Handbook of Social Infrastructure

Edited by Anna-Theresa Renner, Leonhard Plank and Michael Getzner

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This timely Handbook showcases cutting-edge empirical and theoretical social science research to shed light on the role, aims and functioning of social infrastructure (SI). Leading scholars present unique insights on topics such as healthcare, childcare, education, employment and SI for marginalized groups alongside cultural and recreational infrastructures.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Geography; Sociology and Social Policy; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
ISBN: 9781800883123
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Hospitals as social infrastructure: accessible for all? , pp 20-38

Anna-Theresa Renner

Ch 2 Strengthening social infrastructure in long-term care for older people: coordinated action and local empowerment in Europe , pp 39-56

Cassandra Simmons, Stefania Ilinca, Adelina Comas-Herrera, Claire Champeix, Lian Southard and Nick Zonnenveld

Ch 3 Demographic change, healthcare, and long-term care , pp 57-85

Sonja Spitzer and Claudia Reiter

Ch 4 The organization of formal childcare: inequalities in use and effects of childcare services , pp 87-106

Astrid Pennerstorfer and Michaela Neumayr

Ch 5 Locating vocational education and training within the social infrastructure of communities past and present , pp 107-121

Lorna Unwin

Ch 6 Unemployment and labor market policies , pp 122-143

Lukas Lehner and Dennis Tamesberger

Ch 7 Is social infrastructure punching below its weight in the debate on social mobility? , pp 144-158

Mathieu Steijn

Ch 8 Social infrastructure for migrants and integration , pp 160-176

Judith Kohlenberger

Ch 9 Social infrastructure in the NowHereland of undocumented migration: the case of Austria and Israel , pp 177-199

Ursula Trummer, Sonja Novak-Zezula and Lika Nusbaum

Ch 10 Homelessness and social infrastructure , pp 200-209

Simon Güntner, Nancy Meyer-Adams and Marc Diebäcker

Ch 11 Heritage and social infrastructure , pp 211-231

Ioanna Katapidi and Anne Laura Kraak

Ch 12 Cultural infrastructure as part of social infrastructure: perspectives of cultural policy and economics , pp 232-248

Michael Getzner

Ch 13 Cultural institutions in transitional China: public service and corporate development , pp 249-272

Yan Li

Ch 14 Public recreation areas as social infrastructure: empirical results from Vienna , pp 273-286

Michael Getzner

Ch 15 Urban heat waves and adaptive capacity: how can social infrastructure help reduce vulnerability? , pp 289-311

Leora Courtney-Wolfman

Ch 16 The care crisis, social infrastructure and the COVID-19 crisis , pp 312-331

Hanne Marlene Dahl and Molly Occhino

Ch 17 Social infrastructures from a global perspective: beyond the formal and informal divide , pp 333-349

Judith M. Lehner

Ch 18 Material and "providential" social infrastructures: a foundational economy perspective , pp 350-363

Filippo Barbera

Ch 19 The role of urban and regional planning in the provision of social infrastructure , pp 364-393

Jan Whittington, Dian Prasetyawati and Chin-Wei Chen

Ch 20 Housing as social infrastructure , pp 394-413

Andrej Holm

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