Catálogo de libros: Estudios del desarrollo

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  • Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries
    The mobile technology field is expanding with innovative research and discoveries that expand to all walks of life. Mobile technology may have its greatest impact in the developing world, because it brings telecommunication to districts that had never been reached before. Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries: Effects and Implications re...
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    236,22 €

  • Technological Advancement in Developed and Developing Countries
    Advancements in technological innovation and adoption impact modern organizations on an increasingly global level. There is now a continual need for research on recent developments and future considerations that promote the successful management of knowledge, ideas, and practice among developed and developing nations. Technological Advancement in Developed and Developing Countr...
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    236,81 €

  • Global Perspectives on Trade Integration and Economies in Transition
    Vasily Erokhin
    In the era of globalization, foreign trade has an immense impact upon modern economies. To succeed in the global marketplace, sustainable development in trade practices is an imperative goal for countries to reach. Global Perspectives on Trade Integration and Economies in Transition is an authoritative reference source for the latest research on the dynamics of transitional eco...
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    275,80 €

  • Handbook of Research on Consumerism and Buying Behavior in Developing Nations
    Ayantunji Gbadamosi
    Having a grasp on what appeals to consumers and how consumers are making purchasing decisions is essential to the success of any organization that thrives by offering a product or service. Despite the importance of consumer knowledge and understanding, research-based insight into the buying patterns and consumption habits of individuals in emerging nations remains limited. The ...
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    309,00 €

  • Pluriversal sovereignty and the state
    Ajay Parasram
    This book explains how the processes of ’total territorial rule’ at the core of the modern international system became normalised in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). It develops a decolonial framework informed by a ’pluriverse’ of multiple ontologies of sovereignty to argue that the state itself is an outcome of imperial globalisation. ...
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    44,47 €

  • Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples
    The second edition of this remarkable volume updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation.The contributors to this book examine the interface between conservation and indigenous communities who are forced to move or settle elsewhere to accommodate environmental policies and biodiversity...
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    204,18 €

  • Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples
    The second edition of this remarkable volume updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation.The contributors to this book examine the interface between conservation and indigenous communities who are forced to move or settle elsewhere to accommodate environmental policies and biodiversity...
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    53,31 €

  • Women’s Empowerment, Population Dynamics, and Development
    Dennis Hodgson
    This book assumes that 'women’s empowerment' is a social movement aimed at producing political, economic and social change. It traces the changing relationship among three unprecedented trends experienced in the 'developing world' since 1950: declining levels of mortality and fertility, socioeconomic development, and women’s empowerment. It offers two policy analyses of the con...
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    64,22 €

  • Reimagining Development in Southeast Asia
    This volume consolidates chapters from across Southeast Asia as a means of discussing alternative development pathways. It presents radical re-imaginings of how development might look, considered alongside the growing disillusionment over mainstream development models. In suggesting alternative models of development, it reframes participatory processes from the developing world...
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    209,04 €

  • UNDERSTANDING THE POLITICAL ECONOMICS ON CHINA’S DEVELOPMENT
    Hailiang Gu / Tianyi Wang / TIANYI WANG HAILIANG GU
    This book attempts to answer significant questions such as: what is China’s 'developing' political economy, what are the major principles of socialist political economy with Chinese characteristics, and how to achieve economic development. From 'new normal' and 'new development concept' to 'innovation driven development strategy' and 'supply side structural reform' to 'the Belt...
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    178,55 €

  • Financing of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
    The economic and social impact of Covid-19 pandemic both on developing and developed countries has been significant. In addition to the impact of the pandemic, the current Ukraine war has also led to severe supply chain disruptions leading to a sharp increase in food and commodity prices globally. Due to a combination of external shocks and the impact of the pandemic, global ec...
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    182,40 €

  • The Ocean Incubator Network Learning Toolkit
    Laura Vita / Margherita Paola Poto
    This open access book is designed to enhance ocean literacy through diverse research, educational and interdisciplinary approaches. It focuses on a number of critical themes, including: an exploration of positionality, emphasizing the importance of acknowledging one’s own perspective in ocean-related research and advocacy; the nuances of trans-cross and interdisciplinarity in o...
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    58,12 €

  • Development and Disasters
    Ilan Kelman / James Lewis
    Good development could − and should − be the driving force for averting disasters by reducing vulnerability. But conversely, in many cases,development itself becomes a major cause of vulnerability and disasters. This new edition describes the complex relationship between disasters and development. ...
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    63,32 €

  • Sustaining and Scaling Up Community Managed Water
    This book examines the performance and limitations of the Community-based water management (CBWM) model through the case study of the Water and Sanitation Extension Programme (WASEP), a successful community-managed scheme that has delivered clean piped drinking water to over 450 mainly rural settlements in Gilgit-Baltistan, Northern Pakistan. ...
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    53,59 €

