Vandana Desai - The Companion to Development Studies, Third Edition

The Companion to Development Studies

The Companion to Development Studies, third edition, contains 109 chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines the book is divided into ten sections, each prefaced by a section introduction written by the editors. The sections cover: the nature of development; theories and strategies of development; globalization and development; rural development; urbanization and development; environment and development; gender; health and education; the political economy of violence and insecurity; and governance and development.

This third edition has been extensively updated and contains 45 new contributions from leading authorities, dealing with pressing contemporary issues such as: race and development; ethics and development; BRICs and development; the global financial crisis; the knowledge based economy and digital divide; food security; GM crops; comparative urbanism; cities and crime; energy; water hydropolitics; climate change; disability; fragile states; the global war on terror; ethnic conflict; legal rights to development; and ecosystems services for development, just to name a few. Existing chapters have been thoroughly revised to include cutting-edge developments, and to present updated further reading and websites.

The Companion to Development Studies presents concise overviews, providing a gateway to further reading and a flexible resource for teaching and learning. It has established a role as essential reading for all students of development studies, as well as those in cognate areas of geography, international relations, politics, sociology, anthropology, and economics.

Vandana Desai is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Robert B. Potter is Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading.

The Companion to Development Studies

Third edition

Edited by Vandana Desai and Robert B. Potter

First edition published 2002 by Hodder Arnold

Second edition published 2008 by Hodder Education

Third edition published 2014

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ISBN: 978-0-415-82665-5 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-4441-6724-5 (pbk)

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Contents

PART 1
The nature of development and development studies

PART 2
Theories and strategies of development

PART 3
Globalisation, employment and development

PART 4
Rural development

PART 5
Urbanization and development

PART 6
Environment and development

PART 7
Gender and development

PART 8
Health and education

PART 9
Political economy of violence and insecurity