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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Greens - Towards Hegemony in the Anthropocene -- 1. The Green Awakening -- 2. Green Philosophy, Science and Social Theory -- 3. Green Parties all over the World -- 4. Green Policies: Building Stones of a Green Ideology -- 5. Greens in Governments -- 6. Green Global Governance for the Twenty-First Century -- Appendix: Green Parties in 100 Countries -- Notes -- Index.

SECTION ONE: ASSESSING THE DAMAGE: Globalisation: the economics of insecurity -- Democracy for sale -- A world in decline -- Globalising poverty, inequality, and unemployment -- SECTION TWO: THE GREEN ALTERNATIVE: Economic localisation -- SECTION THREE: TURNING THE TIDE: Connecting hearts and minds -- Learning from history -- Storming the citadels: sacking Bretton Woods and the WTO -- SECTION FOUR: APPLYING THE ALTERNATIVE: Local food: the global solution -- Localising money -- A new context for multilateralism

• Summary: This article reports an audit of people considered for transfer from a hospice to a nursing home for end-of-life care and discusses implications for patients, families and staff. • Findings: Moving patients to nursing homes at the end of their lives is often distressing for both patients and families and in many cases patients die within a short time of transfer. Few patients are actually transferred although many more are asked to face this possibility often creating unnecessary anxiety. This may have adverse consequences for family members' bereavement. • Applications : There is a weak evidence base for transferring patients from hospices to nursing homes. Palliative care services assume a short in-patient stay to ration an expensive scarce resource. Assessment with social work contributions identifying complex emotional, family and bereavement consequences may allow multidisciplinary teams to justify longer hospice stays by identifying more complex needs to justify better substantive equality between patients.