooperatives and value chain coordination Jos Bijman, Roldan Muradian and Andrei Cechin 6. Labour in globalized agricultural value chains Lee Pegler, Karin Astrid Siegmann and Sietze Vellema 7. The Ghanaian state and inclusive upgrading in the global cocoa chain Anna Laven Part 2: Embedding and Business Systems 8. Business systems, value chains and inclusive regional development in South-East Asia Edo Andriesse, Niels Beerepoot, Bram van Helvoirt and Guus van Westen 9. Local embedding and economic crisis: comparing lobster chains in Belize, Jamaica and Nicaragua Iris Monnereau and A.H.J. (Bert) Helmsing 10. Governance and greening global agro-food chains: cases from Vietnam, Thailand and Benin Peter Oosterveer, Phan Van Hoi and Laurent C. Glin Part 3: Chain-based Partnerships for Development 11. Partnering to facilitate smallholder inclusion in value chains Verena Bitzer, Jeroen van Wijk, A.H.J. (Bert) Helmsing and Victor van der Linden 12. Upscaling of smallholder participation in global value chains Aad van Tilburg, Emma Kambewa, Andre de Jager and Davies Onduru 13. Building inclusive value chains in biotrade: a comparison of two cases from South America Roldan Muradian, Gerard Verschoor, Edgar Bolivar and German Ochoa

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Book SynopsisOffering insights from pioneering new perspectives in addition to well-established traditions of research, this Handbook considers the activities not only of advocacy groups in the environmental, feminist, human rights, humanitarian, and peace sectors, but also the array of religious, professional, and business associations that make up the wider non-governmental organization (NGO) community. Including perspectives from multiple world regions, the book takes account of institutions in the Global South, alongside better-known structures of the Global North. International contributors from a range of disciplines cover all the major aspects of research into NGOs in International Relations to present: a comprehensive overview of the historical evolution of NGOs, the range of structural forms and international networks coverage of major theoretical perspectives illustrations of how NGOs are influential in every prominent issue-areaTrade Review"This timely and important book provides a comprehensive and compelling look at the role of NGOs in international relations. Pushing against disciplinary silos, it brings together a first rate group of scholars to reflect upon the role of NGOs in a vast number of issue areas and regions of the world. It is essential reading for everyone interested in ‘politics beyond the state’." Erin Hannah, King's University College, Western University, Canada. "An comprehensive and timely collection of essays about the growing and crucial role of non-state actors in world politics. Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations has insights for politicians, pundits, and the public as well as analysts of global governance. This excellent overview provides one-stop shopping for a phenomenon that challenges the contours of our understanding about contemporary transnational interactions." Thomas G. Weiss, The CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA. Table of ContentsIntroducing NGOs and International Relations PART I: History and Contributions 1. The Emergence of NGOs as Actors on the World Stage 2. NGOs’ Interactions with States 3. NGOs in Global Governance 4. Transnational Non-State Politics PART II: Theory and Analysis 5. Constituting NGOs 6. Rationalist Explanations for NGOs 7. NGOs and Post-Positivism: Two Likely Friends? 8. NGOs in Constructivist International Relations Theory 9. The Aesthetic Politics of NGOs 10. NGOs and Social Movement Theory 11. International NGOs in Development Studies 12. NGOs and Management Studies 13. NGOs in International Law: Reconsidering Personality and Participation (again) 14. Voluntaristics: Global Research on NGOs and the Non-Profit Sector 15. Primary Data on NGOs: Pushing the Bounds of Present Possibilities PART III: Issue-Areas and Sectors 16. Feminist Politics and NGO Mobilization: Can NGOs Degender Global Governance? 17. NGOs and Labour 18. NGOs and Human Rights 19. Humanitarian NGOs 20. Five Generations of NGOs in Education: From Humanitarianism to Global Capitalism 21. The Roles of the Citizen Sector in Health and Public Health 22. NGOs and Peace 23. NGOs and the Environment 24. Civil Society, Expert Communities, and Private Standards 25. An Uncomfortable Relationship: NGOs, Trade Associations, and the Development of Industry Self-Regulation 26. NGOs and Global Trade 27. NGOs and Professions 28. Religiously Affiliated NGOs PART IV: Regional Perspectives 29. Transnational NGOs in the United States 30. NGOs in the European Union 31. The Non-Profit Sector in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia 32. NGOs in East and Southeast Asia 33. NGOs, Democracy and Development in Latin America 34. Civil Societies and NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa: The Cases of Egypt and Tunisia 35. NGOs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Potentials, Constraints and Diverging Experiences 36. NGOs in South Asia PART V: Contemporary Challenges 37. Democracy and NGOs 38. NGOs and Authoritarianism 39. NGOs and Security in Conflict Zones 40. NGOs and the Challenge of Global Terrorism 41. International NGO Legitimacy: Challenges and Responses 42. NGO Accountability

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Book SynopsisIn this third edition of Migration in World History, Patrick Manning presents an expanded and newly coherent view of migratory processes, conveying new research and interpretation. The engaging narrative shows the continuity of migratory processes from the time of foragers who settled the earth to farmers opening new fields and merchants linking purchasers everywhere. In the last thousand years, accumulation of wealth brought capitalism, industry, and the travels of free and slave migrants. In a contest of civilizational hierarchy and movements of emancipation, nations arose to replace empires, although conflicts within nations expelled refugees. The future of migration is now a serious concern.The new edition includes: An introduction to the migration theories that explain the shifting patterns of migration in early and recent times Quantification of changes in migration, including international migration, domestic urbanization, Trade Review"Migration in World History is the most revolutionary and innovative study of migration that has ever been written. It not only shows how systemic migration is for human societies, but also allows the reader to understand its different expressions (invaders, colonizers, sojourners and itinerants) and their impact on social change through time. Furthermore, it can be read as an alternative and truly global history through the lens of mobility and human interactions." Leo Lucassen, Director of the International Institute of Social History, The Netherlands "Patrick Manning’s Migration in World History displays a broad knowledge of world history that deemphasizes political and imperial interpretations of historical change. Drawing on genetics, anthropology, linguistics, and archaeology — in addition to a lifetime of historical research — Manning argues that the human 'pattern of accelerating innovation through discussion and migration' began not with the Industrial Revolution, nor even the advent of agriculture, but on a more epochal scale with the earliest human travels." Thomas M. Truxes, New York University, USA Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface to the first edition Preface to the second edition Preface to the third edition A Note on the Expression of Time 1. Introduction: modeling patterns of human migration 2. Earliest human migrations, to 40,000 BP 3. Peopling northern and American regions, 40,000 to 15,000 BP 4. Agriculture, 15,000 BP to 5000 BP 5. Commerce, 3000 BCE to 500 CE 6. Modes of movement, 500 CE to 1400 CE 7. Spanning the Oceans, 1400 to 1700 8. Labor for industry and empire, 1700 to 1900 9. Diasporas and nations in expansion, 1900 to 1980 10. Migration in global transformation, 1980 to 2050 Appendix: Migration theory and debates References to Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to the wide-ranging topic of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and development, combining a critical overview of the main research literature with a set of up-to-date theoretical and practical insights drawn from experience in Asia, Europe, Africa and elsewhere.The revised second edition highlights the continuing importance of NGOs in development, while fully engaging with the criticisms that their increased profile now attracts. It considers issues such as securitization, changing technologies, and recent concerns about safeguarding as well as going into more detail around topics such as market-based development and social enterprise. The diversity of NGOs and their roles is discussed against the broader historical background of struggles for social justice in different societies, as well as within the shifting ideological contexts of neoliberalism and populism. Using a broad range of short case studies of both successful and unsuccessful intTable of Contents1. Introduction: what are non-governmental organizations? 2. Understanding development NGOs in historical context 3. NGOs and development theory 4. NGOs and development: from alternative to mainstream? 5. NGO roles in contemporary development practice 6. NGOs and civil society 7. NGOs and globalization 8. NGOs and the aid system 9. NGOs and international humanitarian action 10. Development NGOs in perspective

