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The Scaling Urban Nature-based Solutions for Climate Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SUNCASA) project aims to enhance climate resilience, gender equality and social inclusion, and biodiversity protection in urban communities in …

climate change hazards in Dire Dawa. Community health and the local economy are at risk from heat, …

Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, …

wall. She’s kept it for years, ever since her health food stores in Calgary and Airdrie shut down. …

Western modernity is characterized by instrumental relations between humans and nature, as well as between humans themselves, that have caused irreversible environmental and social exploitation and degradation. Many policy documents, …

illustration of the proliferation of anxiety and mental health crises among the world’s populations. How, then … when ‘an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environ- ment, precautionary measures should … Dust Bowl, this led to severe soil erosion, human health impacts and the abandonment of farms by tens of …

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society Series editors: J.T.H. Connor and … series presents books in the history of medicine, health studies, and social policy, exploring interactions … protection of a fun- damental human right: the right to health. Volumes in this series have received financial … of the history of medicine and the education of health- care professionals, and by making strategic investments … Lori Jones 60 The Smile Gap A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality Catherine Carstairs 61 …

Friendless or Forsaken? is the story of child emigration agencies operating in North West England from 1860 to 1935. The book traces the imperial relationships, transnational economy, religious networks and …

historians on criminal justice, welfare, education, health, and other areas of social change and social pol- … Poor, 1750s–1830s Steven King 2 The People’s Health Health Intervention and Delivery in Mao’s China, 1949–1983 … and upper-class officials to regulate the wealth, health, morals, and family life of the cities’ workers … emigration were based on institutional assessments of health, education, and criminal activity of children and … environ- 38 Friendless or Forsaken?ments on children’s health and morals, they also treated working-class children …

at hospitals run by the navy. Early Modern Naval Health Care in England examines the factors responsible for the emergence of centralized naval health care over the course of a century. In 1650 sick and … seamen – and it was done mostly by women. Beginning at the turn of the eighteenth century, naval health care moved to a more centralized system based in hospitals, where the conduct of sailors and care … settings, most care for convalescing sailors continued to be provided by women. Early Modern Naval Health Care in England shines a light on the care work that lay behind England’s formidable Royal Navy during …

Early ModErn naval HEaltH CarE in England, 1650–1750Mcgill-QuEEn’s/aMs HEaltHCarE studiEs in tHE History … History of MEdiCinE, HEaltH, and soCiEty Series editors: J.T.H. Connor and Erika Dyck This series presents … presents books in the history of medicine, health studies, and social policy, ex- ploring interactions … protection of a fundamental human right: the right to health. Volumes in this series have received financial … Ambulance on Safari The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile Melissa Diane Armstrong 54 …

years ahead, British Columbia is on track to become a high-debt province. This transformation in the health of BC’s finances has been the result of a fundamental shift in the government’s approach to government …

From Trench Town to the top of the world — one man's inspiring fight for meaning, dignity, and respect. Tiga’s Tale chronicles the remarkable life of world champion boxer Barrington …

of information and education about reproductive health in a highly religious community. She genuinely …

years ahead, British Columbia is on track to become a high-debt province. This transformation in the health of BC’s finances has been the result of a fundamental shift in the government’s approach to government …

The story of the audacious showman who built the greatest carnival dynasty in North America.Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of what would become …

unknown. The Renkers have each other and keep their health for most of the voyage. They do not have a clear … own, the games became essential to the financial health of carnival companies, the take from them keeping …