Human security is a development buzzword of the 1990s. To attain security people need to be safe from natural disasters, such as famine, and man-made problems, such as unemployment. Women are a particularly insecure section of society with the impact of deprivation disproportionately shouldered by women throughout the developing world. This study examines how economic, political and environmental factors have contributed to increased gender insecurity in the last decade. Analyzing the impacts of insecurity-inducing global changes on the lives of women throughout the developing world, the book...
Human security is a development buzzword of the 1990s. To attain security people need to be safe from natural disasters, such as famine, and man-made ...
This volume addresses the question: to what extent and under what conditions does international migration contribute to local and national development?
This volume addresses the question: to what extent and under what conditions does international migration contribute to local and national dev...
This book examines children living in adverse conditions in Vietnam, India, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Bolivia and Nicaragua. Here Lieten addresses the idea of children as self-conscious actors, highlighting issues of child agency, the structural constraints to that agency, and the consequences that this may have for child-centred development work.
This book examines children living in adverse conditions in Vietnam, India, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Bolivia and Nicaragua. Here Lieten address...
This landmark volume is the first to explicitly address the macro and micro dimensions of social sustainability and outline the theoretical and practical possibilities. It is an essential contribution to sustainable development and will be indispensable to the practice, teaching and academic research of this nascent field.
This landmark volume is the first to explicitly address the macro and micro dimensions of social sustainability and outline the theoretical and pra...
Challenging the more conventional approaches to dislocation and resettlement that are the usual focus of discussion on the topic, this book offers a unique theory of dislocation in the form of primitive accumulation.
Interrogating the 'reformist-managerial' and 'radical-movementist' approaches, it historicizes and politicizes the event of dislocation as a moment to usher in capitalism through the medium of development. Such a framework offers alternative avenues to rethinking dislocation and resettlement, and indeed the very idea of development. Arguing that dislocation should not...
Challenging the more conventional approaches to dislocation and resettlement that are the usual focus of discussion on the topic, this book offers ...
This edited collection demonstrates that the ideas inherent in social development are practical and not utopian. By discussing and delineating a social development approach, the book argues the need for practicing it at local or grassroots-level communities to promote universal social justice and wellbeing. Towards this end, several leading scholars have presented critical and inspiring thoughts on the significance and usefulness in development of genuine participation of people, bottom-up strategies, self-reliance, capacity building, and egalitarian and empowering partnerships. They also...
This edited collection demonstrates that the ideas inherent in social development are practical and not utopian. By discussing and delineating a so...
This title deals with an important contemporary policy issue, how best to ensure that an agriculturally-based policy can contribute to the development of rural regions. It tackles this problem in a number of different but complementary ways, primarily by the development of a unique and innovative dynamic systems model.
This title deals with an important contemporary policy issue, how best to ensure that an agriculturally-based policy can contribute to the development...
There is a vast literature for and against privatizing public services. Those who are against privatization are often confronted with the objection that they present no alternative. This book takes up that challenge by establishing theoretical models for what does (and does not) constitute an alternative to privatization, and what might make them 'successful', backed up by a comprehensive set of empirical data on public services initiatives in over 40 countries. This is the first such global survey of its kind, providing a rigorous and robust platform for evaluating different alternatives...
There is a vast literature for and against privatizing public services. Those who are against privatization are often confronted with the objection...
This volume examines the persistence of poverty - both rural and urban - in developing countries, and the response of local governments to the problem. It explores the roles of governments, NGOs, and CSOs in national and sub-national agenda-setting, policy-making, and poverty-reduction strategies.
This volume examines the persistence of poverty - both rural and urban - in developing countries, and the response of local governments to the problem...
