Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in Development and Society

Offers an examination of the issues involved within Ocean Economics. This book identifies the contentious issues relevant to oceans' natural resources management and protection and examines the significant emerging patterns that determine the development of ocean economics.

Examines the political and sectoral institutions that are essential for the provision of WS services. This work demonstrates that the level of democracy has a positive impact on access to WS services and that low-quality governance of sub-national governments compromises the internal efficiency of providers and the widespread access to services.

Offering practical examples, this book helps practitioners to apply the insights of how best to pursue a bottom-up approach to development in their own work, while also helping theoreticians and students to develop a strong analytical framework on the subject.

This book explores how many issues related to development and governance ¿ including migration, disaster management, environmental justice, peace and security, sustainability, public-private partnerships, and terrorism ¿ impact the practice of social work. It takes a global, comparative approach, reflecting the global context in which social workers now operate.

Offers a theory of dislocation in the form of primitive accumulation. Using 'reformist-managerial' and 'radical-movementist' approaches, this book historicizes and politicizes the event of dislocation as a moment to usher in capitalism through the medium of development.

Dams As Aid brings together key issues in the aid/environment/development debate. Through her examination of dams, Usher sheds light on wider issues of the political economy of aid. With detailed comparative case studies.

This book demonstrates theoretically and empirically how aid practitioners shape the organisational, social and inter-cultural dynamics of development projects and industry.

Demonstrates that the ideas inherent in social development are practical and not utopian. Discussing and delineating a social development approach, this book argues the need for practicing it at local or grassroots-level communities to promote universal social justice and wellbeing.

Access and benefit-sharing (ABS) has emerged as among the most prominent approaches undertaken to stop or lessen the global loss of biodiversity. This book examines the effectiveness of this approach and the extent that there has been fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the commercialization of genetic resources.

For millennia, contact between societies was limited to trade or wars, a situation that changed profoundly with the development of global markets serving industrialization. The outcome was the emergence of one global human civilization, and one common future that will depend on the capacity of individuals and societies to manage the potentials for social development.This edited collection is dedicated to the discussion of four global trends: upgrading the rationality of organizations, individualization, the spreading of instrumental activism and universalization of value-normative systems. The mutual influence of these interrelated trends brings about both constructive and destructive effects in social life, social integration and change. Contributors examine questions such as: How do global trends pave their way in regions? What are the similarities and differences of regional development? How do agencies cope with the challenges of global trends in regional development?

This volume examines the persistence of poverty - both rural and urban - in developing countries, and the response of local governments to the problem, exploring the roles of governments, NGOs, and CSOs in national and sub-national agenda-setting, policy-making, and poverty-reduction strategies.