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Youth unemployment and social exclusion in Europe - A comparative study (Paperback, New): Torild Hammer Youth unemployment and social exclusion in Europe - A comparative study (Paperback, New)
Torild Hammer
R1,214 Discovery Miles 12 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Throughout the European Union, rates of unemployment among young people tend to be higher than among the general population and there is a serious risk of marginalization and exclusion. The rate of youth unemployment in the EU is more than twice the rate experienced by adults (20% compared to 9%), and is especially high among members of ethnic minorities. Southern Europe's youth unemployment rate is extremely high with about 40% of the unemployed population under 25 years of age, although they only represent 20% of the work force. This important new book presents the findings of the first comparative study of over 17,000 young unemployed people in ten European countries. It examines how welfare strategies and fiscal structures in different countries influence the risk of social exclusion among unemployed youth.

Scaling Up Scaling Down - Overcoming Malnutrition in Developing Countries (Paperback): Thomas J. Marchione Scaling Up Scaling Down - Overcoming Malnutrition in Developing Countries (Paperback)
Thomas J. Marchione
R1,197 Discovery Miles 11 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The individual and institutional capacities required for the prevention and reduction of nutritional insecurity and hunger in lesser-developed countries as the twenty-first century approaches are identified in this book. Household nutritional "security" can be defined as the successful The essays in this book champion the idea of increasing, or scaling up, grass roots operations to provide nutritional security, while scaling down the efforts of national and international institutions. Scaling up involves strengthening local capacities to improve and expand upon current successful programs by building upon existing local culture and organizations. This, in turn, enables the programs to strengthen relationships with national governments, international bilateral/multilateral donors, as well as non-governmental organizations. Scaling down concerns the ways and means by which these various organizations encourage and complement the local development. Therefore, as local capacities are scaled up, the national/international control over decisions and functions is, ideally, scaled down. The volume also directly addresses the resultant complication: how to create programs that are both culturally specific and that will flourish well into the future.

Growing up Untouchable in India - A Dalit Autobiography (Paperback): Vasant Moon, Gail Omvedt, Eleanor Zelliot Growing up Untouchable in India - A Dalit Autobiography (Paperback)
Vasant Moon, Gail Omvedt, Eleanor Zelliot
R1,123 Discovery Miles 11 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

There is much in Vasant Moon's extraordinary story of his vasti, his childhood neighbourhood in India, that would probably be true of any urban ghetto anywhere in the world. But there is much that is peculiarly and vividly Indian. In this first autobiography of a so-called Untouchable, we learn about the inescapable hierarchy imposed by caste, based on ancient principles of heriditary pollution. We see the unmatched importance of the heroic Dr. B. R. Ambedkar for India's awakened and newly ambitious Dalits. We feel, viscerally, Nagpur's heat and the joy brought by the monsoon. Vasant Moon's Vasti, the first Dalit autobiography to be published in English, is a moving and eloquent testament to a uniquely Indian life as well as to the universal human spirit.

The Workhouse System 1834-1929 - The History of an English Social Institution (Hardcover): M.A. Crowther The Workhouse System 1834-1929 - The History of an English Social Institution (Hardcover)
M.A. Crowther
R4,642 Discovery Miles 46 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1981. Professor Crowther traces the history of the workhouse system from the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 to the Local Government Act of 1929. At their outset the large residential institutions were seen by the Poor Law Commissioners as a cure for nearly all social ills. In fact these formidable, impersonal, prison-like buildings - housing all paupers under one roof - became institutionalised: places where routine came to be an end in itself. In the early twentieth century some of the workhouses became hospitals or homes for the old or handicapped but many continued to form a residual service for those who needed long-term care. Crowther pays attention not only to the administrators but also to the inmates and their daily life. She illustrates that the workhouse system was not simply a nineteenth-century phenomenon but a forerunner of many of today's social institutions.

Charitable Choices - Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era (Paperback): John P. Bartkowski, Helen A. Regis Charitable Choices - Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era (Paperback)
John P. Bartkowski, Helen A. Regis
R813 Discovery Miles 8 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

View the Table of Contents. Read the Chapter 1.

"Provides important insight into the manner in which federal support of faith-based poverty relief initiatives affect religious identity in the Golden Triangle Region of rural Mississippi."--"Journal of Church and State"

"The book provides a thorough historical overview of the events that led up to the Bush administration's decision to promote faith-based social welfare. This thoughtful book is a useful addition to the growing literature on the subject and should be widely consulted."--"Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare"

"Well-written and clearly organized."--"Journal of Social Services"

"In depth profiles...with obvious strengths."--"Contemporary Sociology"

"The findings raise serious concerns related to discriminatory practices around who will get served, and the qualification of those providing the services. . . . Highly recommended."
--"CHOICE"

"The comparative case method stretched across a complex analytical framework sketches the terrain in broad, suggestive, analytical strokes. We benefit from the timeliness of Bartkowski and Regis's study."
--"American Journal of Sociology"

"Nothing short of exceptional..."Charitable Choices" is a very readable book that makes an evident contribution to contemporary discourse about welfare reform and its possibilities and pitfalls."
--"Social Forces"

aThese stories reveal not only the profound commitment that clergy can have for their flock but how existing social structures can render the poor invisible. Charitable Choices is more useful as a description of an under-recognized aspect of American religious life than as an analysis of government welfarepolicy.a
"Religious Studies Review"

Congregations and faith-based organizations have become key participants in America's welfare revolution. Recent legislation has expanded the social welfare role of religious communities, thus revealing a pervasive lack of faith in purely economic responses to poverty.

Charitable Choices is an ethnographic study of faith-based poverty relief in 30 congregations in the rural south. Drawing on in-depth interviews and fieldwork in Mississippi faith communities, it examines how religious conviction and racial dynamics shape congregational benevolence. Mississippi has long had the nation's highest poverty rate and was the first state to implement a faith-based welfare reform initiative. The book provides a grounded and even-handed treatment of congregational poverty relief rather than abstract theory on faith-based initiatives.

The volume examines how congregations are coping with national developments in social welfare policy and reveals the strategies that religious communities utilize to fight poverty in their local communities. By giving particular attention to the influence of theological convictions and organizational dynamics on religious service provision, it identifies both the prospects and pitfalls likely to result from the expansion of charitable choice.

Urban Poverty and Climate Change - Life in the slums of Asia, Africa and Latin America (Hardcover): Manoj Roy, Sally Cawood,... Urban Poverty and Climate Change - Life in the slums of Asia, Africa and Latin America (Hardcover)
Manoj Roy, Sally Cawood, Michaela Hordijk, David Hulme
R4,789 Discovery Miles 47 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book deepens the understanding of the broader processes that shape and mediate the responses to climate change of poor urban households and communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Representing an important contribution to the evolution of more effective pro-poor climate change policies in urban areas by local governments, national governments and international organisations, this book is invaluable reading to students and scholars of environment and development studies.

The Salt Path - A Memoir (Paperback): Raynor Winn The Salt Path - A Memoir (Paperback)
Raynor Winn
R462 R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Save R69 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Polished, poignant... an inspiring story of true love."-Entertainment Weekly A BEST BOOK OF 2019, NPR's Book Concierge SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD OVER 400,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE The true story of a couple who lost everything and embarked on a transformative journey walking the South West Coast Path in England Just days after Raynor Winn learns that Moth, her husband of thirty-two years, is terminally ill, their house and farm are taken away, along with their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset, through Devon and Cornwall. Carrying only the essentials for survival on their backs, they live wild in the ancient, weathered landscape of cliffs, sea, and sky. Yet through every step, every encounter, and every test along the way, their walk becomes a remarkable and life-affirming journey. Powerfully written and unflinchingly honest, The Salt Path is ultimately a portrayal of home-how it can be lost, rebuilt, and rediscovered in the most unexpected ways.

Economy of Ghana - Analytical Perspectives on Stability, Growth and Poverty (Hardcover, New): Ernest Aryeetey Economy of Ghana - Analytical Perspectives on Stability, Growth and Poverty (Hardcover, New)
Ernest Aryeetey; Ravi Kanbur; Contributions by Abena D. Oduro, Andy McKay, Augustin Fosu, …
R1,702 Discovery Miles 17 020 Out of stock

