Publications

The urgent need to enhance sustainable development in developing countries has never been greater: poverty levels are growing, land conversions are uncontrolled, and there is rapid loss of biodiversity through land use change. This timely book highlights the need for integrated assessment tools for developing countries, considering the long-term impacts of decisions taken today.  

Generally, people living in rural areas declare they are happier than people living in cities. This is particularly significant in Peru, a South American country with great levels of inequality and traditionally low levels of reported happiness. This chapter investigates differences in levels of reported happiness between urban and rural Peruvians using regression analysis to test two hypotheses.

This book makes a case for a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach to energy research - one that brings more of the social sciences to bear. Featuring eight studies from across the spectrum of the social sciences, each applying multiple disciplines to one or more energy-related problems, the book demonstrates the strong analytical and policy-making potential of such a broadened perspective.

Major contemporary issues and debates relating to the sustainable use of energy are addressed in this far-reaching Handbook. The contributing authors discuss the ongoing debates about sustainability and energy use, energy economics, renewable energy, efficiency and climate policy.

Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging variety of professional fields. Among these the encounter with international development has perhaps been longer and more intimate than any of the others.

This book pilots the reader expertly through the diverse ambitions for PPPs, and the contexts in which they have been used. It draws on the first-hand experience of politicians and managers in steering partnerships, combined with solid research and observation. 

This dissertation develops an integrated conceptual framework for analyzing how the interplay between business-strategy formation and embryonic environmental governance can generate conditions for political and regulatory change.  

Añorada Esperanza (Wistful Hope) is an in-depth ethnographic study of local experiences with global economic processes. Based on fieldwork conducted for five months in 2008-2009, the book analyses the recent installation of a Finnish pulp mill in a rural town in Uruguay.

In addition to analyzing structures and relations of power between the formal and the informal economies, the book critically discusses the work of governments, civil society organizations and the poor themselves to address the daily challenges of living in the informal economy.

At the beginning of the 21st century Norway has seemingly succeeded to create a Great Good Place on the planet: in the eyes of the outside world it is an epitome of welfare, equality, justice, environmental concern, and enlightened samaritanism. Nina Witoszek's book attempts to explore the cultural sources of the Norwegian success.

A cross-disciplinary approach to the diverse and entangled political and democratic practices of South Asia. Edited by Stig Toft Madsen, Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Uwe Skoda, Anthem Press 2011.

The book questions the current status of the development agenda and examines why development has eluded large groups of people living in poverty.

Benedicte Bull has co-edited this collection of four volumes with Morten Bøås. The collection traces the evolution and contemporary state of International Development through the articles that have defined the field and its history.