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Published Jan. 3, 2013 8:08 AM

Edited by Mark Luccarelli and Per Gunnar Røe this volume offers a critical assessment of the urban environmental policy making approach to the development of Oslo. It describes the limitations and opportunities inherent in 'green Oslo' and suggests the need for much broader integrative approaches. It concludes by highlighting lessons which other cities might learn from Oslo.

You can read more about the book at routledge.com

Published Dec. 13, 2012 2:48 PM

Arnlaug Leira is one of three editors of this two volume collection of articles on family policies.

‘A genuinely international and hugely valuable collection of papers on one of the most important strands in modern social policy scholarship. It also has a powerful editorial introduction that is likely to become a standard reference point.’ – Howard Glennester, London School of Economics, UK

Learn more at Edward Elgar Publishing

Published Aug. 24, 2011 1:25 PM

Associate Professor Katrine Fangen at Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, and Professor Ann Mari Sellerberg at Department of Sociology, Lund University in Sweden, have edited the anthology, Mange ulike metoder (Many Different Methods). The book is published simultaneously in Norway and Sweden by Gyldendal Akademisk and Förlaget Studentliteratur, and is now available in Norwegian books stores.

Norwegian publisher's website

Published June 20, 2011 12:47 PM

Indicators of Children's Well-Being: Theory and Practice in a Multi-Cultural Perspective has now been translated to Chinese and published by the Taiwan Fund for Children and Families

Series: Social Indicators Research Series , Vol. 36

Ben-Arieh, Asher; Frønes, Ivar (Eds.)

Reprinted from SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH, 80:1, 83:1 and 84:3 and CHILD INDICATORS RESEARCH, 1:1, 2008 2009, XII, 592 p., Hardcover