Development category: 15312 books
by Nadeem Malik
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has not only become an important concept for corporate organizations but also civil society, community, state and the multilateral and bilateral development agencies. It has acquired great significance in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, not...
The Imperatives of Sustainable Development
Needs, Justice, Limits
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Thirty years ago, the UN report Our Common Future placed sustainable development firmly on the international agenda. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development takes the ethical foundations of Our Common Future and builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives – satisfying...
Global Challenges
Furthering the Multilateral Process for Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg 2002 was the latest conference in an international process to manage environment and development issues that can be traced back to the late 1960s. Three milestones mark this 30-year process of social and political interaction: the...
Countering Development
Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
Cauca, located in southwestern Colombia and home to the largest indigenous population in the country, is renowned as a site of indigenous mobilization. In 1994, following a destructive earthquake, many families in Cauca were forced to leave their communities of origin and relocate to other areas within...
Environmentally Sustainable Development in the People's Republic of China
Visions for the Future and the Role of the Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The rapid pace of growth, the sectoral structure of the economy, the sources of energy used, and increased urbanization are four large-scale drivers behind the complex environmental agenda of the People's Republic of China (PRC). To improve the quality of the ambient environment, the recently released...
Pastoralism and Development in Africa
Dynamic Change at the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Once again, the Horn of Africa has been in the headlines. And once again the news has been bad: drought, famine, conflict, hunger, suffering and death. The finger of blame has been pointed in numerous directions: to the changing climate, to environmental degradation, to overpopulation, to geopolitics...
Intrinsic Sustainable Development
Epistemes, Science, Business and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Sustainable development sets the agenda for the 21st century. Human technological capability and needs mean that nature is and will be challenged and damaged in many ways. Whilst many social and technological innovations are being made to improve our survival prospects, they are likely to be insufficient...
Religion and Development
Nordic Perspectives on Involvement in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
The role of religion in development work has long been a neglected issue in the Western academic tradition. Religion and Development: Nordic Perspectives on Involvement in Africa is part of a recent wave of publications trying to bring more colors into the traditional black-and-white picture of religion...
Agronomy for Development
The Politics of Knowledge in Agricultural Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Over the last decade there has been renewed interest in food security and the state of the global food system. Population growth, climate change and food price spikes have combined to focus new attention on the technologies and institutions that underpin the production and consumption of food that...
Backpacker Tourism and Economic Development
Perspectives from the Less Developed World
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
There has been a phenomenal growth of backpacker tourism from the overland routes to India in the 1960s, to present-day backpacker tourism across the less developed world. As a result there has been significant economic development impacts of backpacker tourism upon local communities especially in...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This timely Handbook takes stock of the range of debates that characterise the field of international education and development, and suggests key aspects of a research agenda for the next period. It is deliberately divergent in its approach, recognising the major ideological and epistemological divides...
Searching for Resilience in Sustainable Development
Learning Journeys in Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Resilience is a term that is gaining currency in conservation and sustainable development, though its meaning and value in this context is yet to be defined. Searching for Resilience in Sustainable Development examines ways in which resilience may be created within the web of ecological, socio-economic...
Helping People Help Themselves
From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
David Ellerman relates a deep theoretical groundwork for a philosophy of development, while offering a descriptive, practical suggestion of how goals of development can be better set and met. Beginning with the assertion that development assistance agencies are inherently structured to provide help...
by Brian H. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This tool kit provides a framework and tools for conducting rapid assessments to prepare city economic development plans in Asian cities. An analytical framework guides the reader through a series of steps for three analytical and assessment processes. These are designed to prepare economic profiles;...