Regional, state and other local government

The book discusses the socio-cultural-historical, occupational, educational, employment and discriminatory status of one of the most neglected and marginalised communities: the de-notified tribes or ex-criminal tribes of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

This book analyzes ancient cities that are facing crisis, and their coping mechanism to maintain resiliency and sustainability to remain economically viable and historically relevant.

Regardless of which political party Americans identify with, the sentiment that those who work in Washington are corrupt transcends partisanship.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 2022 iteration of the ISPGAYA meeting, titled "e;Multidimensional Sustainability: Transitions and Convergences"e; and held on September 29 and 30th, 2022 in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.

This book's purpose is to highlight the development challenges and successes of implementing the Youth Climate Change Adaptation Development Framework in Sierra Leone, West Africa.

In 2008, the European Commission relaunched the policy idea of active inclusion, with the aim of facilitating the integration of people into sustainable and quality employment.

State governments are responsible for most of the direct domestic spending that affects the well-being of their citizens.

We present a Machine Learning (ML) approach to monitoring and classifying noise pollution.

This book provides a conceptual framework for children's rights as well as specific strategies and opportunities for social workers to apply in their work.

This book provides rare insight into how real children/adolescents' lives unfold as a result of health inequity.

In our urban world, cities are where most of us experience how our economies and societies are organised and the inequalities which result.

Providing an overview of the future research challenges for economists and social scientists concerning population ageing, pensions, health and social care in Europe, this book examines how scientific research can provide cutting-edge evidence on income security and well-being of the elderly, and labour markets and older workers.

Not five minutes after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, in March 2010, Virginias attorney general was suing to stop it.

This edited collection sheds light on an under-researched and often misconceived form of prison life, that of prisoner leadership.

This book offers an assessment of the performance, impact, and welfare implications of the world's largest employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).

This book presents the future development of Malaysia.

This book is about understanding, contextualizing and carrying out critical analyzes of the policies intended and/or implemented by the various public and private actors in urban public spaces, as well as the daily, or eventual, politics exercised by the organized civil society and by citizens.

First published in 1969, this book is concerned with the processes of policy-making in local government.

This book provides a timely analysis of the use of cultural narratives and narratives of credibility in rape trials in England and Wales, drawing on court observation methods.

The phenomenon of transnational health care has grown rapidly over recent years and this book provides a comprehensive landscape of diverse research communities' attempts to capture its implications for existing bodies of knowledge in selected aspects of medicine, medical ethics, health policy and management, and tourism studies.

A troubling portrait of democracy in US state legislatures.

Charity Law & Social Policy explores contemporary law, policy and practice in a range of modern common law nations in four parts and from the perspective of how this has evolved in the UK.

Economic regions competing in a global marketplace describes the future organizing principle of urban regions.

This book is devoted to offering a new concept of non-employment caused by social exclusion.

Caring for the ill, disabled, very old, or very young requires a labor-intensive commitment that is not only essential to the well-being of individuals and to society as a whole, but also fraught with physical, financial, and psychological risks.

This collection of essays covers a diverse set of topics related to household behavior and welfare.

The book discusses the socio-cultural-historical, occupational, educational, employment and discriminatory status of one of the most neglected and marginalised communities: the de-notified tribes or ex-criminal tribes of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

In England, it has been possible since 2013 to convert an office building into residential use without needing planning permission (as has been required since 1948).

Der Band thematisiert unterschiedliche Aspekte sambischer Kultur und Gesellschaft und beleuchtet dabei traditionelle, moderne, kontroverse und herausfordernde Aspekte.

Focusing on the dynamics of irregular immigration in Southern EU Member States, this book analyses how the phenomenon is managed at national and local levels in different legal and political systems.

This book discusses contemporary China's land use policy - the Link Policy - which calls for land consolidation and rural resettlement to achieve the goal of preserving farmland while also providing more space for urban development.

The US-led war on drugs has failed: drugs remain purer, cheaper and more readily available than ever.

This edited volume discusses the development of the new social and impact economy in ten countries around the globe.

This book explores pain in a number of ways.

The 2030 agenda for development, or what is known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is perhaps the most ambitious agenda collectively agreed upon by 193 countries in human history.

This book details the primary concepts of Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA), integration of social aspects in product life cycles, quantification of social impacts in S-LCA, impact categorization in S-LCA, methodological aspects of S-LCA, and detailed case studies.

This clear-sighted reference offers a transformative new lens for understanding the role of family processes in creating - and stopping - child abuse and neglect.

An introduction to the European Union from a comparative politics perspective, systematically analysing its functioning through comparison with national political systems.

This book examines the inclusive development experiences and impacts of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).

Less than two years after winning the 2013 elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intention to dissolve his government, paving the way for general elections.

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

Forestry has been witness to some dramatic changes in recent years, with several Western countries now moving away from the traditional model of regarding forests merely as sources of wood.

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

In 2015 the UK became the first country in the world to legalise mitochondrial donation, a controversial germ line reproductive technology to prevent the transmission of mitochondrial disease.