Tony Binns - The Routledge Handbook of African Development

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The Routledge Handbook of African Development

This handbook presents an extensive new overview of African development past, present and future. It addresses key core themes and topics that are pertinent to the continents development including sections on history, health and food, politics, economics, rural and urban development, and development policy and practice.

The volume draws on the expertise of over 60 of the worlds leading scholars to provide a detailed and up-to-date analysis of the key opportunities and challenges that confront Africa, and how such issues are being addressed. Arranged by key themes, the handbook provides not only a historical understanding of the past, but also political perspectives of the future. The chapters provide critically informed analyses of their topics by drawing upon the latest conceptual viewpoints and applied experiences in Africa in a form of case studies to offer a comprehensive examination of the opportunities, challenges, key debates and future prospects.

This handbook is an invaluable state-of-the-art overview and reference concerning many different aspects of Africas development, which should be of interest to academics in all fields of African studies, and also academics and students working in cognate disciplines such as development studies, geography, history, politics and economics.

Tony Binns is Ron Lister Professor of Geography at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, and Visiting Professorial Fellow in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

Kenneth Lynch is a Reader in Geography in the School of Natural and Social Sciences at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.

Etienne Nel is a Professor of Geography at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, and Visiting Research Fellow, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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The Routledge Handbook
of African Development

Edited by Tony Binns, Kenneth Lynch
and Etienne Nel

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First published 2018
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Afia A. Adaboh is a PhD student in the Global Development and Sustainability concentration at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, at Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA. Her research focuses on the evaluation of policies and programmes aimed at improving the quality of life of vulnerable and marginalised groups in West Africa and the Caribbean.

Clive Agnew is Professor of Physical Geography and Vice President for Teaching Learning and Students at the University of Manchester. He researches and teaches in the fields of water resources development and applied hydrology. His first degree was in Physical Geography (BSc 1976, Newcastle) and his PhD (UEA, 1980) was on water resources and drought in West Africa. Since then, he has worked extensively in both the drylands and the wetlands of Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He is currently engaged in research on the provision of water and ecosystem services in urban areas of Bangladesh and Tanzania.

Nicola Ansell is Professor of Human Geography at Brunel University, London. Her research focuses on social and cultural change in the lives of young people, mainly in southern Africa. Her current research projects are exploring how southern African cash transfer schemes are shaping generational relations, and the links between education and aspiration in remote rural areas of Lesotho, India and Laos. She is the author of Children, Youth and Development (Routledge, 2nd edition, 2016).

Joseph K. Assan is currently an Assistant Professor of International Political Economy of Sustainable Development at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA. Joseph teaches on the Sustainable International Development Programme. He is the Lead Investigator on Poverty Reduction and Development Programme at the Center for Global Development and Sustainability at the Heller School.

Hazel Barrett is a social scientist who undertook her first degree at the University of Sussex in the School of African and Asian Studies. She then moved to the University of Birmingham to undertake her MA and PhD in West African Studies. Hazel has worked at Coventry University since 1992, and in 2006 she was conferred a Chair in Development Geography. She is currently a Research Professor in the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations. Her main areas of research are the socio-economic aspects of development, in particular gender, health and rural development in sub-Saharan Africa. Over the last two decades, her research has been directed at the social and economic aspects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. More recently, her research has focused on the traditional harmful practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa and among the African diaspora in the EU.

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Simon Batterbury is Professor of Political Ecology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK, and Principal Fellow in the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has worked on rural development and soil and water conservation in rural Burkina Faso and Niger since the early 1990s, and on land tenure and mining in East Timor and New Caledonia.

Tony Binns is Ron Lister Professor of Geography at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Before coming to New Zealand, he worked for 30 years in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of Sussex. Tony has been involved in teaching and research on Africa for over 40 years, and has taught at universities in Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Africa. He has written or edited some 20 books, 35 book chapters and over 100 peer-reviewed articles. Among his most recent books is Africa: Diversity and Development (with Alan Dixon and Etienne Nel, Routledge, 2012). Tony is Chair of the International Editorial Advisory Board of the Australasian Review of African Studies , and is a member of the Steering Committee of the International Geographical Unions Africa Commission.