» książki » Social Science - Poverty & Homelessness
topmenu
 |
Adaptation, Poverty and Development: The Dynamics of Subjective Well-Being
ISBN: 9780230360563 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviors towards poverty as a direct result to their experiences of poverty in developing countries, including world-leading academics and case studies from China, India, Ethiopia and South Africa.
The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviors towards poverty as a direct result to their exper...
|
cena:
203,13 |
 |
The Future of Foreign Aid: Development Cooperation and the New Geography of Global Poverty
ISBN: 9781137298874 / Angielski / Twarda / 101 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sumner and Mallett review the literature on aid in light of shifts in the aid system and the increasing concentration of the world's poor in middle-income countries. As a consequence, they propose a series of practical, policy relevant options for future development cooperation, with the aim of provoking discussion and informing policy.
Sumner and Mallett review the literature on aid in light of shifts in the aid system and the increasing concentration of the world's poor in middle-in...
|
cena:
203,13 |
 |
Critical Reflections on Development
ISBN: 9780230389045 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed as a critique of the key failures of international development, this book brings together practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, activists, and academics in an attempt to work toward a shared conceptualisation of development by outlining and critically reflecting on their own understanding of development.
Designed as a critique of the key failures of international development, this book brings together practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, activist...
|
cena:
203,13 |
 |
Vulnerabilities, Impacts, and Responses to Hiv/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: 9781137009944 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost four decades since AIDS was first reported in Africa, the epidemic has reached a watershed moment where progress in prevention, care and support programs confronts intransigent socioeconomic and gender rights barriers and emerging funding uncertainties. While there are grounds for cautious optimism that the incidence of HIV infections and AIDS-related mortality can be further reduced, they cannot, by themselves, end the epidemic. This will require overcoming gendered inequalities, HIV stigma and neglect of high-risk youth and socially peripheralized groups.
Almost four decades since AIDS was first reported in Africa, the epidemic has reached a watershed moment where progress in prevention, care and suppor...
|
cena:
203,13 |
 |
Global Activism in Food Politics: Power Shift
ISBN: 9781137341396 / Angielski / Twarda / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who should provide food, and through what relationships? Whose livelihoods should be protected? For over 20 years the peasant farmers of La Via Campesina have been engaged in the fight against injustice, hunger and poverty under the banner of food sovereignty, 'the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems'. They campaign for healthy, sustainable alternatives to an industrial food system controlled by agribusiness companies and the architects of...
Who should provide food, and through what relationships? Whose livelihoods should be protected? For over 20 years the peasant farmers of La Via Campes...
|
cena:
203,13 |
 |
Transitions Through Homelessness: Lives on the Edge
ISBN: 9781349299829 / Angielski / Miękka / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following a group of people as they makethetransition from homeless to 'housed', this book presents a new perspective on homelessness, the individual factors associated with it such as addiction, mental illness and traumatic life histories, and how welfare and poverty interact with these conditions."
Following a group of people as they makethetransition from homeless to 'housed', this book presents a new perspective on homelessness, the individual ...
|
cena:
203,13 |
 |
First World Hunger Revisited: Food Charity or the Right to Food?
ISBN: 9781137298720 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First World Hunger Revisited exposes the hidden functions and limits of food charity and corporately sponsored food banks as primary responses to widespread domestic hunger and income poverty in twelve rich 'food-secure' societies and emerging economies: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Hong Kong, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, the UK and the USA. Who wins, who loses when governments violate their Right to Food obligations under international law to ensure the food security of their vulnerable populations? It challenges the effectiveness of food aid and argues for...
First World Hunger Revisited exposes the hidden functions and limits of food charity and corporately sponsored food banks as primary responses to wide...
|
cena:
203,13 |
 |
First World Hunger Revisited: Food Charity or the Right to Food?
ISBN: 9781137298713 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is food aid the way of the future? What are the prospects for integrated public policies informed by the right to food? First World Hunger Revisited investigates the rise of food charity and corporately sponsored food banks as effective and sustainable responses to increasing hunger and food poverty in twelve rich 'food-secure' societies.
Is food aid the way of the future? What are the prospects for integrated public policies informed by the right to food? First World Hunger Revisited i...
|
cena:
203,13 |
 |
The Capability Approach: From Theory to Practice
ISBN: 9781137001443 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can human capabilities be articulated and promoted in practice? How can the challenges encountered in its application be addressed? This volume answers these research questions through nine country case studies from the Global North and the Global South.
