Key Concepts in Development Geography,9780857025845

Key Concepts in Development Geography

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ISBN13: 9780857025845
ISBN10: 0857025848
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2012-06-06
Publisher(s): SAGE Publications Ltd
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Summary

Key Concepts in Development Geography is a new kind of textbook that forms part of an innovative set of companion texts for the human geography sub-disciplines. Organized around 20 short essays, Key Concepts in Development Geography is an introductory text that provides students with the core concepts that form contemporary research and ideas within the development geography discipline.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Meanings of development
Measuring development
Space and development
Defining and measuring poverty
The Millenium Development goals
Theory and Practice of Development
Modernity, modernisation, postmodernity and post-structuralism
Radical approaches to development
Neoliberalism and globalisation
The development programmes of global institutions
Sustainable development and environmental sustainability
Work, Employment and Development
Rural livelihoods and sustainable communities
Industrialisation and the New International Division of Labour
Decent work, risk and the informal sector
The digital economy and new spaces of work
Global trade, aid and regulation
People, Culture and Development
Gender, households and development
Children, youth and development
Health, disability and development
Sexualities and development
Ageing and development
Contemporary Issues in Development
Culture and human rights
Civil society, social capital and Non-Governmental Organisations
Tobin-type taxes
Migration, transnationalism and development
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