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Risk Communication for the Future

The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures ...

Robotics, AI, and Humanity Science, Ethics, and Policy

This book examines recent advances in how artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have elicited widespread debate over ...

Same-Sex Families and Legal Recognition in Europe

This book focuses on family diversity from a legal, demographical and sociological perspective. It investigates what is ...

Science of Societal Safety

This book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, ...

Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion : Agroecology and Endogenous Development

This book will contribute to a more nuanced debate around seed system resilience that goes beyond the dominant dichotomous ...

Self-Employment Activities of Women and Minorities : Their Success or Failure in Relation to Social Citizenship Policies

The discussion on new forms of non-privileged self-employment of women and minorities is usually divided into separate discourses ...

Serial Murder and the Psychology of Violent Crimes

The phenomena of serial violent crime has long plagued human civilizations. Far from being a contemporary notion unique to ...

Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins

This is the best book we have about the methodology to conduct research on the second generation or the children of immigrants ...

Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons

This book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic ...

Social Capital and Health

As interest in social capital has grown over the past decade—particularly in public health —so has the lack of consensus ...

Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class New Voting Patterns

This book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. ...

Social Development in the World Bank Essays in Honor of Michael M. Cernea

This book honors the work of Michael Cernea, who was the World Bank’s first professional sociologist, by taking on and ...

Social Inequality, Childhood and the Media

This book presents a qualitative longitudinal panel-study on child and adolescent socialisation in socially disadvantaged ...

Social and Political Dimensions of Mathematics Education : Current Thinking

This book examines the current thinking on five critical social and political areas in mathematics education. It focuses ...

Socioeconomic Differences in Old Age Mortality

Provides a comprehensive, thoughtful and critical discussion of all aspects involved in the relationship between socioeconomic ...

Socioeconomic Inequality and Educational Outcomes

Education systems generally aim to narrow the achievement gap between low- and high-SES students and to improve the performance ...

Socioeconomic and Environmental Implications of Agricultural Residue Burning : A Case Study of Punjab, India

This book discusses the important issue of the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of agricultural residue burning, common ...

Sociology in Germany A History

This book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19th century to the present day, providing a concise ...

Solidarity in Europe

This open access volume provides evidence-based knowledge on European solidarity and citizen responses in times of crisis. ...

Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course

This open access book details tools and procedures for data collections of hard-to-reach, hard-to-survey populations. Inside, ...

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