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Why Cities Need Large Parks Large Parks in Large Cities

Why Cities Need Large Parks Large Parks in Large Cities

The large parks and green infrastructure presented here illustrate the diverse uses and many benefits of large urban parks across 30 major cities. Demand for large urban parks emerged at the height of the First Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s when large urban parks represented new ideas of accessible public spaces often established on land previously owned by aristocracy royalty or the army. They represented new ideas on how city life could be improved and how large green spaces could enhance urban citizens’ physical and psychological well-being (e. g. Birkenhead Park in Liverpool Bois de Boulogne in Paris Tiergarten in Berlin and Central Park in New York City). Today large urban parks are habitats for biodiversity and spaces of climate change adaptation. For people living in cities this biodiversity may represent high cultural recreational and aesthetic values but is also important for other aspects of health and well-being for example by reducing the urban heat island effect air pollution and risks of flooding. At a time when we are seriously reconsidering how we live in cities and our urban quality of life while also grappling with serious challenges of climate change the authors of this book detail the much-needed evidence pathways and vision for a future of more liveable resilient cities where large urban parks are at the core. This book will help park managers NGOs landscape architects and city planners to develop the green city of the future. | Why Cities Need Large Parks Large Parks in Large Cities

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The Large Industrial Enterprise Some Spatial Perspectives

The Large Industrial Enterprise Some Spatial Perspectives

Large industrial enterprises are an important phenomena in advanced Western economies. They control large percentages of total industrial assets employ millions of workers and together with their dependent satellite firms produce their own spatial patterns of employment location of production capacity and flow of material and information and thus dominate the economic base of whole towns. This study first published in 1980 surveys a massive amount of work on large industrial firms and features an in-depth study of the growth of large industrial enterprises in the UK brewing industry from 1951-76. This illustrates many of the themes discussed in the book. | The Large Industrial Enterprise Some Spatial Perspectives

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Large Carnivore Conservation and Management Human Dimensions

Large Carnivore Conservation and Management Human Dimensions

Large carnivores include iconic species such as bears wolves and big cats. Their habitats are increasingly being shared with humans and there is a growing number of examples of human-carnivore coexistence as well as conflict. Next to population dynamics of large carnivores there are considerable attitude shifts towards these species worldwide with multiple implications. This book argues and demonstrates why human dimensions of relationships to large carnivores are crucial for their successful conservation and management. It provides an overview of theoretical and methodological perspectives heterogeneity in stakeholder perceptions and behaviour as well as developments in decision making stakeholder involvement policy and governance informed by human dimensions of large carnivore conservation and management. The scope is international with detailed examples and case studies from Europe North and South America Central and South Asia as well as debates of the challenges faced by urbanization agricultural expansion national parks and protected areas. The main species covered include bears wolves lynx and leopards. The book provides a novel perspective for advanced students researchers and professionals in ecology and conservation wildlife management human-wildlife interactions environmental education and environmental social science. | Large Carnivore Conservation and Management Human Dimensions

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How to Manage Project Stakeholders Effective Strategies for Successful Large Infrastructure Projects

How to Manage Project Stakeholders Effective Strategies for Successful Large Infrastructure Projects

This book outlines how to identify stakeholders analyse theirs stakes and plan and implement an engagement strategy to secure relevant input and dependable buy-in to assure the successful delivery of Large Infrastructure Projects. It also addresses common stakeholder management inadequacies and is supplemented with four extended practical exercises to help readers apply the principles to their own large complex projects and ensure project success. The project management industry particularly the Large Infrastructure Projects domain has only recently awakened to the reality that failed Stakeholder Management probably leads to a failure of the project altogether. Due to the complexities involved most traditional approaches to managing stakeholders have developed serious difficulties in dealing with large and complex projects. This book presents a Systems Thinking approach to managing stakeholders that accommodates these complexities and seeks to crystallise the notion that managing projects means managing stakeholders while also introducing an ethical perspective (i. e. stakeholders have legitimate rights regardless of their power to influence the project). This shifts the paradigm from Management of Stakeholders to Management for Stakeholders. It is essential reading for all those involved with managing large projects including project managers sponsors and executives. It will also be useful for advanced students of project management and systems engineering looking to understand and expand their knowledge of infrastructure projects and Systems Engineering. | How to Manage Project Stakeholders Effective Strategies for Successful Large Infrastructure Projects

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From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups Historical Theoretical and Practical Considerations

From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups Historical Theoretical and Practical Considerations