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that relationships between religion and development in faith-based development work are constructed through repeated processes of negotiation. Rather than being a neat and tidy relationship, faith-based development work is complex and multifaceted: an ongoing series of negotiations between theological interpretations and theories of human development; between identities as professional practitioners and as believers; between different religious traditions at local, regional and international levels; and between institutional structures and individual agency. In particular, the book draws on a deep ethnographic study of Christian faith-based development work in the Bolivian Andes. The case study highlights the importance of seeing theological interpretations as being firmly embedded in local religious and cultural systems involved in a constant process of identity construction. Overall, the book argues that religion should not be seen as homogeneous, or eitherTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Perspectives on Religion and Development 3. Religion and Development in Bolivia: Resistance and Decolonisation 4. Constructing a Faith-Based Identity 5. Theological Frameworks for Understanding Development 6. Faith-Based Discourses of Development 7. Practicing Integral Development 8. Unresolved Tensions in Faith-Based Development 9. Conclusion: Negotiations and Contentions of Religion and Development

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Book SynopsisHeralded as a success that mobilized support for development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ushered in an era of setting development agendas by setting global goals. This book critically evaluates the MDG experience from the capabilities and human rights perspectives, and questions the use of quantitative targets as an instrument of global governance. It provides an account of their origins, trajectory and influence in shaping the policy agenda, and ideas about international development during the first 15 years of the 21st century. The chapters explore: whether the goals are adequate as benchmarks for the transformative vision of the Millennium Declaration; how the goals came to be formulated the way they were, drawing on interviews with key actors who were involved in the process; how the goals exercised influence through framing to shape policy agendas on the part of both developing countries and the international community; the politicaTrade Review‘This book, by one of the foremost analysts of development goals, presents a review of the strong influence but also the limitations of the United Nations’ MDGs. It holds important lessons on the use of global goals, and it is a must read in the era of the SDGs launched by the UN in 2015.’ - José Antonio Ocampo, Professor, Columbia University, USA. Former UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs'This critically important book examines the consequences of using numerical goals for development. Focusing on the major contemporary development initiative, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr exposes serious limitations of governance by indicators, particularly for a human rights approach to development.' Sally Engle Merry, New York University and author of 'The Seductions of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking' 'Just like the king in "The Little Prince" claimed to command the sun to set every evening, the MDGs have been credited with results that would most likely have happened anyhow, while obscuring increased inequalities and structural causes. A privileged witness and participant, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr brilliantly documents in this book two decades of development practice and narrative and draws unavoidable conclusions.' - Roberto Bissio, coordinator of Social WatchTable of ContentsIntroduction: Goals and norms of development Part I Shaping the international development agenda: From human development and human rights to basic needsChapter 1. Prospective circa 2003: The Millennium Development Goals—why they matterChapter 2. Retrospective circa 2013: Recapturing the human rights vision of the Millennium DeclarationPart II The marketplace of ideasChapter 3. The emergence and spread of the global poverty normChapter 4. The poverty narrative and the political economy of developmentChapter 5. Are the MDGs a priority in national poverty reduction strategies and aid programs? Only a few are!Part III Global goals and the power of numbers Chapter 6. Global goals as a policy tool: Intended and unintended effects of quantificationChapter 7. The power of numbers: How targets perverted human rights and human development agendasChapter 8. Framing the discourse and shaping agendas: The MDG hunger target and the narrative of food securityChapter 9. MDGs as performance measures: Faulty metrics that penalize countries starting behindChapter 10. Conclusion: Global goals to set international agendasSelect bibliography

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Book SynopsisAid effectiveness has emerged as an intensely debated issue amongst policy makers, donors, development practitioners, civil society and academics during the past decade. This debate revolves around one important question: does official development assistance complement, duplicate or disregard the local resource endowment in offering support to recipient economies?This book draws on Pakistan's experience in responding to this question with a diverse range of examples. It focuses on a central idea: no aid effectiveness without an effective receiving mechanism. Pakistan is among the top aid recipient countries in the developing economies. It was a shining model in the sixties and it ranks among the highly underperforming countries after the new millennium. This book offers an insight into the dynamics of success and failure of Pakistan in availing foreign financial and technical assistance for human development and poverty alleviation. It draws on field experiences tTrade Review‘Fayyaz Baqir’s book, Poverty Alleviation and Poverty of Aid, offers a brilliant exposure of how international assistance operated in Pakistan; and how the measures undertaken for poverty reduction fell short of addressing the major issues that needed attention. Using stories of development and historical and conceptual analyses, Fayyaz provides a rich account of how Pakistan’s key problem has not been lack of financial resources but of efficient and effective use of the resources’ — Nipa Banerjee, Senior Fellow, School of International Development & Center for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa Sprott School of Business- Carleton University, Senior Advisor, Rideau Institute'This book is fascinating. The examples are so clear and detailed and heartbreaking . Everyone in the development field should read it. The examples of what has been effective and what hasn't are concrete and well-supported. I look forward to the next book by this author examining examples of effective programs from several countries.' — Barbara Neuwelt, former volunteer, CUSO, Canada"I found your insights into what makes effective development both powerful and well documented. I fully agree that development works best when it is organically designed bottom-up with local communities and that very little seed money from international aid agencies is needed, and in fact can weaken ownership and sustainability and add to the debt burden. I also have found that farmers and the poor can pay (and indeed as you point out, often pay more than others informally) for services if they are given ownership and responsibility. I thought your description of the "business" of aid on page 30 was chillingly accurate [..] Twenty years ago, based on strong evidence that local ownership was of critical importance, the World Bank began moving away from the "Washington Consensus" to listening harder to clients, recognizing the need for inclusive and differentiated national strategies." — Anthony Cholst, World Bank’s Former Operations Adviser, Pakistan ‘Fayyaz Baqir’s book, Poverty Alleviation and Poverty of Aid, offers a brilliant exposure of how international assistance operated in Pakistan; and how the measures undertaken for poverty reduction fell short of addressing the major issues that needed attention. Using stories of development and historical and conceptual analyses, Fayyaz provides a rich account of how Pakistan’s key problem has not been lack of financial resources but of efficient and effective use of the resources’ — Nipa Banerjee, Senior Fellow, School of International Development & Center for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa Sprott School of Business- Carleton University, Senior Advisor, Rideau Institute'This book is fascinating. The examples are so clear and detailed and heartbreaking . Everyone in the development field should read it. The examples of what has been effective and what hasn't are concrete and well-supported. I look forward to the next book by this author examining examples of effective programs from several countries.' — Barbara Neuwelt, former volunteer, CUSO, Canada"I found your insights into what makes effective development both powerful and well documented. I fully agree that development works best when it is organically designed bottom-up with local communities and that very little seed money from international aid agencies is needed, and in fact can weaken ownership and sustainability and add to the debt burden. I also have found that farmers and the poor can pay (and indeed as you point out, often pay more than others informally) for services if they are given ownership and responsibility. I thought your description of the "business" of aid on page 30 was chillingly accurate [..] Twenty years ago, based on strong evidence that local ownership was of critical importance, the World Bank began moving away from the "Washington Consensus" to listening harder to clients, recognizing the need for inclusive and differentiated national strategies." — Anthony Cholst, World Bank’s Former Operations Adviser, Pakistan Table of Contents1. NGO’s Ladder to Development - knowledge and the Path of Solicitation 2. Access to Water and the Science of Financial Patronage 3. Informal Settlements, Land Mafia and Failure of Government Policy 4. Women Cotton Pickers in Pakistan: Lost Between the Civil Society and the State 5. Why ‘Education for All’ Does Not Turn into ‘All for Education’? 6. Universal Health Coverage; Is Health Micro Insurance the Answer? 7. Poverty Alleviation and Arithmetic of the Poor

