Regional, state and other local government

This book assembles many of the foremost writers and clinicians in the field of team-based primary care to share their own relational reflections.

This book is specifically designed to serve the community of postgraduates and researchers in the fields of epidemiology, health GIS, medical geography, and health management.

This book presents a novel approach to framing the concept of stigma, and understanding why and how it functions.

This book builds on case studies in depopulating and shrinking areas in Northern Europe.

Technology is revolutionizing the way real estate is designed, operated, and valued.

This book offers readers a deeper understanding of the diffusion process of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs in Latin America and the role played by experts and international organizations.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the economic and political implications of the introduction of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics into the service sector of economies that have so far relied on service jobs to sustain levels of employment.

Mihalyi and Szelenyi provide a timely contribution to contemporary debates about inequality of incomes and wealth, offering a careful examination of various sources of rent in contemporary societies, and considering several policy options to reduce inequality in order to preserve the meritocratic nature of liberal democracies.

In this book, Brian Lund builds on contemporary housing crisis narratives, which tend to focus on the growth of a younger 'generation rent,' to include the differential effects of class, age, gender, ethnicity and place, across the United Kingdom.

This book addresses the challenges threatening the quality of life and well-being of people living in the MENA region.

This book explores the politics behind "e;de-liberalization"e;, defined as policy reforms that constrain markets and their underlying mechanisms.

Looking at discretion broadly as the exercise of controlled freedom, this edited volume introduces insights from a range of social sciences perspectives.

This book discusses Alasdair MacIntyre's engagement with Marxism from the early 1950s to the present.

This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of research on LGBTQ-parent families.

This book provides an overview of factors fostering well-being in Latin America and discusses many threats to well-being in the region.

How, where and when can a universal basic income be put into political practice?

This unique volume demonstrates the effectiveness of applying an evidence-based practice process to the solution of selected social problems.

This book explores the nature and impact of stalking and criminal justice system responses to this type of abuse based on the experiences and lived realities of victims.

This book explores a variety of social risks and possible policy options that could be put in place to either prevent, or lessen the negative consequences of their materialisation.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of resilience across immigrant and refugee populations.

This book explores the importance of soil health in croplands, rangelands, pasturelands, and gardens, and presents new methods and technologies for assessing soil dynamics and health in these different land types.

This book proposes a holistic transdisciplinary approach to sustainability as a subject of social sciences.

This book deals with three key questions about communitarian ideas: how to distinguish what constitutes communitarian thinking; what lessons to take from the historical development of communitarian arguments; and why their practical implications are relevant in devising reforms at the local, national, and global levels.

This volume presents key findings from the EU funded Measuring Youth Well-being (MYWeB) project which assessed the feasibility of a European Longitudinal Study for Children and Young People (ELSCYP).

This book offers a critical reflection on the ways in which migration has shaped Australia's cities, especially over the past twenty years.

This book addresses the political effects of the massification of higher education and intellectual labor in the neoliberal state.

This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13-15 October 2016.

This book examines financial vulnerability: a state in which a person or household cannot absorb any substantial spending or negative income shock without substantial financial and ultimately broader harm such as job loss, emotional harm, or mental illness.

This book discusses a spectrum of approaches to designing the food-energy-water nexus at different spatial-urban scales.

This book investigates the dynamics and the role of green urban regeneration using nature-based solutions (NBS) in contributing to the cultural aspects of public spaces.

This book explores the relationship between quality of life, policy, and political behavior.

This book analyses the struggle for social justice in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

This book explores one of the most pressing public policy questions for the 2020s: how should we regulate cannabis?

This book traces raciolinguistic ideologies in England's schools, focusing on post- 2010 policy reforms which frame the language practices of low-income, racialised speakers as limited and deficient.

This book draws on social movement theories and rich empirical data to analyze LGBT protest activity in Russia.

This book provides information on data-driven infrastructure design, analytical approaches, and technological solutions with case studies for smart cities.

This book provides fresh insights on how social innovations are utilized as strategies to make sport more accessible and inclusive.

This title offers an in-depth analysis of the causes, consequences and treatments of illicit drug abuse.

This book explores how digital platforms in the realm of tourism and hospitality have shaped social and material worlds.

This book examines the foundation and progress of the Rochester Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative (RMAPI).

This book defines the dilemmas related to the interface between legal regulations and planning practice in the spatial management system.

This book provides an original research perspective to the field of contemporary urban conflicts.

This book's point of departure rests on the premises that dimensions of the mainstream inclusive city discourse fail to capture in detail vulnerable clusters of society (being women, children, and the aging), the minority clusters (i.

This book introduces and reviews recent advances inthe field in a comprehensive and non-technical way by focusing on the potentialof emerging citizen-science and social-computation frameworks, coupled with thelatest theoretical and modeling tools developed by physicists, mathematicians,computer and social scientists to analyse, interpret and visualize complex datasets.

This book provides a study of the rise of private sector providers in the welfare state.

This volume provides an understanding of how systems of child protection evolve in disparate cultural, social and economic contexts.

This edited volume examines strategies to make future cities more sustainable.

This is the first volume on the subject of the alleviation of world suffering.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the role of local governments around the world in the management of the migration, integration and development nexus.

This book highlights the parallel transformations of the concepts of citizenship and the welfare state, and their dependence on the dominant political ideology, from the post-war period to the present.