The Routledge Handbook of Global Development

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 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.

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.

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.

Kearrin Sims is a lecturer in Development Studies at James Cook University, Australia.

Nicola Banks is a senior lecturer in Global Urbanism and Urban Development at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester.

Susan Engel is an associate professor in Politics and International Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Paul Hodge is a senior lecturer in Geography and Environmental Studies at The University of Newcastle, Australia.

Jonathan Makuwira is a professor in Development Studies and Deputy Vice Chancellor of Malawi University of Science and Technology.

Naohiro Nakamura is a senior lecturer in Geography at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji.

Jonathan Rigg is a professor in Geography at the University of Bristol, UK.

Albert Salamanca is a senior research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute’s Asia Centre, Thailand.

Pichamon Yeophantong is a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Canberra.