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

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.

Author: E. Carr
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 02/10/2011
Pages: 250
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781349293278

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.