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Homelessness to Hope: Research, Policy and Practices on Global Perspectives brings together stories, observations and critical appraisals that have emerged out of the interdisciplinary studies spanning across the global North and South. It explores how diverse accounts on homelessness and homeless people are situated within the structural-institutional arrangements of the developing and developed worlds. Through its comparative framework, the book offers a broader understanding of the multiple ways in which homelessness is experienced, perceived, and addressed. The book uses cross-cutting theoretical framings (such as resilience, wellbeing, social-ecological systems, sustainability, urban pl...
Climate Change, Community Response, and Resilience: Insight for Socio-Ecological Sustainability, Volume Six presents a fundamental theoretical framework for understanding how community resilience and risk assessment affect climate change adaptation behavior. This framework is based on a 26-chapter theoretical and empirical examination that includes pioneer projects from various regions that illustrate the relationship between theory and practice, reflect a paradigm shift in climate change, community response, and resilience, and focus on these important aspects from a sectoral perspective. Climate change, ecological consequences and resilience are then discussed in the final section. Members...
Early marriage has significant social, political, and health implications that impact individuals, families, and communities. Socially, early marriage often hinders opportunities for education, personal development, and economic independence, and can perpetuate cycles of poverty and gender inequality. Politically, it raises concerns about human rights, legal frameworks, and access to justice, as many countries struggle to address the legal and cultural norms that enable child marriage. In terms of health, early marriage is linked to increased risks of maternal and child health complications, as young brides are more likely to experience early pregnancies, unsafe childbirth, and long-term phy...
The book emphasizes the digitalization process in halal management of products and industries, which relate to the comparisons and cases in many countries viewed from an Islamic perspective. It needs a new view of using information technology to achieve wider coverage of promoting halal products as well as to develop the halal industries. A global perspective that consists of experiences from Muslim majority and minority countries will be presented in this book. This topic is also associated with the concepts on Islamic business and management. Islamic business not only focuses on finance/banking, but beyond that Islam teaches all people to do Shariah-compliant transactions or business. The book gives solutions to halal industry through digitalization. Islam has many solutions to be offered, and thus, it is important to reveal and discuss the Islamic way of managing business, including halal management. The book also discusses the halal products and its certifications. This book is intended for stakeholders of different industries, from environmental to food, in the need of digital tools and IT infrastructure.
This is an open access book. This proceeding consists of research presented in ICOSI UMY, on 20-21 July 2022 at Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta. The conference covers the topic of governance, international relations, law, education, humanities, and social sciences. The COVID-19 pandemic first time that occurred in 2019, has brought many changes that constrain all countries to adapt quickly. The crisis has shown vulnerabilities and gaps in several primary systems, including healthcare, social protection, education, value chains, production networks, financial markets, and the ecosystem. One of the efforts that each country can take to rise from the COVID-19 pandemic is through strengtheni...
The 1th International Conference on Islamics History and Civilization (ICON-ISHIC 2020) is organized by the Research Institutions and Community Service Universitas Islam Negeri Walisongo Semarang. The aims of the conference are to provide a platform to the researchers, experts, and practitioners from academia, to discover, develop and abstract the understanding of the position of Muslims in the global context; To Critically evaluate the identity of the Muslims in the Globalized World in its integration and contribution; To examine and criticise various forms of expression and articulation of Islam in its relevance in the development of society; To review the relation and significance of the discourse and practice of Islam in combating radicalism; To understand and map the danger of environmental degradation as well as further align and promote on conserving the environment; To explore and seek the reinterpretation of Gender Role in the light of Quranic Interpretation in the field of mathematics, science education and environment studies.
Pembangunan sosial dalam pekerjaan sosial tidak hanya dilihat dari perspektif teori makro namun juga dapat menggunakan perspektif teori mikro. Pemahaman ini akan memudahkan kita dalam menjelaskan berbagai fenomena sosial termasuk kerusakan lingkungan, bencana banjir, prilaku prososial, kemiskinan dan birokrasi, perdagangan manusia dan perdagangan anak yang dilacurkan serta dampak berita palsu dalam pembangunan. Ada banyak faktor penyebab kerusakan lingkungan yang mengancam keberlanjutan kehidupan makhluk di planet bumi ini. Dari sejumlah faktor ini, akar utamanya ada pada pandangan dunia yang membentuk watak eksploitatif manusia. Pandangan dunia seseorang membentuk kesadaran, sikap, dan tind...
Perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan menjadi tantangan dan motivasi tersendiri bagi peneliti untuk melakukan penelitian dengan meminimalisir motivasi-motivasi yang kurang ideal, sehingga masalah yang dijumpai dapat terjawab sesuai kaidah-kaidah keilmuan dan tujuan yang diharapkan dari penelitian tersebut. Dalam keperluan itulah, buku Konsep Dasar Metodologi Penelitian ini sengaja penulis hadirkan untuk pembaca. Tujuan buku ini adalah sebagai panduan bagi setiap orang yang ingin mempelajari dan memperdalam ilmu pengetahuan.
This is the first comprehensive book that provides accessible, international knowledge for practitioners, students and academics about social work in health emergencies and spans fields of practice across world regions with particular reference to the COVID-19 pandemic. Divided into three sections: • Regional, Historical and Social Work Perspectives takes a journey through world regions during the first six months of the pandemic as it unfolded, explores the lessons found in the history of pandemics and situates public health social work practice in the values of the profession. Situating the diversity of challenges and opportunities in context, in turn, influences current and future socia...
Disaster relief and management in Indonesia from religious and cultural perspectives.