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1. Shaping Neighbourhoods

   For Local Health and Global Sustainability

   By Hugh Barton, Marcus Grant, Richard Guise

   Current policies in planning emphasise the importance of rejuvenating neighbourhoods. This new guide bridges the gap between rhetoric and reality, promoting an interprofessional and collaborative approach to making localities work. The objective is to design neighbourhoods that are healthy, safe,...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
2. Shaping Neighbourhoods

   For Local Health and Global Sustainability, 2nd Edition

   By Hugh Barton, Marcus Grant, Richard Guise

   This substantially revised and important second edition responds to a changing agenda in government policy and planning practice, putting issues of climate change and obesity at the centre of its concern. This guide ensures you: understand the underlying principles for planning healthy and...

   Published January 11th 2010 by Routledge
3. Working Together to Reduce Harmful Drinking

   Edited by Marcus Grant, Mark Leverton

   This book is intended to contribute to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. It explores areas where alcohol producers’ technical competence can and does make a positive contribution to reducing harmful drinking and where industry...

   Published October 4th 2009 by Routledge
4. Drinking in Context

   Patterns, Interventions, and Partnerships

   Edited by Gerry Stimson, Marcus Grant, Marie Choquet, Preston Garrison

   Drinking beverage alcohol is a widespread source of individual and social pleasure in most countries around the world. Yet, some drinking patterns can lead to serious physical, mental, and social harms. Drinking in Context is intended to complement existing volumes dealing with international...

   Published December 18th 2006 by Routledge
5. Corporate Social Responsibility and Alcohol

   The Need and Potential for Partnership

   Edited by Marcus Grant, Joyce O'Connor

   Series: ICAP Series on Alcohol in Society

   Increased scrutiny on the part of the general public, media, and government has warranted a reexamination of corporate responsibilities, standards of accountability, the company's role in its local and extended community, and its ethical position in our society and culture. Corporate Social...

   Published May 31st 2005 by Routledge
6. Alcohol and Pleasure

   A Health Perspective

   Edited by Stanton Peele, Marcus Grant

   Series: ICAP Series on Alcohol in Society

   There is no simple threshold between the experience of drinking and the pleasure it can bring on the one hand and the pain and suffering caused by alcohol abuse on the other. But if we are to understand the role of alcohol in society, then at the very least we need to acknowledge the pleasure as...

   Published May 31st 1999 by Routledge
7. Alcohol And Emerging Markets

   Patterns, Problems, And Responses

   Edited by Marcus Grant

   Series: ICAP Series on Alcohol in Society

   Divided into two parts, Alcohol and Emerging Markets begins with a series of case studies that assess alcohol issues in four regions - Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa - and four countries - China, India, Mexico, and Russia. Issues such as past and current...

   Published November 30th 1998 by Routledge
8. Drinking Patterns and their Consequences

   By Marcus Grant, Jorge Litvak

   Series: ICAP Series on Alcohol in Society

   Published October 31st 1997 by Taylor & Francis