Routledge Handbook of Global Development

<p>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.</p><p>Featuring 61 contributions from leading and emerging academics and practitioners this multidisciplinary volume is organized into five thematic parts exploring: changes in global development financing ideologies norms and partnerships; interrelationships between development natural environments and inequality; shifts in critical development challenges and; new possibilities for positive change. Collectively the handbook demonstrates that global development challenges are becoming increasingly complex and multi-faceted and are to be found in the Global ‘North’ as much as the ‘South’. It draws attention to structural inequality and disadvantage alongside possibilities for positive change.</p><p>The Handbook will serve as a valuable resource for students and scholars across multiple disciplines including Development Studies Anthropology Geography Global Studies Indigenous and Postcolonial Studies Political Science and Urban Studies.</p><p>The Introduction of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.</p>