This major new textbook has been specifically written for students in Development Studies. It provides a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary picture of development research over the past generation. Organised around four major themes, it is the only textbook in this field to present critically...

A. Intention und Gang der Untersuchung - B. Charakterisierung und Abgrenzung entwicklungsbezogener Umweltprobleme: Umweltbelastungen in ihrer räumlichen Dimension - Die besondere Situation Lateinamerikas im Hinblick auf Ressourcen- und Umweltnutzung - C. Erklärungsansätze für das...

Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...