The Routledge Handbook of African Development

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-73483-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 724 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1340 g

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

This handbook presents an extensive new overview of African development – past, present and future. It addresses key core themes and topics that are pertinent to the continent’s development – including sections on history, health and food, politics, economics, rural and urban development, and development policy and practice.

The volume draws on the expertise of over 60 of the world’s leading scholars to provide a detailed and up-to-date analysis of the key opportunities and challenges that confront Africa, and how such issues are being addressed. Arranged by key themes, the handbook provides not only a historical understanding of the past, but also political perspectives on the future. The chapters provide critically informed analyses of their topics by drawing upon the latest conceptual viewpoints and applied experiences in Africa in the form of case studies to offer a comprehensive examination of the opportunities, challenges, key debates and future prospects.

This handbook is an invaluable state-of-the-art overview and reference concerning many different aspects of Africa’s development, which will be of interest to academics in all fields of African studies, and also academics and students working in cognate disciplines such as development studies, geography, history, politics and economics.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Binns, Tony

Lynch, Kenneth

Nel, Etienne

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

SECTION 1: Introduction and Context  Chapter 1: Introduction  Chapter 2: African Perspectives on Development  Chapter 3: The African Idea of Development  SECTION 2: History  Chapter 4: Colonial Africa  Chapter 5: Post-Independence Africa: Challenges and Opportunities  SECTION 3: Social Perspectives  Chapter 6: Demographic Characteristics, Migration and Employment-Seeking Behaviour: A Case Study of Ghana  Chapter 7: Gender and Development in Africa: A 50-Year Journey from Women In Development To Gender Justice  Chapter 8: Inequality in Africa  Chapter 9: Education  Chapter 10: Children  Chapter 11: Diaspora  SECTION 4: Health  Chapter 12: Health Challenges  Chapter 13: The African HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Is the End in Sight?  Chapter 14: Food Insecurity and Famine  Chapter 15: Access to Essential Medicines in Africa  SECTION 5: Environment  Chapter 16: Water Resources and Development  Chapter 17: Wetlands  Chapter 18: Conservation and People  Chapter 19: Ecosystem Services in Africa  SECTION 6: Development Issues  Chapter 20: African Development: ‘Hopeless Africa’, ‘Africa Rising’, or Somewhere In Between?  Chapter 21: Regional Integration  Chapter 22: The Millennium Development Goals  Chapter 23: Africa’s Natural Resource Corner and BRICS  Chapter 24: Aid and Debt  Chapter 25: Faith in Development in Sub-Saharan Africa  SECTION 7: Rural Africa  Chapter 26: Land Tenure  Chapter 27: Deagrarianisation and Depeasantisation in Africa  Chapter 28: Rural Development  Chapter 29: Rural Marketing in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Current Issues  Chapter 30: Rural–Urban Interaction and Development in Africa  SECTION 8: Urban Africa  Chapter 31: The Politics of Urban Management and Planning in African Cities  Chapter 32: Housing in Africa  Chapter 33: Perspectives on Urban Employment in Africa: The Case of Informal Solid Waste Management in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)  Chapter 34: Food Security in African Cities: Linking Urban Food Production with Good Urban Governance  Chapter 35: The Future and Africa’s Cities  SECTION 9: Economic Perspectives  Chapter 36: Africa’s Extreme Uneven Development Worsens During Global Economic Turmoil Chapter 37: Financial Sector Development, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Africa  Chapter 38: Agriculture  Chapter 39: Mining  Chapter 40: Supporting the SMME Economy of Sub-Saharan Africa: A Role for Business Incubation  Chapter 41: Africa’s Tourism Economy: Uneven Progress and Challenges  Chapter 42: Transport  Chapter 43: Land-Grabbing in Africa  Chapter 44: The Economics of And Prospects for China’s Africa Return  SECTION 10: Political Perspectives on Africa’s Development  Chapter 45: Government: African Development Beyond ‘Good Governance’  Chapter 46: Conflict and Post-Conflict  Chapter 47: Human Rights in Africa: Impasse, Backsliding, Or Forwards?  Chapter 48: The International Criminal Court in Africa  Chapter 49: Corruption  SECTION 11: Conclusion  Chapter 50: Conclusion: Looking Forward

Über Autor(innen)

Tony Binns is Ron Lister Professor of Geography at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, and Visiting Professorial Fellow in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

Kenneth Lynch is a Reader in Geography in the School of Natural and Social Sciences at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.

Etienne Nel is a Professor of Geography at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, and Visiting Research Fellow, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.