Sociology and Social Policy

Improving Health Services

Walter Holland

This insightful book describes how Health Services Research (HSR) can be developed and used to evaluate, advance and improve all aspects of health services. It demonstrates the need for good HSR to avoid the continuation or development o...

Hardback (December 2013)

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The Politics of Structural Reforms

Edited by Hideko Magara, Stefano Sacchi

For countries undertaking economic or political reform the case of Italy and Japan is both highly instructive and sobering. The Politics of Structural Reforms reveals what Italy and Japan gained and lost through a series of social and in...

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Forests and Climate Change

Anthony Hall

Controlling deforestation, which is responsible for about one-fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, has become a major tool in the battle against global warming. An important new international initiative – Reduced Emissions fro...

Paperback (2013)

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Hardback (2012)

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Older Workers in an Ageing Society

Edited by Philip Taylor

Prolonging working lives is high on the agenda of policy makers in most of the world’s major industrialized nations. This book explains how they are keen to tackle issues associated with the ageing of populations, namely the funding of p...

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Regenerative Sustainable Development of Universities and Cities

Edited by Ariane König

Now that the Earth has reached the limits of its biophysical carrying capacity, we have to change technologies, social practices and social norms relating to material production and consumption to ensure that we do not further jeopardize...

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Social Protection, Economic Growth and Social Change

Edited by James Midgley, David Piachaud

This highly original and thought-provoking book examines the recent expansion of social protection in China, India, Brazil and South Africa – four countries experiencing rapid economic growth and social change.

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Lifelong Learning in Europe

Edited by Ellu Saar, Odd Bjørn Ure, John Holford

Combining qualitative and quantitative methods in a wide-ranging international comparative study, the book explores how far the EUs lifelong learning agenda has been successful and what factors have limited its ability to reshape nationa...

Hardback (October 2013)

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Social Capital and Rural Development in the Knowledge Society

Edited by Hans Westlund, Kiyoshi Kobayashi

Social capital is often considered a key factor for local development. This book analyzes the role of social capital for rural areas’ survival and development in the current age of metropolitan growth – an era in which urban is the norm ...

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The Making of Ageing Policy

Edited by Rune Ervik, Tord Skogedal Lindén

Demographic changes transform societies and challenge existing institutional solutions and policies. The need for policies addressing these challenges has increasingly been put on the agenda. The Making of Ageing Policy analyzes these in...

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Work Sharing during the Great Recession

Edited by Jon C. Messenger, Naj Ghosheh

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. ‘Work sharing’ is a labour market instrument devised to distribute a reduced volume of work ...

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Government Failure

Wilfred Dolfsma

This highly unique book takes a fundamental look at when and how a government can fail at its core responsibility of formulating rules. Government, representing society, relates to the economy by formulating the rules within which (marke...

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