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Cover Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies
Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies
Exploring the emerging and vibrant field of critical agrarian studies, this comprehensive Handbook offers interdisciplinary insights from both leading scholars and activists to understand agrarian life, livelihoods, formations and processes of change. It highlights the development of the field, which is characterized by theoretical and methodological pluralism and innovation.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
14 Dec 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972468
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Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South
Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South
The ways in which the rapid urbanization of the Global South is transforming food systems and food supply chains, and the food security of urban populations is an often neglected topic. This international group of authors addresses this profound transformation from a variety of different perspectives and disciplinary lenses, providing an important corrective to the dominant view that food insecurity is a rural problem requiring increases in agricultural production.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
18 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786431516
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Standing up for a Sustainable World
Standing up for a Sustainable World
Voices of Change
The world has witnessed extraordinary economic growth, poverty reduction and increased life expectancy and population since the end of WWII, but it has occurred at the expense of undermining life support systems on Earth and subjecting future generations to the real risk of destabilising the planet. This timely book exposes and explores this colossal environmental cost and the dangerous position the world is now in. Standing up for a Sustainable World is written by and about key individuals who have not only understood the threats to our planet, but also become witness to them and confronted them.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
11 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371781
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Economics 2020
Cover Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy
Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy
Editor:
Jacques Charmes
This Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy captures the magnitude of the informal economy for the global labour force. It unravels numerous concepts, definitions and methods of data collection to offer valuable insight into the differences between the informal, non-observed and shadow economies.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
18 Sep 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972802
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover The Handbook of Diverse Economies
The Handbook of Diverse Economies
Economic diversity abounds in a more-than-capitalist world, from worker-recuperated cooperatives and anti-mafia social enterprises to caring labour and the work of Earth Others, from fair trade and social procurement to community land trusts, free universities and Islamic finance. The Handbook of Diverse Economies presents research that inventories economic difference as a prelude to building ethical ways of living on our dangerously degraded planet. With contributing authors from twenty countries, it presents new thinking around subjectivity and methodology as strategies for making other worlds possible.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
06 Feb 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788119962
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Economics 2020
Cover Handbook on Global Value Chains
Handbook on Global Value Chains
Global value chains (GVCs) are a key feature of the global economy in the 21st century. They show how international investment and trade create cross-border production networks that link countries, firms and workers around the globe. This Handbook describes how GVCs arise and vary across industries and countries, and how they have evolved over time in response to economic and political forces. With chapters written by leading interdisciplinary scholars, the Handbook unpacks the key concepts of GVC governance and upgrading, and explores policy implications for advanced and developing economies alike.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
10 Oct 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788113779
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Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Handbook of Social Policy and Development
Handbook of Social Policy and Development
The Handbook of Social Policy and Development makes a groundbreaking, coherent case for enhancing collaboration between social policy and development. With wide ranging chapters, it discusses a myriad of ways in which this can be done, exploring both academic and practical activities. As the conventional distinction between ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ countries becomes increasingly blurred, this Handbook explores how collaboration between social policy and development is needed to meet global social needs.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
31 May 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785368431
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Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Handbook of Globalisation and Development
Handbook of Globalisation and Development
Characterised by conceptual diversity, the Handbook of Globalisation and Development presents contributions from prominent international researchers on all aspects of globalisation and carefully considers their role across a whole host of development processes. The Handbook is structured around seven key areas: international trade, international production, international finance, migration, foreign aid, a broader view, and challenges. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the section on ‘a broader view’ delves into dimensions of globalisation and development that go beyond the mere economic, such as: culture, technology, health, and poverty. Carefully crafted, the chapters herein offer a rigorous and comprehensive assessment of the available research to date and provide an assessment of policy options across all areas considered.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
31 Mar 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783478651
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Social and Political Science 2017
Cover Research Handbook on Innovation Governance for Emerging Economies
Research Handbook on Innovation Governance for Emerging Economies
Towards Better Models
Although in recent years some emerging economies have improved their performance in terms of R & D investment, outputs and innovative capacity, these countries are still blighted by extreme poverty, inequality and social exclusion. Hence, emerging countries are exposed to conditions which differ quite substantially from the dominant OECD model of innovation policy for development and welfare. This Research Handbook contributes to the debate by looking at how innovation theory, policy and practice interact, and explains different types of configurations in countries that are characterized by two contrasting but mutually reinforcing features: systemic failure and resourcefulness. Focusing on innovation governance and public policies, it aims to understand related governance failures and to explore options for alternative, more efficient approaches.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
27 Jan 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783471911
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Social and Political Science 2017
Cover Handbook of Social Capital and Regional Development
Handbook of Social Capital and Regional Development
The role of social capital in regional development is a multifaceted topic which is studied all over the world using various methods and across numerous disciplines. It has long been evident that social capital is important for regional development, however, it is less clear how this works in practice. Do all types of social capital have the same effects and are different kinds of regions impacted in the same way? This book is the first to offer an overview of this rapidly expanding field of research and to thoroughly analyse the complex issue of social capital and regional development.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
30 Dec 2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783476831
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Business 2016