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Food Futures in Education and Society (Paperback): Angela Turner, Marion Rutland, Gurpinder Singh Lalli Food Futures in Education and Society (Paperback)
Angela Turner, Marion Rutland, Gurpinder Singh Lalli
R1,158 Discovery Miles 11 580 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book brings together a unique collection of chapters to facilitate a broad discussion on food education that will stimulate readers to think about key policies, recent research, curriculum positions and how to engage with key stakeholders about the future of food. Food education has gained much attention because the challenges that influence food availability and eating in schools also extend beyond the school gate. Accordingly, this book establishes evidence-based arguments that recognise the many facets of food education, and reveal how learning through a futures' lens and joined-up thinking is critical for shaping intergenerational fairness concerning food futures in education and society. This book is distinctive through its multidisciplinary collection of chapters on food education with a particular focus on the Global North, with case studies from England, Australia, the Republic of Ireland, the United States of America, Canada and Germany. With a focus on three key themes and a rigorous food futures framework, the book is structured into three sections: (i) food education, pedagogy and curriculum (ii) knowledge and skill diversity associated with food and health learning (iii) food education inclusivity, culture and agency. Overall, this volume extends and challenges current research and theory in the area of food education and food pedagogy and offers insight and tangible benefits for the future development of food education policies and curricula. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, policymakers and education leaders working on food education and pedagogy, food policy, health and diet and the sociology of food.

The Last Refuge - A Survey of Residential Institutions and Homes for the Aged in England and Wales (Hardcover): Peter Townsend The Last Refuge - A Survey of Residential Institutions and Homes for the Aged in England and Wales (Hardcover)
Peter Townsend
R2,735 Discovery Miles 27 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1964, The Last Refuge originated from the author's visit to a Victorian workhouse which had become an Institution for old people. A visit that was to show frightful overcrowding in sparsely furnished dormitories. Day-rooms bleak and uninviting in which sat watery-eyed and feeble men, their spirit and pride drained away by the hopelessness of the surroundings. The many unexpected conditions Professor Townsend found led him to undertake this major enquiry into the question "Are communal homes for the aged necessary in our community and if so, what form should they take?" Visits were paid to a random sample of 173 residential institutions and homes, and welfare officers, matrons and elderly residents were interviewed. The general conclusion was that communal homes of the kind that existed in England and Wales did not adequately meet the physical, psychological and social needs of the old people living in them and required immediate alternative services and living arrangements. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, social care, public policy and gerontology.

The limbo people - A study of the constitution of the time universe among the aged (Hardcover): Haim Hazan The limbo people - A study of the constitution of the time universe among the aged (Hardcover)
Haim Hazan
R2,727 Discovery Miles 27 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1980, The limbo people is based upon research carried out in a day centre ('the Centre') for elderly Jewish people in a London Borough and studies the experience and the conception of time among the elderly. The development of the arguments concerning time was founded on (a) the relationship between the community of participants and the outside world; and (b) the construction of events and interactions between participants at the Centre. The organization of this book re-enacts the process of reconstituting time as manifested in the Centre, against the background of the participants previous experiences, and in terms of their present existential situations. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, anthropology and gerontology.

Social Investment and Institutional Change (Hardcover): Andrea Ciarini Social Investment and Institutional Change (Hardcover)
Andrea Ciarini
R1,487 Discovery Miles 14 870 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book focuses on the main institutional changes affecting the Social Investment approach, as the framework for the European social agenda. The contributions gathered address these issues from different angles, placing two fundamental issues at the centre of the analysis. The first concerns the promotion of the strategic actions of European institutions and the national governments aimed at making social investment a recovery priority in the Eurozone. The second aims to make the social investment approach compatible not only with a high road to growth, as it is in the Stock-Flow-Buffer scheme, but also with the right to balance market and non-market activities as a universal right linked to a different combination of working and living time. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy and European politics.

Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy - Accelerating Personal and Social Transformation (Paperback, 2nd edition): Joseph... Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy - Accelerating Personal and Social Transformation (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Joseph Loizzo, Fiona Brandon, Emily J. Wolf, Miles Neale
R972 Discovery Miles 9 720 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy offers mental health professionals of all disciplines and orientations the most comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the art of integrating contemplative psychology, ethics, and practices, including mindfulness, compassion, and embodiment techniques. It brings together clinicians, scholars, and thought leaders of unprecedented caliber, featuring some of the most eminent pioneers in the rapidly growing field of contemplative psychotherapy. The new edition offers an expanded array of effective contemplative interventions, contemplative psychotherapies, and contemplative approaches to clinical practice. New chapters discuss how contemplative work can effect positive psychosocial change at personal, interpersonal, and collective levels to address racial, gender, and other forms of systemic oppression. The new edition also explores the cross-cultural nuances in the integration of Buddhist psychology and healing practices by Western researchers and clinicians and includes the voices of leading Tibetan doctors. Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy offers a profound and synoptic overview of one of psychotherapy's most intriguing and promising fields.

The Science and Best Practices of Behavioral Safety - The Source for Reducing Injuries on the Front Line (Paperback): Timothy... The Science and Best Practices of Behavioral Safety - The Source for Reducing Injuries on the Front Line (Paperback)
Timothy D. Ludwig, Matthew M. Laske
R944 Discovery Miles 9 440 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book presents the scientific principles and real-world best practices of behavioral safety, one of the most mature and impactful applications of behavioral science to reduce injuries in industrial workplaces. The authors review the core principles of behavioral science and their application to modern safety processes. Process components are discussed in detail, including risk analysis and pinpointing, direct observation, performance feedback, reinforcing engagement, trending and functional analysis, behavior change interventions, and program evaluation. Discussions are complemented by industry best-practice case studies from world-class behavioral safety programs accredited by the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies (CCBS), which provide compelling evidence of the effectiveness of these behavioral science principles in reducing injury. The Science and Best Practices of Behavioral Safety is essential reading for safety professionals, process safety engineers, and leaders in companies who have implemented, or are considering implementing, behavioral safety; or as an aid to learning more about the scientific background behind effective and practical safety practices. Researchers, expert consultants, and students who are already familiar with the practice will also find the book a valuable source to further develop their expertise.

Patient and Staff Voices in Primary Care - Learning from Dr Ockrim and her Glasgow Medical Practice (Paperback): Kenneth E.... Patient and Staff Voices in Primary Care - Learning from Dr Ockrim and her Glasgow Medical Practice (Paperback)
Kenneth E. Collins
R1,152 Discovery Miles 11 520 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

• Provides a historical context for the developments in health over several decades prior to the study • Shows how oral history methods have increasingly been used in medical history research and explores the benefits of this approach • Covers many of the themes of the oral history which enabled and encouraged patients to comment on what was important to them in their encounter with health care • Follows the increasing acceptance of women in medicine, demonstrating how women doctors were viewed by patients within the practice compared to changes in the wider society • Presents a ‘history from below’, using voices that are not normally heard in the medical discourse illustrating the importance of the doctor-patient interface

Viewing Art with Babies - First Encounters (Paperback): Kathy Danko-McGhee Viewing Art with Babies - First Encounters (Paperback)
Kathy Danko-McGhee
R1,028 Discovery Miles 10 280 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Viewing Art with Babies demonstrates how to facilitate quality art viewing experiences with babies from as young as two months old. Such experiences can help to nurture early literacy and receptive language skills, sensory stimulation, and early brain development. Based on the author's research with babies in New Zealand, Australia, Romania, England, and the U.S., the book provides the reader with information about early brain, vision, sensory and language development, as well as the aesthetic preferences of babies. Danko-McGhee provides details about the type of art that babies like, how to display art in the learning environment, and how to interact with a baby when viewing art. Case studies of international museums, national museums and community agencies that have had success with engaging babies in art viewing experiences will be included in the book as a way to demonstrate how theory and research can be successfully put into practice. Viewing Art with Babies details practical ways that museum practitioners, early childhood and community educators and parents can provide art-viewing experiences in the museum, early childhood classroom or even their own home. It will be of interest to practitioners and parents around the world, as well as those engaged in the study of museum education.

