Regional, state and other local government

Essential reading for social and medical scientists and all those interested in infectious diseases and public health, AIDS and the Twenty-First Century examines the social and economic origins and impacts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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 looks at how digital economy can help energy businesses to meet their sustainability goals.

Systemic Islamophobia in Canada presents critical perspectives on systemic Islamophobia in Canadian politics, law, and society, and maps areas for future research and inquiry.

The past quarter of a century has seen extensive change throughout Europe.

This book presents papers from the 11th Sustainable Education and Development Research Conference on the theme: "e;Build Resilient Infrastructure, Promote Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization, and Foster Innovation.

The book addresses in detail local governance in Spain.

This book provides readers with fresh new theoretical tools to better understand how sociopolitical actors (from governmental institutions to ecological NGOs; from local residents to multinational companies) clash about transport initiatives.

This book focuses on urbanization as an attendant consequence of industrialization and sheds light on urban problems such as housing shortages and poverty of jobless people, and the housing and social policies implemented by central and local governments to deal with these problems.

Effective, meaningful caregiving requires a well-coordinated and informed effort guided by various highly skilled specialists across several interrelated professions, including psychologists, social workers, and occupational therapists.

2018 marks the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

This wide-reaching handbook offers a new perspective on the sociology of health, illness and medicine by stressing the importance of social theory.

Die Bedeutung von Nachbarschaft für das alltägliche Zusammenleben ist bis heute ungebrochen.

This Brief discusses the role of state-level criminal justice organizations in the prevention and control of crime and delinquency.

In this sequel to the acclaimed Welfare Theory (Palgrave, 2001), Tony Fitzpatrick examines the most recent, influential and cutting edge ideas influencing policy studies today.

This volume offers a novel study of the Milan-Cortina's Winter Olympics 2026, with a focus on the mountainous region of Valtellina.

Smallholders and the Non-Farm Transition in Latin America explores the drivers of agricultural displacement in Latin America and argues that government support is essential to help small farmers gain the skills, financial capital, and opportunities needed to transition to a profitable alternative in the non-farm sector.

The Routledge Handbook of Local Elections and Voting in Europe represents the standard reference text and practical resource for everybody who analyzes issues such as local electoral systems, voting behavior, or political representation in Europe.

An introduction to African history and politics since decolonization, emphasising the political, economic and socio-economic diversity of the continent.

Moving beyond the 'post-Washington consensus', this book shifts the focus of development policy debates away from expenditures and austerity and towards revenues and resources.

In the data economy, childhood is a lucrative commodity.

This book addresses the psychosocial complexities of adoption from multiple perspectives, including the biological family, adopted child, and adoptive parents.

While French laicite is often considered something fixed, its daily deployment is rather messy.

Critical reflections by established academics on the crisis of multiculturalism that occurred in Great Britain, Netherlands and Canada.

In this timely study, the author examines the historical approach to race and diversity and suggests that equality strategies have been a vital, but limited, means of addressing discrimination and community tensions.

There has been, of late, a growing realisation that the pace and pattern of economic development of a country can hardly be understood and explained comprehensively in terms of the straitjacket of economics discipline alone.

How does an industrial community cope when they are told that closure is inevitable?

This book is about the social protection of lower-skilled migrants from Sri Lanka.

It is widely appreciated that policies, however carefully formulated, too often fall down at the implementation stage.

This volume consolidates chapters from across Southeast Asia as a means of discussing alternative development pathways.

Provide open data, balance decisions and initiatives, and create equitable policies.

Can affirmative action policies be convincingly justified?

In the 1970s it seemed infectious diseases had been conquered, but today global epidemics seem to pose a new, more sinister, threat.

Ausgehend vom Fallbeispiel des "Nacktscanners" untersucht diese Ethnographie den Aufstieg neuer Überwachungs- und Sicherheitstechnologien seit dem Jahr 2000.

Die Studie analysiert den Gesundheitssektor aus regionaler Sicht und entwickelt eine Vergleichsperspektive für Deutschland bzw.

This book is the first to consider the roles, challenges and governance responses of secondary cities in southern Africa to changing circumstances.

This training book is designed to help professionals enhance their knowledge of community quality-of-life indicators, and to develop viable community projects.

In this textbook, governance aspects are presented and explained in a comprehensible way at different levels: After a look at the roots of the governance discussion in economics and political science, political and economic negotiation and problem-solving processes are discussed on the macro level "e;Orders of Governance"e; and institutional and normative framework conditions are considered; on the meso level "e;Cooperation"e;, forms of steering and control as well as cooperation and coordination of social economy enterprises are dealt with; and on the micro level "e;Interactions"e;, governance is dealt with from the perspective of the actors and their interactions.

Sustainable Public Management explores key issues in public sector sustainable management that span from Nation/State to local government.

Der Band versammelt mobilitäts- und politikwissenschaftliche Beiträge zu verkehrspolitischen Entscheidungen und Richtungswechseln auf verschiedenen Ebenen (Bund, Land, Kommune) und zu verschiedenen Verkehrsträgern bzw.

This volume explores Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' interactions with public sector bureaucracies.

Based on a flagship research project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Immigration and Inclusion programme, this book argues that social cohesion is achieved through people (new arrivals as well as the long-term settled) being able to resolve the conflicts and tensions within their day-to-day lives in ways that they find positive and viable.