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  1. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities. A Sociological Perspective

    …age for the full description of the project: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/30641/ About this Research Topic: This Research Topic addresses the eleventh Sustainable Development Goal, which is to “make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.” Progress toward this goal is measured by a number of individual targets and indicators. The UN’s most recent SDG progress report notes that prior to the COVID-19 p…

  2. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth. A Sociological Perspective

    …d issues in the Global South such as closing labor-productivity gaps in low-income countries and ways to increase aid for trade support for developing countries. – The effects of lack of decent jobs, coupled with weak social insurance schemes and poverty among the workers (working poor and precarity). – Equality and inclusion at work during the COVID-19 pandemic, including challenges of employment in the informal economy. – Technological challenge…

  3. What are HD & the CA?

    …rces and income nor happiness but functionings and capabilities that constitute human wellbeing. Read what some HDCA members have to say about the CA. References Robeyns, Ingrid (2017), Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. Sen, Amartya (1985), ‘Well-Being Agency and Freedom: The Dewey Lectures 1984’, Journal of Philosophy, 82(4): 169–221. UNDP (2012), Human Development Report:…

  4. JHDC Special Issue Call for Papers – Communities and Capabilities

    …ents. Public space. Geographic space. Digital space. Citizenship Democracy Community-based development. Community-based budgeting. Impacts of power relations within communities on human development and capabilities. Impacts of community structures on democratic deliberation and public reasoning. Community Research Methods. Submission Procedure Please submit papers online at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cjhd. According to the JHDC’s guidelines…

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