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The Dynamics of Black Sea Subregionalism

by Panagiota Manoli

Representing a new development in the study of contemporary regionalism, Panagiota Manoli examines the process of institutionalized sub-regional cooperation and casts new light on the factors influencing the...


Development Organizations

by Rebecca Schaaf

Continuing debates over the meaning of development and awareness of the persistence of poverty have resulted in increasing concern over how to 'do' development. There are growing numbers of development organizations,...


Catalysts for Change: 21st Century Philanthropy and Community Development

by Maria Martinez-Cosio & Mirle Rabinowitz Bussell

21st Century Philanthropy and Community fills a gap in the literature on philanthropic organizations and how they intertwine with community development. Drawing first on the history of philanthropic funding,...


Interrogating Feminist Understandings of the Urban

by Linda Peake & Martina Rieker

In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, Linda Peake and Martina Rieker embark on an ambitious project to explore the extent to which a feminist re-imagining of the twenty-first century city can...


Water Governance, Policy and Knowledge Transfer: International Studies on Contextual Water Management

by Cheryl De Boer, Joanne Vinke-de Kruijf & Gül Özerol

In an increasingly global community of researchers and practitioners, new technologies and communication means have made the transfer of policies from one country or region to another progressively more prevalent....


Global Information Society: Technology, Knowledge, and Mobility

by Mark I. Wilson, Aharon Kellerman & Kenneth E. Corey

This unique and empowering text offers a comprehensive, global perspective on the information society from a broad social science perspective. The authors, at the forefront of this dynamic field, provide an...


Latin American Development

by Julie Cupples

Latin America's diverse political and economic struggles and triumphs have captured the global imagination. The region has been a site of brutal dictators, revolutionary heroes, the Cold War struggle and...


Sexuality, Rurality, and Geography

by Andrew Gorman-Murray, Barbara Pini & Lia Bryant

This edited book offers a detailed examination of the interstices of ruralities and sexualities over a number of different countries, focusing a geographical lens on the relationships between sexualities and...


Third World in the First: Development and Indigenous Peoples

by Elspeth Young

European colonisation has marginalised the `first peoples' in industrialised countries such as Australia and Canada. In remote regions, still the homes of large Aboriginal, Indian and Inuit populations, this...


Rethinking Development Geographies

by Marcus Power

Development as a concept is notoriously imprecise, vague and presumptuous. Struggles over the meaning of this fiercely contested term have had profound implications on the destinies of people and places across...


Preventing Famine: Policies and prospects for Africa

by Donald Curtis, Michael Hubbard & Andrew Shepherd

Some urgent new thinking is needed if any lessons are to be learnt from the recent disasters. This book brings together the experience of a number of writers who have worked on, or studied, poverty alleviation...


Women of the European Union: The Politics of Work and Daily Life

by Maria Dolors Garcia-Ramon & Janice Monk

Women of the European Union challenges gender-blind assessments of the economic and social aspects of the European Union policies to examine the real implications of Union for the diversity of women in the Member...


An Introduction to the Geography of Tourism

by Velvet Nelson

This clear and engaging text introduces undergraduate students to the vast and diverse subject of tourism through the lens of geography. Indeed, geography and tourism have always been interconnected, and Velvet...


Tourism Policy and Planning: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

by David L. Edgell Sr & Jason Swanson

The wellspring to the future global growth in tourism is a commitment toward good policy and strategic planning. Governments, the private sector, international organizations, academic institutions, and not-for-profit...


Young People, Place and Identity

by Peter E. Hopkins

Young People, Place and Identity offers a series of rich insights into young people's everyday lives. What places do young people engage with on a daily basis? How do they use these places? How do their identities...


Culture and Global Change

by Tim Allen & Tracey Skelton

Culture and Global Change presents a comprehensive introduction to the cultural aspects of third world development. It contains 25 chapters from leading writers in the field who each explore a particular aspect...


Environment and Philosophy

by Emily Brady, with Jane Howarth & Vernon Pratt

Environment and Philosophy provides an accessible introduction to the radical challenges that environmentalism poses to concepts that have become almost second nature in the modern world. These include:

* the...


Health Ecology: Health, Culture and Human-Environment Interaction

by Thomas Boleyn & Morteza Honari

This ground-breaking study offers new challenges to those teaching, studying or developing strategies and policies in health and the environment.Bringing together a variety of approaches from different perspectives...


European Integration and Housing Policy

by Mark Kleinman, Walter Matznetter & Mark Stephens

This book presents a series of debates arising from the housing needs of different EU countries. The authors address key issues by examining in turn:

* the consequences of European integration for different...


Global Trade and Global Social Issues

by Annie Taylor Nfa, Annie Taylor & Caroline Thomas

In Global Trade and Social Issues leading academics and NGO workers offer a much-needed counterweight to the liberal consensus. A critical reflection on the whole project of restructuring world trade, this is...