Throughout the world, development policies have made great strides in addressing the structural inequalities that have traditionally characterized and divided world regions. Nonetheless, many development challenges remain, in part because effective governance strategies are still evolving in local, national and international development systems. The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 highlighted this fact as world leaders publicly declared the need for new forms of governance and economic regulation. This book examines poverty and development within the framework of recent global crises and governance, with contributions from keynote panels at the 2010 Conference of the Consortium for Regional Integration and Social Cohesion, which focused in particular on concepts of fragility, development, vulnerability and democracy.

Julia Affolderbach is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Geography and Spatial Planning Research Centre at the University of Luxembourg. Travis Du Bry is an AFR/Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Luxembourg. Olga L. Gonzalez is an AFR Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Luxembourg. Constanza Parra is Assistant Professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow in the Department of Spatial Planning and Environment at the University of Groningen.

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Contents: Julia Affolderbach/Constanza Parra: Introduction. Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Governance – Jill Eriksson: Key Events in 2010. Highlighting Fragility in Governance Structures – Bruno Boidin : La santé comme bien public mondial ? Les limites d’une approche globalisée de la santé – Sarah M. Brooks: Unequal Democracy. How Insecurity Affects Democratic Politics – Angela Erazo : Alliances et tensions dans la entre environnementalistes, indigènes et bureaucratie bolivarienne dans le Zulia, Venezuela – Ronald Jaubert/Lawali Dambo/Nicola Cantoreggi/Joanne Cochand: The Exclusion of Smallholders from Irrigation Projects and Policies in Southern Niger – Yolanda Sadie: Student Perspectives on Issues of Governance in Southern African States. Some Implications for Development.