Development studies (500)

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have played a major role in focusing policy since their original incarnation in the mid to late 1990s but what happens when we no longer have the MDGs - what will guide policy after 2015? This book discusses th...

publisher: Springer
year: 2008
description:The book explores the relationship between embodiment and the production of the key structures which frame agency to map out potential for social change. It uses modalities of ageing embodiment in the context of sport participation in later life, spe...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This collection examines the role that foreign aid can play in dealing with the severe global challenge of climate change, one of the most pressing international development issues of the 21st century. Addressing the key threats of rising temperature...

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:Developing broad, holistic notions of 'impact' to measure the effects of international development assistance, this book makes a significant contribution to understanding the international political economy. Leading experts focus on enhancing aid's a...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This enlightening book offers a comprehensive historical analysis of the main development challenges of the last half century and the international community’s response through aid and trade. Much has happened: the oil crises of the 1970s, the debt c...

publisher: Springer
year: 2005
description:In this revealing book Timothy Frasca uncovers the enormous cultural changes which have taken place throughout Latin America as a result of the disease. He brings issues such as sexuality, class, and religious beliefs into the open for the first time...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book is the first full-length study of HIV/AIDS work in relation to government and NGOs. In the early 2000s, Pakistan’s response to HIV/AIDS was scaled-up and declared an area of urgent intervention. This response was funded by international don...

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:The book poses and explores questions about the roles of antiretroviral treatment and human rights in the global AIDS epidemic. A novel approach is used, which places treatment and human rights in the context of global debates, national struggles, an...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:Im Mittelpunkt des Buches stehen Konflikt und Akzeptanz von Großprojekten und die Rolle, die Kommunikation und Beteiligung hierbei einnehmen. Mit Hilfe eines projektübergreifenden Forschungsdesigns charakterisiert die Autorin die Großprojektlandschaf...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This cutting edge work offers an alternative perspective on existing paradigms of modernization and development that originated in the West from the vantage point of non-western, late-modernizing societies. It considers how East Asian philosophical i...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:The study considers two generations of Anglo-Indian women in post-colonial India, and their social interaction with their community. It explores Anglo-Indian women as part of a cultural whole and as participants in the mainstream cultural claims of I...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book focuses on international relations in the Indian Ocean region and covers many policy aspects of Modi’s India. Written by leading scholars of international and Indian Ocean studies, this annual report includes both a strategic review and the...