Social welfare and social services

This book provides an insightful overview of the social-economical trends in modern China, their global influence, and the disrupting consequences for businesses and countries all over the world.

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

This book speaks to the meanings and values that inhere in close relations, focusing on 'family' and 'kinship' but also looking beyond these categories.

This book represents the first critical edition and scholarly annotated translation of a pioneering report on the predicament of cross-cultural understanding at the dawn of globalization, titled "e;A Brief Response on the Controversies over Shangdi, Tianshen and Linghun"e; ("e;Resposta breve sobre as Controversias do Xamty, Tien Xin, Lim hoen"e;), which was written in China by the Sicilian Jesuit missionary Niccolo Longobardo (1565-1654) in the 1620s and profoundly influenced Enlightenment understandings of Asian philosophy.

The book is a collection of essays written since 2010, and dealing, in one way or another, with the place of values in economic analysis.

This book discusses different innovative business models adopted by social enterprises to bring about social change in terms of creating capabilities among the marginalised section of people.

This book examines the landscape of sustained investment in research and innovation in Africa, which are critical for development.

This book is concerned with developing an in-depth understanding of contemporary political and spatial analyses of cities.

This book addresses a range of key issues concerning social work education, research and practice in India and Australia from a cross-cultural perspective.

Dieser praktische Ratgeber begleitet werdende Väter durch alle wichtigen Phasen - von der Schwangerschaft bis zum ersten Lebensjahr des Kindes.

Das Handbuch ist zu einem Standardwerk für Theorie und Praxis der Erziehungshilfe geworden und hat als Lehrbuch Eingang gefunden in Ausbildung und Studium für sozialpädagogische Berufe.

'This book isn't just a guide; it's a lifeline' Shirley Ballas, head judge, Strictly Come Dancing, and ambassador for CALM and Suicide&CoWorldwide, suicide is one of the leading causes of death among young people, and numbers continue to increase.

This book explains the causes, process, and results of group disputes in urban communities (the empirical experiences from Shanghai) in China.

This book presents the perspectives of some of the main players, both academics and professionals, in communication for sustainable development and social change so as to provide valuable lessons for future generations of change agents.

This book challenges what are, for many people, deep-rooted expectations regarding the routine arming of police and compares jurisdictions in which police are routinely armed (Toronto, Canada and Brisbane, Australia) and those where police are not routinely armed (Manchester, England and Auckland, New Zealand).

This is the first book to describe the entire developmental history of the human aspects of economics.

This volume combines approaches from three disciplines - economics, sociology, and demography - and empirically analyzes the key aspects of the labor market and social demography processes in post-Soviet transitional societies while focusing on the gender perspective.

This book presents an analysis of how the grassroots movement of Guangchang Wu or 'square dance' in China has become a national phenomenon.

This book discusses social innovations by cooperatives from the Asia and Pacific region.

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.

This book offers a selection of intensely researched essays focused on the critical planning objectives and policy priorities that would enhance the promotion of inclusive growth in a developing country.

This book examines the inclusive development experiences and impacts of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).

Canaries in the Data Mine offers an account of the lived experiences and cultural expectations of young people growing up in digital environments increasingly owned by others and designed for profit.

This book discusses all the questions related to Kashmiri Pandits and their relation and current issues regarding their return to Kashmir.

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

This book discusses how to measure the level of development of an economy, particularly, the task of ranking economies in terms of their development.

This book focuses on the status quo and current trends concerning ethnic issues in China, and seeks to promote the equitable and harmonious development of Chinese and other nationalities around the world.

This book is concerned with socially engaged art projects in the Chinese countryside, with the artists and intellectuals who are involved, the villagers they meet and the local authorities with whom they negotiate.

This book gathers invited top experts on Public-Private partnership (PPP) in China, from both theoretical and practical fields, to present the most comprehensive analyses of PPP's practice in China up to 2017.

Focusing on social work and social service delivery, this book examines the social policies and programmes designed to address different societal issues and concerns across India and China.

This book discusses imaginary future generations and how current decision-making will influence those future generations.

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

This book explores tribal land alienation problems in India and tribal agitation against land encroachment and alienation.

Informed by the social-ecological framework, this book focuses on the development of Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) in urban China.

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 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 offers a comprehensive guide to psychodrama, including the underlying philosophy, methodology, theory and applications.

This book challenges the dominant narrative of young people being a uniquely violent group.

This book provides an insightful sociological study of the declining Japanese population, using statistical analysis to establish the significance of municipal power using demographic data on national, regional, prefectural and municipal levels.

This unique book provides a platform for resilience research, combining knowledge from various domains, such as genetics, primatology, archeology, geography, physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, medicine, ecology, psychology, risk management and systems science, in order to examine specific concepts.

This book focuses on neglected skin diseases and conditions in resource-poor countries through the lens of livelihoods.

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 examines the state of art in disability studies, focusing on the Indian context, as well as the broader South Asian situation.

This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach with a wide scope of perspectives on primary healthcare, describing related principles, care models, practices and social contexts.

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

This book observes that an in-depth study exclusively focusing on health service trade not only strengthens the overall services trade capacity of the South Asian region, but also promotes global as well as regional trade.

This book analyses social conflict among fishers in Indonesia by implementing class theory, thus adopting a new approach to analysing fishers' conflicts in Indonesia.

This book explores the need for deep-seated social change in Myanmar if the country's democratic transition and peace process is to deliver tangible benefits for those that have long faced profound vulnerability and marginalisation.

This book explores the journey of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as it is interpreted and translated from International Human Rights Law into domestic law and policy in different cultural contexts.

This book, the first comprehensive overview of housing policy in Australia in 25 years, investigates the many dimensions of housing affordability and government actions that affect affordability outcomes.