Social Inequality and Human Security

Case Studies from Asia
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-89590-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

This book collates case studies of national and subnational efforts to alleviate inequality and implement development and security policy more effectively, collaboratively, and multidimensionally.

While inequality is a fundamental developmental challenge and global phenomenon, responsibility largely falls to the state to address it. This book seeks to provide a specific framework to analyse these efforts at the national and sub-national efforts. It does so through the United Nations’ concept of Human Security, whose five core principles provide a good means of addressing inequality’s various facets. Each chapter opens by highlighting the specific aspect of human security that is being addressed. Specific issues covered in the volume include local economic development, maritime economies, fishing communities, and governance and public administration.

This book will be of keen interest to scholars of development studies, inequality (especially social inequality), and Area Studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ploberger, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction

INTRODUCTION

Ch.1 Inequality: A Core Aspect of Human Security, Christian Ploberger

COUNTRY SECTION I – CHINA

Ch. 2 The Logic and Practice of Digital Inclusive Finance to Promote Common Prosperity

from the Perspective of Chinese-style Modernizationm, Junfeng Zhuang

Ch. 3 Harmony Reclaimed: Unveiling China's Common Prosperity Through the Greater
Bay Area (GBA) Case, Wei Manske-Wang, Yiqiao Wang, Sergej Vasic

Ch. 4 Grounding and rejuvenating China's BRI as economic statecraft at the provincial

level- A Case of Yunnan, Tao Song

COUNTRY SECTION II – SOUTHEAST ASIA

Ch. 5 Inequality from Decentralization: Challenges of Development at Local Government

Level in Thailand, Pradit Chinudomsub and Thanikun Chantra

Ch. 6 Poverty and income inequality in fishing communities of the Tonle Sap Lake: a case

study in Aek Phnum district of Battambang Province, Chealy Chet, Serey Sok, Youk

Senglong, Born Doeur, and Thou Ponlue

Ch. 7 Addressing Inequality in Development: Human development challenge in

Cambodia’s recent development, Tuomo Rautakivi

Ch. 8 Maritime Security and Economic Development: The Case of Indonesia,

M. Venkataraman

SPECIAL SECTION: Inequality and the Blue Economy

Ch. 9 Addressing Gender inequality: the Blue Economy way, C.S. Anuradha

Ch. 10 Mangrove Forest conservation as a strategy to address existing inequality of remote

communities, Joyprokash Mondal

Ch. 11 Fishing Conflicts in South Asia - a development challenge, with serious implications

for addressing existing inequality, Utham Kumar Jamadhagni

Über Autor(innen)

Christian Ploberger is lecturer at CBIS, Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-Ok, Bangkok. His research focuses on regional cooperation, security, and climate change-development nexus with a geographic emphasis on Asia. He has recently edited the book River Basins and International Relations: Cooperation, Conflict and Sub-Regional Approaches (Routledge, 2023).