development policy as way to manage climate change risks

Political Money: Deregulating American Politics: Selected

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Anderson, Annelise / Abrams, Floyd / Allen, Michael Patrick, PUBLISHER: Hoover Institution Press, In this policy primer on campaign finance reform, Annelise Anderson sorts through the rhetoric, congressional hearings, and public debate to describe the current rules and regulations and to prescribe viable options for change.

Work + Life

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Yost, Cali Williams, PUBLISHER: Riverhead Books, The empowering new 3-step guide to combining work and life strategically, creatively, and successfully. The message is simple: Work doesn't have to be all or nothing. There are countless combinations of work and life between these extremes. People can change the way work fits into their lives, in a way that's good for employees and employers. "Work+Life" provides the tools to adjust the "work" portion of life in order to have more time and/or energy for personal responsibilities and interests. Even a small change can make a big difference. Industry expert Cali Yost has been working with people on all sides of the issue: employees and managers at companies such as General Electric/NBC, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals, and Ernst & Young, and EAPs nationwide that help companies help their employees. They all say the same thing-"Work+Life" is the missing piece of the puzzle, putting readers on the cutting edge of the workplace revolution.

The Maxwell Manual for Good Citizenship: Public Policy Skill

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Coplin, Bill, Professor, PUBLISHER: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, This is a completely revised update of the third edition of Public Policy Skills. That manual has been used to teach more than students at Syracuse University and in a college credit course taught at more than 50 high schools as part of the academic program of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, the Number 1 school of public affairs in the country. Using this book and taking a course based on it prepares you to bring your heart and your mind to solving the many problems that we face in the twenty-first century. The book teaches students the essential components for public policy analysis; how to get information from published sources and individuals; how to survey stakeholders; formulate public policy; examine costs and benefits of a policy; develop political strategies; write a briefing paper; research and write a quantitative research paper; among other skills.

Living with Fire: Fire Ecology and Policy for the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jensen, Sara E. / McPherson, Guy R., PUBLISHER: University of California Press, Fire, both inevitable and ubiquitous, plays a crucial role in North American ecosystems. But as necessary as fire is to maintaining healthy ecosystems, it threatens human lives and livelihoods in unacceptable ways. This volume explores the rich yet largely uncharted terrain at the intersection of fire policy, fire science, and fire management in order to find better ways of addressing this pressing dilemma. Written in clear language, it will help scientists, policy makers, and the general public, especially residents of fire-prone areas, better understand where we are today in regard to coping with wildfires, how we got here, and where we need to go. Drawing on abundant historical and analytic information to shed new light on current controversies, "Living with Fire "offers a dynamic new paradigm for coping with fire that recognizes its critical environmental role. The book also tells how we can rebuild the important ecological and political processes that are necessary for finding better ways to cope with fire and with other complex policy dilemmas.

OECD Economic Surveys: Germany

ISBN: , SKU: , PUBLISHER: OECD, OECD's Economic Survey of Germany examines: Growth is slowing after an extraordinary rebound from the recession; Structural reforms for stronger and more sustainable growth; Bibliography; -nnex A1. Progress in structural reform; Chapter 1. The German labour market: preparing for the future; Past labour market reforms paid off handsomely during the crisis; Long-term challenges remain; Annex 1.A1. Estimating Okun's law for Germany; -Annex 1.A2. The impact of the sectoral composition of the recession on the unemployment response; Annex 1.A3. The impact of labour shortages on labour market outcomes; Chapter 2. Climate change policies: make ambition pay; Germany has committed itself to challenging reductions in greenhouse gas emissions; Climate change policies need to become more cost-efficient; Continuing the green growth success story

The Senate, Treaties and National Security,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pitsvada / Pitsvada, Bernard T., PUBLISHER: University Press of America, The end of the military phase of the 45-year Cold War represents a significant victory for the U.S. and western policy. This book examines selected aspects of this successful policy to gather some lessons that may be applicable in the future to other policy areas. The major framework within which the various individual actions were taken in our national security interest were a series of treaties proposed and enacted over the early years of the Cold War, most of which were enacted before . This book focuses further on the role of the Senate in this process of treaty making as the provider of advice and consent and as the surrogate for the entire legislative branch in this field.

