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This book is open access under a CCBY license. This book investigates child poverty from a philosophical perspective. It ...

Our societies are ageing. The Family is changing. Labour force behaviour is evolving. How is the organisation of family and ...

The topics addressed in this book are of vital importance to the survival of humankind. Agricultural biodiversity, encompassing ...

Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen’s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice ...

This book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society ...

This book documents myriads of ways community-based climate change adaptation and resilience programs are being implemented ...

The book examines the methodological challenges in analyzing the effectiveness of development policies. It presents a selection ...

This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, ...

This book examines the role of citizens in sustainable energy transitions across Europe. It explores energy problem framing, ...

This open access book aims to consolidate and advance debates on European and global energy poverty by exploring the political ...

Extends recent work on entrepreneurship in response to adverse events to explore entrepreneurial responses by people who ...

These original essays highlight the state of knowledge in intergovernmental transfer design. They represent creative new ...

Some social sciences contend that marriage is the solution to many of the problems associated with single-parent families. ...

This volume brings together advanced thinking on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, including the theoretical background, ...

offers an authoritative analysis of the state-of-the art in energy and climate research and policy. It starts by describing ...

Is ‘development’ passé? Is it merely a by-product or a ‘trickle down’ effect of economic growth, spurred by globalisation? ...

This book argues that concentration of wealth is not sustainable. It offers an alternative model, a philosophy of "social ...

In this seminal work, the contributors focus on sociological theories and research concerning gender, which are discussed ...

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

This book addresses two aspects— Impact of research: How is the research on ICTs in the Global South playing a role in ...

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