Bøger i Pathways to Sustainability serien

There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades. This has substantially increased the availability of health-related goods and services in all but the most remote localities, but it has created problems with safety, efficiency and cost. This book documents the problems associated with unregulated health markets and presents innovative approaches that have emerged to address them.

A view of 'development at the margins' in the pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa highlights innovation and entrepreneurialism, cooperation and networking and diverse approaches rarely in line with standard development prescriptions. Through twenty detailed empirical chapters, the book highlights diverse pathways of development, going beyond the standard 'aid' and 'disaster' narratives.

Substantial resources have been spent on tackling avian influenza and building a global capacity for a pandemic response. This book explores how virus genetics, ecology and epidemiology intersect with economic, political and policy processes in places ranging from Bangkok to Washington, to Jakarta, Cairo, Rome and London.

This book explores key developments since the mid-1970s, focusing in particular on the emergence of the neoliberal project and the rise of the participation and environmental agendas, taking into consideration how these have had profound impacts on the practice of agronomic research in the developing world especially over the last four decades.

This book explores key developments since the mid-1970s, focusing in particular on the emergence of the neoliberal project and the rise of the participation and environmental agendas, taking into consideration how these have had profound impacts on the practice of agronomic research in the developing world especially over the last four decades.

Substantial resources have been spent on tackling avian influenza and building a global capacity for a pandemic response. This book explores how virus genetics, ecology and epidemiology intersect with economic, political and policy processes in places ranging from Bangkok to Washington, to Jakarta, Cairo, Rome and London.

Focuses on how different policy-makers, scientists, and local populations construct alternative narratives-accounts of the causes and appropriate responses to outbreaks- about epidemics at the global, national and local level. This book also reveals the often unintended consequences of the policy responses to epidemics.