In this millennium, global drylands face a myriad of problems that present tough research,
management, and policy challenges. Recent advances in dryland development, however …

Where access to renewable natural resources essential to rural livelihoods is highly
contested, improving cooperation in resource management is an important element in …

Political practices, agencies and institutions around the world promote the need for humans,
individually and collectively, to develop capacities of resilience. We must accept and adapt …

The interactions between environmental change and human societies have a long, complex
history spanning many millennia, but these have changed fundamentally in the last century …

The world is undergoing unprecedented changes in many of the factors that determine its
fundamental properties and their in-ence on society. These changes include climate; the …

Flood vulnerability assessment is becoming increasingly important around the world.
Nevertheless, the high-dimensional and non-linear relationship between various indices …

What is the relation between sustainable development and neoliberalism? Mark Duffield
argues that the shift from strategies of development preaching modernisation to sustainable …

While matters of security have appeared as paramount themes in a post-9/11 world,
anthropology has not developed a critical comparative ethnography of security and its …

This book is concerned with the ways in which the problem of security is thought about and
promoted by a range of actors and agencies in the public, private and nongovernmental …

Regional Development is linked to Sustainability, and also, Development is linked to
Security, both nationally and globally. The expanded view of Security has opened the …