Zed Books: 608 books
Knowledge for Development?
Comparing British, Japanese, Swedish and World Bank Aid
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be 'the knowledge bank'. This marked the beginning of a new discourse of knowledge-based aid, which has spread rapidly across the development field. This book is the first detailed attempt to analyse...
The Corporate Greenhouse
Climate Change Policy in a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
As negotiations proceed for the post-Kyoto climate change regime, major obstacles stand in the path to their successful completion. The Corporate Greenhouse addresses the political economy of the climate change debate, questioning the disconnect between the current negotiation framework, based around...
The Hydropolitics of Dams
Engineering or Ecosystems?
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
The Hydropolitics of Dams charts the troubled waters of 'heavy engineering' approaches to ecosystem management, exploring the history, benefits and problems of large dams. It then explores diverse ecosystem-based approaches to management of human interactions with the water cycle, concluding that...
NGOization
Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The growth and spread of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at local and international levels has attracted considerable interest and attention from policy-makers, development practitioners, academics and activists around the world. But how has this phenomenon impacted on struggles for social and...
Understanding West Africas Ebola Epidemic
Towards a Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
The first book-length study of Ebola to consider the wider social, economic and political context of the epidemic.
Brings together experts from a wide array of disciplines, including development studies, epidemiology, and African studies.
The majority of contributing scholars are African, many of them...
by Julia Buxton
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This book explores the origins, history and organisation of the international system of narcotic drug control with a specific focus on heroin, cannabis and cocaine. It argues that the century-long quest to eliminate the production, trade in and use of narcotic drugs has been a profound failure. The...
Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the Twenty-First Century
Theories, Debates, Realities and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Peasants are a majority of the world’s poor. Despite this, there has been little effort to bridge the fields of peasant and poverty studies. Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the Twenty-first Century provides a much-needed critical perspective linking three central questions: Why has peasantry,...
Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk
The Biggest Change in North-South Relationships Since Colonialism?
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk offers a fresh, compelling analysis of the politics and policies behind the biofuels story, with its technological optimism and often-idealized promises for the future. This essential new critique argues that investment in biofuels may reconfigure risk and responsibility,...
Holding Corporations Accountable
Corporate Conduct, International Codes and Citizen Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
At a time when the gigantic transnationals have a huge impact on human health, the environment, working conditions and the economic prospects of nations, this book explores whether it is sufficient to continue to rely on industry self-regulation alone. Before widening her focus to the general issues,...
Trading Women's Health and Rights
Trade Liberalization and Reproductive Health in Developing Economies
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Around the world, policymakers and civil society are debating how economic and trade policies shape public health. This edited collection adds a new dimension to this debate. It synthesizes research from a variety of disciplines to analyse how the liberalization of international trade affects reproductive...
Social Justice and Neoliberalism
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The continuing expansion of neoliberalism into ever more spaces and spheres of life has profound implications for social justice. Despite the number of policies designed to target ‘social exclusion’, people in many communities continue to be marginalized by economic restructuring. Social Justice...
by Doctor Gordon Wilson, Professor Hazel Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The organizational and institutional embedding of new learning is one of the biggest challenges for development. This book in the Development Matters series takes a learning approach to development, focusing the learning that takes place through development action – be it intentional and structured,...
Another World Is Possible
World Social Forum Proposals for an Alternative Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
In 2001 the first World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The meeting was viewed by many at the time as a new manifestation of the global Left, a people's opposition to the World Economic Forum that stood as the first real front to global capitalism since the collapse of the Soviet Union....
Religion in Development
Rewriting the Secular Script
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Development practice is full of examples of the importance of religion in the lives of people in developing countries. However, religion has largely remained unexplored in development studies. This timely new book aims to fill that gap. The authors expertly review how religion has been treated in...