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  • Climate Change, Health, and Adaptation in African Informal Settlements

    Living with Extremes on the Margins

    by Johannes Bhanye, Vuyisile Moyo, Collins Matiza ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Climate Justice
    This transdisciplinary book explores how climate extremes—specifically extreme heat and urban flooding—are experienced, governed, and resisted within African informal settlements.Focusing on the nexus of environmental stress, public health inequities, infrastructural fragility, and adaptation politics, the authors unpack how these converging crises disproportionately affect marginalised urban ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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  • At Risk

    Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services

    by Karen Swift, Marilyn Callahan ...
    In At Risk, Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan examine risk and risk assessment in the context of professional practice in child protection, social work, and other human services. They argue that the tools, technologies, and practices used to measure risk to the individual have gone unquestioned and unstudied and that current methods of risk assessment may be distorting the principles of social ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Health Justice

    An Argument from the Capabilities Approach

    by Sridhar Venkatapuram ...
    Social factors have a powerful influence on human health and longevity. Yet the social dimensions of health are often obscured in public discussions due to the overwhelming focus in health policy on medical care, individual-level risk factor research, and changing individual behaviours. Likewise, in philosophical approaches to health and social justice, the debates have largely focused on ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Understanding Public Policy

    Theories and Issues

    by Paul Cairney ...
    Series series Textbooks in Policy Studies
    The fully revised second edition of this textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to theories of public policy and policymaking. The policy process is complex: it contains hundreds of people and organisations from various levels and types of government, from agencies, quasi- and non-governmental organisations, interest groups and the private and voluntary sectors. This book sets out the major ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Dynamics of Marginalized Youth

    Not in Education, Employment, or Training Around the World

    Edited by Mark Levels, Christian Brzinsky-Fay, Craig Holmes, Janine Jongbloed, Hirofumi Taki ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Labour Economics
    This book studies young people who are Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET); a prime concern among policymakers. Moving past common interpretations of NEETs as a homogeneous group, it asks why some youth become NEET, whereas other do not. The authors analyse diverse school-to-work patterns of young NEETs in five typical countries and investigate the role of individual characteristics, ... Read more

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  • Quality In Early Childhood Services - An International Perspective

    by Helen Penn ...
    Examining how quality and good practice in early childhood education and care is interpreted and implemented in a variety of settings and circumstances. ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Environmental Anthropology Today

    Edited by Helen Kopnina, Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet ...
    Today, we face some of the greatest environmental challenges in global history. Understanding the damage being done and the varied ethics and efforts contributing to its repair is of vital importance. This volume poses the question: What can increasing the emphasis on the environment in environmental anthropology, along with the science of its problems and the theoretical and methodological tools ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Governing the Climate

    New Approaches to Rationality, Power and Politics

    Edited by Johannes Stripple, Harriet Bulkeley ...
    Despite a growing interest in critical social and political studies of climate change, the field remains fragmented and diffuse. This is the first volume to collect this body of scholarship, providing a key reference point in the growing debate about climate change across the social sciences. The book provides a new set of insights into the ways in which climate change is creating new forms of ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Digital Diversity

    Youth, Equity, and Information Technology

    Edited by E. Dianne Looker, Ted D. Naylor ...
    Digital Diversity: Youth, Equity, and Information Technology is about youth, schools, and the use of technology. Youth are instrumental in finding novel ways to access and use technology. They are directly affected by changes such as the proliferation of computers in schools and elsewhere, and the increasingly heavy use of the Internet for both information sharing and for communication.The ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Green Criminology

    An Introduction to the Study of Environmental Harm

    by Rob White, Diane Heckenberg ...
    Over the past ten years, the study of environmental harm and ‘crimes against nature’ has become an increasingly popular area of research amongst criminologists. This book represents the first international, comprehensive and introductory text for green criminology, offering a concise exposition of theory and concepts and providing extensive geographical coverage, diversity and depth to the many ... Read more

    $150.99 CAD

  • The Transformation of Contemporary Health Care

    The Market, the Laboratory, and the Forum

    by Tiago Moreira ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
    The past three decades have seen enormous changes in the organisation of health care. This book explores the role of knowledge production and technology on these transformations, focusing on the market (attempts to embed principles of economic rationality and efficient use of resources in the shaping and delivery of health care), the laboratory (science, experiments and 'evidence' in the ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Social Cohesion and Immigration in Europe and North America

    Mechanisms, Conditions, and Causality

    Edited by Ruud Koopmans, Bram Lancee, Merlin Schaeffer ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Concerns about immigration and the rising visibility of minorities have triggered a lively scholarly debate on the consequences of ethnic diversity for trust, cooperation, and other aspects of social cohesion. In this accessibly written volume, leading scholars explore where, when, and why ethnic diversity affects social cohesion by way of analyses covering the major European immigration countries ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD