Books in the Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods series

This volume provides a unified scholarly treatment of intensifying debates on the relationship between water scarcity and environmental security in Central Eurasia, using discussions of sustainable rural development as its conceptual backdrop.

Explores the historical and contemporary process of agrarian transformation in developing countries and its impact upon peasant livelihoods, examining contemporary processes of rural change through an historically-informed analytical lens.

This book examines contemporary forms of rural resistance to agrarian reforms in Southeast Asia, adopting a multi-scalar approach. focusing on Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand.

This book explores the debates surrounding land and agrarian reform in South Africa and explores how these reforms, and particular those that make access easier, have created new options for and broadened the use of land and natural resources.

This multidisciplinary book offers a comparative reading of the conflicts between large mining industries and peasant and indigenous communities in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, focusing on the wider political economy of extractives in Latin America.

This book critically re-examines a wide range of policy issues in agriculture, including land, knowledge, credit and physical inputs policy, presenting six detailed case studies from Latin America, Africa and Asia with a detailed synthesis from the editor, Ha-Joon Chang.

Ecotourism and natural resource extraction may be seen as contradictory pursuits, yet in reality they often take place side by side, sometimes even supported by the same institutions. This book offers theoretical reflections on why these two phenomena are systematically decoupled, and epistemologically and analytically re-links them through ethnographic case studies drawing on research from around the world.

There is a striking scarcity of work conducted on rural labour markets in the developing world, particularly in Africa. This book aims to fill this gap by bringing together a group of contributors to provide critical perspectives on mainstream approaches to rural/agrarian development, and analysis of agrarian change and rural transformations from a long-term perspective.

This book explores the political ecology of agrofuels as an encompassing socio-spatial transformation process consisting of a series of changing contexts, political reconfigurations, and the restructuring of social and labour relations. It includes conceptual chapters as well as case studies from different world regions (North America, Europe, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia) and levels (local, national, transnational).

In recent years, Mediterranean agriculture has experienced important transformations which have led to new forms of labour and production, and in particular to a surge in the recruitment of migrant labour. This book brings together international contributors from across several disciplines to present case studies from different territories of the Mediterranean basin, offering empirical data and theoretical analysis in order to grasp the complexity of the processes that are occurring. The book offers a uniquely comprehensive overview of migrations, territories and agro-food production in this key region, which will be an indispensible resource to scholars in migration studies, rural sociology, social geography and the political economy of agriculture.