Title:
Key concepts in development geography
Author:
Potter, Robert B. author.
ISBN:
9780857025852
9780857025845
Personal 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.