Outputs (185)

Exploring the Potential and Limits of the Resilience Agenda in Rapidly Urbanising Contexts (2014)
Preprint / Working Paper
Béné, C., Cannon, T., Gupte, J., Mehta, L., & Tanner, T. Exploring the Potential and Limits of the Resilience Agenda in Rapidly Urbanising Contexts. Brighton

More than half the world’s population now live in urban areas. In developing countries, these areas will become home to almost all of the projected 50 per cent population growth that will occur between now and 2030, swelling urban populations by a fu... Read More about Exploring the Potential and Limits of the Resilience Agenda in Rapidly Urbanising Contexts.

Between Returns and Respectability: Parental Attitudes towards Girls' Education in Rural Pakistan (2014)
Journal Article
Purewal, N., & Hashmi, N. (2014). Between Returns and Respectability: Parental Attitudes towards Girls' Education in Rural Pakistan. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 36(7), 977-995. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2014.883274

This article focuses upon perceptions of girls’ education in the family context within which decisions around children’s education and opportunities are made. The article presents a framework showing how parental attitudes to girls’ education are sha... Read More about Between Returns and Respectability: Parental Attitudes towards Girls' Education in Rural Pakistan.

The people want – but do they have a chance? [Interview] (2014)
Other
Achcar, G. (2014). The people want – but do they have a chance? [Interview]

The people want – but do they have a chance? [Interview] (2014)
Other
Achcar, G. (2014). The people want – but do they have a chance? [Interview]

Climate related migration in rural Bangladesh: a behavioural model (2014)
Journal Article
Martin, M., Billah, M., Siddiqui, T., Abrar, C. R., Black, R., & Kniveton, D. Climate related migration in rural Bangladesh: a behavioural model. Population and Environment, 36(1), 85-110. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-014-0207-2

Research into the climate change and migration nexus has often focussed solely on how people move in response to the impacts of variability and change in climate. This notion often ignores the nature of migration as a tried and tested livelihood choi... Read More about Climate related migration in rural Bangladesh: a behavioural model.

Indian Garment Clusters and CSR Norms: Incompatible Agendas at the Bottom of the Garment Commodity Chain (2014)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A. (2014). Indian Garment Clusters and CSR Norms: Incompatible Agendas at the Bottom of the Garment Commodity Chain. Oxford Development Studies, 42(2), 217-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2014.885939

Stockholm syndrome: What happened to the European left? (2014)
Digital Artefact
Standing, G. (2014). Stockholm syndrome: What happened to the European left?. [Al Jazeera America]

Democracy Against Neoliberalism: Paradoxes, Limitations, Transcendence (2014)
Journal Article
Saad Filho, A., & Ayers, A. J. (2015). Democracy Against Neoliberalism: Paradoxes, Limitations, Transcendence. Critical Sociology, 41(4-5), 597-618. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920513507789

Procedural (formal, liberal, capitalist or bourgeois) democracy is the political form of neoliberalism, and it dominates political thought and state practice today. This modality of management of class relations is currently in crisis, expressed thro... Read More about Democracy Against Neoliberalism: Paradoxes, Limitations, Transcendence.

Changing asset endowments and smallholder participation in higher value markets: Evidence from certified coffee producers in Nicaragua (2014)
Journal Article
Donovan, J., & Poole, N. (2014). Changing asset endowments and smallholder participation in higher value markets: Evidence from certified coffee producers in Nicaragua. Food Policy, 44, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2013.09.010

This paper examines the capacities of smallholders in Nicaragua to exploit new linkages to certified coffee markets following the coffee crisis. Data on livelihood assets were collected from 292 households, which were clustered to test how difference... Read More about Changing asset endowments and smallholder participation in higher value markets: Evidence from certified coffee producers in Nicaragua.

Catchment partnerships –better planning for our rivers and landscapes (2014)
Report
Couldrick, L., & Smith, L. (2014). Catchment partnerships –better planning for our rivers and landscapes

We place increasing demands on our landscapes. Historically we have managed these spaces by prioritizing a single sector in a given location, for example farming, or recreation, or biodiversity, but this has failed to
address the ways in which land,... Read More about Catchment partnerships –better planning for our rivers and landscapes.