The Economics of Imperfect Competition: A Spatial Approach

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Greenhut, Melvin L. / Norman, George / Hung, Chao-Shun, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This book takes a new approach to traditional price theory and to the analysis of imperfect competition. It represents a breakthrough in the development of a 'new' microeconomic theory. Increasingly, it has been recognized that the perfectly competitive paradigm is inappropriate to the explanation of pricing behaviour in many 'real life' markets characterized by a significant separation between producers and consumers. The spatial perspective adopted by the authors provides a natural separation of markets, but provides as well a powerful analogy for apparently nonspatial issues such as product differentiation, pricing over time, problems of storage and transportation, and the economics of intraindustry trade and of the multinational enterprise. A major concern of The Economics of Imperfect Competition: A Spatial Approach is to make these analogies explicit by applying this spatial analysis to a wide variety of nonspatial problems. In addition, the analysis and results presented in this book are shown to carry signficant policy implications with respect, for example, to the Robinson-Patman legislation, antimerger policies, and antidumping legislation. In particular, the authors have addressed issues that are of increasing concern to specialists, researchers, policy makers, and students in the areas of price theory, industrial organization, international trade, and regional and urban economics.

Mysticism and Dissent: Socioreligious Thought in Qajar Iran

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bayat, Mangol, PUBLISHER: Syracuse University Press, This updated history examines the complex origins of religious dissent in nineteenth-century Qajar Iran (then known to Westerners as Persia), and how it provided a mood and attitude that led to far-reaching political dissent, culminating in the establishment of a new government in . Bayat extracts social and political thought from theological treatises to show how a centuries-long tradition of reform in Shia thought helped pave the way for modern secular change. She also concludes that as a result of the failed attempt of doctrinal reforms and the subsequent secularization of political thought, socioreligious conflicts were left unresolved, generating tensions that were to explode generations later.

Toward a Sociology of the Trace

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gray, Herman / Macarena, Gmez-Barris / Gomez-Barris, Macarena, PUBLISHER: University of Minnesota Press, Using culture as an entry point, and informed by the work of contemporary social theorists, the essays in this volume identify and challenge sites where the representational dimension of social life produces national identity through scripts of belonging, or traces. The contributors utilize empirically based studies of social policy, political economy, and social institutions to offer a new way of looking at the creation of meaning, representation, and memory. They scrutinize subjects such as narratives in the U.S. coal industry's change from digging mines to removing mountaintops; war-related redress policies in post-World War II Japan; views of masculinity linked to tequila, Pancho Villa, and the Mexican Revolution; and the politics of subjectivity in s political violence in Thailand. Contributors: Sarah Banet-Weiser, U of Southern California; Barbara A. Barnes, U of California, Berkeley; Marie Sarita Gaytan; Avery F. Gordon, U of California, Santa Barbara; Tanya McNeill, U of California, Santa Cruz; Sudarat Musikawong, Willamette U; Akiko Naono, U of Kyushu; Rebecca R. Scott, U of Missouri.

