Lorraine Sherr, Lucie Cluver, Chris Desmond, Mark Orkin, William Rudgard, Elona Toska, Olayinka Omigbodun, Marisa Casale, Kate Orkin, Charles Falajiki, Evelyn Gitau, Henriques Andela, Heidi Stöckl, Elleke Boehmer, Douglas Webb, Louise Gordon, Mandeep Dhaliwal, Franziska Meinck
{"title":"Accelerating achievement for Africa's adolescents.","authors":"Lorraine Sherr, Lucie Cluver, Chris Desmond, Mark Orkin, William Rudgard, Elona Toska, Olayinka Omigbodun, Marisa Casale, Kate Orkin, Charles Falajiki, Evelyn Gitau, Henriques Andela, Heidi Stöckl, Elleke Boehmer, Douglas Webb, Louise Gordon, Mandeep Dhaliwal, Franziska Meinck","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>By 2050, one in four people in the world will live in Africa. The region's adolescents are our present and future but need effective services to support their holistic health and wellbeing, advance their education, allow them to flourish, and protect them from adversity. This paper reviews evidence for a new concept of 'development accelerators': interventions that can help achieve multiple Sustainable Development Goals simultaneously. Across 26 studies, the most frequently identified accelerators were government-provided social protection, positive parenting including good supervision of their adolescents, adolescent-friendly healthcare and childcare, positive gender norms, and psychosocial support. These have been shown to be highly cost-effective, giving substantial returns on investment, especially when applied in combination.</p>","PeriodicalId":46484,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Social Science","volume":"20 5","pages":"885-920"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12952748/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147349263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Winds from the East: ignored ancient Asian views on international trade and traders","authors":"Kim Tùng Đào, Peter A. G. van Bergeijk","doi":"10.1080/21582041.2024.2399808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2024.2399808","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the issue that the history of economic thought on international trade is dominated by a Western perspective and sets a first step to decolonise economic thinking by discussin...","PeriodicalId":46484,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Social Science","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142263776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reinventing public transport: rising to the transition challenge","authors":"Stephen Potter, Matthew Cook, Miguel Valdez","doi":"10.1080/21582041.2024.2399806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2024.2399806","url":null,"abstract":"This article uses the authors’ research on the MK Connect Demand Responsive Transport service to explore how innovative public transport services can be developed to address Britain’s systemic decl...","PeriodicalId":46484,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Social Science","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142191813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alex de Ruyter, Gill Bentley, David Hearne, David Bailey, Beverley Nielsen
{"title":"A ‘just transition’ for workers in the automotive sector? Survey evidence from the West Midlands","authors":"Alex de Ruyter, Gill Bentley, David Hearne, David Bailey, Beverley Nielsen","doi":"10.1080/21582041.2024.2353684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2024.2353684","url":null,"abstract":"Employment in the automotive sector is typically spatially concentrated and hence the impact of the transition to low-carbon technologies will have profound subnational effects. Although there is a...","PeriodicalId":46484,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Social Science","volume":"80 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141737877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enabling a just transition","authors":"Alex de Ruyter, Gill Bentley","doi":"10.1080/21582041.2024.2360953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2024.2360953","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":46484,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Social Science","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141502800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carla De Laurentis, Katie Beverley, Nick Clifton, Emily Bacon, Jennifer Rudd, Gary Walpole
{"title":"Exploring opportunities for public sector organisations to connect wellbeing to resource loops in a regional circular economy","authors":"Carla De Laurentis, Katie Beverley, Nick Clifton, Emily Bacon, Jennifer Rudd, Gary Walpole","doi":"10.1080/21582041.2024.2356190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2024.2356190","url":null,"abstract":"This paper contributes towards our understanding of the role of public sector organisations in delivering circular economy (CE) goals, suggesting that such organisations seek to deliver social valu...","PeriodicalId":46484,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Social Science","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141255822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transition obstructionism and ‘embodied energy injustice:’ a Wyoming case study","authors":"Matthew S. Henry","doi":"10.1080/21582041.2024.2333274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2024.2333274","url":null,"abstract":"Wyoming is the epicentre of the coal transition in the United States. The coal industry is critical to the state’s economy, both in terms of jobs and a state revenue model dependent on federal coal...","PeriodicalId":46484,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Social Science","volume":"160 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140938656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rhiannon Pugh, Taylor Brydges, Samantha Sharpe, Mariangela Lavanga, Monique Retamal
{"title":"The ‘Wellbeing Wardrobe’ as a tool to promote just transitions in the fashion and textile industry","authors":"Rhiannon Pugh, Taylor Brydges, Samantha Sharpe, Mariangela Lavanga, Monique Retamal","doi":"10.1080/21582041.2024.2341143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2024.2341143","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we discuss the pressing need for a just transition in one of our most environmentally and socially problematic contemporary industries: the fashion and textiles industry. We detail th...","PeriodicalId":46484,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Social Science","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141152077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building a democratic expertise to inform labour’s struggle for a just transition","authors":"Jane Lethbridge","doi":"10.1080/21582041.2024.2324066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2024.2324066","url":null,"abstract":"Increasingly, the concept of a just transition is shaping labour’s view of environmental justice but the experience of trade unions working towards just transitions has been mixed, although much ac...","PeriodicalId":46484,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Social Science","volume":"126 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140151061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contemporary Social Science, publishing and looking forwards","authors":"David Bailey","doi":"10.1080/21582041.2024.2303208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2024.2303208","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences (Vol. 18, No. 5, 2023)","PeriodicalId":46484,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Social Science","volume":"232 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139903413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}