Development studies
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Gender, Development, and Climate Change
In the face of extreme weather events, desertification and a rise in the sea levels, governments and communities increasingly recognize that the need to adapt and mitigate to climate change is urgent. The global agenda and negotiations focus on what governments, corporations and institutions can do...
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Gender, Development and Poverty
Over the past 50 years, billions of dollars and working days have been expended on the development of countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific. The alleviation of poverty is the primary concern of many - though not all - organisations working in the development sector. This book exam...
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Supporting Communities Affected by Violence
More than 15,000 people have been killed, and 500,000 displaced, during years of low-intensity civil war in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. This title describes the work of the KwaZulu-Natal Programme for Survivors of Violence (KZN-PSV), which (with the support of Oxfam) helps communiti...
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Sustainable Lifestyles?
Sustainable lifestyles encourages students to think about sustainability in both a local and global context, enabling them to understand the values issues surrounding appropriate design and technology. The pack looks at the often complex economic and cultural issues associated with suatainable and a...
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Urban Vulnerability
This text aims to stimulate debate about risk reduction in urban settings and to identify key issues for further advocacy. The authors propose a conceptual framework for understanding urban vulnerability and link the concept with disaster risk.
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Gender in Latin America
Gender impacts on every major social issue from rights to social policy, from ethnicity to poverty, this work is a comprehensive overview of the subject, examining trends in gender over history until the present. The authors draw on a wide range on theoretial analyses as well as their own field of w...
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Civil Works Guidelines for Micro Hydropower in Nepal
A guide to look at the technical aspects including civil works guidelines of designing a micro hydro scheme in Nepal.
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Mexico In Focus 2nd Edition
Mexico is a land torn between Latin America and the US, between its Indian and revolutionary past and the modern trappings of skyscrapers, cell phones, and factories. It is also one of the biggest tourist destinations in Latin America for the UK market. Mexico is now the key country in Latin America...
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Cutting The Wire
Access to land is one of the key issues for developing countries - and Brazil has one of the most inequitable land distributions in the world, with vast tracts of land held by often absentee landowners. Meanwhile thousands of peasants live in marginal lands in cities and rural areas. The Brazilian L...
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People and Change
People and Change is about improving the impact of capacity building. Based on many years of practical experiences with NGOs, largely in Africa, this book argues that for capacity building programmes to be more effective we must: better appreciate the complex and highly personal dimensions to organi...