Global frontiers of social development in theory and practice : climate, economy, and justice /: climate, economy, and justice. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Authored and edited by Brij Mohan.
• Authors: Mohan, Brij, 1939-
• Contents: Books Also By Brij Mohan; ; Our Contributors; ; Acknowledgements; ; Foreword; Robert Kowalski; ; Prologue; Brij Mohan; ; Part One; Social Practice: Frontiers of Human and Social Development; ; I. Archeology of Social Practice; Brij Mohan; ; II. The Cultivation of Eco-Civilization; Brij Mohan; ; III. The Economic Illusions that Holdback Human Development; Roberts Kowalski; IV. Economic Growth as Social Problem: The Case of Climate Change; Max Koch; ; V. Dialectics of Development: How Social Science Fails; Shweta Singh; VI. Environmental Justice; Brij Mohan; ; Part Two; Toward Comparative Social Development; ; VII. Comparative Social Welfare Revisited; Brij Mohan; ; VIII Social Welfare for Transformative Practice; Brij Mohan; ; IX. Extending Baselines of Shifts in Governance beyond the West: China as a Mirror Testing Ground of Governance; Sander Chan and Matthias Stepan; ; X. Indigenous Communities' Informal Care and Welfare Systems for Local Level Social Development in India; Manohar Pawar and Bipin Jojo; ; XI. Outsourcing of Corruption: A Case of Counter-Development; Vijay P. Singh; ; XII. The Madness of Caste; Suryakant Waghmore and Qudsiya Contractor; ; XIII. Mission Lost: What Does Evidence Base and Standardization Mean for International Social Work?; Nairuti Jani; ; Epilogue: Mendacity of Development; ; Indices
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 303.372; Social policy; Social planning; Social change; Public Policy/Social Services & Welfare; Public Policy/Environmental Policy; Public Policy/Cultural Policy; Public Policy/Social Policy; Environmental science, engineering & technology; Comparative politics; Political ideologies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137460721; 1137460725
• Related ISBNs: 9781137460707; 1137460709
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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