Regional, state and other local government

On average, people in Europe are living longer, and are in better health.

This social work book is the first of its kind, describing practical steps that social workers can take to shape and influence both policy and politics.

This timely analysis examines the complex state of youth unemployment across Europe and offers cogent policy suggestions for addressing this longstanding societal problem.

This book assembles and organizes a selected range of methods and techniques that every planning practitioner should know to be successful in the contemporary global urban landscape.

This book addresses one of the most fundamental questions of the 21st century: why deaths continue to occur in natural disasters despite the tremendous advancements in disaster management science and weather forecasting systems, increased sophistication of human-built environments and ongoing economic and policy development worldwide.

This edited collection investigates how full employment programs can sustain the economy and the environment, promote social justice, and reinvigorate local communities.

This focused case study analyses the roots of super-diversity in a place where immigration is an emerging phenomenon, Northwestern Spain (Galicia).

This book draws on the author's ten years of participatory work to examine core themes of (mis)representation, re-presentation, and resistance within place-health research and practice.

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 enlightening book offers a comprehensive historical analysis of the main development challenges of the last half century and the international community's response through aid and trade.

This timely study analyzes social, economic, political, provider, and patient factors shaping collective patient involvement in European health care from the postwar period to the present day.

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.

This book uses a variety of empirical cases on topics including drug development, egg donation, and governance of healthcare facilities, to investigate how actors navigate the uncertainties that permeate the interfaces of health, technologies, and politics in post-Soviet settings and what the implications of their chosen navigation routes are.

This book offers a unique approach to reconciliation as a matter for negotiation, bringing together two bodies of theory in order to offer insights into resolving conflicts and achieving lasting peace.

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

This title offers an in-depth analysis of the psychological causes and consequences of, and proposed interventions for over-eating.

This book offers an extensive review of market-oriented economic reforms since 1970, and considers the question of whether more liberal economic policy yields greater social welfare.

This book illustrates how global economic progress has reached its upper limit under the current economic paradigm, and how the next major revolution in global progress will rely on our ability to tap into the collective knowledge of the "e;everyday genius"e; to drive innovation, free market competition, artistic influence, and other advances that will allow humanity to overcome its greatest challenges.

This book explores the steady decline in the status of the individual in recent years and addresses common misunderstandings about the concept of individuality.

This book challenges the common perception that global politics is making progress on indigenous issues and argues that the current global care for indigeneity is, in effect, violent in nature.

This book presents a detailed and critical discussion about how human wellbeing can be maintained and improved in a postgrowth era.

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

This book situates culture as a determining factor in the development of diverse welfare states, exploring the impact of traditional familialism on South Korean and Taiwanese programs.

This volume is the first collection in the field of wellbeing studies that places politics centre stage.

Minimum income schemes (MIS) have become key social protection institutions for European citizens, but we know little regarding the logic and dynamics of institutional change in this policy field.

This edited collection provides a series of accounts of workers' local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work's digitalisation.

This book addresses the social and environmental justice challenge to live sustainably and well.

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

This book is a collection of essays advancing the discourse in well-being science, authored by key thought leaders in positive psychology and its variants, including positive education, character education, and positive organizational scholarship.

This book presents the latest in decision-making tools, techniques, and solutions for policy makers to utilize in overcoming the challenges faced by healthcare systems.

This edited volume lays the groundwork for Social Data Science, addressing epistemological issues, methods, technologies, software and applications of data science in the social sciences.

This title discusses the phenomenon of alcohol abuse as a behavioural disease and the associated costs.

This book provides a brief history of the notion of development and  related policies.

This book presents an alternative theory of globalization that derives not from the dominant perspective of the West, from which this process emerged, but from the critical vantage point of the Third World, which has borne the heaviest burdens of globalization.

This book explores the human right to housing, presenting the findings of a global discourse analysis to analyse the right to housing from the perspective of theories on land policy and social citizenship.

This book discusses the history and socioeconomic impact of Rerum novarum, the first Catholic social encyclical.

This collection presents an array of policy debates and implications emerging from virtual work.

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

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

This volume focuses on recent experiences of return migration to Mexico and Central America from the United States.

In a fragile and conflict-ridden context such as the Gaza Strip, where the de facto Hamas government faces isolation and lacks international recognition, the provision of aid and development schemes challenges donors and CSOs delivering services to Palestinians.

This book discusses current theories and practices in the field of public procurement.

This eagerly anticipated book equips readers to understand the dynamics of policy processes, relevant decision-making and the significance of key decision-makers.

This book deals with the issue of Digital Participatory Platforms (DPPs) for urban governance.

This book offers insights into facilitating sustainable careers through the study of a wide interdisciplinary range of policy investigations and assessment of ongoing practices in the field.

This volume explores intergenerational practices and their impact on social sustainability, with an emphasis on developing programmatic efforts to address profound social challenges such as underperforming educational and work-related systems, failing support systems for dependent or vulnerable populations, and community renewal and regeneration efforts.

This title discusses the phenomenon of smoking as a behavioural disease and the associated costs.

This timely book looks critically at the policy response to AIDS and its institutionalization over time.

The book reveals how the 'social value of art' may have one meaning for a policy maker, another for a museum and still yet another for an artist - and it is therefore in the interaction between these agents that we learn the most about the importance of rhetoric and interpretation.

This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to the issue of "e;local liabilities"e;, drawing on close analysis of the case of Chinese migrants and the Italian industrial district of Prato in order to elucidate the problems, or liabilities, that derive from the separation between natives and immigrants in local systems of people and firms.