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Social Work and Sustainability in Asia
Facing the Challenges of Global Environmental Changes
Av Alice M. L. Chong, Iris Chi
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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The rapid trend of globalization has brought with it a variety of sustainability challenges, including global climate change, biodiversity loss, poverty, and social inequalities, which are problems with unclear boundaries, complicated interrelated components, undefined parameters, contradictory …
Shaping Long-Term Care in Emerging Asia
Policy and Country Experiences
Av Vasoontara S. Yiengprugsawan, John Piggott
Inbunden, 2022
1024 kr
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Countries are facing increasing life expectancy and a shrinking family size and in effect, this may escalate demands for medical and supportive services. The role of families in providing informal care will remain important. However, the simultaneous decline in the supply of informal caregiving …
Shaping Long-Term Care in Emerging Asia
Policy and Country Experiences
Av Vasoontara S. Yiengprugsawan, John Piggott
Häftad, 2024
326 kr
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Countries are facing increasing life expectancy and a shrinking family size and in effect, this may escalate demands for medical and supportive services. The role of families in providing informal care will remain important. However, the simultaneous decline in the supply of informal caregiving …
Forced Displacement and NGOs in Asia and the Pacific
Häftad, 2023
689 kr
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This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the dynamics of conflict and climate induced forced displacement and organisational response across Asia and the Pacific.The Asia Pacific region hosts some of the largest numbers of displaced people on the planet, with some of the fewest protections …
Forced Displacement and NGOs in Asia and the Pacific
Inbunden, 2022
2504 kr
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This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the dynamics of conflict and climate induced forced displacement and organisational response across Asia and the Pacific.The Asia Pacific region hosts some of the largest numbers of displaced people on the planet, with some of the fewest protections …
Human Rights and Gender Politics
Asia-Pacific Perspectives
Av Anne-Marie Hilsdon, Martha Macintyre m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
2519 kr
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In recent years, the slogan "women's rights are human rights" has become a central claim of the of the global women's movement. Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives examines the critical issues raised by this embracing and expansion of the human rights discourse by feminists …
Environment, Education and Society in the Asia-Pacific
Local Traditions and Global Discourses
Av John Fien, Helen Sykes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
2519 kr
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This important book explores the interaction of global environmental discourses and local traditions and practices in twelve countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Based upon two parallel groups of studies, reviewing cultural influences in individual countries, and the attitudes of young people …
Ageing in the Asia-Pacific Region
Issues, Policies and Future Trends
Inbunden, 2000
3864 kr
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First Published in 2004. The Asia-Pacific region is now clearly witnessing the rapid ageing of many of its nations and Asia is already the region with, relatively, the largest number of older persons. This book focuses on the challenges that this demographic trend poses to economies and societies …
Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the US
Practices and Policies
Inbunden, 2000
2594 kr
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In an era of changing demographics and values, this volume provides a cross-national and interdisciplinary perspective on the question of who cares for and about the elderly. The contributors reflect on research studies, experimental programmes and personal experience in Japan and the United States …
Human Rights in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
Av Ian Neary
Inbunden, 2002
2594 kr
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Ian Neary looks in detail at the history of the introduction of human rights ideas into Japan, South Korea and Taiwan and examines how, and to what effect, state and society have incorporated the specific international standards on childrens' and patients' rights into legal systems and social …
Sino-Japanese Relations
Facing the Past, Looking to the Future?
Inbunden, 2004
2483 kr
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Over recent years, there has been increasing interest in the relationship between China and Japan, particularly as a way of understanding contemporary political, economic and security developments within the whole East Asia region. Caroline Rose presents a thorough, balanced and objective …
Social Policy in East and Southeast Asia
Education, Health, Housing and Income Maintenance
Av M. Ramesh
Inbunden, 2004
2504 kr
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Social Policy in East and South East Asia provides the first systematic comparison of the policy sectors of income maintenance, health, housing and education in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. It focuses particularly on the provision and financing arrangements of these four Asian …
Directors of Urban Change in Asia
Inbunden, 2005
2504 kr
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Bringing together a group of international scholars, Directors of Urban Change in Asia examines who the 'directors' for urban change are in an eclectic mix of Asian cities. The books discusses how, in the majority of cases, urban change has come about primarily as the result of visionary leaders, …
Public Health in Asia and the Pacific
Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Av Milton J. Lewis, Kerrie L. MacPherson
Inbunden, 2007
1876 kr
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The Asia-Pacific region has not only the greatest concentration of population but is, arguably, the future economic centre of the world. Epidemiological transition in the region is occurring much faster than it did in the West and many countries face the emerging problem of chronic diseases at the …
Education Reform and Education Policy in East Asia
Av Ka-ho Mok
Inbunden, 2005
941 kr
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This book assesses the impact of globalization on the education systems of key East Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, and the "tiger economies" of South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, examining how the increasingly interdependent economic system has driven policy change and …
Directors of Urban Change in Asia
Häftad, 2006
750 kr
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Bringing together a group of international scholars, Directors of Urban Change in Asia examines who the 'directors' for urban change are in an eclectic mix of Asian cities. The books discusses how, in the majority of cases, urban change has come about primarily as the result of visionary leaders, …
Human Rights in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
Av Ian Neary
Häftad, 2006
772 kr
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Ian Neary looks in detail at the history of the introduction of human rights ideas into Japan, South Korea and Taiwan and examines how, and to what effect, state and society have incorporated the specific international standards on childrens' and patients' rights into legal systems and social …
Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the US
Practices and Policies
Häftad, 2012
742 kr
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In an era of changing demographics and values, this volume provides a cross-national and interdisciplinary perspective on the question of who cares for and about the elderly. The contributors reflect on research studies, experimental programmes and personal experience in Japan and the United States …
Civilization, Nation and Modernity in East Asia
Av Chih-Yu Shih
Inbunden, 2012
2512 kr
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This book explores the crisis of cultural identity which has assaulted Asian countries since Western countries began to have a profound impact on Asia in the nineteenth century. Confronted by Western 'civilization' and by 'modernity', Asian countries have been compelled to rethink their identity, …
Sino-Japanese Relations
Facing the Past, Looking to the Future?
