Public Policy category: 4660 books
The Politics of Slums in the Global South
Urban Informality in Brazil, India, South Africa and Peru
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Seeing urban politics from the perspective of those who reside in slums offers an important dimension to the study of urbanism in the global South. Many people living in sub-standard conditions do not have their rights as urban citizens recognised and realise that they cannot rely on formal democratic...
Transdisciplinarity for Small-Scale Fisheries Governance
Analysis and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
The importance of small-scale fisheries for sustainable livelihoods and communities, food security, and poverty eradication is indisputable. With the endorsement of the ‘Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries’, FAO member states recognize that governments, civil society...
Sober Reflections
Commerce, Public Health, and the Evolution of Alcohol Policy in Canada, 1980-2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2006
Contributors include Susan Bondy (Toronto), Andrée Demers (Montréal), Madelyn Fournier (consultant, Montreal), Norman Giesbrecht (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, CAMH), Lynn Kavanagh (Mt Sinai Hospital, Toronto), Evert Lindquist (Victoria), Bronwyn MacKenzie (CAMH), