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Early Years and Disadvantage: Matching Developmental Circumstances in Populations to Prevention and Intervention Opportunities
In this chapter we use rich longitudinal data to examine the typical growth of vocabulary in children as they age from 4 years onwards. Vocabulary is...
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Problematizing the Just Energy Transition from a Sub-Saharan Africa Context: Insights from Key Developmental Concepts
The significance and complexity surrounding JET’s connotations and implementation, especially for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), is raising concern and...
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Pattern of household vulnerability to desertification in Yobe state, Nigeria
The study evaluates the degree and pattern of household vulnerability to desertification in Yobe State, Nigeria. Making the right decisions and...
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The Value of Transnational, Qualitative Comparative Research on Children’s Vulnerability: Methodological and Epistemological Reflections
This chapter examines the value of a transnational, qualitative approach for understanding children’s vulnerability. Using data drawn from the...
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Facing Vulnerability: Sustainable Healthcare Design in the Global South
This paper presents the results of some design and research activities developed over a fifteen-year period in the field of sustainable design...
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Becoming Resilient Subjects: Vulnerability and Resistance in Emma Donoghue’s Room
Emma Donoghue’s novel Room narrates the story of Ma, a 26-year-old woman who has been imprisoned for seven years in an eleven-by-eleven-foot...
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Developmental state theory and its application in geography
The scholarship on the developmental state has been influential in some scholarly arenas, and virtually ignored in others such as human geography....
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Introduction: The Vulnerability of Adolescence in Sub-Saharan Africa
While childhood has been a priority at the international level since the end of the Second World War, marked in particular by the creation of UNICEF,...
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A Quality of Life Perspective on Vulnerability: The Case of Young People in Flemish Youth Care
In youth care research, policy and practice, vulnerability is a highly debated concept, that is still too often approached from a deficit-oriented...
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Children’s Standpoint on Vulnerability: Implications for Social Work Practice with Children and Young People
The starting premise of this chapter is the insight made by some theorists of vulnerability, that responses to vulnerability should, to the greatest...
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The sustainability of developmental programs by the U.S. and China in Sub-Saharan Africa: a comparison of effectiveness
This descriptive comparative qualitative case study examines the sustainability of development programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. We evaluated economic,...
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Negotiating Safe Spaces: Children’s Discursive Constructions of Safety and Vulnerability in a Context of Violence
Violence against children in South Africa is a deep-seated and ubiquitous crisis. Children’s safety in this context is inextricably linked to their...
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Community Interventions in the Brazilian Context: Social Vulnerability, Life History Interviews, and Transgenerational Aspects
This chapter presents community interventions implemented in Brasília, Brazil’s capital, among socially vulnerable families, assisted by the...
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Benefiting Individuals High in Both Self-Criticism and Dependency Through an Online Multi-component Positive Psychology Intervention: Effects and Mechanisms
Personality vulnerabilities (i.e., dependency and self-criticism) have been established as critical risk factors for psychopathology in general and...
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Aging and Personal Growth. Developmental Potentials in Old Age
Human existence is characterized by the simultaneity of vulnerability and potentiality. Vulnerability is reflected above all in the susceptibility to...
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An Analysis of Climate Change Related Vulnerability Among the Forced Migrants in India
One response to climate change and natural disasters is a human migration to relatively safe places where the effect of climate change is less...
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Assessing hazards induced vulnerability in coastal districts of India using site-specific indicators: an integrated approach
Coastal districts of India being diverse in nature are under constant vulnerability to hazards. The article analyzes vulnerability as a function of...