Häftad, 2009
737 kr
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Over recent years, there has been increasing interest in the relationship between China and Japan, particularly as a way of understanding contemporary political, economic and security developments within the whole East Asia region. Caroline Rose presents a thorough, balanced and objective …
Strong and the Weak in Japanese Literature
Discrimination, Egalitarianism, Nationalism
Inbunden, 2010
2879 kr
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This book uses texts from classical to modern Japanese literature to examine concepts of 'respect for the strong', as a notion of an evolutionary society, and 'sympathy for the weak', as a notion of a non-violent and changeless egalitarian society.The term strong refers not just to those with …
Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific
Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases
Av Milton J. Lewis, Kerrie L. MacPherson
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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Chronic diseases—cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes—are not only the principal cause of world-wide mortality but also are now responsible for a striking increase in the percentage of sickness in developing countries still grappling with the acute problems of …
Asian and Pacific Cities
Development Patterns
Inbunden, 2013
2504 kr
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The cities of Asia and the Pacific are at the epicentre of development in what is arguably, the most populous, culturally distinctive, and economically powerful region in the world. 16 major cities such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Manila, Jakarta, Bangkok, Singapore, Auckland, Kuala Lumpur and Santiago, …
Education Reform and Education Policy in East Asia
Av Ka-ho Mok
Häftad, 2014
402 kr
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This book assesses the impact of globalization on the education systems of key East Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, and the "tiger economies" of South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, examining how the increasingly interdependent economic system has driven policy change and …
Social Policy in East and Southeast Asia
Education, Health, Housing and Income Maintenance
Av M. Ramesh
Häftad, 2012
718 kr
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Social Policy in East and South East Asia provides the first systematic comparison of the policy sectors of income maintenance, health, housing and education in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. It focuses particularly on the provision and financing arrangements of these four Asian …
Film Censorship in the Asia-Pacific Region
Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia Compared
Inbunden, 2013
2303 kr
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Film censorship has always been a controversial matter, particularly in jurisdictions with restrictive state-based censorship systems. This book reviews the film censorship system in the Asia-Pacific by comparing the systems used in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia. It identifies the key issues …
Public Health in Asia and the Pacific
Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Av Milton J. Lewis, Kerrie L. MacPherson
Häftad, 2011
515 kr
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The Asia-Pacific region has not only the greatest concentration of population but is, arguably, the future economic centre of the world. Epidemiological transition in the region is occurring much faster than it did in the West and many countries face the emerging problem of chronic diseases at the …
Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific
Why Some Subside and Others Don’t
Av Edward Aspinall, Robin Jeffrey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2504 kr
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Since the publication of the 2005 Human Security Report, scholars and policy-makers have debated the causes, interpretation and implications of what the report described as a global decline in armed conflict since the end of the Cold War. Focusing on the Asia-Pacific region, this book analyses the …
Asian Worlds in Latin America
Inbunden, 2015
2578 kr
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There has been increasing Asian interest in Latin America in recent years, beginning with Japanese investment in the 1980s, and continuing into the present decade when there is growing investment by China. This book examines the nature and extent of Asian business and related activity in Latin …
Eurasia's Regional Powers Compared - China, India, Russia
Häftad, 2017
844 kr
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Taking a long view, and a wide perspective, this book by Japan's leading scholars on Asia and Eurasia provides a comprehensive and systematic comparison of the three greatest powers in the region and assesses how far the recent growth trajectories of these countries are sustainable in the long run. …