From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups offers transdisciplinary research on the history of the study of social formations ranging from nineteenth-century crowd psychology in France and twentieth-century Freudian mass psychology including the developments in critical theory to the study of the psychodynamics of contemporary large groups. Carla Penna presents a unique combination of sociology psychoanalysis and group analysis in the study of social formations. This book revisits the epistemological basis of group analysis by introducing and discussing its historical path especially in connection with the study of large groups and investigations of the social unconscious in persons groups and societies. It also explores early work on group relations and contemporary research on the basic-assumption group in England particularly Hopper’s theory of Incohesion as a fourth basic assumption. From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups enables the reader to map out the field of the unconscious life of crowds illuminating the darkness of twenty-first century collective movements. The reflections in this book present new perspectives for psychologists psychoanalysts group analysts sociologists and historians to investigate the psychodynamics of contemporary crowds masses and social systems. | From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups Historical Theoretical and Practical Considerations

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Small Large and Median Groups The Work of Patrick de Mare

Small Large and Median Groups The Work of Patrick de Mare

This book is a remarkable tribute to the memory of Pat de Mare. You will find in these pages a selection of his work that represents his new and different understanding of groups both large and small that has not only had a significant impact on the practice of group therapy in his lifetime but also a potential for revolutionizing current thinking both now and in the future. The editors are owed a great debt of gratitude for putting so much important work together. They have organized the book around three sections on the small median and large groups. What is particularly moving is that each section is introduced by some of Pat's closest friends and colleagues. These introductions are not only invaluable preparation for reading the articles by Pat that follow but are also a poignant tribute to the writers' lives work their thinking and much happiness that came from their close relationship with Pat. | Small Large and Median Groups The Work of Patrick de Mare

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The Front-end of Large Public Projects Paradoxes and Ways Ahead

The Front-end of Large Public Projects Paradoxes and Ways Ahead

Large public projects represent major complex investment and whilst there has been much written about how to develop manage and deliver such projects practice still does not match up with expectations. In this book researchers from the Norwegian Concept Research Programme explore the paradoxes between theory and practice in collaboration with experts in the field of project governance. This book delves into the reality of large public projects to show how they can be managed effectively and efficiently recognising the realities of their context. It offers a range of practical conclusions as to the paradoxes of the governance and management of public projects. The international spectrum of authors draw their examples from the UK Norway Canada France Australia and the Netherlands. Bridging the gap between research theory and practice this book will benefit academics and researchers in the field of project management and corporate governance as well as those in the practice of public project governance civil servants and industry practitioners. | The Front-end of Large Public Projects Paradoxes and Ways Ahead

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Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture

Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture

This book grapples with fundamental questions about the evolving nature of pictorial representation and the role photography has played in this ongoing process. These issues are explored through a close analysis of key themes that underpin the photography practice of Canadian artist Jeff Wall and through examining important works that have defined his oeuvre. Wall’s strategic revival of ‘the picture’ has had a resounding influence on the development of contemporary art photography by expanding the conceptual and technical frameworks of the medium and introducing a self-reflexive criticality. Naomi Merritt brings a new and original contribution to the scholarship on one of the most significant figures to have shaped the course of contemporary art photography since the 1970s and shines a light on the multilayered connections between photography and art. This book will be of interest to scholars in the history of photography art and visual culture and contemporary art history. | Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture

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Erasing the Binary Distinction of Developed and Underdeveloped A Comparative Study of the Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in Imp

Erasing the Binary Distinction of Developed and Underdeveloped A Comparative Study of the Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in Imp

This book challenges the binary distinction of developed and underdeveloped in the categorization of any country while proposing to erase this binary with a yardstick of parity. Through a sample comparative historical study focusing on the question of the emergence of the large-scale steel industry (1880-1914) of four chosen countries two considered developed (Imperial UK and Post-colonial Imperial USA) and two considered underdeveloped (Imperial Russia and Colonial India) it is shown how this yardstick of parity can be applied without the categorization of societies as either developed or underdeveloped. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India Sri Lanka Nepal Bangladesh Pakistan or Bhutan) | Erasing the Binary Distinction of Developed and Underdeveloped A Comparative Study of the Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in Imp

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Marketing Graffiti The Writing on the Wall