Analysis of the direction in which Ghana's policy makers will need to steer the economy for Ghana to fulfil the promise of its independence over 50 years ago. As Ghana enters its second half-century there is a widespread perception of failure of the economic and political system in delivering improved living standards to the population. This failure comes despite a solid transition to democracy, despite a recorded recovery from the economic malaise of previous decades and despite a reduction on measured levels of poverty. The contributors in this book analyse the reasons for this failure and sets out an analytical agenda as the basis of the course that the nations' policy makers will have to steer if Ghana is to fulfil the promise of its independence in 1957. ERNEST ARYEETEY is Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social& Economic Research, University of Ghana at Legon; RAVI KANBUR is Professor of Economics at Cornell University. The contributors include: Ernest Aryeetey, Ravi Kanbur, Tony Killick, Augustin Fosu, Charles E. Youngblood,David L. Franklin, Stephen Kyereme, Frank W. Agbola, Susanna Wolf, Daniel Bruce Sarpong, Peter Quartey, Theresa Blankson, Thierry Buchs, Johan Mathiesen, William F. Steel, David O. Andah, Harold Coulombe, Anthony Tsekpo, CharlesD. Jebuni, Andy Mckay, Nii K.Sowa, Kojo Appiah-Kubi, Abena Oduro, Bernadin Senadza, Felix A. Asante, Joseph R.A. Ayee, Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, Elizabeth N. Appiah, Niels-Hugo Blunch, G.J.M. Van Den Boom, N.N.N. Nsowah-Nuamah, and, G.B. Overbosch. Ghana: Woeli Publishing Services(PB)

Slumming It - The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty (Hardcover): Fabian Frenzel Slumming It - The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty (Hardcover)
Fabian Frenzel
R3,032 Discovery Miles 30 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Have slums become 'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on leisurely visits. But while slum tourism often evokes moral outrage, critics rarely ask about what motivates this tourism, or what wider consequences and effects it initiates. In this provocative book, Fabian Frenzel investigates the lure that slums exert on their better-off visitors, looking at the many ways in which this curious form of attraction ignites changes both in the slums themselves and on the world stage. Covering slums in Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok and multiple cities in South Africa, Kenya and India, Slumming It examines the roots and consequences of a growing phenomenon whose effects have ranged from gentrification and urban policy reform to the organization of international development and poverty alleviation. Controversially, Frenzel argues that the rise of slum tourism has drawn attention to important global justice issues, and is far more complex than we initially acknowledged.

Rural Inequality in Divided Russia (Paperback): Stephen Wegren Rural Inequality in Divided Russia (Paperback)
Stephen Wegren
R1,443 Discovery Miles 14 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines economic and political polarisation in post-Soviet Russia, and in particular analyses the development of rural inequality. It discusses how rural inequality has developed in post-Soviet Russia, and how it differs from the Soviet period, and goes on to look at the factors that affect rural stratification and inequality, using human and social capital, profession, gender, and village location as independent variables. The book uses survey data from rural households and fieldwork in Russia in order to highlight the multiplicity of divisions that act as fault lines in contemporary rural Russia.

Dharavi - From Mega-Slum to Urban Paradigm (Paperback): Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky Dharavi - From Mega-Slum to Urban Paradigm (Paperback)
Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky
R1,617 Discovery Miles 16 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Located in the heart of Mumbai, Dharavi is estimated to be the largest slum in Asia. Often referred to as 'Little India', it has been home to thousands of migrants from across the country providing opportunities for work and livelihood. As such, Dharavi presents a fascinating paradox: the convergence of stereotypes associated with the slum - poverty and misery - and an effervescent economic vitality, impelled by globalisation and international capital flows. Bringing together 20 years of painstaking fieldwork, this book reveals the social, economic, political, and urban complexities that define Dharavi beneath the shadow of Mumbai, the financial capital of India. It provides a rare account of the slum's history, with a special focus on the original populace of leather workers - who form the backbone of its urban informal economy - their work, organisation and increasing political awareness. Dominated by a population of ex-'untouchables', conventionally stigmatised by poverty and low status, Dharavi illustrates how traditional caste-based occupational and regional divisions continue to be strong and affect structures of political governance and economy. At the same time, it testifies to an intimate encounter with consumerism, liberalisation and technological innovations, and its resultant cultural globalisation under the heady influence of media, advertising and cinema transmitted by the city of Mumbai. This book traces the mega-slum's gradual transformation as a thriving trade centre, through an informal economy's successful adaptation to global markets, in turn establishing an urban paradigm. It will be useful to those in sociology, anthropology, urban studies, politics, public policy and governance, and to those interested in globalisation, transnational migration and town planning.

