Delivering Development: Globalization's Shoreline and the Road to a Sustainable Future - Hardcover

Carr, E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230110762 ISBN 13: 9780230110762

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Synopsis

Calls into question the very universal, unquestioned assumptions about globalization, development, and environmental change that undergird much of development and economic policy. Compels the reader to question conventional wisdom and explores alternative ways of achieving meaningful, enduring improvements to human well-being.

About this title

About the Author:

EDWARD R. CARR Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina. He is also the climate change adaptation coordinator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance at the United States Agency for International Development. He is the author of more than 30 publications on issues of development, adaptation to climate change, and the changing global environment. He has been awarded a Science and Technology Policy Fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. He has been covered in the New York Times (http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/10/climate-panel-struggles-with-media-plan/) and his blog: www.edwardrcarr.com/opentheechochamber receives thousands of unique visitors each month.

Review:

This book makes an important contribution . . . [providing] an often overlooked perspective within critical development literature: the real possibility for positive change and for a more active role of development's target population to participate and shape the direction of change in their communities.
-- Kelsey Hanrahan, Africa Today

Carr brings the understanding of an ethnographic researcher...to the examination of a topic that needs attention from someone with his scholarly credentials. This is a book that should be required reading for students and scholars of development studies, especially development economists and development practitioners.
-- Olumide Abiola, SAIS Review

The book is a riveting read, horizon broadening and . . . takes a somewhat unusual path towards challenging the dominant paradigm that complements other, parallel efforts . . . All-in-all, a must read for aid wonks everywhere.
-- Andy Sumner, Global Dashboard

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0230110762
• ISBN 13: 9780230110762
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 260