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Thatcher's Grandchildren explores sociological and political issues about childhood that have that have become increasingly significant in the twenty first century within a political landscape framed by neo-liberalism.

Understanding Risk addresses a central dilemma of risk decisionmaking in a democracy: detailed scientific and technical information is essential for making decisions, but the people who make and live with those decisions are not scientists.

During the early years of the AIDS epidemic, thousands of Americans became infected with HIV through the nation's blood supply.

Seeking Solutions: Maximizing American Talent by Advancing Women of Color in Academia is the summary of a 2013 conference convened by the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine of the National Research Council to discuss the current status of women of color in academia and explore the challenges and successful initiatives for creating the institutional changes required to increase representation of women of color at all levels of the academic workforce.

Europe's "e;Black Death"e; contributed to the rise of nation states, mercantile economies, and even the Reformation.

Driven by community-based organizations and supported by a growing body of literature, the environmental justice movement contends that poor and minority populations are burdened with more than their share of toxic waste, pesticide runoff, and other hazardous byproducts of our modern economic life.

An estimated forty million people carry the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and five million more become newly infected annually.

The number of people infected with HIV or living with AIDS is increasing at unprecedented rates as various scientists, organizations, and institutions search for innovative solutions to combating and preventing the disease.

Successful scientists must be effective communicators within their professions.

The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults.

An informative mix of data and discussion, this book presents conclusions and recommendations for policies that can respond to the new conditions shaping America's working families.

Understanding Risk addresses a central dilemma of risk decisionmaking in a democracy: detailed scientific and technical information is essential for making decisions, but the people who make and live with those decisions are not scientists.

An informative mix of data and discussion, this book presents conclusions and recommendations for policies that can respond to the new conditions shaping America's working families.

Many coastal communities have built structures at their beaches and added quantities of sand in contoured designs to combat erosion.

Driven by community-based organizations and supported by a growing body of literature, the environmental justice movement contends that poor and minority populations are burdened with more than their share of toxic waste, pesticide runoff, and other hazardous byproducts of our modern economic life.

An estimated forty million people carry the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and five million more become newly infected annually.

HIV is spreading rapidly, and effective treatments continue to elude science.

In an increasingly interconnected world, science and technology research often transects international boundaries and involves researchers from multiple nations.

In 2010 the Deepwater Horizon explosion and fire in the Gulf of Mexico caused the largest offshore oil spill in U.

In Uniting America, some of the country’s most prominent social thinkers—among them Francis Fukuyama, Daniel Yankelovich, Amitai Etzioni, Alan Wolfe, Uwe Reinhardt, and Thomas E.

A new book from the National Research Council recommends changes in how the federal government evaluates the efficiency of research at EPA and other agencies.

The number of people infected with HIV or living with AIDS is increasing at unprecedented rates as various scientists, organizations, and institutions search for innovative solutions to combating and preventing the disease.

A new book from the National Research Council recommends changes in how the federal government evaluates the efficiency of research at EPA and other agencies.

Many coastal communities have built structures at their beaches and added quantities of sand in contoured designs to combat erosion.

This book provides a vision for environmentalism's future, based on the success of environmental entrepreneurs around the world.

In 1997, Mexico launched a new incentive-based poverty reduction program to enhance the human capital of those living in extreme poverty.

This book offers a deep insight into the genesis and development of the European Commission's energy and climate legislation, focusing on the interplay of politics and science.

Stuck in the Middle examines both economic and social public policy initiatives in its assertion that enhancing the welfare of people in developed and developing nations requires an explicit focus on the middle class.

Nach dem Kampf gegen die Arbeitslosigkeit droht nun ein Arbeitskräftemangel.

This book provides a timely and insightful analysis of the expansion of biofuels production and use in recent years.

There are millions of children experiencing parental imprisonment all over the world.

Yoshimatsu explores the causes and implications of the diverse degree of institution-building in East Asia by examining two processes of initiating and developing multilateral institutions in five policy areas: trade, finance, food security, energy security, and the environment.

Monique Taylor analyses the policy rationale and institutional underpinnings of China's state-led or neomercantilist oil strategy, and its development, set against the wider context of economic transformation as the country transitions from a centrally planned to market economy.

Academics and practitioners from across Asia and beyond revisit the issues and impact of climate change in Asia.

A case study of one of the most important global institutions of cultural policy formation, UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary demonstrates the relationship between such policymaking and transformations in the economy.

This review provides policy recommendations on how to improve the Korean pension system, building on the OECD's best practices in pension design.

This book examines the environmental credentials of Olympic Host cities and the opportunities afforded by hosting the Games towards the ecological modernization of the host nation by using perspectives offered by environmental sociology.

This volume examines current and previous environmental policies, and suggests alternative strategies for the future.

This accessible book provides the first comprehensive analysis of environmental crime victims within criminal prosecutions in the United States.

In recent decades, local governments across America have increasingly turned specialized functions over to autonomous agencies ranging in scope from subdivision-sized water districts to multi-state transit authorities.

In recent years, Indonesia has undergone major economic, social and political transformations.

In recent years, Georgia has undergone important economic, social and political transformations.

In recent years, Ghana has undergone major economic, social and political transformations.

This book explores the many varied ways in which family and intimate lives are realized through mobility: from leaving home, courtship, relationship breakdown, moving house, commuting, family holidays through to children's mobilities, documenting how mobility creates, sustains and dissolves family and intimate relations.

Die Frage, wie Politik die Gesundheit verbessern kann, wird kontrovers diskutiert.

This book examines childhood in four Caribbean SIDS (Barbados, Jamaica, Haiti and St.

This collection explores how the dominant risk agenda is being embedded across welfare policy and practice contexts in order to redefine social problems and those who experience them.

An analysis of the global climate talks and the key human systems threatened by increased greenhouse gas emissions including health, refugee management, energy production, carbon markets and local government.

Combining multidisciplinary perspectives and new research, this volume goes beyond broad discussions of the impacts of climate change and reflects on the current and historical mediations and narratives that are part of creating this new social and scientific reality.