Child Poverty - Aspiring to Survive (Paperback): Morag C. Treanor Child Poverty - Aspiring to Survive (Paperback)
Morag C. Treanor
R921 R805 Discovery Miles 8 050 Save R116 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it is measured is vital to how governments act to prevent, alleviate or eliminate it. While the roots of childhood poverty are fiercely debated and contested, they are all too often misrepresented in policy and media discourses. Seeking to redress this problem, Treanor places children's experiences, needs and concerns at the centre of this critical examination of the contemporary policies and political discourses surrounding poverty in childhood. She examines a broad range of structural, institutional and ideological factors common across developed nations, and their impacts, to interrogate how poverty in childhood is conceptualised and operationalised in policy and to forge a radical pathway for an alternative future.

MGNREGA: Employment, Wages and Migration in Rural India (Hardcover): Parmod, Kumar, Dipanwita Chakraborty MGNREGA: Employment, Wages and Migration in Rural India (Hardcover)
Parmod, Kumar, Dipanwita Chakraborty
R4,939 Discovery Miles 49 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was enacted in India with the multiple objectives of providing employment in a rights-based framework, addressing rural poverty, checking migration, and building rural infrastructure. As such, every year around 15-20 per cent of households in India overall and 30 per cent in rural India receive some form of employment share under the MGNREGA programme. This volume looks at various aspect of the scheme, its linkage with employment, agricultural wages, livelihood and food security, gender issues, and migration in rural India. It also discusses challenges in implementation, hurdles and the relative successes of the scheme. Based on primary survey data from 16 major states in the country, the findings of the study provide key insights into MGNREGA and assess the implications for other welfare-oriented programmes. Rich in empirical data, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of political economy, economics, agriculture, rural development and sociology, as well as policymakers and nongovernmental organisations.

Respectability and the London Poor, 1780-1870 - The Value of Virtue (Paperback): Lynn MacKay Respectability and the London Poor, 1780-1870 - The Value of Virtue (Paperback)
Lynn MacKay
R1,617 Discovery Miles 16 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The population of London soared during the Industrial Revolution and the poorer areas became iconic places of overcrowding and vice. Focusing on the communities of Westminster, MacKay shows that many of the plebeian populace retained traditional working-class pursuits, such as gambling, drinking and blood sports.

The New Poverty Studies - The Ethnography of Power, Politics and Impoverished People in the United States (Paperback): Judith... The New Poverty Studies - The Ethnography of Power, Politics and Impoverished People in the United States (Paperback)
Judith G. Goode, Jeff Maskovsky
R916 Discovery Miles 9 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Stock market euphoria and blind faith in the post cold war economy have driven the topic of poverty from popular and scholarly discussion in the United States. At the same time the gap between the rich and poor has never been wider. The New Poverty Studies critically examines the new war against the poor that has accompanied the rise of the New Economy in the past two decades, and details the myriad ways poor people have struggled against it.

The essays collected here explore how global, national, and local structures of power produce poverty and affect the material well-being, social relations and politicization of the poor. In updating the 1960s encounter between ethnography and U.S. poverty, The New Poverty Studies highlights the ways poverty is constructed across multiple scales and multiple axes of difference.

Questioning the common wisdom that poverty persists because of the pathology, social isolation and welfare state "dependency" of the poor, the contributors to The New Poverty Studies point instead to economic restructuring and neoliberal policy "reforms" which have caused increased social inequality and economic polarization in the U.S.

Contributors include: Georges Fouron, Donna Goldstein, Judith Goode, Susan B. Hyatt, Catherine Kingfisher, Peter Kwong, Vin Lyon-Callo, Jeff Maskovsky, Sandi Morgen, Leith Mullings, Frances Fox Piven, Matthew Rubin, Nina Glick Schiller, Carol Stack, Jill Weigt, Eve Weinbaum, Brett Williams, and Patricia Zavella.

"These contributions provide a dynamic understanding of poverty and immiseration"
"--North American Dialogue, Vol. 4, No. 1, Nov. 2001"

