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Inequality, Social Protection and Social Justice
James Midgley
This thought-provoking book examines the role of social protection in reducing inequality and enhancing social justice. It assesses social protection’s impact on inequality in different parts of the world and shows that if carefully desi...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Regulatory Stewardship of Health Research
Edward S. Dove
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This timely book examines the interaction of health research and regulation with law through... -
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Handbook on the Geographies of Regions and Territories
Edited by Anssi Paasi, John Harrison, Martin Jones
This new international Handbook provides the reader with the most up-to-date and original viewpoints on critical debates relating to the rapidly transforming geographies of regions and territories, as well as related key concepts such as...eBook:Find out more£41.56
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After Heritage
Edited by Hamzah Muzaini, Claudio Minca
Focusing on the practices and politics of heritage-making at the individual and the local level, this book uses a wide array of international case studies to argue for their potential not only to disrupt but also to complement formal her...eBook:Find out more£23.16
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Local Resources, Territorial Development and Well-being
Edited by Jean-Christophe Dissart, Natacha Seigneuret
Using empirical evidence, this book argues for a more comprehensive view of the diversity of local resources and well-being from a territorial perspective. The first part of the book addresses the contrasting nature of local resources: i...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Nordic Wave in Place Branding
Edited by Cecilia Cassinger, Andrea Lucarelli, Szilvia Gyimóthy
The widespread international interest in the Nordic region and the mobility of Nordic brand imaginaries call for more research into the global relevance of Nordic place-branding practices. This book offers a timely attempt to unpack the ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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State Governance of Mining, Development and Sustainability
Tracy-Lynn Field
States in mineral-rich jurisdictions must promote mining as a development industry just as they must protect people and environment from the worst excesses of extractivism. State Governance of Mining, Development and Sustainability explo...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Political Corruption in Africa
Edited by Inge Amundsen
Analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic corruption, this timely book separates these two very different social phenomena in a way that is often overlooked in contemporary studies. Chapters argue...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Towards Collaborative Research in International Development
John Spriggs, Barbara Chambers, Carole Kayrooz
The new millennium has witnessed profound changes to the way donor countries are approaching international development – with the emphasis now on collaborative, people-centred development. This timely book explores how research and resea...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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A Political Economy of African Regionalisms
Wil Hout, M. A.M. Salih
This book analyses the main factors influencing the political economy of Africa’s asymmetrical regionalism, focusing on regional and sub-regional trade, investment, movement of people, goods and services. It pays particular attention to ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Social Policy in the Middle East and North Africa
Edited by Rana Jawad, Nicola Jones, Mahmood Messkoub
This book presents a state of the art in the developing field of social policy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It offers an up-to-date conceptual analysis of social policy programmes and discourses in the MENA region b...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation
Frank Moulaert, Diana MacCallum
Social innovation (SI) has, in the last decade or so, become an important idea and concept in policy, practice and scholarship surrounding human development. It is often seen as an antidote to narrowly defined technological and market-or...eBook:Find out more£14.36