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Familiarizes readers with the Asia-Pacific region. This book presents the major social, economic and political issues, maps contemporary community development trends, and analyzes the challenges of and opportunities for community development practice in the Asia-Pacific region.

While an expanding literature has documented the economic upsurge of artisanal mining, this book is the first to explore its societal impact in detail. It demonstrates that, as a mode of mineral production, artisanal mining has the potential to be far more democratic and emancipating than preceding modes. It explores the paradoxes of this mode of mineral production alongside the expansion of large-scale mining investment in Africa, focussing on the Tanzanian experience. It considers how artisanal mining is configured in relation to local, regional and national mining investments, wealth accumulation and social class differentiation emanating from it. It focuses on work lives, mobility, and associated lifestyles of miners and people in mining settlements, asking where this historical interlude is taking them, their communities and countries in the future. The question of value transfers out of the artisanal mining sector, value capture by elites and changing configurations of gender, age and class differentiation all arise.

This book examines and compares the transformation of rural society and economy in the US and UK during the last half-century, and explores the significance of these transformations for community sustainability, the quality of life, and environmental quality.

As one of the world's most powerful supranational institutions, the World Bank has played an important role in international development discourse and practice since 1946. This book presents the history and analysis of the Bank's urban programs and their complex relationship to urban policy formulation in the developing world.

Big business, financial institutions, and capitalist powers have wreaked much havoc on the Third World in the name of development. This book imagines development through an imaginative exploration of some of the many ways that culture can recenter resistance, suggest alternative models, and advance critiques of development as it is practiced.

Analyses key concepts associated with rural development policy and practice. Using the concepts of power and micro-politics to analyze rhetoric and reality, this book reveals the intricacies of rural development. It contends that within structures of rural governance, a regeneration power elite predominates development and regeneration activities.

Examines the political and sectoral institutions that are essential for the provision of WS services. This work demonstrates that the level of democracy has a positive impact on access to WS services and that low-quality governance of sub-national governments compromises the internal efficiency of providers and the widespread access to services.

Offering practical examples, this book helps practitioners to apply the insights of how best to pursue a bottom-up approach to development in their own work, while also helping theoreticians and students to develop a strong analytical framework on the subject.

This book explores how many issues related to development and governance ¿ including migration, disaster management, environmental justice, peace and security, sustainability, public-private partnerships, and terrorism ¿ impact the practice of social work. It takes a global, comparative approach, reflecting the global context in which social workers now operate.

Offers a theory of dislocation in the form of primitive accumulation. Using 'reformist-managerial' and 'radical-movementist' approaches, this book historicizes and politicizes the event of dislocation as a moment to usher in capitalism through the medium of development.

Dams As Aid brings together key issues in the aid/environment/development debate. Through her examination of dams, Usher sheds light on wider issues of the political economy of aid. With detailed comparative case studies.

This book demonstrates theoretically and empirically how aid practitioners shape the organisational, social and inter-cultural dynamics of development projects and industry.

Demonstrates that the ideas inherent in social development are practical and not utopian. Discussing and delineating a social development approach, this book argues the need for practicing it at local or grassroots-level communities to promote universal social justice and wellbeing.

Access and benefit-sharing (ABS) has emerged as among the most prominent approaches undertaken to stop or lessen the global loss of biodiversity. This book examines the effectiveness of this approach and the extent that there has been fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the commercialization of genetic resources.

For millennia, contact between societies was limited to trade or wars, a situation that changed profoundly with the development of global markets serving industrialization. The outcome was the emergence of one global human civilization, and one common future that will depend on the capacity of individuals and societies to manage the potentials for social development.This edited collection is dedicated to the discussion of four global trends: upgrading the rationality of organizations, individualization, the spreading of instrumental activism and universalization of value-normative systems. The mutual influence of these interrelated trends brings about both constructive and destructive effects in social life, social integration and change. Contributors examine questions such as: How do global trends pave their way in regions? What are the similarities and differences of regional development? How do agencies cope with the challenges of global trends in regional development?

This volume examines the persistence of poverty - both rural and urban - in developing countries, and the response of local governments to the problem, exploring the roles of governments, NGOs, and CSOs in national and sub-national agenda-setting, policy-making, and poverty-reduction strategies.

This book delves into the reasons behind and the consequences of the implementation gap regarding the right to prior consultation and the Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America.

The speed and cost effectiveness of new information technology has prompted many to view these innovations as a panacea for social and economic development. However, such a view flies in the face of continuing inequities in education, health, food, and infrastructure. This volume explores these issues - along with questions of access, privilege, literacy, training, and the environmental and health effects of information technologies in the developing world - arguing that a higher level of development does not always result from a higher level of technologization.

The authors provide a psychological approach to development studies, focusing on social aspects of aid and its motivational foundations. The book is intended as a tool for looking at development projects in a new and structured way. In the ROUTLEDGE STUDIES IN DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIETY series.