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This book provides researchers with a straightforward and accessible guide for carrying out research that will help them to combine good science with real-world impact.

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

This book explores human well-being in South Asia from a policy dimension.

This contributed volume motivates and educates across fields about the major challenges in global health and the interdisciplinary strategies for solving them.

This book offers a compelling critical analysis of American society by examining the role of psychotherapy within social policy and the culture that has fashioned it.

This book discusses the crucial place that assumptions hold in conceptualizing, implementing, and evaluating development programs.

The unconditional basic income (UBI) has attracted renewed attention in academia, as well as in public discussions in recent years, and much has been written on the possible consequences of a UBI.

This collection examines the social and cultural legacy of Thatcherism in the 21st century.

This book examines the migration of women as gendered subjects to and from Turkey, using feminist research practices to explore a range of diverse experiences of migrant women as refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented or documented migrants.

This book brings together cutting-edge contemporary research and discussion concerning drinking practices among young adults (individuals aged approximately 18-30 years old).

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

This brief is a practical reference contextualizing social casework methodology in a specifically Caribbean cultural and historical context.

This book examines the integration experiences of refugees to Sweden from Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), and more recently from Syria (2014-2018) - two of the largest-scale refugee movements in Europe for the last thirty years.

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.

The rise of populism in the West has led to attacks on the legitimacy of scientific expertise in political decision making.

This book presents a multidimensional, psychosocial and critical understanding of poverty by bringing together studies carried out with groups in different contexts and situations of deprivation in Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay, Nicaragua and Spain.

Social work leaders constantly strive to incorporate cutting-edge research and promote international collaboration in a dynamic contemporary environment.

This book interrogates white responses to black-led movements for racial justice.

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

This book examines the intellectual and institutional transformations of four British think tanks in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis.

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

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

This book argues that modern governance is performed by actors who seek social change epistemically, by drawing on widespread, public views of reality.

This book examines the global phenomenon of school violence and its wide range of behaviours, from school shootings to minor theft, bullying and sexual harassment.

This book explores the journey of young people through a Secure Training Centre and, more generally, the criminal justice system in the UK.

This book provides the first sustained empirical evidence on the relationships between marriage migration and processes of integration, focusing on two of the largest British ethnic minority groups involved in these kinds of transnational marriages - Pakistani Muslims and Indian Sikhs.

This book focuses on the drivers of Jihadist terrorism and explains how a better understanding of these drivers can lead to more effective counterterrorism policies all over the world.

At a time when resources are scarce, not every crime may be investigated as fully as is desirable.

The second edition of Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Social Work continues to bridge the gap between social work research and clinical practice, presenting EBP as both an effective approach to social work and a broader social movement.

This volume brings together multiple diverse perspectives from around the globe on quality of life and community well-being from a place-based perspective.

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

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).

This book examines noise-monitoring technologies and tools for registering the threshold of development of the latent period of the transition of a facility or product into an emergency state and controlling the dynamics of this development.

This is the first book that examines healthy human relationships in post-apartheid South Africa.

The 2nd edition of the Handbook of Population covers the major topics of the discipline of demography, including current substantive, methodological and theoretical issues of interest, as well as new and emerging topics in the field.

Providing an in-depth case study on the emergence of social impact investing in the UK, this book develops a new perspective on financialization processes that highlights the roles of non-financial actors.

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.

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

This book provides an overview of recent advances in Integrated Community-Managed Development (ICMD) as an innovative strategy for the community-based development of local institutions in order to achieve lasting poverty reduction and empowerment.

In this book, Eleonora Redaelli investigates the arts in American cities, providing insight into urban cultural policy discourse through the lens of space.

This book uses mixed methods to extend the concept of "e;wellbeing stocks"e; to refer to dynamic ways of working with others.

This book promotes the well-being of the commons through representation and accountability through monitoring from below in order to operationalize engagement.

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 deals with Invitations to Tender (ITTs) for the provision of Facility Management (FM) services.

This textbook presents a much-needed overview of the recent developments in implementation science - a discipline that is young, has gained increasing attention in recent years, and has experienced substantial and rapid growth in knowledgeproduction and debate.

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.

This important text provides a comprehensive survey of homelessness in America: its scope and causes, its diverse populations, and the array of responses at the individual, community, and systems levels.

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

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