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  • Absolute Poverty in Europe

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Hidden Phenomenon

    by Gottfried Schweiger, Christian Neuhäuser, Elena Pribytkova, Guillem Fernandez Evangelista, Anna Sofia Salonen, Tiina Silvasti, Stephanos Papanastasiou, Ruth McAreavey, Carlos Pitillas, Julia Brannen0, Rebecca O'Connell1, Nessa Winston2, Patricia Kennedy3, Ursula Trummer4, Robert Walker5, Tuba Bircan6, Ingrid Schockaert7, Ides Nicaise8, Oleksandr Movshuk9, Jonathan Bradshaw0, Lena Dominelli1 ...
    Engaging systematically with severe forms of poverty in Europe, this important book stimulates academic, public and policy debate by shedding light on aspects of deprivation and exclusion of people in absolute poverty in affluent societies. It examines issues such as access to health care, housing and nutrition, poverty related shame, and violence.The book investigates different policy and civic ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Sustainable Communities and Urban Housing

    A Comparative European Perspective

    Edited by Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway, Nessa Winston ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in International Real Estate
    Since the start of the twenty-first century, urban communities have faced increasing challenges in housing affordability, with environmental issues causing additional concern. It is clear that changes to urban housing are needed to enhance the resilience of cities and improve the economic, social and physical well-being of residents. This book provides a comparative cross-national perspective on ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Eco-Social Polity?

    Theoretical, Conceptual and Empirical Issues

    by Teea Kortetmäki, Tuuli Hirvilammi, Katharina Bohnenberger, Martin Fritz, Kajsa Emilsson, Jayeon Lee, Laua Wiman, Steffen Lange, Raphael Kaufmann, Daniel Hausknost, Vincent Gengnagel, Bianca Luna Fabris, Philippe Pochet, Jan Pollex, Adeline Otto, Dimitri Gugushvili, Benedetta Cotta, Katirn Uba, Nicolas Jager, Milena Buchs, Sebastiano Sabato, Matteo Mandelli, Jeroen Candel, Miriam Hartlapp, Nessa Winston, Orla Dingley, Jesper Ole Jensen, Jeroen van der Heijden, Xira Ruiz-Campillo, Paul Bridgen, Luca Cigna, Elke Heins, Philip Rathgeb, Torben Fischer, Emina Hasanagic ...
    The devastating effects of climate change are undeniable. Fires rage and waters rise in every corner of the globe. In light of these changes to our planet, the issue of social and environmental wellbeing has gained prominent attention from both academia and policy makers. Scholarly research on the interaction between social and employment policy domains has flourished. Academics now reflect on the ... Read more

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  • The Future is Degrowth

    A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism

    by Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan, Andrea Vetter ...
    We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars.Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Key Concepts in Economic Geography

    by Yuko Aoyama, Susan Hanson, James T Murphy ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
    "A comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the field."- Allen J. Scott, University of California"Guides readers skilfully through the rapidly changing field of ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development eBook

    by Ian Scoones ...
    Series Book 4 - Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies
    The message of Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development is clear: livelihoods approaches are an essential lens on questions of rural development, but these need to be situated in a better understanding of political economy. The book looks at the role of social institutions and the politics of policy, as well as issues of identity, gender and generation. The relationships between ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Companion to Development Studies

    Edited by Vandana Desai, Rob Potter ...
    The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines the book is divided into ten sections, each prefaced by a section introduction written by the ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Local and Regional Development

    by Andy Pike ...
    Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and well-being amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions generated by: an increasingly globalised, knowledge-intensive capitalism; global financial instability, volatility and crisis; concerns about economic, social and ecological sustainability, climate change and resource shortages; new multi ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Governing through Goals

    Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation

    Edited by Norichika Kanie, Frank Biermann ...
    Series series Earth System Governance
    A detailed examination of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the shift in governance strategy they represent.In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development Goals built on and broadened the earlier Millennium Development Goals, but they also signaled a larger ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Transgovernance

    Advancing Sustainability Governance

    Edited by Louis Meuleman ...
    ‘Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance’ analyses the question what recent and ongoing changes in the relations between politics, science and media – together characterized as the emergence of a knowledge democracy – may imply for governance for sustainable development, on global and other levels of societal decision making, and the other way around: How can the discussion on ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Global Development

    Edited by Kearrin Sims, Nicola Banks, Susan Engel, Paul Hodge, Jonathan Makuwira, Naohiro Nakamura, Jonathan Rigg, Albert Salamanca, Pichamon Yeophantong ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of some of the world’s most pressing global development challenges – including how they may be better understood and addressed through innovative practices and approaches to learning and teaching.Featuring 61 contributions from leading and emerging academics and practitioners, this multidisciplinary volume is organized into five thematic parts ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Highly-Skilled Migration: Between Settlement and Mobility

    IMISCOE Short Reader

    by Agnieszka Weinar, Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access short reader discusses the emerging patterns of sedentary migration versus mobility of the highly-skilled thereby providing a comprehensive overview of the recent literature on highly-skilled migration. Highly-skilled migrations are arguably the only non-controversial migrant category in political and public discourse. The common perception is that highly-skilled migrants are high ... Read more

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