Development Theory and Climate Change

Development Theory and Climate Change is an illuminating exploration of the decline and subsequent revival of development theories. M.A. Mohamed Salih demonstrates how the end of the Cold War and the ascendancy of neoliberal global capitalism have caused the revival of core conceptual frameworks derived from modernization, dependency and the world system.

M.A. Mohamed Salih discusses the way in which these development theories have earlier prioritized ideology over authentic progress and neglected to consider the environment and the experiences of women in their analyses of development. He reflects on ecofeminist, political ecology feminist and post-development discourses which offer alternatives to neoliberal international climate change policies, as well as activists such as Extinction Rebellion, who reject these policies entirely. The book ultimately proposes a reassessment of development theory beyond the climate change crisis, interrogating relations between developing and more developed industrially advanced countries in the Anthropocene.

Students and scholars of development studies, environmental and human geography and sociology and sociological theory will greatly benefit from this pioneering book. Interdisciplinary in scope, it is also a vital resource for policymakers and practitioners working in climate change and development, as well as environmental activists and NGOs.