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the international development of the census by comparing the history of census taking on all continents and in many countries. The timeframe is wide, from male censuses in the Bible to current censuses covering the whole population. There is a focus on the efforts and destinies of census takers and the development of methods used to collect information into the census questionnaires. The book highlights international cooperation in census taking, as well as how computerized access to census data facilitates genealogical studies and statistical research on both historical and contemporary societies. It deals with such questions as Why did the French and British gentry block efforts at census taking in the 18th century?; What role did German censuses play during Holocaust?; Why were the Soviet census directors executed as part of the Moscow processes?; Why did US states sue the Census Bureau in the 1970s?; How do wars and revolutions affect census taking?Table of Contents1. Introduction and Pre-Censuses 2. Revolutionary Census Taking 3. Numeric censuses during the Restoration Period from 1815 4. The Nominative Census Revived 5. International Cooperation and Comparison 6. Into the 20th century - ups and downs of census taking 7. Towards a Global Census? 8. Census technology 9 The Historical Census References

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Book SynopsisDisasters, Gender and Access to Healthcare: Women in Coastal Bangladesh emphasizes women's experiences in cyclone disasters being confined with gendered identity and responsibilities in developing socio-economic conditions with minimum healthcare facilities. The study is situated in the coastal region of Bangladesh, considered as one of the most disaster-prone regions in the world. Bangladesh has been working on disaster management for a long time; however, considering gender perspective, the book reveals gaps in plans and raises serious questions about the successful implementation of healthcare strategies after disasters. The book also describes the preduringafter disaster periods showing the full picture of a disaster attack in victims' own words. Case studies of seriously affected victims give the reader an opportunity to understand the situations created for women during a disaster attack in a remote area with poor transport and healthcare facilities. TheTable of Contents1. Introduction: Why is gender analysis important in understanding the health impacts of disasters? 2. Research methodology and fieldwork in Bangladesh 3. Impacts of disasters on health 4. Gendered health impacts of disasters 5. Impacts of disaster on healthcare accessibility 6. Gender and healthcare access after disasters 7. Prevailing initiatives, gaps and people’s expectations 8. Conclusion and recommendations

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Book SynopsisEthnic minority communities make claims for cultural rights from states in different ways depending on how governments include them in policies and practices of accommodation or assimilation. However, institutional explanations don't tell the whole story, as individuals and communities also protest, using emotionally compelling narratives about past wrongs to justify their claims for new rights protections. Democratization and Memories of Violence: Ethnic minority rights movements in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador examines how ethnic minority communities use memories of state and paramilitary violence to shame states into cooperating with minority cultural agendas such as the right to mother tongue education. Shaming and claiming is a social movement tactic that binds historic violence to contemporary citizenship. Combining theory with empirics, the book accounts for how democratization shapes citizen experiences of interest representation and how memorialization procTrade Review"From its main question, to its principal lines of argumentation, to its selection of empirical cases, Democratization and Memories of Violence is an important contribution to comparative politics. It demonstrates with uncommon skill how communities across nations and time use the memories of violence to elicit responses from the state and the conditions under which this type of mobilization proves successful." — Omar G. Encarnación, Professor of Political Studies, Bard College, USA"Mneesha Gellman’s Democratization and Memories of Violence brilliantly moves among social movement theory, memory studies, and the strictures of political science to demonstrate how marginalized communities around the world do "shaming and claiming" so states recognize and at times heeding their demands. In doing so, Gellman herself exercises the best of what students of memory and social movements bring to the table: she gives voice to some of the most voiceless of Mexico, El Salvador and Turkey, she makes visible and absolutely politically relevant those who are conventionally rendered less visible. Gellman’s work is instructive for memory and comparative democratization debates across quite distinct global regions." — Katherine Hite, Professor of Political Science, Frederick Ferris Thompson Chair, Vassar College, USA"This book is an excellent resource and contributes greatly to ongoing conversations in the humanities and social sciences on social memory, politics of memory, the relation of ethnic minorities to the state, indigeneity and identity formation, social movements, democracy and democratic transitions—and more." — Ellen Moodie, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USATable of Contents1. Why Communities Shame and Claim 2. Memory, Violence, and Shaming and Claiming in Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico 3. The Fight for Triqui Autonomy in San Juan Copala, Oaxaca, Mexico 4. Turkey: Memory, "Mountain Turks," and the Politics of Turkification 5. Armenians and the "G" Word in Turkey 6. Nahuas in El Salvador: Negating "Pupusas" But Eating Them Too 7. Cultural Erosion: Fragile Lenca Persistence in Morazán, El Salvador 8. Dynamics of Shaming and Claiming in Comparative Perspective 9. Conclusion: Memory Matters in Shaming and Claiming

