"The Treaty of Amsterdam committed European Union Member States to tackle social exclusion: a commitment taken forward by the Lisbon meeting of EU political leaders in 2000. The aim of this book is to
Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology introduces undergraduates to the topic in an innovative way. Instead of compiling articles from professional journals, this reader presents twenty classroom-t
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The poverty rate is one of the most visible ways in which nations measure the economic well-being of their low-income citizens. To gauge whether a person is poor, European states often focus on a pers