This thought-provoking book takes readers on a captivating journey through the realms of green urbanism, urban regeneration, and urban design, development, and preservation, providing an exploration of innovative approaches to creating sustainable and thriving cities of the future.
The Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management series deals with a wide range of issues relating to global environmental hazards, natural and man-made disasters, and approaches to disaster risk reduction.
The Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management series deals with a wide range of issues relating to global environmental hazards, natural and man-made disasters, and approaches to disaster risk reduction.
This edited collection develops a more balanced understanding of the dilemmas, challenges and opportunities associated with youth policy formulation and implementation in contemporary Saudi Arabia.
Celebrated as a beacon of democracy and reconciliation, many people in South Africa continue to live in severe poverty, particularly in the Eastern Cape Province.
Celebrated as a beacon of democracy and reconciliation, many people in South Africa continue to live in severe poverty, particularly in the Eastern Cape Province.
On the 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed a tower block in West London, seventy-two people lost their lives and hundreds of others were left displaced and traumatised.
On the 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed a tower block in West London, seventy-two people lost their lives and hundreds of others were left displaced and traumatised.
Today, the new Indonesian capital city, Nusantara, planning is being anticipated as "e;representing national identity,"e; "e;a model city,"e; or "e;a gift to the world,"e; and many other extraordinary labels.
Wellbeing ist ein zentrales Konzept zur Erfassung der Zufriedenheit der Burgerinnen und Burger mit und in ihrer sozialen, politischen und okonomischen Lage.
This book delves into the multifaceted concept of sustainability, placing a particular emphasis on the social dimension and its intersection with economic and environmental considerations.
The volume stresses the relevance of the intersectionality framework in welfare state analysis by examining overlapping inequalities within the shifting institutional boundaries and organisational processes across diverse welfare settings.
This book provides important philosophical insights concerning the kind of creatures we are such that we can experience something we understand as well-being, with these insights then being applied to various areas of social policy and welfare practice.
The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the Governors of South Carolina documents the lives and careers of the 111 white men and one Indian American woman who have held the Palmetto State's highest office from 1669 to the present.
As politicians debate how to address the estimated eleven million unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States, undocumented youth anxiously await the next policy shift that will determine their futures.
Urban conflagrations, such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great Boston Fire the following year, terrorized the citizens of nineteenth-century American cities.
Amélie Thyssen, die reichste Frau in Westdeutschland, stiftete 1960 überraschend die Hälfte ihres industriellen Vermögens: Mit ihrer Tochter Anita errichtete sie die erste große private Stiftung zur Wissenschaftsförderung in der Bundesrepublik.