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Book SynopsisThis is an unusual book. Combining social science fiction, utopianism, pragmatism, sober analysis and innovative social theory, the authors address one of the biggest dilemmas of our age how to solve the problems arising from mass displacement. As early versions of the solution proposed by Robin Cohen and Nicholas Van Hear filtered out, their vision of a new, networked, transnational archipelago, called Refugia, was immediately denounced or met with scepticism by established refugee scholars. Others were more intrigued, more open-minded, or perhaps just holding their fire until this book was finally published. As it at least has the virtue of originality, why not judge the proposal for yourself? Read it and craft your own critique. The authors have initiated an openly pro-refugee vision that all can help to shape. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to scholars, students, practitioners and an informed public ready to engage with this Table of ContentsRefugia 2030 1. Introduction 2. Thinking Differently: Political and Social Theory 3. Alternative Visions: From an Arc to ‘Zatopia’ 4. Refugia Now: Prefigurations 5. Making Refugia Work 6. Summary and Engagement with Critics

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Book SynopsisWritten by a team of expert practitioners at the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD, this book gives an overview of evaluation practice at IFAD.It looks at how evaluation practice has evolved to reflect, respond to and inform changing expectations of development assistance. It reveals how evaluation products and methodologies have benefited from key reviews, revisions and lessons learned, and also how they have progressively strengthened IFAD's capacity to assess its operations and better understand its results. The book concludes with reflections on some of the challenges that lie ahead, including how the independent evaluation function can continue to evolve to meet future challenges and enhance the impact of development initiatives on people's lives.This valuable insight into practice will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and policymakers in development economics, development studies and rural studies.Trade Review'Finally, a systematic account of evaluation at the service of poor farmers around the world. It establishes that evaluation can make a difference; that accountability is compatible with learning and that independent evaluation is a corporate asset. A must-have for all development practitioners.' — Robert Picciotto, Former Director General, Independent Evaluation Group, World BankTable of Contents1. Introduction, 2. Evolution of the Independent Evaluation Function at IFAD, 3. Influential Evaluations, 4. Evaluations of Inclusive Development, 5. Evaluations for Sustainable Development, 6. Learning and Knowledge Management, 7. Partnerships in Evaluation, 8. The Way Forward

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Book SynopsisRethinking African Agriculture argues that rural communities in Africa are still shaped by non-agrarian factors both in livelihood strategy and social formation.This volume renews and deepens the research on the African peasantry by offering a fresh perspective drawn from the hitherto largely unknown Japanese research on the subject. The ethnographic fieldwork focuses not only on the micro environment of the producers but also the broader historical context in which they live and work. The contributors argue that, in comparison with other regions of the world, Africa has never passed through an agrarian revolution that would effectively change the mode of production from within. Modernization efforts from the outside have fallen far short of the ambition to transform agriculture in Africa. Rural Africa is still largely a natural society characterized by non-agrarian features as evident in people's livelihood, social organization, and farming systems. This bookTable of Contents1. Peasant Agriculture in Africa: Science meets History 2. Missing out on the Agrarian Revolution: African Peasantry in Historical Perspective 3. Economy of Affection in Africa: The Informal Basis of Development 4. Farming Practices among African Hunter-Gatherers: Diversifying without Loss of the Past 5. Shifting Cultivators as Generalist Managers: The Threat of ‘Saving the Rain Forest’ 6. Unique Features of African Agro-pastoralism: Adapting Life and Sharing Wealth in Fluid Environment 7. Food Sharing among Commercial Rice Growers: Persistence of the Subsistence Ethic in Kenya 8. Longstanding Imprints of Natural Society: Towards a New Science of Agriculture in Africa 9. Making Innovations Socially Inclusive: Lessons from the Bemba in Zambia 10. General Conclusions: Implications for Research and Policy

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Book SynopsisAny city is a product of politics and economics, organizations and people. Yet, the life experiences of women uprooted from its poorest quarters seldom inform urban resettlement plans. In this ethnographic field study, Ramya Ramanath, Associate Professor at DePaul University, examines the lives of women displaced by slum clearance and relocated to the largest slum resettlement site in Asia. Through conversations with diverse women of different ages, levels of education, types of employment, marital status, ethnicity, caste, religion, and household make-up, Ramanath recounts how women negotiate a drastic change in environment, from makeshift housing in a park slum to ownership of a high-rise apartment in a posh Mumbai suburb. Each phase of their city lives reflects how women initiate change and disseminate a vision valuable to planners intent on urban and residential transformations. Ramanath urges the concerted engagement of residents in design, development, and evaluTrade Review‘Ramya Ramanath skillfully engages an incredible range of women whose experiences vividly illustrate their struggle to make homes, access livelihoods, rebuild lives and construct new identities in the aftermath of their resettlement. These voices are a powerful mode to understand the dynamics of the brutal dislocations, disruptions, and transitions that the poor experience in Mumbai.’Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard University, USA‘Ramanath shows us the value to be gained when women are ‘listened’ to. Most literature on slums and relocation/rehabilitation takes particular stances on the existence of informal settlements and state intervention in them. The author adds nuance and complexity to these conventional narratives on both fronts. Above all, these narratives also expose the falsehood of the claims of participatory processes by movements, its politics and dynamics and their vulnerability to pressures of the larger political economy. This book will be a learning tool for cities around the world.’Amita Bhide, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India‘A Place to Call Home sensitively highlights the everyday rhythms of the lives, aspirations and frustrations of a diverse group of 120 women before and after their displacement from a slum in Mumbai’s famous national park to Asia’s largest urban resettlement scheme. It is a must read for anybody interested in gender, place making, urban resettlement and public policy.’Lyla Mehta, Institute of Development Studies, UK ‘There is much to learn from Ramanath’s work about the importance of relationality, behaviours, memory and materiality within place. The book is a pragmatic, cogent argument for resettlement and rehabilitation policy to give more sensitive attention to the lifeworlds of future residents. The documents of master-planners and consultants frequently contain content, based on ‘consultation’, that purports to identify what is important about a place. The power of this book is that it shows how engagement that is more open and more genuine than what consultants usually achieve generates less quantifiable and less monetisable, yet more profound and infinitely more important findings.’Housing Studies'The ethnographic methodology adopted by Ramanath yields a depth of humanity that would otherwise be lost or overlooked in the aggregate facts and figures summarizing the effectiveness of such policies and programs. Yet, it also leaves the reader with the acute awareness of the effort needed to ensure that these voices reach the ears of researchers, policymakers, and practitioners working on the ground in resettlement and rehabilitation efforts in India and around the world. We are left wondering, how might the rules of newly constructed apartment buildings that enforce "benevolent segregation" accommodate the social capital lost in the resettlement process? An excellent read for those who wish to hear the voices on the ground during the resettlement process.'Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 'A Place to Call Home: Women as Agents of Change in Mumbai convincingly argues, a gendered perspective has sorely been missing from the discussion. To this end, the book makes a timely and original contribution, offering a nuanced interpretation of the role of gender in rehousing processes in rapidly urbanizing regions. However, due to the pervasiveness of the displacement phenomenon worldwide, the book could also be of great value to scholars and practitioners in the global north.'Journal of Planning Education and ResearchTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Vibrant Matter of The Past: A Woman’s Theory of Place 3. Deliberation Over Legitimate Benefactors in A Neoliberal Bazaar 4. Hazards of A New Fortune 5. Buildings and Business, Love and Forgiveness 6. The Depth of Place

