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village --- rural development --- food security --- social sustainability --- self-sufficiency --- rural resilience

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A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions. The economic facts of inequality are clear. The rich have been pulling away from the rest of us for years, and the super-rich have been pulling away from the rich. More and more assets are concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. Mainstream economists say we need not worry; what matters is growth, not distribution. In The Return of Inequality, acclaimed sociologist Mike Savage pushes back, explaining inequality’s profound deleterious effects on the shape of societies. Savage shows how economic inequality aggravates cultural, social, and political conflicts, challenging the coherence of liberal democratic nation-states. Put simply, severe inequality returns us to the past. By fracturing social bonds and harnessing the democratic process to the strategies of a resurgent aristocracy of the wealthy, inequality revives political conditions we thought we had moved beyond: empires and dynastic elites, explosive ethnic division, and metropolitan dominance that consigns all but a few cities to irrelevance. Inequality, in short, threatens to return us to the very history we have been trying to escape since the Age of Revolution. Westerners have been slow to appreciate that inequality undermines the very foundations of liberal democracy: faith in progress and trust in the political community’s concern for all its members. Savage guides us through the ideas of leading theorists of inequality, including Marx, Bourdieu, and Piketty, revealing how inequality reimposes the burdens of the past. At once analytically rigorous and passionately argued, The Return of Inequality is a vital addition to one of our most important public debates.

Income distribution --- Social change --- Regression (Civilization) --- Equality --- History --- Bourdieu. --- Cultural capital. --- Elites. --- Empire. --- Income. --- Inequality. --- Meritocracy. --- Piketty. --- Racism. --- Sexism. --- Social class. --- Social sustainability. --- Wealth.

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"This open access book explores creative and collaborative research methods within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity is used in reference to both individual methods and overarching research approaches that, through socially inclusive forms of action and reflection, stimulate alternative understandings of why and how things are, and how they could be. Supported by a wide-ranging series of in-depth—including chapters on militant research and guerrilla narrative, decolonial participative approaches, appreciate inquiry and care-ethics, deep-mapping, photo-voice, community-arts, digital participatory mapping, and living labs—the edited collection critically reviews the potential of creative, collaborative and transdisciplinary forms of research praxis to nurture just and transformative processes of change."

Environmental sciences. --- Environmental psychology --- Human geography. --- Methodology. --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Cognitive ergonomics --- Ecological psychology --- Ecopsychology --- Ecotherapy --- Environmental quality --- Environmental social sciences --- Human factors science --- Psychoeology --- Psychology --- Psychotherapy --- Ecological Systems Theory --- Environmental science --- Science --- Psychological aspects --- sustainability --- transdisciplinary --- methods --- mixed methods --- creative research methods --- social sustainability science --- research methods --- resilient --- environmental practice --- open access

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This book takes a close look at the interrelated phenomena of international business migrants and rural migrant workers in Shanghai. Through separate case studies it observes them in parallel and sheds light on the spatial implications of both groups'migrant status. The authors'uncovering of harsh and inadequate living and working conditions affecting rural migrant workers in the construction industry in Shanghai leads to the development of a concept of »Fair Building«, a socially-conscious architecture that calls for accountability in ensuring that stakeholders involved in the construction process contribute to a sustainable urbanization.

E-books --- S11/1080 --- China: Social sciences--Migration inside China --- Construction workers --- Migrant labor --- Foreign workers --- Urbanization --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Alien labor --- Aliens --- Foreign labor --- Guest workers --- Guestworkers --- Immigrant labor --- Immigrant workers --- Migrant labor (Foreign workers) --- Migrant workers (Foreign workers) --- Labor, Migrant --- Migrant workers --- Migrants (Migrant labor) --- Migratory workers --- Transient labor --- Employment --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Employees --- Casual labor --- Construction industry --- Noncitizen labor --- Noncitizens --- Construction Process; Migration; Shanghai; China; Fair Building; Social Sustainability; City; Work; Urban Studies; Sociology of Work and Industry; Asia; Sociology --- Asia. --- China. --- City. --- Fair Building. --- Migration. --- Shanghai. --- Social Sustainability. --- Sociology of Work and Industry. --- Sociology. --- Urban Studies. --- Work.

