Social welfare and social services

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This book highlights the environmental footprints and best practices in sustainable agriculture.

This book addresses sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women from an international law point of view.

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 investigates the neuroscientific knowledge on addiction as an epistemic project.

This book analyses three key aspects of microfinancing, namely social purpose, commercialization and innovations and examines, through a global perspective, how these aspects helped and diverted microfinance institutions towards the attainment of their dual goals over the last twenty years.

This book presents perspectives by eminent economists, social scientists and policy makers, exploring in depth the post-reform developments in India, including issues pertaining to growth and equity, issues which have been at the core of life-time work of Prof.

This book presents the welfare regime of societies of Chinese heritage as a liminal space where religious and state authorities compete with each other for legitimacy.

This book provides a focused and comprehensive overview of the status of children across society, with special reference to emerging features and measures of child safety, welfare, and overall well-being.

This book presents a multidimensional perspective on the interlinkage between human development, community characteristics and public service delivery with special reference to India.

This book examines critically how the Chinese government has proactively engaged the nine cities and two special administrative regions in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) in Southern China for deeper collaborations in order to transform the country from the "e;World Factory"e; to become a leading world economy in innovation and entrepreneurialism.

From both theoretical and practical perspectives, this book systematically expounds the important theories, key measures and major achievements in the field of poverty alleviation in China, and sums up the important experience of poverty alleviation, it answers the significant question why China has been able to lift itself out of poverty and build a moderately prosperous society in an all round way.

This book confronts issues relating to climate change and sustainable development innovations in Asia, with attention to key issues and applications in terms of advocacy, governance, citizen science, tradition, faith, leadership, and education.

The book deals with technological governance of cyberspace and threat landscape, with a special focus on the Indian context.

This book highlights the environmental footprints and best practices in sustainable agriculture.

After reviewing related theories on stigmatisation of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), this book applies social exclusion theory, actor theory and stigma theory to the study of social mechanisms of stigmatisation of PLWHA in China to show the influence and mechanism of stigmatisation on them, and tries to construct the policy framework to tackle stigmatisation from the perspective of welfare pluralism.

This book addresses a broad range of issues related to mental health in higher education in Australia, with specific reference to student and staff well-being.

This book investigates public medical insurance reform in China and studies its effects from both institutional and empirical study perspectives.

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.

This book discusses the impact of climate change, land use and land cover, and socio-economic dynamics on landslides in Asian countries.

This book presents the welfare regime of China as a liminal space where religious and state authorities struggle for legitimacy as new social forces emerge.

This book captures the evolution of consumerism in the human services.

This book explores how social discrimination in South Asia contributes to health disparities and impedes well-being.

This volume introduces readers to the achievements made in the context of China's reform and opening up.

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This book analyzes housing policy in terms of the quality of housing, theoretically and empirically.

This book examines the role of voluntary organizations (VOs) in rural development in the south Asian context.

This book looks at the case study of Hachioji as a major transit hub with a world-class public transportation system in Japan.

This book presents the concepts: the welfare system of universal integration and the welfare mode of universal integration.

This book discusses inner peace from an Islamic theological and spiritual perspective, the writings of Said Nursi, a twentieth century Muslim scholar.

This book explores the institutional factors in social policymaking and implementation in China.

This book examines how fifty police officers in South Australia keep well and "e;bounce back"e; from duty-related traumatic experience in the absence of practical, accessible and timely organisational support.

This book is an essential guide on surrogacy, discussing various legal issues that arise in surrogacy cases.

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

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This book provides a comparative analysis of how communities have developed people-based resilience in response to the global impact of COVID-19.

A major objective of this monograph is to present an agent-based simulation of artificial populations.

This book compares the Chinese and Russian dreams, focusing on eight aspects: prosperity, affluence, family harmony, fairness and justice, diversity, green beauty, honesty and uprightness, and happiness.

This book comprehensively analyzes COVID-19 and its impact as well as the response from the perspectives of humanities and social sciences.

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (known commonly as the NDIS) was introduced as a radical new way of funding disability services in Australia.

This book provides rare insight into how real children/adolescents' lives unfold as a result of health inequity.

China's late Chairman Mao Zedong once said "e;Women hold up half the world"e;, but in several respects the full emancipation of women still remains a global challenge.

This volume introduces readers to the achievements made in the context of China's reform and opening up.

This book examines the experiences of migrant peasant workers in China who care for parents diagnosed with cancer and explores to what extent contextual changes after the economic reform initiated in 1978 affected practices and experiences of caring.

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 presents the epidemiology of birth defects and their public health and social implications in India.

This book explores the experiences and emotional expression of 30 people Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) using qualitative research methods such as "e;illness narratives,"e; and analyzes the dilemmas of "e;sicknesses of the society"e; including "e;Acquired Needs Deficiency"e; Syndrome, "e;Acquired Expectation Insufficiency"e; Syndrome, and "e;Acquired Punishment"e; Syndrome at the micro, meso and macro levels, so as to investigate higher-intensity negative emotions.

This book examines the use of violence by children and young people in family settings and proposes specialised and age-appropriate responses to these children and young people It interrogates the adequacy and effectiveness of current service and justice system responses, including analysis of police, court and specialist service responses.

The book refutes the dominant understanding about caste panchayats as mere dispute resolution bodies that are vestiges of the past.