Marketing Graffiti The Writing on the Wall

Radical and unique in its approach and presentation Marketing Graffiti turns the traditional marketing introduction on its head by helping students to understand the part they already play as ‘consumers’ in the marketing process. Most marketing textbooks tackle the subject as a business function – i. e. how to do marketing in companies and other organizations. Marketing Graffiti shows how marketing is not just a business function but a part of our culture and one in which we are all active as part-time marketers. By rejecting managerially-driven structures in this way Saren's approach makes marketing immediate and instantly recognizable as a process and a phenomenon in which we are already complicit. It helps readers to become aware of what they already know. Critically examining a wide range of products businesses technologies information services ads packaging and branding Saren utilizes everyday images and phenomena to draw out the conceptual foundations of marketing from a social science and cultural studies perspective as something that we all experience in everyday life. This new edition of the first critical marketing textbook discusses the role new technologies (such as social media) play in marketing culture and how this can potentially place more power in the clicks of the consumer. It includes new updated or expanded sections on market exclusion the role of the consumer in innovation space and place pricing consumer communities collaborative consumption and social media marketing. Leading experts in these fields of research and marketing practice also contribute additional sections on these topics. This essential marketing guide is supported by a range of teaching support materials including the latest journal and online references guides to further reading teaching slides and test bank questions | Marketing Graffiti The Writing on the Wall

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Distance Rating Systems and Enterprise Finance Ethnographic Insights from a Comparison of Regional and Large Banks in Germany

Distance Rating Systems and Enterprise Finance Ethnographic Insights from a Comparison of Regional and Large Banks in Germany

In response to the credit crunch during the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 many have called for the re-establishment of regional banks in the UK and elsewhere. In this context Germany’s regional banking system with its more than 1 400 small and regional savings banks and cooperative banks is viewed as a role model in the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However in line with the ‘death of distance’ debate the universal application of ICT-based scoring and rating systems potentially obviates the necessity for proximity to reduce information asymmetries between banks and SMEs calling into question the key advantage of regional banks. Utilising novel ethnographic findings from full-time participant observation and interviews this book presents intimate insights into regional savings banks and compares their SME lending practices with large nationwide-operating commercial banks in Germany. The ethnographic insights are contextualised by concise description of the three-pillar German banking system covering bank regulation structural and geographical developments and enterprise finance. Furthermore the book advances an original theoretical approach that combines classical banking theories with insights from social studies of finance on the (ontological) foundation of new realism. Ethnographic findings reveal varying distances of credit granting depending on the rating results i. e. large banks allocate considerable credit-granting authority to local staff and therefore challenge the proximity advantages of regional banks. Nevertheless by presenting case studies of lending to SMEs the book demonstrates the ability of regional banks to capitalise on proximity when screening and monitoring financially distressed SMEs and explains why the suggestion that ICT can substitute for proximity in SME lending has to be rejected. | Distance Rating Systems and Enterprise Finance Ethnographic Insights from a Comparison of Regional and Large Banks in Germany

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Contesting Public Spaces Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London

Contesting Public Spaces Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London

This book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets squares and neighbourhoods are continuously made and remade through planning processes political ambitions and everyday activities. By investigating three sites in London that have been the focus of masterplanning Ed Wall exposes conflicts between planning offices and private developers who direct large urban change and community groups market traders and residents whose public lives are inseparable from their neighbourhoods being reconfigured. The book uniquely brings sociological approaches to what are often considered architectural concerns revealing challenges as London's public spaces are designed regulated and lived. Through in-depth research Ed Wall identifies how uncertainty caused by large-scale urban strategies the realisation of visual priorities and uneven relations between private interests public organisations and daily lives determine the public realm of global cities. This work is intended for readers interested in how the urban spaces of their cities are continually produced in competing ways—from architecture and urban studies scholars to planners and politicians. | Contesting Public Spaces Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London

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Bricks in the Wall The Politics of Housing in Europe

Bricks in the Wall The Politics of Housing in Europe

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of how politics shape housing markets and vice-versa. It demonstrates how housing impacts a variety of social and political phenomenon including populist politics generational divides wealth inequality monetary policy and the welfare state. Housing and housing markets have important implications for economic stability public policy domestic politics and wealth inequality in Europe and beyond. Yet despite its importance housing has received relatively little attention in comparative politics scholarship. The contributions within this volume push the scholarship of housing into fresh innovative directions. The chapters focus on housing’s contribution to wealth inequality how housing constrains governments’ policy choices in welfare state reform and how it can strengthen governments’ hands in financial regulation. Other contributions reveal the impact of housing on central bankers’ motivations for implementing monetary expansion highlight the generational divide in gaining access to home-ownership demonstrate how housing-driven wealth inequality steers voters political preferences towards right-wing populism and explain how housing gradually shifted from being a social right to an object of investment in Europe even within its most egalitarian states. These contributions cover a diversity of cases in Western and Eastern Europe and theoretical paradigms that will appeal to scholars and policy makers alike. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of West European Politics. | Bricks in the Wall The Politics of Housing in Europe

