Neighbourhood Effects or Neighbourhood Based Problems? A Policy Context /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Manley, David. (Editor), van Ham, Maarten. (Editor), Bailey, Nick. (Editor), Simpson, Ludi. (Editor), Maclennan, Duncan. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Quality of Life.; Geography.; Social policy.; Quality of Life > Research.; Human Geography.; Social Sciences.; Geography (general).; Social Policy.; Quality of Life Research.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6695-2

This edited volume critically examines the link between area based policies, neighbourhood based problems, and neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents life chances over and above the effect of their individual characteristics. O...

Table of Contents:

• 1: Neighbourhood effects or neighbourhood based problems? A policy context: David Manley, Maarten van Ham, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson and Duncan Maclennan
• 2: Educational area based initiatives: issues of redistribution and recognition: Carlo Raffo
• 3: Spatially-concentrated worklessness and neighbourhood policies: experiences from New Labour in England: Stephen Syrett and David North
• 4: The role of neighbourhoods in shaping crime and perceptions of crime: Ian Brunton-Smith, Alex Sutherland and Jonathan Jackson
• 5: An environmental justice framework for understanding neighbourhood inequalities in health and well-being: Jamie Pearce
• 6: Capitalist urbanization affects your life chances: exorcising the ghosts of Neighbourhood Effects: Tom Slater
• 7: Social mix: international policy approaches: Keith Kintrea
• 8: Neighbourhood revitalization in Canada: towards place-based policy solutions: Neil Bradford
• 9: Neighbourhood effects and evidence in neighbourhood policy in the UK: have they been connected and should they be?: Rebecca Tunstall
• 10: Neighbourhood based policies in the Netherlands: counteracting neighbourhood effects?: Gideon Bolt and Ronald van Kempen
• 11: U.S. assisted housing programs and poverty deconcentration: a critical geographic review: George Galster
• 12: Neighbourhood effects and social cohesion: exploring the evidence in Australian urban renewal policies: Kathy Arthurson
• 13: Neighbourhoods: evolving ideas, evidence and changing policies: Duncan Maclennan.