Another Mother - Curating and Creating Voices of Adoption, Surrogacy and Egg Donation (Paperback): Shanta Everington Another Mother - Curating and Creating Voices of Adoption, Surrogacy and Egg Donation (Paperback)
Shanta Everington
R1,153 Discovery Miles 11 530 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Another Mother gives voice to women who become mothers through the routes of adoption, surrogacy and egg donation, and their silent partners - the birth mothers, surrogate mothers and egg donors - who make motherhood possible for them. Exploring experiences of motherhood beyond the biological mother raising her child, Everington draws on interviews and a range of interdisciplinary approaches to produce illuminating personal testimonies which expand our understanding of what it means to be a mother. The life writing narratives also examine the unique and hidden relationships that exist between adopters and birth mothers, egg donors and women who become mothers through egg donation, and surrogates and women who become mothers through surrogacy. Offering a fresh approach in life writing, using hybrid form encompassing edited interview, re-imagined scenes, poetry, personal essay and quotation collage, this topical book is recommended for anyone interested in motherhood studies, gender and women's studies, life writing studies, the sociology of reproduction, creative non-fiction writing approaches, oral history, and ethnography studies.

Alcohol, Crime and Public Health (Paperback): Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Jennifer Ferguson Alcohol, Crime and Public Health (Paperback)
Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Jennifer Ferguson
R1,142 Discovery Miles 11 420 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Alcohol, Crime and Public Health explores the issue of drinking in the criminal justice system, providing an overview of the topic from both a criminal justice and public health perspective. The majority of prisoners in the UK (70%) have an alcohol use disorder, and evidence tells us that risky drinking is high amongst those in contact with all areas of the criminal justice system. Uniquely, this book brings both a criminal justice and public health perspective to the topic. The book opens by exploring the levels of crime attributed to alcohol, the policy context of alcohol and crime, and the prevalence of risky alcohol consumption in the criminal justice system. The following chapters examine risky drinking amongst men, women and young people in the criminal justice system. The final chapters look at the efficacy of psychosocial interventions for risky drinking in the criminal justice system, and look forward to how researchers and practitioners can work together to produce research in the criminal justice system. Written in an accessible and concise style, Alcohol, Crime and Public Health will be of great use to students of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Public Health as well as the wider area of Public and Social Policy in relation to alcohol and crime.

Spiritually-Sensitive Psychoanalysis - A Contemporary Introduction (Paperback): Gideon Lev Spiritually-Sensitive Psychoanalysis - A Contemporary Introduction (Paperback)
Gideon Lev
R652 Discovery Miles 6 520 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Accessibly written introduction to a new analytic tradition. Discusses the tensions arising between this emerging school of thought and the existing body of psychoanalytic knowledge. Explores the unique ways in which this approach refers to and understands core analytic issues such as transference, interpretation, psychopathology and psychic development

Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy - Guidelines for Equitable Theory and Practice (Paperback, 2nd edition): Teresa... Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy - Guidelines for Equitable Theory and Practice (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Teresa McDowell, Carmen Knudson-Martin, J. Maria Bermudez
R1,758 Discovery Miles 17 580 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

* Fits COAMFT, COACRE, and CSWE requirements for social and cultural diversity * Addresses a cutting-edge question that spans across theory, training, and clinical practice: "How can practitioners integrate awareness of societal systems across models into their everyday work with individuals, couples and families?" * Applies a sociocultural perspective to a variety of evidence-based and historically effective practice models to address a plethora of emotional, psychological, and relational problems. * Bridges theory and practice * Authors are the leaders in the field of socioculturally attuned family therapy * New edition integrates current trends as well as cultural and societal change, such as the BLM movement, LGBTQ issues, and the Trump presidency. * Includes more diverse voices that describe the creative application of this framework in practice. This is presented using key text boxes throughout the text. * New edition includes how the authors have moved their thinking forward with regards to the framework, such as third-order thinking as a paradigm shift in the field of family therapy, ethics as infused in everyday practice from a third-order perspective, and the limits and applicability of Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy as a transtheoretical, transnational approach. * Includes reflective questions at the end of each chapter. * Includes a new chapter on socio-emotional relational therapy and how this relates to SCARFT Applies a sociocultural perspective to a variety of evidence-based and historically effective practice models to address a plethora of emotional, psychological and relational problems. Bridges theory and practice Authors are the leaders in the field of socioculturally attuned family therapy

Inequality Kills Us All - COVID-19's Health Lessons for the World (Paperback): Stephen Bezruchka Inequality Kills Us All - COVID-19's Health Lessons for the World (Paperback)
Stephen Bezruchka
R1,071 Discovery Miles 10 710 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

--Vital reading for the public and students who wish to get at the core issues behind lagging US health care. --The Covid-19 basis of the book is timely for classroom discussion and points to new and continuing issues. --Details solutions for US society and health care policy.

Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas - A Guide to Building Resilience and Hope in Communities (Hardcover): Bob Doppelt Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas - A Guide to Building Resilience and Hope in Communities (Hardcover)
Bob Doppelt
R3,559 Discovery Miles 35 590 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

As the new UN IPCC climate report issued on August 9 states, humanity is in the midst of a civilization-changing event. The book will offer hope, inspiration, and a positive path forward to billions of people in North America, the EU, and worldwide who already are, or are certain in the near future, to experience severe mental health and psycho-social-spiritual problems due to being directly impacted by climate change-related disasters, emergencies, and toxic stresses. It will also offer hope, inspiration, and a positive path forward to the millions who are experiencing intersectional traumas, vicarious (or secondary) trauma, and eco-grief (or eco-anxiety) resulting from seeing climate impacts from afar or worrying about what the future holds for their children and them. The book will challenge the thinking and approaches that dominate the mental health, disaster management, and human services fields today by describing why individually-focused clinical treatment, disaster mental health, and direct service programs--which are crisis and illness, not wellness and resilience focused--are woefully incapable of preventing or healing climate change-generated individual and collective traumas. It will also describe a proven empowering and hopeful alternative: a public health and prevention science approach to organizing community-based, culturally-tailored, population-level wellness and resilience building initiatives for relentless adversities in every community and region of North America and worldwide. The book will offer a practical how-to guide that civic, community, and government leaders can use to organize, fund, facilitate, evaluate, and continually improve community-based mental wellness and resilience initiatives that prevent and heal individual and collective traumas and help people find meaning, purpose, and realistic hope even as the global climate emergency worsens.

Preventing the School-to-Prison Pipeline - A Public Health Approach for School Psychologists, Counselors, and Social Workers... Preventing the School-to-Prison Pipeline - A Public Health Approach for School Psychologists, Counselors, and Social Workers (Paperback)
Charles Bartholomew
R948 Discovery Miles 9 480 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Preventing the School-to-Prison Pipeline is the first book written to provide school psychologists and other K-12 mental health professionals with knowledge and strategies intended to help them disrupt the criminalization of historically oppressed learners in today's classrooms. A phenomenon of the United States' intersecting education and criminal justice systems, the school-to-prison pipeline is the process by which school staff punish already marginalized or at-risk students-primarily Black youth-in ways that enable a lifetime of targeting by police, court, and carceral operations. Exploring the unmet needs of students with mental, emotional, and behavioral health disorders, the effects of implicit and explicit bias, adverse school and court policies, and other biopsychosocial factors, this powerful book offers a preventative, public-health approach to providing clinical care to vulnerable students without compromising school safety. School psychologists, counselors, and social workers will come away with urgent and actionable insights into advocacy, collaboration, preventive interventions, alternative discipline measures in schools, and more.

Rural Healthcare (Paperback, 2nd edition): Jim Cox, Christopher Clark, Tim Sanders Rural Healthcare (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Jim Cox, Christopher Clark, Tim Sanders
R952 Discovery Miles 9 520 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Key Features: The only textbook of rural healthcare practice for the UK Reflects the increasing profile of rural healthcare as a dedicated sub-specialty with its own growing body of literature and dedicated university courses Addresses the key challenges of ensuring effective and sustainable healthcare for those in rural, remote and coastal communities, often exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic Includes key themes - geographical equity, the trade-offs between access to services and quality of care, hidden rural social exclusion, the role of generalists and the importance of focusing on patient experience Focuses on the UK experience, but with applicability for those facing similar healthcare challenges internationally

Empowered or Left Behind - Use of Technology During COVID-19 (Hardcover): DeeDee M. Bennett Gayle, Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan Empowered or Left Behind - Use of Technology During COVID-19 (Hardcover)
DeeDee M. Bennett Gayle, Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan
R1,420 Discovery Miles 14 200 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book is timely and discusses the effects from the pandemic. Written for longevity, and may be useful to compare this pandemic and the response to future events. The book is written for academia: social sciences, public health, information science, emergency management, and policy fields, and is easier informational reading for the layperson.

