International Development: Reference Works

Reference works such as handbooks, dictionaries and encyclopedias are useful for definitions of terms and for brief factual information. To find dictionaries and encyclopedias, type your topic keywords and the term 'dictionaries', for example: witchcraft dictionaries into Library Search. Limit the format to online Books.

• The Palgrave Handbook of International Development
• The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development: Critical Engagements
• The Third World Handbook: Second Edition
• The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
• Handbook of Local and Regional Development
• Handbook of International Development and Education
• Handbook on Development Policy and Management 
• Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid 
• Handbook of International Security and Development

• The development dictionary: a guide to knowledge as power
• Dictionary and introduction to global environmental governance
• Dictionary of human rights
• A dictionary of human geography
• Guide to international development : terms and acronyms :
• Pacific focus
• The A to Z of human rights and humanitarian organizations