Development category: 15312 books
by Johan Nordensvärd
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book explores the social implications and challenges of low-carbon development. The argument of the book is that a broad understanding of low-carbon development is essential for mitigating climate change and enabling development in a carbon-constrained world, but there are risks that low-carbon...
Religion and Development in the Asia-Pacific
Sacred places as development spaces
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Community development is most effective and efficient when it is situated and led at the local level and considers the social behaviours, needs and worldviews of local communities. With more than eight out of ten people globally self-reporting religious belief, Religion and Development in the Asia-Pacific:...
by Lata Narayanaswamy
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Knowledge-for-development is under-theorised and under-researched within development studies, but as a set of policy objectives it is thriving within development practice. Donors and other agencies are striving to improve the flow of information within and between decision-makers and so-called ‘poor...
Narrowing the Development Gap in ASEAN
Drivers and Policy Options
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
An important part of the vision of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is to ensure that the benefits of development and economic integration are equitably shared by all member states and their citizens. ASEAN’s work therefore aims to narrow the development gap between ASEAN member...
International Development Studies
Theories and Methods in Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
'A sure-footed and self-confident book, ambitious in scope, authoritative in execution and practical in its implications' - Simon Maxwell, Director, Overseas Development Institute, London
'At last, a development studies text that encourages self-reflection from within the discipline. Highly...
The Imperative of Development
The Wolfensohn Center at Brookings
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
The achievements and legacy of the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings
The Imperative of Development highlights the research and policy analysis produced by the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings. The Center, which operated from 2006 to 2011, was the first home at Brookings...
Advancing Human Development
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2018
Human Development has been advocated as the prime development goal since 1990, when the publication of the first UNDP Human Development Report proposed that development should improve the lives people lead in multiple dimensions instead of primarily pursuing economic growth. This approach forms the...
The Challenge of Development
Theory and Practice in Human Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
A wide-ranging survey of the theoretical and practical problems of economic development, The Challenge of Development demonstrates how effective development theory, planning and programming derive from and are tested in firsthand field experience. Covering all aspects of development, Richard J. Ward...
Biography of a Subject
An Evolution of Development Economics
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
The study of economic development is one of the newest, most exciting, and most challenging branches of the broader discipline of economics and political economy. Although one could claim that Adam Smith was the first "development economist", the systematic study of the problems and processes of economic...
Art, Culture and International Development
Humanizing social transformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Culture is not simply an explanation of last resort, but is itself a rich, multifaceted and contested concept and set of practices that needs to be expanded, appreciated and applied in fresh ways if it is to be both valued in itself and to be of use in practical development. This innovative book places...
Recognition and Redistribution
Beyond International Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
This is an innovative and insightful approach to the global politics of development. The authors challenge conventional perspectives of, and approaches to, development and offer alternative accounts of the politics of development from the perspective of non-state centred and non-state centric approaches....
Causality and Development
Neo-Eriksonian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
The third book in Young’s unique trilogy on causality and development continues to locate and define the central role of causality in biopsychosocial and network/systems development, and as a unifying concept of psychology itself. As a way of discussing causality, in general, initially, the book...
by Steve McConnell
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 1996
Corporate and commercial software-development teams all want solutions for one important problem—how to get their high-pressure development schedules under control. In RAPID DEVELOPMENT, author Steve McConnell addresses that concern head-on with overall strategies, specific best practices, and valuable...
Popular Representations of Development
Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Although the academic study of development is well established, as is also its policy implementation, less considered are the broader, more popular understandings of development that often shape agendas and priorities, particularly in representative democracies.
Through its accessible and provocative...