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  • Handbook on Rural-Urban Linkages in the Global South

    Edited by Cecilia Tacoli, Jytte Agergaard, Manja Hoppe Andreasen, Donald Brown ...
    This Handbook offers a comprehensive review of how, in rapidly urbanizing low- and middle-income countries, the links between rural and urban areas, people and enterprises are becoming increasingly intense and complex. With a focus on how rural-urban linkages are being shaped by the intersection of the local and the global, this Handbook illustrates how and where locally specific geographic, socio ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Rural-Urban Dynamics

    Livelihoods, mobility and markets in African and Asian frontiers

    Edited by Jytte Agergaard, Niels Fold ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    It has increasingly been recognised that rural and urban areas are inextricably interlinked. This book adopts a fresh approach to the issue of rural-urban dynamics through a study of the changing nature of livelihoods, mobility and markets in ten study sites across four countries of Africa and Asia. Building on detailed fieldwork conducted in Ghana, Tanzania, Vietnam and Thailand, the authors ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • Theories and Practices of Development

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    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
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    Edited by Vandana Desai, Rob Potter ...
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    A Transnational Approach

    Edited by Mely Caballero-Anthony ...
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  • The Routledge Handbook of Global Development

    Edited by Kearrin Sims, Nicola Banks, Susan Engel, Paul Hodge, Jonathan Makuwira, Naohiro Nakamura, Jonathan Rigg, Albert Salamanca, Pichamon Yeophantong ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of some of the world’s most pressing global development challenges – including how they may be better understood and addressed through innovative practices and approaches to learning and teaching.Featuring 61 contributions from leading and emerging academics and practitioners, this multidisciplinary volume is organized into five thematic parts ... Read more

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    Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis

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    Edited by Margaret B. Holland, Yuta J. Masuda, Brian E. Robinson ...
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  • Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World

    by Paul Jenkins, Harry Smith, Ya Ping Wang ...
    Series series Housing, Planning and Design Series
    Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing.Outlining and explaining core concepts from ‘informal settlements’ to ‘sustainability’, it focuses on the rapid urbanization of developing countries with case studies from Latin ... Read more

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    Immigration, Social Welfare, Global Governance

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