In contrast with the case of health care, distributional fairness of long-term care (LTC) services in Europe has received limited attention. Given the increased relevance of LTC in the social policy agenda it is timely to evaluate the evidence on inequality and horizontal inequity by socio-economic status (SES) in the use of LTC and to identify the socio-economic factors that drive them. We add...

MULINO is an EU RTD project, funded under the FP5-EESD programme. It aims at providing a Decision Support System (DSS) targeted at solving decision problems in the management of water resources. Through the integration of socio-economic and environmental modelling techniques with geographic information system (GIS) capabilities and multi-criteria decision aids, the MULINO-DSS aspires to be an o...

Barbara A. Karanian, Ph.D. , Lecturer, previously visiting Professor, in the School of Engineering, in the Mechanical Engineering Design Group, makes it possible for teams to find unmet user needs using her proven methodsfrom a socio-cognitive psychology, art and applied design thinking perspectivethat she has developed and refined over the past few decades. In addition, she teaches some of the...

INTRODUCTION Medical schools are in general over-represented by students from high socio-economic status backgrounds. The University of Western Australia Medical School has been progressively widening the participation of students from a broader spectrum of the community both through expanded selection criteria and quota-based approaches for students of rural, indigenous and other socio-educati...

This paper explores the prospects for sustainable manufacturing. How will manufacturers respond to the future challenges in the socio-economic business environment and technological change? What is the scope for sustainable manufacturing assuming different socio-economic development paths? How will manufacturers adapt their Corporate Sustainability strategies to these developments? The paper th...