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Model: SS0691
ISBN: 9780470235287
Authors: CORBRIDGE, STUART
Publishers: MISCELLANEOUS
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ISBN: 9780470235287
Author: Corbridge, stuart
Publisher: Miscellaneous

'Development Studies' brings together in a single accessible volume a representative and exciting set of readings on the nature of contemporary development issues. Using as its organizing theme the 'development debate' itself, this reader focuses on six main topic areas: theories and models of development, agricultural change and rural development, survival strategies and the weapons of the weak, industrialization and urbanization, the global political economy, and new directions in development studies, including democratization, environmental sustainability, and citizenship. Contains approximately 30 representative and exciting articles by leading academics in the field on the nature of contemporary developmental issues. Using the 'development debate' as its organizing theme, this accessible work discusses such topics as theories and models of development, survival strategies and the weapons of the weak and new directions including democratization, environmental sustainability and citizenship.