  • Peace Museums
    Peter van den Dungen
    This book is the first comprehensive study of the history, nature, and purposes of peace museums, comprising twenty-one essays by a leading authority in the field. It presents a powerful argument for the need for this new kind of museum that informs and inspires visitors that a world of peace and nonviolence is both necessary and possible. Whereas there are numerous museums abo...
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    182,77 €

  • Orphanage Tourism in Nepal
    Dr. Esther Bott
    This book explores the social, cultural and economic backdrop of the growing phenomenon of orphanage tourism in Nepal. ...
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    158,40 €

  • Resource Management Performance
    This book investigates the intricacies of resource management performance across various sectors within the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. With 13 in-depth studies, it examines the region’s evolution from an agricultural society to an emerging market since the collapse of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003. Oil and gas revenue, comprising over 85 percent of fiscal revenues, has attra...
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    179,42 €

  • Harvest Loss in China
    Daizo Kojima / Laping Wu / Xue Qu
    This open access book examines food security in China with a specific focus on rice harvesting. As the most populous agricultural developing country, China’s food security is closely related to the world’s food security. An urgent issue internationally, data show that every year, about one-third of food is lost and wasted before it even reaches the market, mainly in less develo...
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    77,72 €

  • Understanding German Development Cooperation
    This book outlines the history of German development policy, provides important insights into Germany’s motivations for development aid and closes an important research gap in this field. From its beginnings to the present day, German development cooperation has undergone various political and institutional changes. This volume offers a comprehensive analysis of these phases an...
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    128,65 €

  • Federalism and Decentralization in Africa
    Andrey Zakharov / Leonid Issaev
    This book examines the challenges and opportunities of administrative and territorial reconstruction in Africa from independence until the present time. In light of the rise of separatist movements in various African states and the ethnic, linguistic, and religious heterogeneity of many African societies, the book sheds new light on the fragmentation and decentralization of the...
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    167,43 €

  • Voices of Activists and Academics
    In each chapter, practitioners and academics from many global contexts share their experiences of being youth activists and working with children and young people in a participatory way, broadly based on rights-based approaches emerging from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). ...
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    75,62 €

  • Voices of Activists and Academics
    In each chapter, practitioners and academics from many global contexts share their experiences of being youth activists and working with children and young people in a participatory way, broadly based on rights-based approaches emerging from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). ...
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    189,08 €

  • Governance and Sustainable Development in South Asia
    This edited volume analyzes South Asian public administration and its role in development through the lens of SDG 16. Chapters explore how SDG 16 has influenced the development of effective and accountable public institutions and the initiatives taken within this region to promote an inclusive society, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inc...
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    205,62 €

  • This Land is Not For Sale
    Although violent conflict has declined in northern Uganda, tensions and mistrust concerning land have increased. Residents try to deal with acquisitions by investors and exclusions from forests and wildlife reserves. Land wrangles among neighbours and relatives are widespread. The growing commodification of land challenges ideals of entrustment for future generations. Using ext...
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    26,44 €

  • Ukraine’s Journey to Recovery, Reform and Post-War Reconstruction
    Silviu Nate
    This open access volume explores Ukraine’s challenges post-war, focusing on economic revival and sustainable development. Addressing scholars, policymakers, and practitioners the book discusses pivotal issues for the rebuilding of Ukraine, such as institutional changes, economic hurdles, social stability, and environmental rejuvenation.The book highlights the inevitable need fo...
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    78,16 €

  • Political Geography in Practice
    This innovative textbook on the theories, approaches and methodologies that inform political geography is brought together by past and present editors of the journal of the same name. The book fills the current gap in the literature through a reflection on the ’doing’ of political geography: its very practice. The book includes chapters authored by leading and emerging voices i...
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    66,42 €

  • Peace as Nonviolence
    This book advances the peace discourse as defined in UN guidelines, while also working towards the implementation of the science of peace in various educational contexts in Africa, particularly at universities. The contributions gathered here are intended to highlight the role of university peace studies programs, particularly their relevance for peace education, peace research...
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    208,85 €

  • Unfair ID (First Edition)
    Silvia Masiero
    A cutting-edge exploration of the digitalization of ID from a data justice perspective, exploring the global injustices this process creates and contributes to – and how we can resist and undo them. ...
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    144,05 €

  • Unfair ID (First Edition)
    Silvia Masiero
    A cutting-edge exploration of the digitalization of ID from a data justice perspective, exploring the global injustices this process creates and contributes to – and how we can resist and undo them. ...
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    47,42 €

  • From Reversal of Fortune to Economic Resurgence
    Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka / Oyebanke Abejirin
    This book examines Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy and most populous country, and five selected Asian countries in comparative development and sectoral perspectives. It employs quantitative and qualitative methods, including case studies and statistical/econometric methods, to analyze factors that separate the sample countries that made rapid economic progress in 'catching up...
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    158,12 €


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