Geography category: 5793 books
Development Beyond Neoliberalism?
Governance, Poverty Reduction and Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Development’s current focus – poverty reduction and good governance – signals a turn away from the older neoliberal preoccupation with structural adjustment, privatization and downsizing the state. For some, the new emphases on empowering and securing the poor through basic service delivery,...
Evaluating the European Approach to Rural Development
Grass-roots Experiences of the LEADER Programme
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The LEADER programme, initiated in 1991, aims to improve the development potential of rural areas in the European Union by drawing on local initiatives and skills. Highlighting this unique policy approach, this book presents up-to-date research results on LEADER’s achievements and restrictions at...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2005
In Global Trade and Social Issues leading academics and NGO workers offer a much-needed counterweight to the liberal consensus. A critical reflection on the whole project of restructuring world trade, this is essential reading for those working in international political economy, development studies, international relations and environmental studies.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Routledge Library Editions: The City reprints some of the most important works in urban studies published in the last century.
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The EU-Russia Borderland
New Contexts for Regional Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were high hopes of Russia’s "modernisation" and rapid political and economic integration with the EU. But now, given its own policies of national development, Russia appears to have ‘limits to integration’. Today, much European political...
Recapturing Democracy
Neoliberalization and the Struggle for Alternative Urban Futures
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Recapturing Democracy is a short yet synoptic introduction to urban democracy in our era of political neoliberalism and economic globalization. Combining an original argument with a number of case studies, Mark Purcell explores the condition of democracy in contemporary Western cities. Whereas many...
Land Reform in South Africa
An Uneven Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
This thoughtful book explores the history and ongoing dilemmas of land use and land reform in South Africa. Including both theoretical and applied examples of the evolution of South Africa’s current geography of land use, the authors provide a succinct overview of land reform and evaluate the range...
by Kenny Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Sustaining the rural and urban populations of the developing world has been identified as a key global challenge for the twenty-first century. Rural-Urban Interaction in the Developing World is an introduction to the relationships between rural and urban places in the developing world and shows that...
Mega-Urbanization in the Global South
Fast cities and new urban utopias of the postcolonial state
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The global south is entering an ‘Urban Age’ where, for the first time in history, more people will be living in cities than in the countryside. The logics of this prediction have a dominant framing - rapid urbanization, uncontrolled migration, resource depletion, severe fuel shortages and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This collection explores the complex dynamics of corporate land deals from a broad agrarian political economy perspective, with a special focus on the implications for property and labour regimes, labour processes and structures of accumulation. This involves looking at ways in which existing patterns...
Global Foodscapes
Oppression and resistance in the life of food
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
What we eat – as well as how it is produced, processed, moved, sold, and used by our bodies seems to matter like never before. Global Foodscapes takes on this topicality and asks readers to think about how we are all involved in the making of an odd and, in many ways, troubling and contested food...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
This book reviews a series of new urban ideas or themes designed to help make cities more liveable, sustainable, safe and inclusive. Featuring examples drawn from cities all over the world, the various chapters provide critical assessments of each of the various approaches and their potential to...
America's Fight Over Water
The Environmental and Political Effects of Large-Scale Water Systems
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
This book inquires into the relations between society and its natural environment by examining the historical discourse around several cases of state building in the American West: the construction of three high dams from 1928 to 1963.
Confronting the Challenges of Urbanization in China
Insights from Social Science Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Since the late 1970s, China has experienced an unprecedented pace of urbanization. In 1978, only 17.8% of the population resided in urban areas, but by 2013 the level of urbanization had reached 53.8%. During the same period, China also enjoyed spectacular economic growth. China had become the second...