Geographies of development : an introduction to development studies / Robert B. Potter, Tony Binns, Jennifer A. Elliott,

By:

Potter, Robert B

Contributor(s):

Potter, Robert B

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Prentice Hall, c2008.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xxviii, 545 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cmISBN:

9780132228237

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DDC classification:

338.9 GEO

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Contents:

Conceptualising development : meanings of development -- Questioning development -- Understanding colonialism -- Theories and strategies of development -- Globalisation, development and underdevelopment -- Development in practice : components of development -- People in the development process -- Resources and the environment -- Institutions of development -- Spaces of development : places and development -- Movements and flows -- Urban spaces -- Rural spaces.

Summary: This text encourages critical engagement by integrating theory alongside practice and related key topics throughout. It demonstrates informatively that ideas concerning development have been many and varied and highly contested - varying from time to time and from place to place

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Mzumbe University Main Campus Library	Mzumbe University Main Campus Library	338.9 GEO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		0078517

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-534) and index.

This text encourages critical engagement by integrating theory alongside practice and related key topics throughout. It demonstrates informatively that ideas concerning development have been many and varied and highly contested - varying from time to time and from place to place

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