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Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall

Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall

This volume makes a case for engaging critical approaches for teaching adults in prison higher education (or “college-in-prison”) programs. This book not only contextualizes pedagogy within the specialized and growing niche of prison instruction but also addresses prison abolition reentry and educational equity. Chapters are written by prison instructors currently incarcerated students and formerly incarcerated students providing a variety of perspectives on the many roadblocks and ambitions of teaching and learning in carceral settings. All unapologetic advocates of increasing access to higher education for people in prison contributors discuss the high stakes of teaching incarcerated individuals and address the dynamics conditions and challenges of doing such work. The type of instruction that contributors advocate is transferable beyond prisons to traditional campus settings. Hence the lessons of this volume will not only support readers in becoming more thoughtful prison educators and program administrators but also in becoming better teachers who can employ critical democratic pedagogy in a range of contexts. | Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall

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Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

Television shows that we might call ‘prestige television’ represent prison in ways that are sometimes reductive sometimes powerful and sometimes exceedingly complex. This book examines various programmes across the genres of drama comedy and horror that utilize prison or places of incarceration as a central theme or setting to show how they conform to or challenge the standard conversation about the prison industrial complex and the common understanding of prisons as violent spaces where we house the worst among us. Drawing on the work of Angela Davis Doran Larson Dylan Rodriguez Michelle Alexander and Lisa Guenther the author presents focused studies of Orange Is the New Black Rectify American Horror Story and The Walking Dead (along with briefer discussions of The 100 police procedurals and popular sitcoms) to explore the responsibility of television to represent prison in as authentic a fashion as possible the exploitation of the incarcerated in reductive representations of prison and the shifting nature of the national conversation about prison as it is depicted on screen. As such the book will appeal to scholars of cultural and media studies criminology and sociology with interests in incarceration and representations of prison in popular culture. | Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

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Part-Architecture The Maison de Verre Duchamp Domesticity and Desire in 1930s Paris

Part-Architecture The Maison de Verre Duchamp Domesticity and Desire in 1930s Paris

Part-Architecture presents a detailed and original study of Pierre Chareau’s Maison de Verre through another seminal modernist artwork Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass. Aligning the two works materially historically and conceptually the book challenges the accepted architectural descriptions of the Maison de Verre makes original spatial and social accounts of its inhabitation in 1930s Paris and presents new architectural readings of the Large Glass. Through a rich analysis which incorporates creative projects into history and theory research the book establishes new ways of writing about architecture. Designed for politically progressive gynaecologist Dr Jean Dalsace and his avant-garde wife Annie Dalsace the Maison de Verre combines a family home with a gynaecology clinic into a ‘free-plan’ layout. Screened only by glass walls the presence of the clinic in the home suggests an untold dialogue on 1930s sexuality. The text explores the Maison de Verre through another radical glass construction the Large Glass where Duchamp’s complex depiction of unconsummated sexual relations across the glass planes reveals his resistance to the marital conventions of 1920s Paris. This and other analyses of the Large Glass are used as a framework to examine the Maison de Verre as a register of the changing history of women’s domestic and maternal choices reclaiming the building as a piece of female social architectural history. The process used to uncover and write the accounts in the book is termed ‘part-architecture’. Derived from psychoanalytic theory part-architecture fuses analytical descriptive and creative processes to produce a unique social and architectural critique. Identifying three essential materials to the Large Glass the book has three main chapters: ‘Glass’ ‘Dust’ and ‘Air’. Combining theory text creative writing and drawing each traces the history and meaning of the material and its contribution to the spaces and sexuality of the Large Glass and the Maison de Verre. As a whole the book contributes important and unique spatial readings to existing scholarship and expands definitions of architectural design and history. | Part-Architecture The Maison de Verre Duchamp Domesticity and Desire in 1930s Paris

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Looking Through Freud's Photos

Looking Through Freud's Photos

A moody Freud posed against a background of holiday pictures pinned to a wall; or lurking at the very edge of a large family group; or lost in a crowd of nineteenth-century scientists. These snapshots or posed portraits not only tell stories they also carry a specific emotional charge. The earlier essays in this book follow traces of Freud's early years through the evidence of such album photographs; the later essays use them to reconstruct the stories of various family members. An unknown photo of his half-brother Emanuel initiates an investigation into the Manchester Freuds. An identity photo of his daughter Anna and the document to which it is attached throw light on the critical final days of her trip to England in 1914. A faded idyllic print of children playing evolves into a discussion of Ernst Freud's luck and childhood. The suicide of Anna's artist cousin Tom Seidmann Freud emerges from a snap of her infant daughter Angela. | Looking Through Freud's Photos