Lotto di n. 48 libri su ambiente e sviluppo sostenibile - in

Lotto di circa n. 48 libri in inglese su tematiche ambientali e di sviluppo sostenibile Condizioni di conservazione variabili; per lo più molto buone o ottime. Occasionali annotazioni e/o sottolineature. Cedo esclusivamente in blocco. Elenco a seguire per autore principale nel formato: Autore, Titolo, Editore, anno di pubblicazione - AAVV, Conserving biodiversity, National Academy Press, - Andrews et al., An Introduction to Environmental Chemistry, Blackwell, - Barton, Sustainable Communities, Earthscan, - Beder, Global spin - the corporate assault on environmentalism, Arrowsmith, - Bell et al., Sustainability indicators, Earthscan, - Bishop et al., The Environment, Collins, - Blair et al., Environment and business, Routledge, - Blowers et al., Planning for a sustainable environment, Earthscan - Blowers et al., Environmental policy in an international contest - vol. 1: perspectives, Arnold, - Blowers et al., Environmental policy in an international contest - vol. 2: conflicts, Arnold, - Blowers et al., Environmental policy in an international contest - vol. 1: prospects, Arnold, - Capra, The web of life, HarperCollins, - Dawson, Global climate change, Oxford University Press, - Dodds et al., Earth summit , Earthscan, - Elcome, The fragile environment, Stanley Thornes, - Elkington et al., The new foods guide, Gollancz, - Fodor, Better - not bigger, New society, - Goering et al., From the ground up - rethinking industrial agriculture, Zed books, - Goldsmith, The trap, Macmillan, - Gouldson et al., Integrating environment + economy, Routledge - Hewett et al., European environmental almanac, Earthscan - Hodge, Environmental economics, Macmillan, - Inoguchi et al., Cities and the environment, United Nations University Press, - Kenny et al., Planning Sustainability, Routledge, - Khalid, Islam and ecology, Cassell, - Leal Filho et al., Innovative Approaches to Education for Sustainable Development, Lang, - Lovelock, The ages of Gaia, WW Norton, - Madeley, Trade and the poor, Intermediate Technology Publications, - Mannion et al., Environmental issues in the s, Wiley, - Mather et al., Environmental Resources, Longman, - Mellanby, Waste and pollution, HarperCollins, - Middleton, The Global Casino, Arnold, - Mulgan, Connexity, Vintage, - Myers, The Gaia atlas of Future Worlds, Robertson McCarta, - Parry et al., Climate impact and adaption assessment, Earthscan, - Ramade, Ecology of natural resources, Wiley, - Roberts, The choice - a fable of free trade and protectionism, Prentice Hall, - Roy et al., Economic development and environment - a case study of India, Oxford University Press, - Seager et al., The state of the environment atlas, Penguin, - Sheldon et al., Installing environmental management systems, Earthscan, - Slater et al., People and environment, Collins, - Smyth et al., The green guide, Argus Books, - Starke et al., Vital Signs , Earthscan - Warburton et al., Community & sustainable development, Earthscan, - Westings et al., Environmental hazards of war, Sage, - Whitelegg, Transport for a sustainable future, Wiley, - Wibe, Forests - market and intervention failures, Earthscan, - Zachariah, Science for social revolution - achievements and dilemmas of a development movement: the case of Kerala, Zed Books,

Negotiate Your Commercial Lease: A Tenant's Guide to Real

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Willerton, Dale, PUBLISHER: Self-Counsel Press, Save money and protect yourself When a small business owner signs a commercial lease, he or she is putting thousands of dollars and the future of the business on the line. The typical tenant enters into the leasing process at a severe disadvantage. No simple two or three clause change is sufficient to protect a tenant from the many risks involved in leasing. This valuable, comprehensive guide has been designed to help every small business negotiate its next or upcoming lease effectively and fairly. By following its advice, tenants can ensure that they aren't paying more than neccessary or are taking on bigger risks than needed.

Women Organising

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brown, Helen, PUBLISHER: Routledge, "Women Organising" is the first study to bring organization theory and the real-life experiences of women organizing together. Helen Brown uses the example of the Greystone Women's Centre in Britain to illustrate the struggles of women seeking to manage without becoming bureaucratized, to find a sense of direction without relying on leaders, to participate fully as leaders, and above all, to create a truly collective form of organization.

Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bernstein, Henry, PUBLISHER: Kumarian Press, Development processes are never neutral. They impact various groups and classes of people differently. A high food price may benefit some rich peasants who produce and sell food surplus, but it may disadvantage landless rural laborers. A project on irrigation may benefit those who own the land, but not the landless tenants. Nowadays, official documents by governments and development agencies tend to lump different groups of people into vague categories like 'rural poor'. This might be useful in some cases, but in large part this thinking can harm the poorest of the poor. "Agrarian Change Today" demonstrates the continuing relevance of class analysis in understanding development processes and outcomes. It shows clearly and accessibly how the argument for 'bringing class back in' provides an alternative to inherited conceptions of the agrarian question on one hand, and to widespread notions of 'people of the land', 're-peasantization', and so on, on the other. It illustrates what is at stake in different ways of thinking about class dynamics and the effects of agrarian change in today's globalized world.

Organizations and Technical Change: Strategy, Objectives and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Preece, David A. / Preece, David / Preece, PUBLISHER: Cengage Learning Emea, Based on Managing the Adoption of New Technology David Preece extends the study to assess the nature of technology strategy and the way it impacts on organizational change. It describes key management techniques needed for effective adoption of technology covering: * the development of strategy * the implementation of objectives * the importance of employee involvement Four case studies examine in detail a variety of managemnet approaches and show adoption of technology and the issues involved have changed since the 's. This book is essential reading for students and researchers in technology management and related areas.

Childhood Cognitive Development

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lee, Kang, PUBLISHER: Wiley-Blackwell, Cognitive Development: The Essential Readings includes articles from leading researchers such as Piaget, Frith, and Flavell.

Urban Change and Conflict: An Interdisciplinary Reader

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Blowersetal / Blowers, Andrew T. / Brook, Chris R. P., PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), The articles in this reader have been grouped into five sections and together they provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary urban development in industrial societies. The scope is broader than that of other available urban readers in that it attempts to give balanced coverage not only to intraurban structure but also to intraurban relations and urban societal issues. The role of planning and state intervention in contemporary urban development, given scant attention elsewhere, is also fully discussed.

Power Up Your Library: Creating the New Elementary School

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Salmon, Sheila / Goldfarb, Elizabeth K. / Greenblatt, Melinda, PUBLISHER: Libraries Unlimited, Based on the methods of the New York City Library Power Program, this is a practical handbook for revitalizing or rebuilding the school library. Putting the many facets of the media specialist's professional life into the context of a flexibly scheduled, collaboratively planned teaching program, the book offers simple strategies for effecting positive change. It covers such topics as the librarian's role as teacher, programming, assessment, collection development, facilities, technology, the library budget, support staff, and public relations. Written for the school library media specialist who has or plans to have a library that conforms to today's vision of an effective school library media program, this book places the library media center at the heart of the school's educational program and shows how to position the library as the catalyst for school reform.

Calculated Risks The Toxicity and Human Health Risks of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Joseph V Rodricks, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, NA

Text as Culture: Teaching Through Literature

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Schofer, Peter, PUBLISHER: Heinle & Heinle Publishers, TEXT AS CULTURE: TEACHING THROUGH LITERATURE trains current and prospective language teachers how to teach with literature. The book demonstrates precise methods to teach students to write before they speak, to read as they learn to absorb vocabulary, and to use their imaginations as they learn grammar rules.

Climate Change in Power Economic Instruments for European

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Christiaan Vrolijk, PUBLISHER: Royal Institute of International Affairs, NA

Economic Change Governance and Natural Resource Wealth: The

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Reed, David / David Reed / Kaimowitz, David, PUBLISHER: Routledge, This book confronts the stark realities of how the economic and political reforms imposed in southern Africa have affected sectors based on agriculture, mining, tourism and forestry and what they have meant for the poor and the environment. It asks why the reforms evolved as they did, who has gained and who has lost. It shows that, with very few exceptions, the changes have benefited foreign companies and domestic elites, fostering corruption and monopolies and undermining civil society and political life. From this it explains what will have to be done by the international development and business communities to reverse these trends and stimulate the development of effective institutions for long-term, sustainable prosperity and social vitality.

