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Informationen zum Autor Vandana Desai is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London. Robert B. Potter is Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading. Klappentext 3rd edition. Zusammenfassung The Companion to Development Studies offers a cutting-edge overview of the field of development studies from leading international academics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1. The Nature of Development and Development Studies 1.1 Development in a Global-Historical Context 1.2 What’s in a Name? From Third World to Poor Countries 1.3 The Origins and Nature of Development Studies 1.4 The Impasse in Development Studies 1.5 Development and Economic Growth 1.6 Development and Social Welfare - Human Rights 1.7 Development as Freedom 1.8 Race and Development 1.9 Culture and Development 1.10 Ethics and Development 1.11 New Institutional Economics and Development 1.12 Measuring Development: from GDP to HDI 1.13 Poverty and Development: Definitions and Measures 1.14 The Millennium Development Goals 1.15 BRICs and Development Part 2. Theories and Strategies of Development 2.1. Theories, Strategies and Ideologies of Development 2.2. Smith, Ricardo and the World Marketplace 1776-2011 2.3. The Enlightenment and the Era of Modernity 2.4. Dualistic and Unilinear Perspectives on Development 2.5. Neoliberalism: Globalization’s Neoconservative Enforcer of Austerity 2.6. Dependency Theories 2.7. New World Dependency Theory 2.8. World Systems Theory 2.9 Indigenous Knowledge and Development 2.10. Participatory Development 2.11 Post-Colonialism and Development 2.12 Postmodernism and Development 2.13 Post-development 2.14 Social Capital and Development Part 3. Globalisation, Employment and Development 3.1 Globalisation: an Overview 3.2 The ‘new’ International Division of Labour 3.3 Global Shift: Industrialization and Development 3.4 Globalisation and Localisation 3.5 Trade and Industrial Policy in Developing Countries 3.6 The Knowledge-based Economy and the Digital Divisions of Labour 3.7 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Development 3.8 The Informal Economy in Cities of the South 3.9 Child Labour 3.10 Pro-poor Globalisation 3.11 Migration and Transnationalism 3.12 Diaspora and Development Part 4 Rural Development 4.1 Rural Poverty 4.2 Rural Livelihoods 4.3 Food Security 4.4 Famines 4.5 Genetically Modified Crops and Development 4.6 Rural Co-operatives 4.7 Land Reform 4.8 Gender, Agriculture and Land Rights 4.9 The Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture Part 5. Urbanisation and Development 5.1 Urbanization in Low- and Middle-Income Nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America 5.2 Urban Bias 5.3 Global Cities and the Production of Uneven Development 5.4 Studies in Comparative Urbanism 5.5 Prosperity or Poverty? Wealth, Inequality and Deprivation in Urban Areas 5.6 Housing the Urban Poor 5.7 Urbanisation and Environment in Low and Middle-income Countries 5.8 Transport and Urban Development 5.9 Cities, Crime and Development Part 6. Environment and Development 6.1 Sustainable Development 6.2 International Regulation and the Environment 6.3 Climate Change and Development: An Overview 6.4 Changing Climate and African Development 6.5 Vulnerability & Disasters 6.6 Ecosystems Services for Development 6.7 Natural Resource Management: A Critical Appraisal 6.8 Water and Hydropolitics 6.9 Energy and Development 6.10 Tourism and Environment 6.11 Transport and Sustainability: Developmental Pathways Part 7. Gender and Development 7.1 Demographic Changes and Gender 7.2 Women and the State 7.3 Gender, Families and Households 7.4 Feminism and Feminist Issues in the South 7.5 Rethinking Gender and Empowerment 7.6 Gender and Globalisation 7.7 Migrant Women in the New Econom...