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Mapping European Corporations Strategy Structure Ownership and Performance

Mapping European Corporations Strategy Structure Ownership and Performance

This book addresses the evolution of the strategies structures ownership patterns and performances of large European corporations since the early 1960s. The authors study large and small countries in order to understand how the process of economic integration has affected the patterns of growth and the structural characteristics of the largest firms. Drawing both on extensive databases and on case studies the contributions in this volume address the peculiar specificities of large firms in different national contexts adopting a longitudinal long term perspective. This volume delivers the first results of an international collective research effort undertaken by several national teams. The 'Mapping Corporate Europe' project aims to provide a detailed account of the structural traits of the European Corporation in a framework which includes (i) a chronological analysis over 50 years starting with the Rome treaty in 1957; (ii) geographical extension beyond previous analyses for France Germany and the UK by including smaller countries; (iii) firms from other industries in addition to manufacturing companies; and (iv) attention to internationalisation of European firms. These analyses form the basis of a rich description of the developments of large European corporations over the past five decades using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. This book was originally published as a special issue of Business History. | Mapping European Corporations Strategy Structure Ownership and Performance

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Talent Management in Small and Medium Enterprises Context Practices and Outcomes

Talent Management in Small and Medium Enterprises Context Practices and Outcomes

Talent Management in Small and Medium Enterprises contributes to the body of knowledge concerning talent management in small and medium enterprises. Despite the growing number of publications on talent management in recent years research has focused mainly on large companies. As a consequence of this research bias towards large companies the presented theoretical concepts and practices have limited applicability for talent management in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Because SMEs constitute a significant part of the national economy in a large number of countries many authors report the necessity to investigate talent management in such enterprises. This book will be a source of useful data for managers of SMEs and owners and provide them with information about the practices and methods concerning the acquisition development and retention of talented employees who may contribute to the success of SMEs and the execution of business strategies. The book offers academic researchers postgraduate students and reflective practitioners a state-of-the-art overview of Talent Management in Small and Medium Enterprises. | Talent Management in Small and Medium Enterprises Context Practices and Outcomes

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Stakeholder Engagement and Sustainability Reporting

Stakeholder Engagement and Sustainability Reporting

In a context of growing social and environmental concerns the role of large enterprises and corporations in encouraging sustainability has drawn increasing attention in recent years. Both academic debates and public-opinion research have called into question the extended responsibilities of firms in our increasingly inter-connected world. By studying issues associated with the greatest challenges mankind is currently facing — from climate change to social exclusion — the scientific community is aware of the need to account for the actions and agendas of companies especially large ones. They are becoming important global political actors with great power but also unprecedented responsibilities. With this in mind the authors believe that it is more important than ever that large enterprises on the one hand take into account the opinion of their stakeholder while defining their strategies and on the other hand disclose material and relevant information on their ability to contribute to sustainability while delivering value for all of their stakeholders. A consensus is being reached on the responsibility of large enterprises to report in a triple bottom perspective — not only on their financial performances but also on their social and environmental outcomes. Consequently it is important to understand what elements organizations need to report on in order to provide stakeholders with relevant and comprehensive sustainability reports. Against this background this book presents a significant and original contribution both empirically and theoretically to the social and environmental accounting literature by studying the various features of stakeholder engagement in sustainability reporting. | Stakeholder Engagement and Sustainability Reporting

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People Who Count Population and Politics Women and Children

People Who Count Population and Politics Women and Children

Originally published in 1995 this book confronts the contentious political issues on all sides of the population debate including immigration demographic competition gender ratios reproductive research and children’s rights. The book argues that lower fertility rates are preferred by women themselves; are beneficial in their own right to both women and children; and should not be used as a bargaining chip in any other area of the development debate. Drawing on a large body of research in anthropology child psychology and population studies the book presents evidence that the poor do not necessarily have large families as form of financial security or to put them to work; people without offspring are less lonely in old age; immigration and refugee controls in the Northern Hemisphere have been more driven by politics than rational calculation and human rights; social security does not require a large cohort of young workers. This book is a challenging contribution to the development debate. It presents a persuasive case for policies which recognise hopeful trends in relieving the environmental and social pressures of a globally increasing population. | People Who Count Population and Politics Women and Children

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