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Blockchain and Crypto Currency Building a High Quality Marketplace for Crypto Data

This book contributes to the creation of a cyber ecosystem supported by blockchain technology in which technology and people ...

Care Poverty : When Older People’s Needs Remain Unmet

This book turns the research attention of social policy scholars and long-term care researchers from comparative descriptions ...

Charity Law & Social Policy : National and International Perspectives on the Functions of the Law Relating to Charities

Charity Law & Social Policy explores contemporary law, policy and practice in a range of modern common law nations. It does ...

Child Protection in England, 1960–2000

This open access book explores how children, parents, and survivors reshaped the politics of child protection in late twentieth-century ...

Cities between Competitiveness and Cohesion : Discourses, Realities and Implementation

The book shows that spatial and urban policy continues to be a key site of policy intervention and experimentation. Different ...

Co-creating Digital Public Services for an Ageing Society Evidence for User-centric Design

This book attends to the co-creation of digital public services for ageing societies. Increasingly public services are provided ...

Contemporary Family Lifestyles in Central and Western Europe Selected Cases

This introductory chapter approaches two basic categories of the whole monography which is a family and a lifestyle. The ...

Contemporary Housing Struggles : A Structural Field of Contention Approach

This book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization ...

Drawing Imagining Building : Embodiment in Architectural Design Practices / Paul Emmons

Drawing Imagining Building focuses on the history of hand-drawing practices to capture some of the most crucial and overlooked ...

Educational Research: the Educationalization of Social Problems

In this book distinguished philosophers and historians of education focus on ‘educationalization’ to expand its meaning ...

Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality : Healthcare, Social Policy, and Work Perspectives

This aim of this book is to launch an international, cross-disciplinary conversation on fatherhood engagement. By integrating ...

Extended Working Life Policies International Gender and Health Perspectives

This volume addresses the current debate on extended working life policy by considering the influence of gender and health ...

Female Employment and Gender Gaps in China

This book investigates female employment and the gender gap in the labor market and households during China’s economic ...

Forest Policies and Social Change in England

The book stresses how values and perceptions shape policies, and conversely how policies can modify perceptions, and also ...

From Colonialism to International Aid External Actors and Social Protection in the Global South

This book addresses the role of external actors in social protection in the Global South, from the Second World War until ...

Gender, Health and Ageing

The objective of this book is to provide an overview of gender, health and ageing. Important theoretical concepts, such as ...

Global Pathways to Education : Cultural Spheres, Networks, and International Organizations

The research presented in this volume is a wide-ranging analysis and explanation of the dynamics of emergence, diffusion, ...

Governing Social Protection in the Long Term Social Policy and Employment Relations in Australia and New Zealand

This book examines the comparative evolution of social protection in Australia and New Zealand from 1890 to the present ...

Handbook of Transdisciplinary Research

Transdisciplinary research (TR) is an emerging field of research in the knowledge society.This handbook provides, for the ...

Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction?

In this book, a group of global experts gathered by the Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean ...

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