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  • Good Practices in Resettlement

    An Approach to Improving Development Outcomes

    by Hari Mohan Mathur, Albab Akanda, Kumi Careme, Dominique Egre, Gregory Eliyu Guldin, Asmita Kabra, Arnab Mukherji, Susanna Price, Andres Recalde, Jane Singer0, Eddie Smyth1, Mohammad Zaman2, Yulia Alexandrova Zavyalova3, William L. Partridge4, Susan D. Tamondong5, Bhawana Chhetri6, Kinzang Deki7, Mikiyasu Nakayama8, Gordon Appleby9 ...
    Series series Crossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration, Displacement, and Social Change
    In this collection, well-known resettlement and development practitioners examine successful resettlement practices, based on examples from Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia and Vietnam. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Assessing the Social Impact of Development Projects

    Experience in India and Other Asian Countries

    Edited by Hari Mohan Mathur ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book shows how social impact assessment (SIA), which emerged barely five decades ago, as a way to anticipate and manage potentially negative social impacts of building dams, power stations, urban infrastructure, highways, industries, mining and other development projects, is now widely in use as a planning tool, especially in developed countries. Although SIA has still not gained much ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Development Anthropology

    Putting Culture First

    by Hari Mohan Mathur ...
    In Development Anthropology: Putting Culture First, Hari Mohan Mathur highlights the role of culture—and anthropological work more broadly—in development outcomes. Anthropologists’ contributions in this area have traditionally received little attention, but this changed when the World Bank released the 2015 World Development Report. This report focused on the social, cultural, and psychological ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Resettling Displaced People

    Policy and Practice in India

    Edited by Hari Mohan Mathur ...
    Developmental projects have long been displacing people in large numbers every year, but it is only in recent years that the fate of those adversely affected has become an issue of widespread concern requiring urgent action. This volume is the scholarly exploration of these critical issues in a wider perspective, examining resettlement policies as well as resettlement strategies, their strengths, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Environmental Justice in India

    The National Green Tribunal

    by Gitanjali Gill ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    Modern environmental regulation and its complex intersection with international law has led many jurisdictions to develop environmental courts or tribunals. Strikingly, the list of jurisdictions that have chosen to do this include numerous developing countries, including Bangladesh, Kenya and Malawi. Indeed, it seems that developing nations have taken the task of capacity-building in environmental ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Displacement and Resettlement in India

    The Human Cost of Development

    by Hari Mathur ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    In the past ten years or so, displacement by development projects has gone on almost untamed under the globalization pressures to meet the demand for land from local and increasingly foreign investors. Focusing on India, this book looks at the complex issue of resettling people who are displaced for the sake of development.The book discusses how the affected farming communities are fiercely ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Local Governance and Poverty in Developing Nations

    Edited by Nicky Pouw, Isa Baud ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development and Society
    This volume examines the persistence of poverty - both rural and urban - in developing countries, and the response of local governments to the problem, exploring the roles of governments, NGOs, and CSOs in national and sub-national agenda-setting, policy-making, and poverty-reduction strategies. It brings together a rich variety of in-depth country and international studies, based on a combination ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • India Today

    Economy, Politics and Society

    by Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey ...
    Series series Politics Today
    Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor people of any country in the world, and beset by problems of low economic growth, casteism and violent religious conflict. Now India is being feted as an economic power-house which might well become the second largest economy in the world before the middle of this century. ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Forests Sourcebook: Practical Guidance For Sustaining Forests In Development Cooperation

    by World Bank ...
    The Forests Source Book provides practical operations-oriented guidance for forest sector engagement toward the goals of poverty reduction, conservation and economic development. Intended to guide World Bank lending activities and projects, the Forests Source Book offers information useful to a broad audience of practitioners, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations. The Source ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Employment, Poverty and Rights in India

    by Dayabati Roy ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality, their work is rarely concerned with identifying possible causes.Employment, Poverty and Rights in India analyses ... Read more

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  • Malaysia's Development Challenges

    Graduating from the Middle

    Edited by Hal Hill, Tham Siew Yean, Ragayah Haji Mat Zin ...
    Series series Routledge Malaysian Studies Series
    This book examines the various economic, political and developmental policy challenges that Malaysia faces in her shift from a middle income to high-income economy. This issue is of great interest to academics, policy makers and development practitioners in the developing world, particularly in middle-income economies where there is a widespread concern about the challenges of managing such a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Imperial Nature

    The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization

    by Michael Goldman ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    Why is the World Bank so successful? How has it gained power even at moments in history when it seemed likely to fall? This pathbreaking book is the first close examination of the inner workings of the Bank, the foundations of its achievements, its propensity for intensifying the problems it intends to cure, and its remarkable ability to tame criticism and extend its own reach.Michael Goldman ... Read more

    $23.79 USD