Community Mental Health - Challenges for the 21st Century (Paperback, 3rd edition): Samuel J. Rosenberg, Jessica Rosenberg Community Mental Health - Challenges for the 21st Century (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Samuel J. Rosenberg, Jessica Rosenberg
R1,755 Discovery Miles 17 550 In Stock

The newest edition of Community Mental Health continues to be at the leading edge of the field, providing the most up-to-date research and treatment models that encompass practice in community settings. Experts from a wide range of fields explore the major trends, best practices, and policy issues shaping community mental health services today. New sections address the role of spirituality, veterans and the military, family treatment, and emerging new movements. An expanded view of recovery ensures that a thorough conversation about intersectionality and identity runs throughout the book.

Supporting Young Children to Cope, Build Resilience, and Heal from Trauma through Play - A Practical Guide for Early Childhood... Supporting Young Children to Cope, Build Resilience, and Heal from Trauma through Play - A Practical Guide for Early Childhood Educators (Paperback)
Julie Nicholson, Julie Kurtz, Lafeshia Edwards, Jonathan Iris-Wilbanks, Samantha Watson-Alvarado, …
R868 Discovery Miles 8 680 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Now more than ever, there is a need for early childhood professionals to comprehensively integrate trauma-sensitive practices into their work with children and families. This essential resource offers instructional strategies teachers can use daily to support their students dealing with trauma in early learning environments. Readers will learn to create opportunities for children to use their natural language—play—to reduce their stress, to cope with adversity, to build resilience, and even to heal from trauma. Nicholson and Kurtz provide vignettes, case study examples, textboxes, photographs, and descriptions of adapted therapeutic strategies ready for implementation in the classroom. Practical and comprehensive, this book is ideal for both prospective and veteran early childhood educators seeking to understand trauma-informed practices when working with young children (birth–8) in a range of environments.

Marriage and the Culture of Peace - Communication Skills for Families, Therapists, and Society (Paperback): Paris A.... Marriage and the Culture of Peace - Communication Skills for Families, Therapists, and Society (Paperback)
Paris A. Cabello-Tijerina, Cecilia Sarahi de la Rosa Vazquez
R947 Discovery Miles 9 470 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book provides skills for therapists and families to help improve interpersonal communication, promoting a new system of family coexistence and a refreshed concept of the modern marriage in society. Written from a constructivist peace perspective, the book's aim is to reduce the high statistics of intimate partner violence that occurs in Mexico, arguing that the culture of peace and how it is born in the family in turn affects society for better or for worse. Based upon interviews from 150 long-term married couples, the chapters address the components that promote peaceful dialogue in marriages, such as assertive language, active listening, tolerance to frustration, and gender perspectives. Including accessible language and several models of peace, the book uniquely examines same-sex marriages, the role of children in marriage conflicts, and prescribed gender assumptions and roles in relationships. It aims to empower family members to move away from old habits and seek a more equitable existence in marriages and society at large. This interdisciplinary text will be of great interest to family therapists and clinical social workers, as well as to students and researchers in communication and peace studies.

Monster Metaphors - When Rhetoric Runs Amok (Paperback): Peter J. Adams Monster Metaphors - When Rhetoric Runs Amok (Paperback)
Peter J. Adams
R1,126 Discovery Miles 11 260 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book explores ways in which common metaphors can play a detrimental role in everyday life; how they can grow in outsized importance to dominate their respective terrains and push out alternative perspectives; and how forms of resistance might act to contain their dominance. The volume begins by unpacking the dynamics of metaphors, their power and influence and the ways in which they are bolstered by other rhetorical devices. Adams draws on four case studies to illustrate their destructive impact when they eclipse other points of view—the metaphor of mental illness; the metaphor of free-flowing markets; the metaphor of the mind as a mirror and the metaphor of men as naturally superior. Taken together, these examples prompt further reflection on the beneficiaries of these "monster metaphors" and how they promote such metaphors to serve their own interests but also on ways forward for challenging their dominance, strategies for preventing their rise and ways of creating space for alternatives. This book will be of interest to scholars interested in the study of metaphor, across such fields as linguistics, rhetoric and media studies.

Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas - A Guide to Building Resilience and Hope in Communities (Paperback): Bob Doppelt Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas - A Guide to Building Resilience and Hope in Communities (Paperback)
Bob Doppelt
R959 Discovery Miles 9 590 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

As the new UN IPCC climate report issued on August 9 states, humanity is in the midst of a civilization-changing event. The book will offer hope, inspiration, and a positive path forward to billions of people in North America, the EU, and worldwide who already are, or are certain in the near future, to experience severe mental health and psycho-social-spiritual problems due to being directly impacted by climate change-related disasters, emergencies, and toxic stresses. It will also offer hope, inspiration, and a positive path forward to the millions who are experiencing intersectional traumas, vicarious (or secondary) trauma, and eco-grief (or eco-anxiety) resulting from seeing climate impacts from afar or worrying about what the future holds for their children and them. The book will challenge the thinking and approaches that dominate the mental health, disaster management, and human services fields today by describing why individually-focused clinical treatment, disaster mental health, and direct service programs--which are crisis and illness, not wellness and resilience focused--are woefully incapable of preventing or healing climate change-generated individual and collective traumas. It will also describe a proven empowering and hopeful alternative: a public health and prevention science approach to organizing community-based, culturally-tailored, population-level wellness and resilience building initiatives for relentless adversities in every community and region of North America and worldwide. The book will offer a practical how-to guide that civic, community, and government leaders can use to organize, fund, facilitate, evaluate, and continually improve community-based mental wellness and resilience initiatives that prevent and heal individual and collective traumas and help people find meaning, purpose, and realistic hope even as the global climate emergency worsens.

Primary Health Care and Population Mortality (Paperback): Richard Baker Primary Health Care and Population Mortality (Paperback)
Richard Baker
R1,099 Discovery Miles 10 990 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Key features: Evidence-based – summarises the evidence about the effect of primary health care on mortality. Structured guidance – presents a framework of 23 mechanisms responsible for this effect, including funding, staffing, the clinical method and the therapeutic relationship, that can be used by both practitioners and policymakers to develop services. International perspective – the mechanisms by which primary health care affects population mortality apply worldwide.

Building Resilience to Trauma - The Trauma and Community Resiliency Models (Paperback, 2nd edition): Elaine Miller-Karas Building Resilience to Trauma - The Trauma and Community Resiliency Models (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Elaine Miller-Karas
R872 Discovery Miles 8 720 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Presents complex material and practical applications about the neuroscience of resiliency and trauma with innovation, clarity, simplicity, and accessibility to the reader. Presents easy-to-use applications based on cutting edge neuroscience to mobilize individuals and communities from a resiliency-focused and trauma-informed perspective, simply, creatively and with innovation. Demonstrates how the simple, clear and innovative methods based on cutting edge neuroscience and somatic approaches have been integrated into projects around the world from Dalai Lama's vision of creating a curriculum for children to civil rights leaders wanting to change systemic racism. This book gives readers tools and ideas to not only help themselves but also to transform their communities.

Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America (Hardcover): Camilo Espitia Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America (Hardcover)
Camilo Espitia
R1,531 Discovery Miles 15 310 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America explores how urban planning can be used as a tool for social equity. The book examines several Latin American cities, each with specific challenges, and explores how they have gradually overcome these difficulties through policies, planning, and design, and with private/public sector coordination. The cases include: The built environment and social mobility in Bogotá; Mexico City and its difficulties with water scarcity; Addressing air quality and environmental justice in Lima; Santiago de Chile’s energy consumption and carbon footprint; Buenos Aires and the issue of urban agriculture and food security; Connectivity as a social transformation device in Medellín. The book goes beyond simply identifying the challenges and explains some of the practical day-to-day planning efforts, including interviews with staff from those municipalities, illustrations, and strategies that have been successful. As a result, this book will be helpful to planners in the region, as well as outside Latin America, because it demonstrates how fruitful results can be achieved in areas typically perceived as underdeveloped. Although based on research and data, this book offers a positive perspective on the possibilities rather than the limitations, hoping to inspire new generations of planners to pursue careers in search of social change.

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