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  • Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities

    East Meets West

    Edited by Tiit Tammaru, Maarten van Ham, Sako Musterd, Szymon Marcińczak ...
    Series series
    Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities. While the levels of socio-economic segregation in European cities are still modest compared to some parts of the world, the poor are increasingly concentrating spatially within capital cities across Europe. An overlooked area of research, this book ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Neighborhood Decline

    Edited by Ronald van Kempen, Gideon Bolt, Maarten van Ham ...
    The global financial and economic crisis that hit the world since 2008 has affected the lives of many people all over the world and resulted in declining incomes, rising unemployment, foreclosures, forced residential moves, and cut-backs in government expenditure. The extent to which the crisis has affected urban neighborhoods and has led to rising intra-urban inequalities, has not yet received ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives

    Edited by Maarten van Ham, David Manley, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson, Duncan Maclennan ...
    Over the last 25 years a vast body of literature has been published on neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in more deprived neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents’ life chances over and above the effect of their individual characteristics. The volume of work not only reflects academic and policy interest in this topic, but also the fact that we are still no closer to answering ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Neighbourhood Effects or Neighbourhood Based Problems?

    A Policy Context

    Edited by David Manley, Maarten van Ham, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson, Duncan Maclennan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume critically examines the link between area based policies, neighbourhood based problems, and neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents’ life chances over and above the effect of their individual characteristics. Over the last few decades, Western governments have persistently pursued area based policies to fight ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Understanding Neighbourhood Dynamics

    New Insights for Neighbourhood Effects Research

    Edited by Maarten van Ham, David Manley, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson, Duncan Maclennan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This rare interdisciplinary combination of research into neighbourhood dynamics and effects attempts to unravel the complex relationship between disadvantaged neighbourhoods and the life outcomes of the residents who live therein. It seeks to overcome the notorious difficulties of establishing an empirical causal relationship between living in a disadvantaged area and the poorer health and well ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Ethnicity and Integration

    Edited by John Stillwell, Maarten van Ham ...
    Series Book 3 - Understanding Population Trends and Processes
    The ethnic composition of Britain’s population is changing rapidly as the 21st century progresses. Some commentators predict a catastrophic future of increasing ethnic segregation and community breakdown, whereas others say that the benefits of ethnic pluralism and cultural diversity will lead to a more integrated society. This book addresses many of the key issues and debates associated with ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality

    A Global Perspective

    Edited by Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru, Rūta Ubarevičienė, Heleen Janssen ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. It offers a unique global overview of segregation trends based on case studies by local author teams. The book shows important global trends in segregation, and proposes a Global Segregation ... Read more

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  • Housing Estates in Europe

    Poverty, Ethnic Segregation and Policy Challenges

    Edited by Daniel Baldwin Hess, Tiit Tammaru, Maarten van Ham ...
    Series series The Urban Book Series
    This open access book explores the formation and socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in Europe. Are these estates clustered or scattered? Which social groups originally had access to residential space in housing estates? What is the size, scale and geography of housing estates, their architectural and built environment composition, services and neighbourhood amenities, and ... Read more

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    by Beth Watts, Suzanne Fitzpatrick ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    Welfare conditionality has become an idea of global significance in recent years. A ‘hot topic’ in North America, Australia, and across Europe, it has been linked to austerity politics, and the rise of foodbanks and destitution. In the Global South, where publicly funded welfare protection systems are often absent, conditional approaches have become a key tool employed by organisations pursuing ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Health Inequalities

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Katherine E. Smith, Clare Bambra, Sarah E. Hill ...
    Informed by a wealth of available research, between 1997 and 2010, the UK Labour government introduced a raft of policies to reduce health inequalities. Despite this, by most measures, the UK's health inequalities have continued to widen. This failure has prompted calls for new approaches to health inequalities research and some consensus that public health researchers ought to be more actively ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Social Advantage and Disadvantage

    Edited by Hartley Dean, Lucinda Platt ...
    Social advantage and disadvantage are potent catch-all terms. They have no established definition but, considered in relation to one another, they can embrace a wide variety of more specific concepts that address the ways in which human society causes, exacerbates or fails to prevent social divisions or injustices. This book captures the sense in which any conceptualisation of disadvantage is ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Canadian Social Policy, Fifth Edition

    Issues and Perspectives

    Edited by Anne Westhues, Brian Wharf ...
    Social policy shapes the daily lives of every Canadian citizen and should reflect the beliefs of a majority of Canadians on just approaches to the promotion of health, safety, and well-being. Too often, those on the front lines—social workers, nurses, and teachers—observe that policies do not work well for the most vulnerable groups in society. In the first part of this new edition of Canadian ... Read more

    $43.99 USD