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

    …, immunization coverage, suicide rates, and reductions 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 avai…

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

    …treets and open public spaces averaged 16 per cent in 2020, below the UN recommendation of 30 per cent for streets and an additional 10 to 15 per cent for open public spaces. The pandemic has only exacerbated these conditions for many urban dwellers, further reducing the likelihood of this goal being reached by 2030. With nearly two thirds of the world’s population expected to be living in urban areas by 2050, significant efforts are needed to ens…

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

    …tted through this link, using the “Submit your manuscript” button: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/30652/ and must follow paper templates available here: https://www.frontiersin.org/about/author-guidelines#Templates Publishing solutions: – Manuscripts will be peer reviewed, and if accepted for publication, are subject to publishing fees, which vary depending on the article type (https://www.frontiersin.org/about/publishing-fees). A dis…

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

    …policy, with special reference to India. He is co-author (with Amartya Sen) of Hunger and Public Action (Oxford University Press, 1989) and An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Penguin, 2013). http://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/openaccess/9780198833468.pdfhttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/sense-and-solidarity-9780198833468?cc=us&lang=en&# https://global.oup.com/academic/product/sense-and-solidarity-9780198833468?cc…

  5. HDCA Member Views on the Capability Approach

    …eads us to widen the range of policies concerned with human development, encompassing competition policy and industrial organisation, as well as the policy areas typically considered. This is where the Capability Approach makes a contribution. Melanie Walker SARCHI Chair in Higher Education & Human Development Research Programme, University of the Free State, South Africa, Education in the capability approach is about more than developing human ca…

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