This book can be read at two levels: First, it is an empirical analysis of the region in the Philippines where most of the recent industrial investments and employment creation have taken place. This region is the province of Cavite located south of metropolitan Manila. The focus of the Cavite Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) is the coastal town of Rosario, which covers an area of 275 hectares. A ...

HIV/AIDS has spread hard and fast in Africa over the past two decades, over seventy percent of all new HIV infections take place in Africa (UNAIDS, 2003). Sub-Saharan Africa has been especially affected, where several countries, such as Botswana, Malawi and Swaziland, have reached adult prevalence rates of 20% and over. As the disease is increasingly impacting on the social, economic, cultural ...

Poverty is not evenly distributed across the American landscape. At the county level of aggregation, poverty is overwhelmingly a rural problem, with the most remote rural places at the greatest disadvantage.1 Although research has shown that “place matters” in poverty outcomes and policy impacts, most antipoverty policy in the U.S. is essentially place-blind, not considering how differences amo...

Today, a major range of studies in architecture and urban design have been devoted to concepts such as place attachment, place identity, and etc. In all these studies, human-human interaction, human-place interaction and the impact of place on people are fundamental subjects of analysis. Place attachment is closely related to satisfaction, emotional characteristics, physical characteristics, at...

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There is a raft of policy guidelines indicating that mental health nurses should be increasing the social inclusion of mental health service users. Despite this there is no universally accepted definition of social inclusion and there is a dearth of empirical evidence on the successful outcome of increasing inclusion for mental health service users. Recognizing the lack of clarity surrounding t...