Rapid urbanisation presents multiple opportunities, but also poses challenges for equitable distribution of gains from socio-economic developments. This systematic review explored the role social inclusion within urban sustainability agenda.Sustainable developments were conceptualised as comprising environmental, spatial, and economic perspectives; entailing access to core services (healthcare)...

Quantitative social science is not only about regression analysis or, in general, data inference. Computer simulations of social mechanisms have an over 60 years long history. They have been used for many different purposes—to test scenarios, to test the consistency of descriptive theories (proofof-concept models), to explore emerging phenomena, for forecasting, etc. In this essay, we sketch th...

INTRODUCTION The paper highlights key trajectories and outcomes of the recent policy developments toward integrated health care delivery systems in Quebec and Ontario in the primary care sector and in the development of regional networks of health and social services. It particularly explores how policy legacies, interests and cultures may be mitigated to develop and sustain different models of...

We begin with a graph (or a directed graph), a single set of nodes N , and a set of lines or arcs L. It is common to use this mathematical concept to represent a network. We use the notation of [1], especially Chapters 13 and 15. There are extensions of these ideas to a wide range of networks, including multiple relations, affiliation relations, valued relations, and social influence and select...

Abstract The poor initial resilience of the ground-breaking Brazilian urban social housing programme ‘Minha Casa, Minha Vida’(MCMV) affects millions people, who have tried to adapt their homes, survived unexpected and reinvent themselves constantly. This study delimits elements that compose concept resilience, namely: impacts, vulnerabilities adaptive capacities characterize built environment i...