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  • Food Security in Australia

    Challenges and Prospects for the Future

    Edited by Quentin Farmar-Bowers, Vaughan Higgins, Joanne Millar ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book considers the ability and capacity of the food supply system in Australia to provide food security for the ever-increasing domestic and international population in the face of growing challenges in production, resource supply and failures within the food system itself. Although Australia is a net food exporting country, domestic food insecurity exists and will increase as food prices ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Assembling Neoliberalism

    Expertise, Practices, Subjects

    Edited by Vaughan Higgins, Wendy Larner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines how neoliberalism is constituted from multiple, diverse elements; how these elements are brought together and made to cohere; and the challenges, contestations, and consequences of such. Informed by assemblage thinking, the collection builds on research that emphasizes the forms of experimentation, adaptation, and mutation through which neoliberalism is enacted and rendered ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Remittance Income and Social Resilience among Migrant Households in Rural Bangladesh

    by Vaughan Higgins, Mohammad Jalal Uddin Sikder, Peter Harry Ballis ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book examines how migrant remittances contribute to household social resilience in rural Bangladesh. Using a mixed methods approach, the authors show that remittances play a crucial role in enhancing the life chances and economic livelihoods of rural households, and that remittance income enables households to overcome immediate pressures, adapt to economic and environmental change, build ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Rural Governance

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Lynda Cheshire, Vaughan Higgins, Geoffrey Lawrence ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    Recent decades have witnessed the transition from the government of rural areas towards processes of governance in which the boundaries between the state and civil society are blurred. As a result, governance is commonly linked to ‘bottom-up’ or community-based approaches to planning and development, which are said to ‘empower’ rural citizens and liberate them from the disabling structures of top ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Agricultural Governance

    Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation

    Edited by Vaughan Higgins, Geoffrey Lawrence ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Food security and sustainability are arguably the most important issues facing the agri-food sector at the beginning of a new millennium. In an era of globalization, where nation states appear to have a diminishing role in governing these matters, the existing and emerging power relations underpinning agri-food regulation demand renewed scholarly attention.Drawing upon the expertise of some of the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Rural-Urban Interaction in the Developing World

    by Kenny Lynch ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    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 not all their aspects are as obvious as migration from country to city. There is now a growing ... Read more

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  • The Crisis of Rural Poverty and Hunger

    An Essay on the Complementarity between Market- and Government-Led Land Reform for its Resolution

    by M. Riad El-Ghonemy ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    M. Riad El-Ghonemy argues that if current trends in government-led and market based land reforms persist the rural poor population in developing countries will continue to rise.Based on nearly half a century of academic and field research this valuable work presents compelling evidence on persistent rural poverty, hunger and increased inequality in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Anthropology and Development

    Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World

    by Emma Crewe, Richard Axelby ...
    In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to the adults and children who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and development from anthropological perspectives gives illuminating answers to questions such as these. This ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Development

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Goldin ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments and the international community foster development? The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years.The notion of development itself has evolved from an original preoccupation with incomes and economic growth to a much broader ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Paths to a Green World, second edition

    The Political Economy of the Global Environment

    by Jennifer Clapp, Peter Dauvergne ...
    A new edition of a book that takes a comprehensive look at the ways economic processes affect global environmental outcomes.This comprehensive and accessible book fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways international economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Gambling on Development

    Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose

    by Stefan Dercon ...
    In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed. And yet many countries have simply missed the boat. Why have some countries prospered, while others have failed? Stefan Dercon argues that the answer lies not in a specific set of policies, but rather in a key ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Environment and International Relations

    by Kate O'Neill ...
    Series series Themes in International Relations
    The new edition of this exciting textbook introduces students to the ways in which the theories and tools of international relations and other social science disciplines can be used to analyse and address global environmental problems. Kate O'Neill develops an innovative historical and analytical framework for understanding global environmental issues, integrating insights from different ... Read more

    $35.29 USD