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In the competitive business environment or public domain, the sustainability assessment in supply chain and infrastructure management are important for any organization. Organizations are currently striving to improve their sustainable strategies through preparedness, response, and recovery because of increasing competitiveness, community, and regulatory pressure. Thus, it is necessary to develop a meaningful and more focused understanding of sustainability in supply chain management and infrastructure management practices. In the context of a supply chain, sustainability implies that companies identify, assess, and manage impacts and risks in all the echelons of the supply chain, considering downstream and upstream activities. Similarly, the sustainable infrastructure management indicates the ability of infrastructure to meet the requirements of the present without sacrificing the ability of future generations to address their needs. The complexities regarding sustainable supply chain and infrastructure management have driven managers and professionals to seek different solutions. This Special Issue aims to provide readers with the most recent research results on the aforementioned subjects. In addition, it offers some solutions and also raises some questions for further research and development toward sustainable supply chain and infrastructure management.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- green supply chain --- performance measurement --- Bayesian belief network --- sustainability --- trenchless technologies --- pipelines --- construction --- social cost --- fuzzy QFD --- flexibility --- IT flexibility --- importance‒performance analysis --- partial least squared structured equation modelling --- performance gap --- sustainable growth --- higher educational institutions --- academic buildings --- environmental performance --- performance benchmarking --- fuzzy clustering analysis --- metabolic flows --- green supply chain management --- carbon tax and cap --- can-order policy --- mixed-integer programming --- fuzzy constraints --- social sustainability --- small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) --- stakeholder support --- social sustainability awareness --- transport networks --- logistics --- simulation games --- serious games --- innovation ecosystem --- Port of Rotterdam --- complex systems --- truck platooning --- barge transport --- multi-sided platforms --- Bayesian --- geoadditive --- quantile --- P-splines --- boosting optimization --- resilience --- housing infrastructure --- flood hazard and sensitivity analysis --- shipping cost --- risk assessment and management --- conditional value-at-risk --- investment projects --- financial analysis --- economic analysis --- energy efficiency --- public buildings --- literature review --- multi-criteria decision-making --- MCDM methods --- sustainable supply chain management --- SSCM --- efficiency assessment --- operations strategy matrix --- data envelopment analysis --- healthcare systems --- COVID-19 --- green supply chain --- performance measurement --- Bayesian belief network --- sustainability --- trenchless technologies --- pipelines --- construction --- social cost --- fuzzy QFD --- flexibility --- IT flexibility --- importance‒performance analysis --- partial least squared structured equation modelling --- performance gap --- sustainable growth --- higher educational institutions --- academic buildings --- environmental performance --- performance benchmarking --- fuzzy clustering analysis --- metabolic flows --- green supply chain management --- carbon tax and cap --- can-order policy --- mixed-integer programming --- fuzzy constraints --- social sustainability --- small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) --- stakeholder support --- social sustainability awareness --- transport networks --- logistics --- simulation games --- serious games --- innovation ecosystem --- Port of Rotterdam --- complex systems --- truck platooning --- barge transport --- multi-sided platforms --- Bayesian --- geoadditive --- quantile --- P-splines --- boosting optimization --- resilience --- housing infrastructure --- flood hazard and sensitivity analysis --- shipping cost --- risk assessment and management --- conditional value-at-risk --- investment projects --- financial analysis --- economic analysis --- energy efficiency --- public buildings --- literature review --- multi-criteria decision-making --- MCDM methods --- sustainable supply chain management --- SSCM --- efficiency assessment --- operations strategy matrix --- data envelopment analysis --- healthcare systems --- COVID-19