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The Smart Society
Strengthening Americas Greatest Resource, Its People
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
The Smart Society offers a detailed blueprint for how the United States can recast its human capital policies to make all Americans-not just a privileged elite-smarter and more successful than ever before, at the same time stemming the size and cost of the nation’s safety net.” The spectacular,...
by Jessica L. DeShazo, Chandra Lal Pandey, Zachary A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) attempts to address climate change from one angle – by paying developing countries to slow or stop deforestation and forest degradation. Trumpeted as a way to both mitigate climate change and assist countries with development, REDD...
Governing Agricultural Sustainability
Global lessons from GM crops
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Although GM crops are seen by their advocates as a key component of the future of world agriculture and as part of the solution for world poverty and hunger, their uptake has not been smooth nor universal: they have been marred by controversy and all too commonly their regulation has been challenged...
Multiculturalism Question
Debating Identity in 21st Century Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Canada's policy of multiculturalism has been the object of ongoing debate since it was first introduced in 1971. Decades later, Canadians still seem uncertain about the meaning of multiculturalism. Detractors insist that government has not succeeded in discouraging immigrants and their descendants from...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Schooling and the Politics of Disaster is the first volume to address how disaster is being used for a radical social and economic reengineering of education. From the natural disasters of the Asian tsunami and the hurricanes in the Gulf Coast, to the human-made disasters in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti,...
The Politics of Unsustainability
Eco-Politics in the Post-Ecologist Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Two decades after its launch by the UN Brundtland Commission, the paradigm of sustainability seems to have reached its limits. Whilst the concept figures more prominently in public debate and policy making than ever before, the ecological footprint of advanced liberal consumer societies continues...
Regulating Women
Policymaking and Practice in the UK
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
A number of women’s issues serve to create novel policy problems that require creative, and sometimes unique, regulatory and legal responses. This book embarks upon a comparative case study approach to explore UK policymaking in the areas of abortion, rape, prostitution and pornography in turn....
Chasing Phantoms
Reality, Imagination, and Homeland Security Since 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Although a report by the congressionally mandated Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation, and Terrorism concluded that biological or nuclear weapons were very likely to be unleashed in the years soon after 2001, what Americans actually have experienced are relatively...
Bureaucrats as Law-makers
Committee decision-making in the EU Council of Ministers
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The Council of Ministers is one of the most powerful institutions of the European Union (EU) and plays a major role in the European policy-making process. Drawing on formal theory and combining quantitative and qualitative methods in an innovative fashion, this book provides novel insights into the...
Cases in Climate Change Policy
Political Reality in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This volume examines case studies on EU countries' policy to combat climate change, examining the constraints of and opportunities for the implementation of climate change strategies in these countries. The introductory section provides an overview of the climate change problem and its potential effects,...
Green Warriors
Army Environmental Considerations for Contingency Operations from Planning Through Post-Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
This study assesses whether Army policy, doctrine, and guidance adequately address environmental activities in post-conflict phases of contingencies. A review of policy, doctrine, operational experience, and documentation, as well as interviews with Army personnel, indicates that environmental concerns...
by M. Trebilcock, Anthony Duggan, Lorne Sossin
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Though most conceptions of the rule of law assume equality before the law – and hence equal access to the justice system – this basic right is not being met for many low and middle income Canadians. This book focuses on the problem of civil access to justice for middle income earners – those...
by Wang Xiaoqi
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
A market economy and a more liberal society have brought great challenges to China’s outdated governance structure and personnel management. To improve decision-making in government and reshape the management system in face of a more complex economy, post-Mao authorities have implemented a number...
Inside the Equal Access to Justice Act
Environmental Litigation and the Crippling Battle over America's Lands, Endangered Species, and Critical Habitats
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Next Generation INDIE Book Awards Grand Prize Winner, Best Non-Fiction Book in 2017; and Winner in the Science/Nature/Environment category
Finalist for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in Ecology and Environment
In this book, Lowell E. Baier, one of America’s preeminent experts...