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  1. CfP: On Poverty and Its Eradication

    …mission Deadlines: 28 February 2022 – Abstract 30 April 2022 – Manuscript Visit the collection homepage for the full description of the project: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/27921/ Participating Journals – manuscripts can be submitted to this Research Topic via the following journals: – Frontiers in Sociology: Migration and Society (2020 CiteScore 1.2) – Frontiers in Sociology: Work, Employment and Organizations (2020 CiteScore 1.2)…

  2. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure. A Sociological Perspective

    …supply chains and severely affected small-scale industries. Less technology-intensive industries have also taken longer to recover than medium and high-technology industries, such as the pharmaceutical, computer, electronics and automotive sectors. The UN nonetheless notes that the crisis offers the opportunity to foster industrialization and improve the global distribution of groundbreaking technologies. In emerging from the pandemic, it highligh…

  3. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 1: No Poverty. A Sociological Perspective

    …licy ideas and policy instruments, and policy transfer and learning. – Multi-level, cross-sectoral, and multi-sectoral cooperation of various stakeholders, including public, private, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and non-formal entities. – Evaluation of poverty reduction schemes and strategies. Keywords: SDG1, COVID-19, poverty, unfairness, informal economy, solidarity economy Co-Editors: – Andrzej Klimczuk, SGH Warsaw School of Economics…

  4. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing. A Sociological Perspective

    …ions in the incidence of communicable diseases and mortality rates from non-communicable diseases. The pandemic threatens to reverse or stall much of this progress. As of June 2021, the global death toll from COVID-19 stood at 3.7 million, with manifold wider ramifications of the disease. Ninety per cent of countries are still reporting one or more disruptions to essential health services, and available data indicates that the pandemic has shorten…

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

    …ic management, and organizational management-related issues, including multi-level, multi-stakeholder, and multi-sectoral approaches to healthy and age-friendly environments, cities, and communities. – A collaborative and thoughtful approach to urban design and urban living that prioritizes climate-resilient infrastructure, inclusion, and accessible urban green spaces. – Overcoming barriers in implementing inclusive green infrastructure with the u…

  6. OPEN ACCESS BOOK: Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone

    by Jean Dreze, Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Ranchi University, India A wide-ranging collection of articles on social development in India authored by prominent economist and expert Jean Dreze Includes a detailed introduction on the basic principles of ‘research for action’ Provides a retrospective on social policy debates in India during the last 15 years A unique insight into social development in India Jean Dreze, development ec…

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

    …ders the importance of freedom of choice, individual heterogeneity and multi-dimensional nature of welfare. Human capabilities are constructed in terms of the substantive freedoms people have a reason to value, rather than of their utility or access to resources. It emphasizes not only the way human beings actually function but also their capability, which is a practical choice that will allow them to function in important ways, if they wish to do…

  8. Latin American Network: Introduction

    …atin America both in Spanish and Portuguese. It has organized a number of bi-annual conferences that had taken place in different cities in the region such as México City (2006, Universidad Iberoamericana), Montevideo (2008, 2016, Universidad de la República), Porto Alegre (2010, Pontificia Universidad de Rio Grande do Sul), Buenos Aires (2012, Universidad Lomas de Zamora), Lima (2014, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) and Puebla (2019, Un…

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