How can human capabilities be articulated and promoted in practice? How can the challenges encountered in its application be addressed? This volume an...
|
cena:
203,13 |
 |
The City in Urban Poverty
ISBN: 9781137367426 / Angielski / Twarda / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constitute, urban poverty. The volume explores how the spaces of the city actively produce and reproduce urban poverty.
The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constitute...
|
cena:
203,13 |
 |
The Political Behaviour of Temporary Workers
ISBN: 9781137394866 / Angielski / Twarda / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Insecure temporary employment is growing in Europe, but we know little about how being in such jobs affects political preferences and behaviour. Combining insights from psychology, political science and labour market research, this book offers new theories and evidence on the political repercussions of temporary jobs.
Insecure temporary employment is growing in Europe, but we know little about how being in such jobs affects political preferences and behaviour. Combi...
|
cena:
203,13 |
 |
Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics, and Modernity in South Africa
ISBN: 9781137477767 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For a long time, Christians have remained at the margins of social projects around development and humanitarianism in Africa. This was especially true of projects aimed at fighting HIV/AIDS, which was often associated with sin. Drawing on ethnographic explorations in South Africa between 2006 and 2014, this book tells the story of how Christian organizations, practices and narratives have become central for civil society responses to the epidemic. Marian Burchardt shows how Christians have employed globally circulating templates around 'behavioural change' in fields such as sexuality and...
For a long time, Christians have remained at the margins of social projects around development and humanitarianism in Africa. This was especially true...
|
cena:
203,13 |
 |
Dollarisation of Poverty: Rethinking Poverty Beyond 2015
ISBN: 9781137541420 / Angielski / Twarda / 101 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a critical analysis on employing a universal understanding of poverty and suggests ways forward for poverty reduction for developing countries in a post-2015 era. Taking specific country-contexts into account, the author argues that national poverty lines should be the benchmark for future anti-poverty policies.
This book offers a critical analysis on employing a universal understanding of poverty and suggests ways forward for poverty reduction for developing ...
|
cena:
203,13 |
 |
Social Security and Wage Poverty: Historical and Policy Aspects of Supplementing Wages in Britian and Beyond
ISBN: 9781137293961 / Angielski / Twarda / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book to examine debates about, and the practice of, state supplementing of wages. It charts the historical development of such policies from prohibition in the 1830s and how opposition to it was overcome in the 1970s, thereby allowing the increasing supplementation of the wages of poorly paid working people. This is the first book to examine debates about, and the practice of, state supplementing of wages. It charts the historical development of such po... |
cena:
203,13 |
 |
The Philippines People, Poverty and Politics
ISBN: 9781349071708 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
203,13 |
 |
Poverty, Development and Food: Essays in honour of H. W. Singer on his 75th birthday
ISBN: 9781349092161 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
203,13 |
 |
The City in Urban Poverty
ISBN: 9781349474493 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constitute, urban poverty. The volume explores how the spaces of the city actively produce and reproduce urban poverty.
The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constitute...
|
cena:
203,13 |
 |
The Capability Approach: From Theory to Practice
ISBN: 9781349433636 / Angielski / Miękka / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can human capabilities be articulated and promoted in practice? How can the challenges encountered in its application be addressed? This volume answers these research questions through nine country case studies from the Global North and the Global South.
How can human capabilities be articulated and promoted in practice? How can the challenges encountered in its application be addressed? This volume an...
|
cena:
203,13 |
 |
Adaptation, Poverty and Development: The Dynamics of Subjective Well-Being
ISBN: 9781349347902 / Angielski / Miękka / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviours towards poverty as a direct result to their experiences of poverty in developing countries, including world-leading academics and case studies from China, India, Ethiopia and South Africa.
The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviours towards poverty as a direct result to their expe...
|
cena:
203,13 |
 |
Understanding World Order and Structural Change: Poverty, Conflict and the Global Arena
ISBN: 9781349416226 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hans Abrahamsson assesses the current world order and structural change, within an historical framework. He analyzes the interaction of Pax American and the Bretton Woods system in the postwar period, and its impact, specifically on the development of Southern Africa. The author also proposed an analytical model and a methodological framework for the study of the international political economy and its global and local implications. Finally, he addresses the circumstances behind the current opportunity for global change, and the social forces and political action required in order to seize...
Hans Abrahamsson assesses the current world order and structural change, within an historical framework. He analyzes the interaction of Pax American a...
|
cena:
203,13 |
Czytaj nas na:
Zobacz: Księgarnia Czeska | Wydawnictwo Książkowe Klimaty | Mapa strony | Lista autorów
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