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Book SynopsisAround the world lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer individuals are subjected to violence and intimidation based on their real or perceived sexuality, gender identity or expression. With those most at risk of human rights violations often living in areas of low economic development, questions of sexuality, gender identity, and expression have become a significant area of research within the field of development studies. The Routledge Handbook of Queer Development Studies is the first full length study of queer development studies, collecting the very best in research from around the world. Topics for discussion include: Queering policy and planning in development Queer development critique and queer critiques of development Global LGBTIQ rights Queer social movements and mobilizations At a time when development and human rights organizations such as the World Bank,Trade Review"A must-read and a much-needed handbook for anyone interested in queer investigations of development. It brings together for the first time key queerly diverse and emergent scholars and activists in the field, while facing head-on the contestations and debates about both queerness and development." — Ilan Kapoor, York University, Toronto, Canada"The ‘sexuality turn’ in development studies comes under timely and through scrutiny in this collection. Bringing together established and emerging voices in the field, it stages fresh conversations about the contested meanings of development and queerness, but also the debates and contradictions in queer theory and development studies. A valuable resource for thinking and teaching." — Jyoti Puri, Professor of Sociology, Simmons College, Boston, USA"An indispensable resource for understanding the contested histories, theories, and projects of the emerging field of queer development. This diverse collection of critical interventions variously disrupt current "progressive" narratives that tie colonial and neoliberal agendas to LGBT rights, while creating much-needed space for imagining and enacting queer futures otherwise." — Suzanne Bergeron, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USATable of ContentsIntroduction to Queer Development Studies Reader Corinne L. Mason Section 1: Queering Policy and Planning 1. Foundational: Changing Families and Communities: An LGBT Contribution to an Alternative Development Path Peter Drucker 2. Troubling Hetero/cisnormative Educational Practices in International Development Robert C. Mizzi 3. Queerying Development Planning: Recognizing Needs and Identifying Vulnerable Populations in Africa Petra L. Doan 4. Gender, Sexuality and Development: avenues for action in a post-2015 development era Chloe Vaast and Elizabeth Mills Section 2: Queer Development Critique 5. Foundational: Arrested development or the queerness of savages: resisting evolutionary narratives of difference (with new preface) Neville Hoad 6. Dangerous Liaisons? (Homo)Developmentalism, Sexual Modernization and LGBTIQ Rights in Europe Christine M. Klapeer 7. Decolonizing development work: a Transfeminist perspective Chamindra Weerawardhan Section 3: Global LGBTIQ Rights 8. Foundational: Critique of ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ in human rights discourse: global queer politics beyond the Yogyakarta Principles Matthew Waites 9. LGBTIQ (In)Visibility: A Human Security Approach to SOGIESC Ariel G. Mekler 10. Liveable Lives: A Transnational Queer-Feminist Reflection on Sexuality, Development and Governance Niharika Banerjea and Kath Browne 11. The Growing Chasm: International Polarization Around Queer Rights Dennis Altman and Jonathan Symons Section 4: Aiding Queer Mobilizations? 12. Foundation: Rescue, and Real Love: Same-sex Desire in International Development Andil Gosine 13. Queer Paradise: Development and Recognition in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec Marcus McGee 14. Queer Dilemmas: LGBT Activism and International Funding Julie Moreau and Ashley Currier 15. Politicized Priorities: Critical Implications for LGBTQ Movements Nick J. Mulé 16. Circumscribed Recognition: creating a space for young queer people in Delhi Maria Tonini 17. Disrupting Joburg Pride: Exploring the depoliticisation of Africa’s first Pride march Nyx McLean

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Book SynopsisThis title was first published in 2002: As rural Ireland undergoes deep-reaching changes, this book critically assesses what the author terms the renegotiation of rural development in Ireland through the repackaging, reproduction and representation of suggestions, ideas and alternatives for rural renewal. Deconstructing the process and practice of rural development in Ireland, John McDonagh explores the new approaches to development and the so-called desire for creating integrative policy and planning approaches. The main conduits for this investigation are those of partnership and community groups and their involvement in rural development issues. Further, through investigation of the relevant concepts and theories of rural change, the volume delves into the discourses of rurality and development and utilizes the diversity of approaches and understanding of, this increasingly complex issue.Table of ContentsRural change and development; a plurality of Irelands - changing discourses of economy, society and space; thoughts on rurality and rural Ireland; deconstructing development - Irish style!; retrospect and prospect - the role of church, state and community in rural Ireland; the emergence of rural governance in Ireland; recasting the rural in Ireland.

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Book SynopsisEach year, approximately a million tourists visit slum areas on guided tours as a part of their holiday to Asia, Africa or Latin America. This book analyses the cultural encounters that take place between slum tourists and former street children, who work as tour guides for a local NGO in Delhi, India. Slum tours are typically framed as both tourist performances, bought as commodities for a price on the market, and as appeals for aid that tourists encounter within an altruistic discourse of charity. This book enriches the tourism debate by interpreting tourist performances as affective economies, identifying tour guides as emotional labourers and raising questions on the long-term impacts of economically unbalanced encounters with representatives of the Global North, including the researcher.This book studies the feeling rules' governing a slum tour and how they shape interactions. When do guides permit tourists to exoticise the slum and feel a thrTrade Review"Through this book we come to learn more about the circumstances that together construct the particular spatial environment known as the slum, the representations of Delhi’s street children that become fixed as a part of the guides’ identities and performances, the aestheticization of the slum, and the complex interplays in the co-performances that are the tours. It provides a compelling and insightful lens into the intersections of the complex objectives and impacts of encounters between poverty and tourism."- Meghan Muldoon, Arizona State UniversityTable of Contents1. Slum Tourism, Subalternity and Gentrification 2. The Authentic Slum or Former Street Children as Prisms of Authenticity? 3. Playing with Privilege? The Ethics of Aestheticizing the Slum 4 The Affective Economy of Slum Tourism 5. The Post-Humanitarian Logic of Slum Tourism 6 The Emotional Labour of CW-Guides 7 The Economy of Resocialisation: The Slumming Researcher? Conclusion and Further Perspectives

