Bøger af David Hulme

This volume examines just how successful community-based conservation approaches have been in their twin objectives of conserving African environments and improving rural livelihoods.

In the past decade, the developed world has spent almost US$ 2 trillion on foreign aid for poorer countries. Yet 1. 2 billion people still live in extreme poverty and around 2. 9 billion cannot meet their basic human needs.

Traces the origins of the idea of Development Studies and introduces the main methodologies and theories of development. This text on development theory and practice takes as its starting point the challenge of overcoming development and global poverty and inequality. It, then, tackles the challenges of the twenty-first century.