Future Directions in Social Development

✍ Scribed by James Midgley, Manohar Pawar (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 286
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book invites readers to think about future directions in social development. The book succinctly presents the historical context and progress of social development. By reflecting on the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals, it discusses the increasing global relevance of several critical themes and issues such as human rights and good governance, participation, peace, gender, environment, religion and spirituality, aging, social protection and partnership. It appreciates the importance of goals and targets, but calls to look beyond them to visualise future directions in social development. The book argues that values-driven social development needs to focus on knowledge creation, dissemination and training, draw on multidisciplinary knowledge and professionals, promote conscientious consumption, create less unequal societies and engage in innovation that brings happiness to everyone.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Social Development Forging Ahead....Pages 3-19
Social Development in Historical Context....Pages 21-40
Social Development: Progress So Far....Pages 41-57
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Human Rights-Based and Good Governance Approaches to Social Development....Pages 61-77
The Need for Enhanced Community Participation....Pages 79-98
Conflict, Peace and Social Development....Pages 99-118
Gender Equality and Social Development....Pages 119-139
Social Development, the Environment, and the Future of the Planet....Pages 141-163
Global Ageing, Social Development, and the Well-Being of the World’s Elders....Pages 165-186
Religion, the Spiritual Dimension and Social Development....Pages 187-204
Social Protection and Social Development....Pages 205-226
Enhancing Global Cooperation in Social Development....Pages 227-249
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
Beyond Goals and Targets: Future of Social Development....Pages 253-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-281

✦ Subjects

Comparative Politics;Development and Social Change;Poverty, Aid and Development;Social Aspects of Religion;Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights

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