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Book SynopsisAccelerating sustainable energy transitions away from carbon-based fuel sources needs to be high on the agendas of developing countries. It is key in achieving their climate mitigation promises and sustainable energy development objectives. To bring about rapid transitions, simultaneous turns are imperative in hardware deployment, policy improvements, financing innovation, and institutional strengthening. These systematic turns, however, incur tensions when considering the multiple options available and the disruptions of entrenched power across pockets of transition innovations. These heterogeneous contradictions and their trade-offs, and uncertainties and risks have to be systematically recognized, understood, and weighed when making decisions. This book explores how the transitions occur in fourteen developing countries and broadly surveys their technological, policy, financing, and institutional capacities in response to the three key aspects of energy transitions: achievTrade Review"A thought-provoking volume that ties together the salient topic of energy transitions through a diverse array of lenses. Its engagement with institutional theory, technology studies, energy policy, and finance makes this a book to be reckoned with." — Benjamin K. Sovacool, Professor of Energy Policy, University of Sussex, UK"The hopes of the Paris Agreement in 2015 were quickly quelled by Trump’s presidency and his climate change skepticism. Delina’s book is extremely timely in this era of uncertainty and urgently calls for the acceleration of sustainable energy transitions in developing countries. This book makes a major contribution on how to evoke this change, focusing on the fields of hardware, financing and institution shift." — May Tan-Mullins, Dean of Graduate Studies, and Director of Asia and Pacific Studies, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China"Current development pathways fail to propel the world toward a sustainable and more prosperous future for human society and the planet. The countries that need to develop the most are also those that stand to lose the most from climate change-related impacts. The good news is there is a better future to be had. By achieving a sustainable energy system transition, we can take our global environment and development goals and "move the needle" toward making them a reality. This book accurately illuminates the indisputable linkages between energy access, poverty alleviation and sustainable development through achieving energy system transitions across the developing global south. By taking stock of the current capacities available for accelerating the transition, it provides a menu of solutions across policy, financing and governance to tackle the vast barriers presently preventing us from moving at the speed and scale required. There is no one silver bullet and the task ahead is immense. But as explained in this book, an energy system transition that is socially just offers us a better, more prosperous future for all." — Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute, USA"Laurence Delina's new book presents research findings that make a significant contribution to the current literature on sustainability and energy development. The analysis is novel and the book fills a vacuum for a better understanding of sustainable energy transitions from a developing country perspective. The author’s key message is that the deployment of transition hardware to achieve sustainable energy development and climate change mitigation goals will require enabling and inclusive policy frameworks, appropriate and flexible financing mechanisms and, most importantly, institutional arrangements to channel energy transition." — Debajit Palit, Associate Director, The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI, India"Laurence Delina’s book is a timely and significant contribution to a real discussion that policymakers in developing countries are already having. As a climate change negotiator for the Philippines and as a sustainable energy advocate, I appreciate how Delina presents comprehensive information and analysis on our options. He grounds his analysis on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, both agreed to in 2015. The book also profiles fourteen developing countries: Bhutan, Brazil, Chile, China, El Salvador, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Nepal, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam, and Zambia. Given the diversity of these countries, geographically and in terms of state of development, the insights and lessons Delina extracts from these case studies will inform developing countries of any region, whether the country is middle income or less developed. The book reassures and gives practical guidance for all our countries to achieve an energy-secure future, one that guarantees access to affordable energy to the poor without sacrificing the environment and exacerbating climate change." — Antonio La Viña, Executive Director, Manila Observatory, and Climate Change Lead Negotiator for the Philippines"Laurence Delina’s new book starts from the premise that "a global transition to socially inclusive and low carbon development that is responsive to poverty reduction has become indispensible." Founded firmly in the belief that such transitions are not only necessary but also achievable, Accelerating Sustainable Energy Transitions in Developing Countries makes a major contribution towards clarifying the choices that lay before key decision-makers when determining how such ambitious goals might best be operationalized at the national level. Recognising that sustainable energy transitions will take many different forms, reflecting the diversity of resource endowments, political realities/capacities and financial circumstances, Delina traces the contours of the potential "technology options, policy and funding options and institutional designs" open to those charged with turning rhetorical international commitments into real progress." -- Ed Brown, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Loughborough University, UK, and National Co-Coordinator, UK Low Carbon Energy for Development Network"Accelerating Sustainable Energy Transitions in Developing Countries is rich in promise and possibilities. It puts forth evidence to demonstrate that such a transition is both possible and desirable in fourteen nations. Overall, this is a work of significant breadth exploring technologies, policy strategies, financial paths and institutional support mechanisms for supporting a global energy transition that requires expedience. It is a valuable gateway into what is perhaps the greatest challenge mankind has ever faced."-- Scott Victor Valentine, Assistant Dean (Research) and Associate Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, SingaporeTable of ContentsForewordRachel KyteChapter One: IntroductionChapter Two: Study countriesChapter Three: Transition hardwareChapter Four: Accelerating deploymentChapter Five: Policy turnChapter Six: Financing turnChapter Seven: Institutional turnChapter Eight: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisCity greening has been heralded for contributing to environmental governance and critiqued for exacerbating displacement and inequality. Bringing these two disparate analyses into conversation, this book offers a comparative understanding of how tensions between growth, environmental protection, and social equity are playing out in practice. Examining Chicago, USA, Birmingham, UK, and Vancouver, Canada, McKendry argues that city greening efforts were closely connected to processes of post-industrial branding in the neoliberal economy. While this brought some benefits, concerns about the unequal distribution of these benefits and greening's limited environmental impact challenged its legitimacy. In response, city leaders have moved toward initiatives that strive to better address environmental effectiveness and social equity while still spurring growth. Through an analysis that highlights how different varieties of liberal environmentalism are manifested in each case, this booTrade Review'Can the world’s cities save Earth’s environment? As international environmentalism becomes ever more sclerotic, growing numbers of cities across the world are proclaiming their sustainability bona fides through programs and projects rooted in what Corina McKendry calls "green urban entrepreneurialism." But are these programs any more than green window dressing, designed to attract trendy, upscale people? Dr McKendry looks closely into three world cities—Chicago, Vancouver and Birmingham, UK—to assess whether Being Green is more than just another cliché and finds that it does mean something. This extraordinary book should be read widely by students, scholars and citizens who want to make a difference within their cities as well as across the world as a whole.'—Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA'By using comparative methodology, McKendry sets this book apart from most books on cities, which tend to be monographs. With rich, comparative data this book illuminates the similarities and differences of efforts to green cities in a multinational context. Moreover, McKendry produces a highly productive typology of "liberal environmentalisms" that give us a new conceptual tool to understand the contested political project of urban sustainability.'—Nik Janos, Assistant Professor, California State University, Chico, USA'Greening Post-Industrial Cities advances our understanding of cities in global environmental governance by placing the urban greening and environmental justice literatures into conversation and exploring how "varieties of liberal environmentalism" have played out in different urban contexts. With healthy skepticism and hopeful pragmatism, McKendry helps us imagine cities as sites for creating a more equitable and sustainable future.'—Michele M. Betsill, Department of Political Science, Colorado State University, USA'Analysts and practitioners alike have long recognized that cities are major actors in, and arenas of, global governance. By their nature they are internally complex, diverse and contested. In order to better understand them, therefore, we need theoretically informed empirical studies that capture city dynamics across time rather than at any one turning point. Corina McKendry’s book contributes profoundly to the study of cities by providing an empirically fine-grained comparison of the greening of three important cities, based on a compelling theoretical scheme that will inform and influence future research on urban politics and global governance.'—Dimitris Stevis, Department of Political Science, Colorado State University, USATable of Contents1. Local Politics of Global Environmental Governance2. From Keynesianism to Liberal Environmentalism3. Greening the Post-Industrial City4. Beyond Green Urban Entrepreneurialism 5. Energy and Climate Justice 6. Green Urban Development7. Environmental Amenities 8. Conclusion – Cities and the Challenge of Environmental GovernancePostface: Green Cities in an Uncertain MomentReferences

