Editors:
- Integrates currently separate literatures on neighbourhood based problems and neighbourhood policies
- Provides new research findings from a range of counties and data sources
- Includes topics of interest to researchers and students across the social sciences
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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. Over the last few decades, Western governments have persistently pursued area based policies to fight such effects, despite a lack of evidence that they exist, or that these policies make a difference. The first part of this book presents case studies of perceived neighbourhood based problems in the domains of crime; health; educational outcomes; and employment. The second part of the book presents an international overview of the policies that different governments have implemented in response to these neighbourhood based problems, and discusses the theoretical and conceptual processes behind place based policy making. Case studies are drawn from a diverse range of countries including the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Australia, Canada, and the USA.
Keywords
- Educational Area based Initiatives
- International policy solutions to area based problems
- Living in deprived neighbourhoods
- Neighbourhood based problems
- Neighbourhood effects and neighbourhood policy
- Neighbourhood inequalities in health and well-being
- Neighbourhood policies
- Poverty deconcentration programs
- Problems of concentrated poverty in urban environments
- Shaping and perceptions of crime
- Spatial Concentrations of certain socioeconomic phenomena
- Spatial concentrations of health and ill health
- Spatial spill-over effects in fear and crime
- Spatially concentrated worklessness
- Urban renewal policies
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“This book sets out to interrogate the link between area-based policies, neighbourhood-based problems and ‘neighbourhood effects’, defined here as ‘the idea that the neighbourhood in which an individual lives can negatively influence their life choices across a vast range of domains’ … . The book is divided into two sections. … I would wholeheartedly recommend this book to policymakers, students and researchers engaged in this important endeavour.” (Rionach Casey, Social Policy & Administration, Vol. 49 (1), January, 2015)Editors and Affiliations
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, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
David Manley
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, OTB Research Inst for the Built Environm, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Maarten van Ham
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, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Nick Bailey
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, The Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and S, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Ludi Simpson
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, Centre for Housing Research, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom
Duncan Maclennan
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neighbourhood Effects or Neighbourhood Based Problems?
Book Subtitle: A Policy Context
Editors: David Manley, Maarten van Ham, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson, Duncan Maclennan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6695-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science and Business Dordrecht. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6694-5Published: 09 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9890-8Published: 15 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6695-2Published: 26 June 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 296
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Geography, general, Social Policy, Quality of Life Research