Blaming the Poor - The Long Shadows of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images About Poverty (Paperback): Susan D. Greenbaum Blaming the Poor - The Long Shadows of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images About Poverty (Paperback)
Susan D. Greenbaum
R861 Discovery Miles 8 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 1965, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan - then a high-ranking official in the Department of Labor - sparked a firestorm when he released his report "The Negro Family", which came to be regarded by both supporters and detractors as an indictment of African American culture. Blaming the Poor examines the regrettably durable impact of the Moynihan Report for race relations and social policy in America, challenging the humiliating image the report cast on poor black families and its misleading explanation of the causes of poverty. A leading authority on poverty and racism in the United States, Susan D. Greenbaum dismantles Moynihan's main thesis - that the so called matriarchal structure of the African American family "feminized" black men, making them inadequate workers and absent fathers, and resulting in what he called a tangle of pathology that led to a host of ills, from teen pregnancy to adult crime. Drawing on extensive scholarship, Greenbaum highlights the flaws in Moynihan's analysis. She reveals how his questionable ideas have been used to redirect blame for substandard schools, low wages, and the scarcity of jobs away from the societal forces that cause these problems, while simultaneously reinforcing stereotypes about African Americans. Greenbaum also critiques current policy issues that are directly affected by the tangle of pathology mindset -the demonization and destruction of public housing; the criminalization of black youth; and the continued humiliation of the poor by entrepreneurs who become rich consulting to teachers, non-profits, and social service personnel. A half century later, Moynihan's thesis remains for many a convenient justification for punitive measures and stingy indifference to the poor. Blaming the Poor debunks this infamous thesis, proposing instead more productive and humane policies to address the enormous problems facing us today.

Labour and the Poor Volume X - Liverpool (Hardcover): Charles Mackay Labour and the Poor Volume X - Liverpool (Hardcover)
Charles Mackay
R891 Discovery Miles 8 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
INFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT - Causes, Consequences and Cures (Paperback, New edition): Graham Dawson INFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT - Causes, Consequences and Cures (Paperback, New edition)
Graham Dawson
R1,181 Discovery Miles 11 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is an introduction to the costs of unemployment and inflation, which analyzes the ways in which these two issues profoundly influence the conduct of economic policy. The book covers economic events and policies in the UK and the USA.

Resources, Deprivation, and Poverty (Hardcover, New): Brian Nolan, Christopher T. Whelan Resources, Deprivation, and Poverty (Hardcover, New)
Brian Nolan, Christopher T. Whelan
R4,949 Discovery Miles 49 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Poverty alleviation is a central aim of economic and social policy, and yet there is no consensus about what poverty means or how it is best measured. Often, the households below an income poverty line are counted as poor, but there may be no firm basis for concentrating on that particular income level. There may also be wide variations among the households below any income poverty line in terms of their actual living standards. This book explores what poverty means in developed countries, and shows that understanding and measuring it requires widening the focus beyond current income. By using broader measures of resources and information on living patterns and concrete indicators of deprivation, it shows how those who are effectively excluded from participation in society due to lack of resources can be more accurately identified, and the processes producing such exclusion better understood. The core issue of this book is how to define and measure poverty in relatively rich countries in a way which is valid, meaningful in the context, and valuable for policy-making. Extensive analysis of data from a specially designed survey of a large representative sample of Irish households is used to illustrate the arguments.

Minority Perspectives (Hardcover): Dale Rogers Marshall, Daniel Wm. Fessler Minority Perspectives (Hardcover)
Dale Rogers Marshall, Daniel Wm. Fessler; Series edited by Lowdon Wingo Jr; Bernard Frieden
R3,407 Discovery Miles 34 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1972, Minority Perspectives is the second in a series exploring metropolitan problems within the government structure. The 1960's were a period of civils rights movements as well as poverty in the United States and in the 70's, it became clear that poverty was closely linked to race. This report sets out to explore issues contributing to the metropolitan-minority poverty problem such as racial exclusion and public policy. The papers included in this report discuss issues such as political power in metropolitan areas, the impact an address can have on economic opportunity for minority groups and the effects that laws and litigation can have on poverty. This title will be of interest to students of environmental and urban studies.

Amity and Prosperity - One Family and the Fracturing of America (Paperback): Eliza Griswold Amity and Prosperity - One Family and the Fracturing of America (Paperback)
Eliza Griswold
R520 R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Earnings Inequality, Unemployment, and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover, New): Ghassan Dibeh, Wassim... Earnings Inequality, Unemployment, and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover, New)
Ghassan Dibeh, Wassim Shahin
R2,779 Discovery Miles 27 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The past ten years for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region countries have registered an extreme deterioration in at least one measure of social and economic welfare: earnings inequality, unemployment, and poverty. The combination of slow economic growth, population explosion, and decline in labor productivity led to the reversal of the economic gains achieved during the economic boom in the 1970s. In contrast to that period, growth per capita (GDP) in 1980-1991 for Arab countries was -0.2%. Several indicators point to the extent of the problems faced today by the region's countries. Although the percentage of poverty declined for the majority of the regions in the world in 1985-1990, it has increased in the MENA region.

