Global Development and Environment
By Joe Williams and James Duminy
Published
May 19, 2025Page count
176 pagesISBN
978-1529231700Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
May 19, 2025Page count
176 pagesISBN
978-1529231571Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
May 19, 2025Page count
176 pagesISBN
978-1529231588Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Global Development and Environment
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND 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.
Joe Williams is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University, and Research Affiliate in the Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation at the University of Nairobi.
James Duminy is Senior Lecturer in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol, and Honorary Research Associate in the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town.
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
