Development Geography

ISBN-13: 9780415142113 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 208 str.

Rupert Hodder

Opis

Concern for the poor, equity, social justice and the environment, are issues which continue to motivate large numbers. The rapidly increasing globalization of economic, social and political life, now demands that we gain a wider and deeper understanding and perspective of the issues that face us all. Development Geography has been written to stimulate critical thought and discussion about development. The text does not assume any clear-cut distinction between developed and developing parts of the world. There are pockets of poverty and low levels of development in the richest countries, just as there are pockets of wealth and high levels of development in the poorest countries. Similarities between developed and developing countries extend beyond the existence of islands of poor among the rich and of rich among the poor to embrace institutions, values, patterns of behaviour and concepts of prestige, wealth and power. The developed and developing worlds are not as distant from each other as some would like to think.

Recenzje

'The book is designed to stimulate critical thought and discussion and that's precisely what it does.' - Joaquina Pires-O'Brien, Contemporary Review

Spis treści

1: Approaches to Development; 2: Population and Development; 3: Culture and Development; 4: Rural-agricultural and Development; 5: Urban-industrial Development; 6: The State Context: China and Brazil; 7: Regional Groupings, Trade and Aid; 8: Globalization.

O autorze

Rupert Hodder is Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Plymouth.