Key concepts in development geography
by
 
Potter, Robert B. author.

Title
Key concepts in development geography

Author
Potter, Robert B. author.

ISBN
9780857025852
 
9780857025845

Personal Author
Potter, Robert B. author.

Publication Information
London : SAGE, 2012.

Physical Description
viii, 278 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 22 cm.

Series
Key concepts in human geography

General Note
Formerly CIP.

Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Understanding Development -- Introduction -- 1.1.Meanings of Development -- 1.2.Measuring Development -- 1.3.Space and Development -- 1.4.Defining and Measuring Poverty -- 1.5.The Millennium Development Goals -- 2.Theory and Practice of Development -- Introduction -- 2.1.Modernity, Modernization, Postmodernism and Post-structuralism -- 2.2.Radical Approaches to Development -- 2.3.Neoliberalism and Globalization -- 2.4.The Development Programmes of Global Institutions -- 2.5.Sustainable Development and Environmental Sustainability -- 3.Work, Employment and Development -- Introduction -- 3.1.Rural Livelihoods and Sustainable Communities -- 3.2.Industrialization and the New International Division of Labour -- 3.3.Decent Work, Risk and the Informal Sector -- 3.4.The Digital Economy and New Spaces of Work -- 3.5.Global Trade, Aid and Regulation -- 4.People, Culture and Development -- Introduction -- 4.1.Gender, Households and Development --
 
Contents note continued: 4.2.Children, Youth and Development -- 4.3.Health, Disability and Development -- 4.4.Sexualities and Development -- 4.5.Ageing and Development -- 5.Contemporary Issues in Development -- Introduction -- 5.1.Culture and Human Rights -- 5.2.Civil Society, Social Capital and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) -- 5.3.Migration, Transnationalism and Development -- 5.4.Tobin-type Taxes.

Abstract
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, it is an introductory text that provides students with the core concepts that form contemporary research and ideas within the development geography discipline.

Subject Term
Economic development.
 
Human geography.
 
Economic geography.

Added Author
Potter, Robert B.,
 
Conway, Dennis,
 
Evans, Ruth,
 
Lloyd-Evans, Sally,


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