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Nursing is vital to millions of people worldwide. This book details
the ebb and flow of its fascinating history and politics through
case studies from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico,
Canada, and the United States. Authors from across the Americas
share findings and explore new thinking about Western
hemisphere-specific issues that affect nursing and health care.
Using economic globalization as an overarching framework, these
cross-national case studies show the strengths and contradictions
in nursing, elucidating common themes and examining successes. The
partnership of authors shapes a collective understanding of nursing
in the Americas and forms a basis for enduring hemisphere-wide
academic exchange. Thus, the book offers a new platform for
understanding the struggles and obstacles of nursing in a climate
of globalization, as well as for understanding nursing's richness
and accomplishments. Because politics, economics, health, and
nursing are inextricably linked, this volume critically explores
the intersections among political economies and nursing and health
care systems. The historical and contextual background allows
readers to make sense of how and why nursing in the Americas has
taken on its present form.
This groundbreaking new volume on social sustainability offers both
critique and creative solutions. It challenges the conventional
wisdoms of social sustainability and presents practical examples of
projects that will help practitioners to think carefully and
innovatively about the situations they are addressing. The book
consists of original contributions from academics working in the
fields of urban planning, housing, regeneration, transport and
international sustainable development. Drawing on case study
research gathered in the UK, Europe and Africa, it adopts an
original, interdisciplinary approach to both theory and practice,
illustrating the challenges and opportunities facing policy-makers
and practitioners attempting to develop, manage and maintain
sustainable communities. The authors argue that the dominant
approach of 'how to do' small scale social sustainability fails to
locate it within broader social processes. Ignoring the context not
only sustains, but also actively reproduces wider inequalities. The
book presents a new, more coherent and more complete approach to
issues of social sustainability in urban areas. The book approaches
current urban policy discourses in three different ways,
represented by three sections: firstly focusing on small places
within the urban fabric, secondly addressing the whole urban fabric
by examining whether changing urban living and working patterns.
The third section explores some of the ways that funding can be
secured to achieve the aims of social sustainability and the social
planning associated with it.
The book considers urban mobilities and immobilities in the Global
South through an exploration of the theoretical and methodological
entry points that can be used to further the agenda of transport
planning. Transport system improvements can (and do) have complex
and unequal impacts on different sectors of society. Conventional
approaches to analysing travel demand and transport system
performance developed in the 'Global North' are typically
ill-equipped to identify and understand the complexities and
inequities in urban areas of the Global South. Using case studies
from urban Africa and Asia, the book addresses the need to
understand the 'lived world' of mobilities and use this knowledge
to address issues that are central to our urban existence in the
21st century.
Our global reliance on private automobiles as the primary means for
transporting individuals is likely to become of increasing
political importance over the next ten to twenty years. While the
individual benefits of car-based travel continues to be recognized,
the wider environmental and social cost of automobiles is also
significant and the need for political intervention to control some
of their worst effects is increasingly accepted within policy
circles internationally. It is within this wider context that "Auto
Motives" is set. It critically evaluates the evidence for better
understanding 'what drives us to drive'. Uniquely, it draws
together and explains the diverse theoretical literatures that
pertain to people's auto motives and considers these theories in
light of empirical research of what actually informs our automobile
decisions and behaviours. With contributions from leading academic
experts from around the world, its core arguments and narratives
are presented in such a way as to offer widespread appeal to a wide
ranging audience.
This groundbreaking new volume on social sustainability offers both
critique and creative solutions. It challenges the conventional
wisdoms of social sustainability and presents practical examples of
projects that will help practitioners to think carefully and
innovatively about the situations they are addressing. The book
consists of original contributions from academics working in the
fields of urban planning, housing, regeneration, transport and
international sustainable development. Drawing on case study
research gathered in the UK, Europe and Africa, it adopts an
original, interdisciplinary approach to both theory and practice,
illustrating the challenges and opportunities facing policy-makers
and practitioners attempting to develop, manage and maintain
sustainable communities. The authors argue that the dominant
approach of 'how to do' small scale social sustainability fails to
locate it within broader social processes. Ignoring the context not
only sustains, but also actively reproduces wider inequalities. The
book presents a new, more coherent and more complete approach to
issues of social sustainability in urban areas. The book approaches
current urban policy discourses in three different ways,
represented by three sections: firstly focusing on small places
within the urban fabric, secondly addressing the whole urban fabric
by examining whether changing urban living and working patterns.
The third section explores some of the ways that funding can be
secured to achieve the aims of social sustainability and the social
planning associated with it.
The book considers urban mobilities and immobilities in the Global
South through an exploration of the theoretical and methodological
entry points that can be used to further the agenda of transport
planning. Transport system improvements can (and do) have complex
and unequal impacts on different sectors of society. Conventional
approaches to analysing travel demand and transport system
performance developed in the 'Global North' are typically
ill-equipped to identify and understand the complexities and
inequities in urban areas of the Global South. Using case studies
from urban Africa and Asia, the book addresses the need to
understand the 'lived world' of mobilities and use this knowledge
to address issues that are central to our urban existence in the
21st century.
The lack of access to transportation among low-income groups is
increasingly being recognised as a barrier to employment and social
inclusion both in Britain and the United States. However,
'transport poverty', and its links with wider welfare objectives,
is poorly understood. This groundbreaking book looks at the
delivery of transport from a social policy perspective to assist in
a better understanding of this issue. inequalities in the ability
of low-income households to access adequate transport has
undermined effective delivery of welfare policies in the US and UK;
describes the new policies and initiatives being developed to
address this oversight; inquiry, identifying key factors; uses case
study examples of practical initiatives from both sides of the
Atlantic to draw lessons for future policy and practice. with an
interest in understanding the social effects of transport policy.
The comparison between US and UK policy and practice adds an
important new dimension to those familiar with the subject, while
its easy-to-read format and well-illustrated case study examples
make it an ideal first text for newcomers to the field.
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Measuring Transport Equity (Paperback)
Karen Lucas, Karel Martens, Floridea Di Ciommo, Ariane Dupont-Kieffer
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R2,862
R2,662
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Measuring Transport Equity provides a range of methods with the
potential to shape transport decision-making processes, thus
allowing for the adoption of more equitable transport solutions.
Presenting numerous applied methods and applications of transport
equity assessment, this book formalizes the disciplinary practice,
definitions, and methodologies for transport equity. In addition,
it recognizes the different types of equity and acknowledges that
each requires its own assessment methodologies. Bringing together
the most up-to-date perspectives and practical approaches for
assessing equity in relation to accessibility, environmental
impacts, health, and wellbeing, the book sets standards for
researchers, policymakers, and practitioners for conducting social
impact analyses and is an ideal reference for those involved in
transport planning.
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