Hakutulokset: population and development
yhteensä 90 hakutulosta
The Earthscan Reader in Population and Development
This reader provides information on population and development issues for those seeking the middle ground between technical and non-specialist material. It contains contributions …
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
In the early 19th century, thousands of emancipated and freeborn blacks from the United States returned to Africa to colonize the area now known as Liberia. In this systematic …
Sociological Perspectives on Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction in Rural Populations
Globally, poverty affects millions of people's lives each day. Children are hungry, many lack the means to receive an education, and many are needlessly ill. It is a common scene …
Social Change and the Family in Taiwan
This interdisciplinary study provides an analysis of the complex changes in family relations in a society undergoing revolutionary social and economic transformation. It explores …
Rural Transition and Transport in China
This book examines the rural transition and transportation in China. It covers demographic change, settlement transformation, and infrastructure development in rural areas, as well …
Resettlement Challenges for Displaced Populations and Refugees
The main focus of this book is to help better understand the multidimensionality and complexity of population displacement and the role that reconstruction and recovery knowledge …
Reading History Sideways
European and American scholars from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries thought that all societies passed through the same developmental stages, from primitive to …
Populism and Higher Education Curriculum Development: Problem Based Learning as a Mitigating Response
Against a background of increasing inequality and a rising tide of nationalism and populism, this book raises concerns that curriculum is being shaped by powerful non-academic, …
Populism, Democracy and Community Development
Using international perspectives and case studies, this book discusses the relationships between community development and populism in the context of today’s widespread crisis of …
Population Studies and Development from Theory to Fieldwork
This book addresses major population and development issues: fertility and reproductive health, migrations, gender, education, poverty and inequalities. To that aim it revisits and …
Population Politics and Development
This book uses political and socio-anthropological theory to examine the relationship between power, interest, and agency within population and family planning discourse across …
Population Growth and Urban Systems Development
The study of the evolution of an urban system raises a number of practical questions, as to the operational definition of the components of the system as well as to the …