India’s Risks: Democratizing the Management of Threats to Environment, Health, and Values

A prospective superpower, India is still grappling with a host of risks that threaten to hamper its progress. These range from environmental threats caused by GM crops and pollution; dangers…

Transforming Health Markets in Asia and Africa: Improving quality and access for the poor

Routledge/Earthscan 2012 Published in the Pathways to Sustainability book series buy a copy There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the…

Pastoralism and Development in Africa

This book is available to read Open Access from the publisher’s website. Pastoralism and Development in Africa: Dynamic Change at the Margins Earthscan / Routledge, July 2012 Read this book…

Contested Agronomy: Agricultural Research in a Changing World

Edited by James Sumberg and John Thompson Routledge, 2012 Buy this book This book in our Pathways to Sustainability series looks at the how debates in crop and land science…

Regulating Technology: International Harmonization and Local Realities

Adrian Ely, Adrian Smith and Patrick van Zwanenberg Earthscan/Routledge, 2011 Buy this book About this book Examining the regulation of technologies, this book explores how the drive to harmonize regulatory…

The Politics of Asbestos: Understandings of Risk, Disease and Protest

Linda Waldman Earthscan/Routledge, 2011 Buy this book About this book Around the world, asbestos-related diseases are on the increase. Meanwhile, in many newly-industrialising and developing countries, asbestos use continues unabated….

Rice Biofortification: Lessons for Global Science and Development

You can download the Accepted Manuscript of Chapter 4 of this book – An Alliance Around an Idea: The Shifting Boundaries of HarvestPlus Download Chapter 4 Buy this book About…

Epidemics: Science, Governance and Social Justice

You can download the Accepted Manuscript of Chapter 1 of this book, Open Access. Download Chapter 1 Buy this book Recent disease events such as SARS, H1N1 and avian influenza,…

Avian Influenza: Science, Policy and Politics

Open access chapter You can download an Open Access chapter of the book for free. This is the Accepted Manuscript of Chapter 1: The International Response to Avian Influenza: Science,…