This book explains China's new common prosperity policies-their significance, connotations, and goals-and explains the economic logic behind these often misunderstood policies.
The book provides a pioneering overview of the evolution of the local government and urban policy in Cape Verde after independence, offering a multi-scale perspective of local governance in Cape Verde from 1970 - 2020.
Remaking Post-Industrial Cities: Lessons from North America and Europe examines the transformation of post-industrial cities after the precipitous collapse of big industry in the 1980s on both sides of the Atlantic, presenting a holistic approach to restoring post-industrial cities.
Undertaking a journey into the "e;hybrid governance"e; of urban food movements, this book offers an original and nuanced analysis of the urban milieu as epicentre of food activism and food governance.
Dieses Lehrbuch richtet sich an Studierende der Wirtschaftswissenschaften und verwandter Fächer an Universitäten und Fachhochschulen, die über Grundkenntnisse der Mikroökonomik und der Makroökonomik verfügen.
This edited collection highlights international research on domestic homicides and death reviews which are a rapidly growing intervention/prevention initiative in various countries.
This book argues that new parents are caught in an uncomfortable crossfire between two competing discourses: those around ideal relationships and those around ideal parenting.
This book traces raciolinguistic ideologies in England's schools, focusing on post- 2010 policy reforms which frame the language practices of low-income, racialised speakers as limited and deficient.
This book argues that modern governance is performed by actors who seek social change epistemically, by drawing on widespread, public views of reality.
In this fourth edition of the best-selling core introductory textbook, Pete Alcock and Margaret May provide an essential up-to-date guide on social policy.
Nationally recognized scholars and practitioners examine opportunities in which services traditionally provided by local governments are offered by the private sector though a contract or are transferred to a private business completely.
Thisbook provides the first comprehensive analyses of the challenges all Europeanwelfare systems have been facing since 2007, combining in-depth country-basedstudies and comparative chapters.
"Wie Nordirland, nur ohne Tote" – mit diesen Worten ist ein Interview mit dem spanischen Schriftsteller und Publizisten Javier Cercas zur katalanischen Unabhängigkeitsbewegung und zur krisenhaften Lage in Katalonien im Dezember 2017 überschrieben.
This book uses settler colonialism, critical race, and tribal critical race theories to examine the relationship between settler colonialism and Indigenous and Black disproportionality in the criminal justice systems of the English-speaking Western liberal democracies of the UK, USA, Canada, and Australia.
The second edition of this book incorporates the latest theory, research, and best practices for understanding, treating, and preventing substance abuse among adolescents.
Most governments in the world - including many that are autocratic or authoritarian - have taken responsibility for social policy and elected to develop services in health, education and social security.
This book brings together leading researchers on wellbeing science to provide a multidisciplinary approach to psychological wellbeing with implications for the interconnected societal challenges we face today, including loneliness, neoliberalism, inequality and anthropogenic climate change.
This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe.
This book presents recent findings about the consequences and policy implications of economic stress for human capital development and family well-being in Asia.
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.
This book presents an overview of private rented housing in selected new EU member states and other transition countries - a topic scarcely researched to date, as it is largely part of the informal economy, and consequently often invisible to official statistics.
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.
Splitsville USA argues that it's time for us to break up to save representative democracy, proposing a mutually negotiated, peaceful dissolution of the current United States into several new nations.
The 2030 agenda for development, or what is known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is the most ambitious agenda collectively agreed upon by 193 countries in human history.
This book argues that modern governance is performed by actors who seek social change epistemically, by drawing on widespread, public views of reality.
