Katie Willis is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.

The new updated third edition provides a clear and user-friendly introduction to the complex debates around how development has been understood and achieved. It has been fully updated and expanded to reflect global political and economic shifts, as well as new approaches to development.

1. Meanings of development 2. Modernization, Keynesianism and neoliberalism 3. Structuralism, neo-Marxism and socialism 4. Politics and development 5. Grassroots development 6. Social and cultural dimensions of development 7. Environment and development 8. Conclusions