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  • Homelessness to Hope

    Research, Policy and Global Perspectives

    Edited by Uday Chatterjee, Rajib Shaw, Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan, Jenia Mukherjee, Raktima Ghosh ...
    Homelessness to Hope: Research, Policy and Practices on Global Perspectives brings together stories, observations and critical appraisals that have emerged out of the interdisciplinary studies spanning across the global North and South. It explores how diverse accounts on homelessness and homeless people are situated within the structural-institutional arrangements of the developing and developed ... Read more

    $132.79 CAD

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  • Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development

    Edited by Margaret B. Holland, Yuta J. Masuda, Brian E. Robinson ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book presents a nuanced and accessible synthesis of the relationship between land tenure security and sustainable development. Contributing authors have collectively worked for decades on land tenure as connected with conservation and development across all major regions of the globe. The first section of this volume is intended as a standalone primer on land tenure security and ... Read more

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  • Children’s Work in African Agriculture

    The Harmful and the Harmless

    by Abdulai Abubakari, Felix Ankomah Asante, Inka Barnett, Imogen Bellwood-Howard, Rosilin Bock, Máiréad Dunne, Irene Egyir, Emmanuel Boamah Frimpong, Neil Howard, Sara Humphreys, Tessa Lewin, Vicky Johnson, Roy Maconachie, Becky Mitchell, Sam Okyere, Keetie Roelen, Carolina Szyp, Jodie Thorpe, Dorte Thorsen, Giel Ton, Amy Warmington, Mary Wickenden, Thomas Yeboah ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Millions of children throughout Africa undertake many forms of farm and domestic work. Some of this work is for wages, some is on their family’s own small plots and some is forced and/or harmful.This book examines children’s involvement in such work. It argues that framing all children’s engagement in economic activity as ‘child labour’ ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work

    Edited by Lena Dominelli ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Green social work espouses a holistic approach to all peoples and other living things – plants and animals, and the physical ecosystem; emphasises the relational nature of all its constituent parts; and redefines the duty to care for and about others as one that includes the duty to care for and about planet earth.By acknowledging the interdependency of all living things it allows for the ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Global Child Poverty Challenge

    Edited by Richard Morgan ...
    Children are the most vulnerable people in the world – but rarely has the impact of poverty on children been addressed as an urgent issue in its own right. The harm that deprivation does to girls and boys as individuals, and the lasting cost of poverty, have received too limited attention. Policies and programmes have not made best use of the growing evidence of ‘what works’ for the poorest ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Displacees and Health: Issues and Challenges.

    by Norvy Paul ...
    Displacees and Health: Issues and Challenges deals with issues of health and challenges in the life of displaced people of the world. This is a collective work of the experts in this field aiming at sketching the life of the displacees either caused by development, armed conflict, racial conflict or disasters.Some of the areas it deals with are:• Health issues, constrains and emerging diseases ... Read more

    $2.21 CAD

  • Women and Disasters in South Asia

    Survival, security and development

    Edited by Swarna Rajagopalan, Linda Racioppi ...
    South Asia is one of the most vulnerable areas of an increasingly disaster-impacted world, with cyclones, earthquakes, floods and droughts causing several casualties and disrupting lives and livelihoods every year. Yet the impacts of disasters are not equally distributed across the peoples of the region.Women and men experience disaster differently, and their needs in the aftermath of disaster ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Sustainability: Science, Policy, and Practice in India

    Challenges and Opportunities

    Edited by Venkatesh Dutta, Priyanka Ghosh ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is an interdisciplinary work that reveals the contemporary sustainability narratives in India within the context of various SDGs. Several case studies are presented, each of which sheds light on the challenges and constraints that are impeding the process of achieving SDGs and investigates potential long-term answers to socio-economic and environmental issues. Through empirical case ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia

    Progress, Challenges, and Issues

    Edited by Riyanti Djalante, Matthias Garschagen, Frank Thomalla, Rajib Shaw ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is a unique, transdisciplinary summary of the state of the art of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Indonesia. It provides a comprehensive overview of disaster risk governance across all levels and multiple actors including diverse perspectives from practitioners and researchers on the challenges and progress of DRR in Indonesia. The book includes novel and emerging topics such as the ... Read more

    $218.99 CAD

  • Gender Equity in Health

    The Shifting Frontiers of Evidence and Action

    Edited by Gita Sen, Piroska Östlin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
    This volume brings together experts from a variety of disciplines, such as medicine, biology, sociology, epidemiology, anthropology, economics and political science, who focus on three areas: health disparities and inequity due to gender, the specific problems women face in meeting the highest attainable standards of health, and the policies and actions that can address them. Highlighting the ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action

    Edited by Ashwini Deshpande ...
    Series series Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences
    This Handbook deals with theoretical and empirical evidence on the economics of discrimination and affirmative action across the world, assessed over a variety of social identities, such as caste, race, ethnicity, gender, disability, age, tribal status. It also outlines methodological advances in this area, with plenty of additional references for the interested reader. It combines theoretical ... Read more

    $963.99 CAD

  • India Migration Report 2023

    Student Migration

    Edited by S Irudaya Rajan ...
    Series series India Migration Report
    The India Migration Report 2023: Student Migration is one of the first books that attempts to comprehensively explore the various nuances of Indian international student migration factoring in multiple factors that influence the migration journey of Indian students. It also looks into other migration stories including internal and international returnees, various impacts of remittances, and ... Read more

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