Public Policy category: 4660 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The introduction of FOI in Ireland was a watershed moment in Irish democracy. It gave citizens a right to know, and abolished eighty years of official secrecy that had existed since the foundation of the State. As the new 2014 FOI Act is extended to the gardaí and the Central Bank for the first time,...
Heroin Addiction and The British System
Volume II Treatment & Policy Responses
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The British system of dealing with drug addiction is notable for its flexibility and its capacity to adapt to changing circumstances. Because of this it has attracted considerable international interest, although it is rarely fully understood or accurately represented.
Presenting a comprehensive...
EU Environmental Policy
Its journey to centre stage
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
At a time when Europeans across the continent are focused on the EU's future direction, this book provides an important contribution to the current debate. Created for reasons quite unconnected with the environment, the EU has been given a compelling new justification by the success of its environmental...
American Environmental Policy
The Failures of Compliance, Abatement and Mitigation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
More than 40 years after the United States launched bold efforts to curb pollution and waste, American environmental management has stalled. Drawing extensively on recent environmental science, engineering, regulatory agency data and trade information, American Environmental Policy explores how environmental...
Shaping Policy in India
Alliance, Advocacy, Activism
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
How effective is the Indian polity in making laws and policies to address changing ground realities? How do its gears work? Which stakeholder groups are more successful in bringing about policy change, through what methods, and in what contexts? Seeking to answer these questions, Shaping Policy in...
by Sean Lusk, Nick Birks
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Strategy is vital to effective and efficient public service delivery as well as successful governance and leadership. This new text provides a concise yet systematic overview of the achievements, downfalls and complexities of public strategy in today's globalized and often market-driven world. It...
by Harro van Asselt
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Fossil fuel subsidies strain public budgets, and contribute to climate change and local air pollution. Despite widespread agreement among experts about the benefits of reforming fossil fuel subsidies, repeated international commitments to eliminate them, and valiant efforts by some countries to reform...
Ecosystems, Society, and Health
Pathways through Diversity, Convergence, and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The modern world has created complex systems that have interrelated concerns. Ecosystems, Society, and Health presents new perspectives on how the challenges relating to these concerns must be examined, not as disparate political narratives, but as dynamic transformational stories that demand integrative...
In Pursuit of Prosperity
U.S Foreign Policy in an Era of Natural Resource Scarcity
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
In Pursuit of Prosperity provides a much needed exploration of the evolution of environmental sustainability in U.S. foreign policy.
Through expert analysis of nine countries and regions of strategic importance, David Reed and his stellar team of experts in foreign policy and environmental...
by Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar, Laura Alcaide Muñoz
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
This book analyzes e-participation in smart cities. In recent decades, information and communication technologies (ICT) have played a key role in the democratic political and governance process by allowing easier interaction between governments and citizens, and the increased ability of citizens...
Pot Politics
Marijuana and the Costs of Prohibition
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
Marijuana use continues to attract interest and fuel controversy. Big, green pot leaves have adorned the covers of Time, National Review, and Forbes. Almost 100 million Americans have tried marijuana at least once. Groups such as The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana (NORML) and The...
Climate Change Policy in North America
Designing Integration in a Regional System
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
While no supranational institutions exist to govern climate change in North America, a system of cooperation among a diverse range of actors and institutions is currently emerging. Given the range of interests that influence climate policy across political boundaries, can these distinct parts be integrated...
Making the Most of Mess
Reliability and Policy in Today's Management Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
In Making the Most of Mess, Emery Roe emphasizes that policy messes cannot be avoided or cleaned up; they need to be managed. He shows how policymakers and other professionals can learn these necessary skills from control operators who manage large critical infrastructures such as water supplies,...
by Daren C. Brabham
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Crowdsourcing is a term that was coined in 2006 to describe how the commercial sector was beginning to outsource problems or tasks to the public through an open call for solutions over the internet or social media. Crowdsourcing works to generate new ideas or develop innovative solutions to problems...