The purpose of this volume is to address the conditions of earnings inequality, unemployment, and poverty in the MENA region and the problems associated with these factors; to determine the state and magnitude of these problems through various country studies; and to provide solutions to alleviate the negative conditions facing developing economies, with special emphasis on the MENA countries.

International Energy and Poverty - The emerging contours (Hardcover): Lakshman Guruswamy International Energy and Poverty - The emerging contours (Hardcover)
Lakshman Guruswamy
R4,647 Discovery Miles 46 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Globally, around 2.8 billion people, also known as the "Other Third" or "energy poor," have little or no access to beneficial energy that meets their needs for cooking, heating, water, sanitation, illumination, transportation, or basic mechanical power." "This book uniquely integrates the hitherto segmented and fragmented approaches to the challenge of access to energy. It provides theoretical, philosophical and practical analysis of energy for the low energy (non-hydrocarbon based) Other Third of the world, and how the unmet needs of the energy poor might be satisfied. It comprehensively addresses the range of issues relating to energy justice and energy access for all, including appropriate sustainable energy technologies (ASETs).

The book breaks new ground by crafting a unified and cohesive framework for analysis and action that:

  • Explains the factual and sociopolitical phenomenon of the energy poor whom lack clean energy for cooking, illumination, sanitation, drinking water, and mechanical or motive power.
  • Demonstrates why energy is the primary determinant of human progress.
  • Restates the conceptual and theoretical grounds found in moral and political philosophy, religious social teaching, and jurisprudence positing that the world ought to remedy the lack of access to energy.
  • Makes the case for using ASETs to supplement the quest for electricity, and provide an intermediary source of energy during the transition to electricity.
  • Recognizes the paucity of compelling information that promotes awareness of the negative impacts of energy poverty.
  • Addresses the behavioral issues associated with the successful deployment of ASETs, which include human dignity and cultural concerns.
  • Outlines the practical economic frameworks of energy sustainability based on quantitative metrics for how the lack of access to energy could be answered by electricity and ASETs.

This is a must-read for all scholars, students, professionals and policy makers working on energy policy, poverty, and sustainable energy technologies.

'Rogues and Vagabonds' - Vagrant Underworld in Britain 1815-1985 (Hardcover): Lionel Rose 'Rogues and Vagabonds' - Vagrant Underworld in Britain 1815-1985 (Hardcover)
Lionel Rose
R4,617 Discovery Miles 46 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this lively social history, first published in 1988, Lionel Rose explores in detail the plight of the street poor between 1815 and 1985. He describes the Victorian 'Rogues and Vagabonds' who made elicit peddling, begging frauds and other petty crime their profession. He considers the relevant legislation and systems for coping with the street poor, from the 1824 Vagrancy Act and accompanying improvements in policing, through the casual ward systems of the workhouses and the role of common lodging houses, to the development of Social Services in the 1940s and local authority provision of accommodation. This title will be of interest to students of history, criminology and sociology.

The Cost of Not Educating the World's Poor - The new economics of learning (Hardcover): Lynn Ilon The Cost of Not Educating the World's Poor - The new economics of learning (Hardcover)
Lynn Ilon
R4,781 Discovery Miles 47 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In The Cost of Not Educating the World's Poor, Lynn Ilon observes from her 30 years of travel and work in some 20 developing countries, how global instability, problems of environmental degradation, spread of global disease, migration and political instability are a cost of viewing the uneducated poor as separated from a networked of fast-growing global knowledge. This book shows how powerful global learning systems are rapidly forming and linking the rich world with the world of the poor and developing nations. Using a narrative voice interleaved with concise introductions to the underlying theories (economics, development, learning, technology and networks) it shows us how changing our ways of thinking can lead to new possibilities. The Cost of Not Educating the World's Poor is based on an emerging theory of development economics and the author's own vast experiences and stories. It also discusses, among other issues: International development and how it has evolved toward an emphasis on knowledge How networked human capital creates new potential for poorly resourced countries The formation of a global system of learning networks The digitization of knowledge How nations improve their well-being through knowledge and equity This inter-disciplinary assessment of international learning inequality and the methods to overcome it will appeal to researchers concerned with emerging concepts of global learning networks and their effects on development. It will also be of interest to students and policymakers studying national inequality, economics, and global development.

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