The Hidden Millions
The Hidden Millions

Author: Graham Tipple

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-02-26

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1134091389

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This book explores the extent, causes and characteristics of homelessness in developing countries. Bringing together a major review of literature and empirical case studies, it is invaluable for those studying, researching or working in housing, homelessness, social policy or urban poverty. Drawing on local research in nine countries in the global south, this book offers an insight into the lives of homeless people, public perceptions of homelessness, and the policies and interventions which might variously increase or reduce homelessness. Exploring the human context as well as policy and planning, it will challenge preconceptions.

From the Global to the Local
From the Global to the Local

Author: Andrea Schapper

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1135070059

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From the Global to the Local develops a unique perspective on human rights governance in developing countries, where the state often lacks the required resources, capacities and expertise for implementing rights. Considering how rights that have been agreed upon in the global arena of world politics are locally implemented, this book then specifically explores how they reach the local children of Bangladesh’s urban slums and poor rural areas. Andrea Schapper combines an analytical framework grounded in international relations scholarship on global governance with empirical field research methods that have their basis in sociology and anthropology. Utilising this methodology, the book examines three principles that represent a global consensus on children’s rights (the protection of children from the worst forms of child labor, providing them with primary education, and delivering basic health care services to them) to illuminating the need for local and contextual solutions to transnational issues. Exploring such concerns with vigor, this book fills a gap in the study of human rights implementation and protection and will thus be of immense interest to students of Law, of International Relations and of Development Studies.

Up in Smoke? Asia and the Pacific
Up in Smoke? Asia and the Pacific

Author: Hannah

Publisher: IIED

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1904882250

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The fifth report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development focuses on the threat from climate change to human development and the environment in the Asia and Pacific region. With a foreword by Dr R.K. Pachauri of the Intergovernmental Panel

Climate Change, Migration and Conflict in Bangladesh
Climate Change, Migration and Conflict in Bangladesh

Author: Md Rafiqul Islam

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-08-18

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 100093179X

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This book explores the relationship between climate change–induced migration and conflict in Bangladesh – one of the most ecologically fragile countries in the world. It explores why people migrate from their original place of land and how the migration of people with a different background to an ethnically distinctive region due to environmental changes can become a source of conflict and violence between the host peoples and migrants. The volume focuses on the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), which has experienced long-standing ethnopolitical conflict due to the settlement and migration of the Bengali people from the plain land of Bangladesh. This settlement and migration were mainly caused climatic events such as floods, cyclones, sealevel rise, and disasters. It traces the history of the ethnic conflict in the region and presents key findings from the field, as well as the dynamics of everyday politics in the region. This volume also highlights how internally climate-displaced people generate violence and civil strife in the major urban cities through their settlements in slums. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of environmental studies, human geography, migration and diaspora studies, public policy, social anthropology, and South Asian studies.