This paper surveys the history and current status of children's health camps in New Zealand,
and places these sites within the theoretical context of therapeutic landscapes. The first …

New Zealand's engagement with neo-liberalism since the mid 1980s has resulted in a
profound transformation of its economy and society. As part of this process, new urban …

Economic individualism and market-based values dominate today's policymaking and public
management circles—often at the expense of the common good. In his new book, Barry …

Introduction The term''neo-liberalism''denotesnew forms of political-economic governance
premised on the extension of market relationships. In critical social science literatures, the …

Children growing up today are confronted by four difficult and intersecting challenges:
dangerous environmental change, weakening democracies, growing social inequality, and …

The aim of the book is to examine the transformation of the city in the late 20th century and
explore the ways in which city life is structured. The shift from modern-industrial to …

In this climate of the first coalition government of MMP, with its focus on the political
environment of policy making, any text on social policy would be hard pressed to hold the …

During the 1980s and early 1990s Mäori and Pacific mortality was seriously undercounted.
The undercounting occurred because ethnicity was recorded differently on death registration …

Concern at widening health and wealth inequities between communities accompanying
processes of globalization in recent years are reflected in contemporary definitions of health …

Interest in the concept of social cohesion has waxed and waned since Durkheim's
foundation studies at the end of the 19th century, with the greatest interest being in times of …