Zed Books: 608 books
The Great African Land Grab?
Agricultural Investments and the Global Food System
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Over the past few years, large-scale land acquisitions in Africa have stoked controversy, making headlines in media reports across the world. Land that only a short time ago seemed of little outside interest is now being sought by international investors to the tune of hundreds of thousands of hectares....
How to Manage an Aid Exit Strategy
The Future of Development Aid
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
After almost forty years of development aid most commentators agree that aid as we know it has not worked. Aid fatigue is suffered on both the donor and recipient sides, with a wide divergence between those who call for a radical overhaul of aid delivery methods, those who advocate a complete end...
Taxing Africa
Coercion, Reform and Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Taxation has been seen as the domain of charisma-free accountants, lawyers and number crunchers – an unlikely place to encounter big societal questions about democracy, equity or good governance. Yet it is exactly these issues that pervade conversations about taxation among policymakers, tax collectors,...
Fly and Be Damned
What Now for Aviation and Climate Change?
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Peter McManners gets underneath the well-known facts about the unsustainable nature of the aviation industry and argues for fundamental change to our travelling habits. The first book to transcend the emotional debate between the entrenched positions of those who are either for, or against, flying,...
Why We Lie About Aid
Development and the Messy Politics of Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Corrects the increasingly polarised debate on aid, which pitches all aid as either being wasted or transformative
A perfect introduction to the key issues surrounding the politics of foreign aid for students and development practitioners
Will be controversial within the development...
The Rise of China and India in Africa
Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
In recent years, China and India have become the most important economic partners of Africa and their footprints are growing by leaps and bounds, transforming Africa's international relations in a dramatic way. Although the overall impact of China and India's engagement in Africa has been positive...
Land, Law and Islam
Property and Human Rights in the Muslim World
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
In this pioneering work Siraj Sait and Hilary Lim address Islamic property and land rights, drawing on a range of socio-historical, classical and contemporary resources. They address the significance of Islamic theories of property and Islamic land tenure regimes on the 'webs of tenure' prevalent...
How Capitalism Failed the Arab World
The Economic Roots and Precarious Future of the Middle East Uprisings
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Economic liberalization has failed in the Arab world. Instead of ushering in economic dynamism and precipitating democratic reform, it has over the last three decades resulted in greater poverty, rising income inequality and sky-rocketing rates of youth unemployment. In How Capitalism Failed the Arab...
Beyond the Profits System
Possibilities for a Post-Capitalist Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Since 2008, we have found ourselves confronted by an historic financial holocaust that world leaders have struggled to come to terms with. All have willfully ignored its long-term, systemic causes and are thus unable to chart a way to survival. As explained by Harry Shutt - who was almost alone in...
Water and Development
Good Governance after Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Water has always been a crucial catalyst for human development. In Africa, competition among different sectors for this scarce resource remains a critical challenge to water managers and decision-makers.
Water and Development examines a range of issues, from governance to solar distillation,...
The Myth of Development
Non-viable Economies and the Crisis of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The message of this courageous classic book is that the benefits of development, so long promised over the past sixty years, have not come about for most people. Nor are they going to. State-driven and market-led development models have both failed. Many countries, and their cities in particular,...
by Professor James Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
How can science realize its potential and help us tackle global inequality, environmental change and crippling poverty? How can more appropriate technologies be developed for those most in need? Science has long promised much -- new crops, new medicines, new sources of energy, new means of communication...
Beasts and Gods
How Democracy Changed Its Meaning and Lost Its Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Democracy does not deliver on the things we have assumed are its natural outcomes. This, coupled with a growing sense of malaise in both new and established democracies forms the basis to the assertion made by some, that these are not democracies at all.
Through considerable, impressive empirical...
Green Growth
Ideology, Political Economy and the Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
First book to fully interrogate whether ‘green growth’ can lead us to a more sustainable society in a finite world?
Many of the contributors are major names in their respective fields, and are well known within policy making circles
Challenges conventional thinking on the relationship between growth and development