Global Development and Environment, livre ebook

• Engages with the emerging field of ‘global development’ which is increasingly framing the changing landscape of international development and traditional notions of inequality, the Global North and Global South;

• Includes case studies from across the Global North and South;

• Develops a conceptually rigorous and politicised notion of the planetary scale in the field of environment and development.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence.

Development and environmental challenges are often framed at the global or planetary scale, but in a vague or apolitical manner. This book develops a theoretically rigorous and politicized concept of the planetary to intervene in contemporary debates on global development and to enhance our critical understanding of development as we approach the second quarter of the twenty-first century.

Chapters explore key themes and processes including urbanization, demographic change, health, financialization, and infrastructure development. Referencing diverse cases and examples drawn from across the world, the book argues that the futures of global development are inseparable from environmental challenges and transformations.

1. Introduction

2. Thinking Through the Global and Planetary

3. Making Planetary Environments

4. Urbanization

5. Demographic Change

6. Securing Health and Wellbeing

7. Financing Global Development

8. Connecting through Infrastructure

9. Conclusion: Towards a More Planetary Global Development