Social welfare and social services

This book examines the process of population aging in China and its unique features, considers the social progress implied in China becoming a society with an aging population, and assesses the tremendous risks and challenges involved.

This book argues that embeddedness and community participation bring unique propositions for social entrepreneurship to foster social inclusion.

This book presents insights on Singapore's politics and governance from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singapore Perspectives conference series co-published by Institute of Policy Studies and World Scientific.

In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed.

This book discussing in detail the Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) of the global economy using the comprehensive Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) technique.

Die vorliegende Schriftenreihe "Forum Politische Bildung und Polizei" wird im Kontext des von der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) geförderten und von der Deutschen Hochschule der Polizei (DHPol) sowie der Hochschule für Polizei und öffentliche Verwaltung NRW (HSPV NRW) durchgeführten Modellprojekts "Politische Bildung und Polizei" publiziert.

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This report presents the rationale for and design of a city government disaster insurance pool in the Philippines.

This international handbook gives a comprehensive overview of findings from longstanding and contemporary research, theory, and practices in early childhood education in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

This book examines key issues concerning land acquisition, and puts forward policy suggestions.

This book reappraises the Japanese employment system, characterized by such practices as the periodic recruiting of new graduates, lifetime employment and seniority-based wages, which were praised as sources of high productivity and flexibility for Japanese firms during the period of high economic growth from the middle of the 1950s until the burst of bubbles in the early 1990s.

This publication titled ';Encyclopaedia of Social Welfare and Administration' covers the subject areas of social welfare and administration in two volumes.

This volume focuses on Chinese society in the environment created by new media.

This report examines how countries perform in their ability to prevent, manage and treat cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes.

This new edition of Health at a Glance presents the most recent comparable data on the performance of health systems in OECD countries.

Building, largely, on insights from India, and case studies in Brazil, China, and South Africa, this book provides insights into the contested topic of 'governance and governed' from a state-society inter-relationship perspective.

This book reflects the author's views on NGO development in China and includes recent papers, reviews, and policy suggestions he has written.

For nearly a century families have been out-migrating to suburbs and peri-urban areas.

This book discusses the interconnected, complex and emerging risks in today's societies and deliberates on the various aspects of disaster risk reduction strategies especially through community resilience and responses.

This collection breaks new ground in police communication research.

This book addresses major aspects of inequity, such as access, financing, financial risk protection, gender, service delivery and utilization, in the healthcare sector in India,.

This book is an analysis and exploration of the relationship between peasants and policies within the process of reform in China.

This book explores pain in a number of ways.

This book reviews the development of China's social security system from 1949 onwards and analyzes its features in each stage.

This book is a collection of chapters from local, regional, and international experts in the fields of law enforcement, safety, and security.

This book assesses the global significance of China's decade-long campaign to reduce poverty.

This book focuses on the global issue of ethnic problems and examines the theory and practice of how China addresses its ethnic problems from a macro perspective, following the guidelines formulated by the working conference on ethnic affairs of the Central Committee of Chinese Communist Party in 2014.

This book looks at open data practices historically and from the perspective of those currently involved in advocating for making government data freely available.

This book explores the decline and growth of the private rental sector in Australia delving into the changing dynamics of landlord investment and tenant profile over the course of the twentieth century and into the present period.

This book showcases current thinking on social work in the field of mental health and illness from a bio-ecological and spiritual framework reflecting the transition in mental health care from institution to community.

Disaster strikes, transforming cities and towns into graveyards and wastelands in a matter of minutes.

This book provides the latest research in the application of innovative technology to the tourism industry in Bangladesh, covering the perspectives, theories, issues, complexities, as well as opportunities and the challenges present.

This book investigates the relationship between social capital and loneliness of older adults living in urban China during the COVID-19 outbreak period.

This book provides a blueprint for the allocation of public expenditures "e;in"e; and "e;for"e; agriculture at the dis-aggregated state level and suggests a reorientation in favour of disadvantaged regions where the marginal returns on additional investments would be higher.

This book presents a collection of practitioner and community stories that reveal how invasive species management is a community issue that can spark community formation and collective action.

This book focuses on the 'functionings' and capabilities generated from land by their owners and the challenge in satisfactorily recreating these through the compensation paid in the case of compulsory acquisition of private land.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of local governance in China, and offers original analysis of key factors underpinning trends in this field drawing on the expertise of scholars both inside and outside China.

This book introduces the Japanese urban food desert (FD).

This book explores why, after forty years of funded policies of social inclusion, persons living with an intellectual disability are still separated from the social fabric of neoliberal societies.

This book presents a concise introduction to the contemporary research and practice of suicide prevention, and it addresses the cognitive and neurological aspects of suicide.

The book aims to explore South Asian third sector - the nonprofit organizations as provider of social services.

This book focuses on various aspects of gender and mental health.

This book first presents an overview of the history of a national character survey by the Institute of Statistical Mathematics that has been conducted for more than 65 years.

This book looks at the historical and contemporary impact of minority immigrant and ethnic communities on the built and social environment in Australian cities, rural and regional areas.