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Book SynopsisSport is frequently considered to be an aspect of popular culture that is, or should be, untainted by the political. However, there is a broad consensus among academics that sport is often at the heart of the political and the political is often central to sport. From the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany to the civil unrest that preceded the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, sport and politics have remained symbiotic bedfellows. The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics goes further than any other book in surveying the complex, embedded relationships between sport and politics. With sections addressing ideologies, nation and statehood, corporate politics, political activism, social justice, and the politics of sports events, it introduces the conceptual foundations that underpin our understanding of the sport-politics nexus and examines emergent issues in this field of study. Including in-depth case studies from North America, South America, Europe, the Middle EaTable of ContentsPart 1: Sport and The Study of Politics Part 2: Sport, Politics and Ideologies Part 3: Sport, Nation and Statehood Part 4: Sport, Corporate Politics and the Global Community Part 5: Sport, Political Activism and Social Justice Part 6: Politics and Sporting Events

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Book SynopsisAmong several contesting views about the purpose of development and how progress should be evaluated, human rights and capabilities (or human development) stand out as two approaches that are concerned first and foremost with the well-being of individuals, their freedom, dignity and empowerment. These two approaches contrast sharply with the dominant development frameworks that emphasize economic growth as the essential objective. Though human rights and capabilities share these common commitment to human priorities, they are distinct concepts and fields that have developed separately. The aim of this volume is to explore the relationship between them in order to enhance the understanding of both as theoretical paradigms, as public policy frameworks and as approaches to development.The book includes contributions from some of the leading scholars in the two fields of capabilities approach and human rights. It covers the essential aspects of this relationship: addressinTable of ContentsForeword Amartya Sen Chapter 1. Introduction: The Capability approach and human rights Polly Vizard, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Diane Elson Chapter 2. Capabilities, Entitlements, Rights: Supplementation and Critique Martha Nussbaum Chapter 3. Responsible Pluralism, Capabilities and Human Rights Jay Drydyck Chapter 4. Economics and Human Rights: A Non-Conversation Sanjay Reddy Chapter 5. The Metrics of Human Rights:Complementarities of the Human Development and Capabilities Approach Sakiko Fukuda-Parr Chapter 6. ‘Operationalising’ the capability approach as a basis for equality and human rights monitoring in 21st century Britain Tania Burchardt and Polly Vizard Chapter 7. Millennium Development Goals and human rights: Far away, so close? Simone Cecchini and Francesco Notti Chapter 8. Right to information and local governance institutions: An exploration P.B. Anand Chapter 9. Financial Regulation, Capabilities and human Rights in the US Financial Crisis: the Case of Housing Radhika Balakrishnan, Diane Elson, and James Heintz Chapter 10. Towards a Human Rights Accountability Index Philip Alston Chapter 11. Poverty and Human Rights: Building on the Capability Approach Siddiqur Rahman Osmani

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Book SynopsisBringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, The City as Target provides a sustained and critical response to the relationship between the concept of targeting (in its many forms) and notions of understanding, imagining and shaping the urban. Among the many spatial and graphic terms used to describe cities in urban studies, the word target is rarely encountered. Though equally spatial, it differs from these others by implying some motive force, and, more than that, a force with some intentionality. To target is to aim, to project, and ultimately to impact. It suggests a space of violence, or at least action, or movement resulting in displacement, which most other terms do not. In that sense it is useful, underused, and perhaps revelatory. Rather than approach the city as simply a site of growth, processes, and developments, the contributors to this volume treat it as the recipient of attentions. The work draws on a wide variety of geographicTable of Contents1. Cities as Targets Ryan Bishop, Gregory Clancey, and John Phillips 2. ‘But with Malice Aforethought’: Cities and the Natural History of Hatred Nigel Thrift 3. Targeting the Imaginist City John Armitage 4. The Refugee War Eyal Weizman 5. Theme Park Archipelago: Convergences of War, Simulation and Entertainment in Urban Targeting Steve Graham 6. Empire or Imperialism: Implications for a "New" Politics of Resistance Pal Ahluwalia 7 . The City-as-Target: Targeting the City Verena Andermatt Conley 8. Tokyo: Water, Earthquake, and Island Universe Suzuki Hiroyuki 9. Vast Clearings: Emergency, Technology, and American De-Urbanization, 1930-1945 Gregory Clancey 10. Concealment and Exposure: Imagining London after the Great Fire Li Shiqiao 11. Moscow: Fortress City Irina Aristarkhova 12. Ars Memoria and Unbombing Tjebbe van Tijen 13. London: The Imperial Target Rajeev Patke 14. : Keizu to Nendaiki: Making and Erasing History in Tsukuba Science City at the Edge of Empire Sharon Traweek 15. The City and the Economy of "Losing": Targeting Competitive Bodies in an Era of Global Competition Robbie Goh 16. The Absorptive Assemblage Jordan Crandall 17. "The Target is the People": Representations of the Village in Modernization and National Security Doctrine Nick Cullather

