While the possibility of producing a de-colonized, postcolonial knowledge in development studies became a subject of considerable debate in the 1990s, there has been little…

Southeast Asia has long fascinated development practitioners and researchers for being one of the few regions of the world that has resisted global trends to…

Tourism is widely considered as an effective contributor to socio-economic development, particularly in less developed countries. However, despite the almost universal adoption of tourism as…

Sustainable development continues to be the key idea around which environment and development are structured. This extensively revised third edition continues to provide a concise,…

Children constitute a large part of the population of developing countries. Throughout the developing world, experiences of childhood are extremely diverse, both between places and…

Throughout the twentieth century, governments sought to achieve 'development' not only in their own countries, but also in other regions of the world; particularly in…

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 environment and its management has been, and continues to be a very topical issue. Existing environment and development texts place emphasis is on listing…

This imformative book is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the classic introduction to urbanization in developing areas. Using case studies of cities drawn…