Robert Potter was Professor of Human Geography at the University of Reading, UK.

Tony Binns is Professor of Geography at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Jennifer A. Elliott is Visiting Researcher in Geogaphy at the University of Brighton, UK.

Etienne Nel is a Professor of Geography at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

David W. Smith was Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Liverpool, UK.

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Preface to the Fourth Edition

Introduction

Part I Conceptualising development: changing meanings of development

1 Questioning development

2 Understanding colonialism

3 Theories and strategies of development

4 Globalisation, development and underdevelopment

Part II Development in practice: components of development

5 People in the development process

6 Resources and the environment

7 Institutions of development

Part III Spaces of development: places and development

8 Movements and flows

9 Urban spaces

10 Rural spaces

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index