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Book SynopsisThe prevailing view of industrialization has focussed on technology, capital, entrepreneurship and the institutions that enabled them to be deployed. Labour was often equated with other factors of production, and assigned a relatively passive role. Yet it was labour absorption and the improvement of the quality of labour over the course of several centuries that underscored the timing, pace and quality of global industrialization. While science and technology developed in the West and whereas the use of fossil fuels, especially coal and oil, were vital to this process, the more recent history has been underpinned by the development of comparatively resource- and energy-saving technology, without which the diffusion of industrialization would not have been possible. The labour-intensive, resource-saving path, which emerged in East Asia under the influence of Western technology and institutions, and is diffusing across the world, suggests the most realistic route humans could take forTrade Review"This volume presents an exciting set of economic explanations of global industrial development that fit the historical evidence far better than standard Anglo- or Euro-centric accounts." - Jeff Horn, Department of History, Manhatten College, in EH.Net"This collection of high-quality essays will interest a wide cross-section of economic historians and economists. The book offers a perspective on long-term industrial and economic development which is almost breath-taking in its range and simplicity... No longer confined to conference papers and sometimes rather obscure journals, the central ideas contained in this collection will doubtless lead to a great deal of interest and further research." - Porphant Ouyyanont, School of Economics, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Journal of Contemporary Asia"All in all this edited volume is a successful attempt to bring authorities in economic history in dialogue and discuss and assess use and limitations of LII as a perspective." - M. Erdem Kabadayi, Istanbul Bilgi University"This book can be expected to lead academic interchanges between economists and historians in order to consider potentia between economists and historians in order to consider potential development on a global scale...they contributed to opening discussions about the possibility to utilize the local point of view into the comparative histories that the discipline of Global History has promoted for 20 years." - Atsuko Munemura, Kansai University"…this carefully compiled collection not only demonstrates clearly that development paths have diverged considerably in the past, and that successful paths may be based on very different combinations of elements, but also that there are many total or partial failures, while turning points within individual paths have often resulted from non-economic causes." - Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social HistoryTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 Labour-intensive industrialization in global history: an interpretation of East Asian experiences 3 The industrious revolutions in East and West 4 Proto-industrialization and labour-intensive industrialization: reflections on Smithian growth and the role of skill intensity 5 Labour-intensity and industrializaton in colonial India 6 Labour-intensive industrialization in the rural Yangzi Delta: late imperial patterns and their modern fates 7 From peasant economy to urban agglomeration: the transformation of ‘labour-intensive industrialization’ in modern Japan 8 Government promotion of labour-intensive industrialization in Indonesia, 1930–1975 9 Labour intensity and manufacturing in West Africa, c.1450–c.2000 10 ‘Colonial’ industry and ‘modern’ manufacturing: opportunities for labour-intensive growth in Latin America c.1800–1940s 11 Labour-intensive industrialization: the case of nineteenth-century Alsace 12 Labour-intensive industrialization and global economic development: reflections

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Book SynopsisSoftware has become essential to the functioning of cities. It is deeply embedded into the systems and infrastructure of the built environment and is entrenched in the management and governance of urban societies. Software-enabled technologies and services enhance the ways in which we understand and plan cities. It even has an effect on how we manage urban services and utilities. Code and the City explores the extent and depth of the ways in which software mediates how people work, consume, communication, travel and play. The reach of these systems is set to become even more pervasive through efforts to create smart cities: cities that employ ICTs to underpin and drive their economy and governance. Yet, despite the roll-out of software-enabled systems across all aspects of city life, the relationship between code and the city has barely been explored from a critical social science perspective. This collection of essays seeks to fill that gap, and offers an interTable of Contents1 Code and the City: Introduction Rob Kitchin and Sung-Yueh Perng Section I: Code, Coding, Infrastructure, Cities 2 From a Single Line of Code to an Entire City: Reframing the Conceptual Terrain of Code/Space Rob Kitchin 3 The Internet of Urban Things Paul Dourish 4 Interfacing Urban Intelligence Shannon Mattern 5 Abstract Urbanism Matthew Fuller And Graham Harwood 6 Code-Traffic: Code Repositories, Crowds and Urban Life Adrian Mackenzie Section II Locative Media and Mobile Computing 7 Digital Social Interactions In The City: Reflecting On Location-Based Social Networks Luigina Ciolfi And Gabriela Avram 8 Feeling Place in The City: Strange Ontologies and Location-based Social Media Leighton Evans 9 Curating the City: Urban Interfaces and Locative Media as Experimental Platforms for Cultural Data Nanna Verhoeff and Clancy Wilmott 10 Moving Applications: A Multilayered Approach to Mobile Computing James Merricks White 11 Exploring Urban Social Media: Selfiecity and On Broadway Lev Manovich Section III Governance, Politics, Knowledge 12 Digital Urbanism in Crises Monika Büscher, Xaroula Kerasidou, Michael Liegl and Katrina Petersen 13 Coding Alternative Modes of Governance: Learning From Experimental ‘Peer to Peer Cities’ Alison Powell 14 Encountering the City at Hacking Events Sophia Maalsen and Sung-Yueh Perng 15 Semantic Cities: Coded Geopolitics and Rise of the Semantic Web Heather Ford and Mark Graham 16 Cities and Context: The Codification of Small Areas Through Geodemographic Classification Alex Singleton

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Book SynopsisThe concept of resilience currently infuses policy debates and public discourse, and is promoted as a normative concept in climate policy making by governments, non-governmental organizations, and think-tanks. This book critically discusses climate-resilient development in the context of current deficiencies of multilateral climate management strategies and processes. It analyses innovative climate policy options at national, (inter-)regional, and local levels from a mainly Southern perspective, thus contributing to the topical debate on alternative climate governance and resilient development models. Case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America give a ground-level view of how ideas from resilience could be used to inform and guide more radical development and particularly how these ideas might help to rethink the notion of ''progress'' in the light of environmental, social, economic, and cultural changes at multiple scales, from local to global. It integrates theory andTrade Review"...the book offers a variety of highly empirical and broad thinking chapters that offer both localized examples and expansive visions of climate-resilient development. It offers valuable information for students and analysts seeking examples of climate-related challenges. " - Tim Forsyth, Progress in Development Studies, London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction 1. Why This Book? Why Now? 2. Finding a Panacea? An Introduction into Climate-Resilient Development Part II: The Contribution of Local, Regional, and National Approaches to Climate-Resilient Development, or What Good Practices Can Be Disseminated or Mainstreamed? 3. Shaping Strategies: Factors and Actors in Climate Change Adaptation, 4. Climate Change Adaptation: International Policy and Field Reality in Benin, 5. Building Community-Based Institutions in the Western Orissa Rural Livelihoods Project (WORLP) for Green Development), 6.How Good Are Good Practices? Demystifying Community-Based Disaster Risk Management in Mozambique 7.Making a Difference through Integrated Natural Resource Management Programmes (INRM): The Role of KNUST University in Ghana Part III: Climate-Resilient Development, Innovation, and Best Practice – How to Reform and Bypass Inefficiencies in the International Climate Regime 8.Green Gold versus Black Gold – Climate Change, Development and the Yasuní-ITT Initiative: An Alternative Way Forward? 9. Developing Economies in the Current Climate Change Regime – New Prospects for Resilience and Sustainability? The Case of CDM Projects in Asia 10. Does the Right Hand Know What the Left Hand is Doing? Similar Problem, Opposing Remedies – A Comparison of the Montreal Protocol and UNFCCC 11.Interregional Climate Cooperation: EU-China Relations as a Success Story? 12. How to Bypass Multilateral Gridlocks – Resilient Climate Change Management and Efficient Multi-Level Climate Politics Bottom-up Part IV: The Way Forward to Climate-Resilient Development 12.Conclusions for Research and Policy Agendas

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