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Foundations for Local Governance

Various forms of decentralization are recently pursued in the world, including developing countries. However, there has not ...

Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda

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

Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

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

Global Energy Supply and Emissions

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

Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict

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

Globalization from the Bottom Up

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

Handbook of Resilience in Children

Even the most significant technological and medical advances of the 21st century have been tempered by the increasing risk ...

Handbook of the Sociology of Gender

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

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 ...

Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South

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

Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism

Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the present volume discusses how current turbulences ...

Internal Migration, Urbanization and Poverty in Asia: Dynamics and Interrelationships

The chapters within this volume examine those complexities using a range of traditional and nontraditional measures—such ...

Lake Victoria

Recently, there has been, and continues to be, a tremendous interest on Lake Victoria and its environs, both locally and ...

Learning through Community : Exploring Participatory Practices

This book is a collection of case studies that explore the learning that people do through community engagement. Developed ...

Liberal Democracy Prosperity through Freedom

This book aims to show which factors have been decisive in the rise of successful countries. Never before have so many people ...

Lone Parenthood in the Life Course

This volume provides a comprehensive portrait of lone parenthood at the beginning of the XXI century from a life course perspective. ...

Marginality : Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology

In this volume economists, ecology experts, geographers, agronomists, sociologist, and business experts come together to ...

Marine Resource Conservation and Poverty Reduction Strategies in Tanzania

Despite the social, nutritional, economical and environmental importance of Tanzanian coastal areas, yet they are vulnerable ...

Modeling Income Distributions and Lorenz Curves

The parameterization of income distributions and Lorenz Curves is a useful approach for representing how income is distributed ...

Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

Conceptualization and measurement of poverty have traditionally relied on purely economic approaches, with income or consumption ...

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