Controversies in Macroeconomics: Growth, Trade and Policy

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dixon, Maurice, Jr. / Dixon, Robert Ed. / Dixon, Huw David, PUBLISHER: Wiley-Blackwell, "Controversies in Macroeconomics: Growth, Trade and Policy" presents debates from the world's leading researchers on some of the most important issues in economics today. Accessible to the general economics reader, this book is ideal for advanced undergraduates and graduates in intermediate macroeconomics, macroeconomic theory, development economics, growth theory and trade theory.

Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sternberg, Robert J., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, For thirty years, Robert J. Sternberg has been among the most vocal critics of narrow conceptions of intelligence. In Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized Sternberg critically reviews and summarizes the best research available on human intelligence. He argues that any serious understanding of intelligence must go beyond the standard paper and pencil tests currently in use. In addition to analytical and quantitative abilities, a theory of intelligence must take account of peoples??? creative abilities ??? their ability to go beyond given information and imagine new and exciting ways of reformulating old problems. It must also take into account peoples??? ability to weigh options carefully and act prudently. Understanding one??'s own intellectual shortcomings and learning how to overcome, Sternberg argues, is just as important as developing one??'s strengths. As he weaves his way through decades of important research on these questions, Sternberg develops a vision of human intelligence that is far more nuanced and accurate than anything previously offered. Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized is essential reading for psychologists, cognitive scientists, educators, and organizational researchers. Robert J. Sternberg is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology at Tufts University. Prior to being at Tufts, he was IBM Professor of Psychology and Education, Professor of Management in the School of Management, and Director of the Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise at Yale University. This center, now relocated to Tufts, is dedicated to the advancement of theory, research, practice, and policy advancing thenotion of intelligence as developing expertise, as a construct that is modifiable and capable, to some extent, of development throughout the lifespan. Author of over articles, chapters, and books, Sternberg??'s research focuses on intelligence, creativity, and wisdom, and he has studied love and close relationships as well as hate.

Women in Washington: Advocates for Public Policy

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tinker, Irene, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), The book synthesizes the successes and failures of two decades in the struggle to improve the lives of American women through the political process. Many of the contributors have worked in federal government, and they consider such areas as education, employment, law and business -- testifying to the wider social and political role that so-called 'women's issues' have played in shaping American society since the early s. This book is destined to shape the agenda of the women's movement for the next generation. '...the text is a wonderful resource for students of political science, organizational change, and women's studies.' -- Choice, May 'Written in a lucid and jargon-free style, the book provides both the general reader and the professional with new information on much-studied issues such as the ERA...' -- Perspective

A Constitution for the European Union

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Blankart, Charles Beat / Mueller, Dennis C., PUBLISHER: MIT Press (MA), The leaders of European Union member states have declared that a European constitution should take "a clear, open, effective, democratically controlled Community approach." Their goal--that within the Union, "European institutions should be brought closer to its citizens"--raises many questions about implementation. What is the most effective procedure for connecting citizens' preferences to political action and policy choices at the EU level? The contributors to this CESifo volume, internationally prominent economists and other scholars, address the major issues that arise in the writing of a constitution. They do so with the underlying assumption that individuals are rational actors and the goal of the state is to advance their collective interests. The ten chapters consider such topics as how a constitution might be designed to prevent military conflict, whether the EU will evolve "by default" into a federal state, the apparent contradiction between the evolutionary development of the EU and the static structure of the constitution, the definition of citizenship and rights, the division and distribution of power, the budgetary deadlock on the provision of public goods and the redistribution of resources, coordinating policy, alternative methods for choosing an EU president, and the role of such direct democracy institutions as referenda and initiatives. The editors conclude by summing up the main arguments advanced to offer a unified approach to these issues.

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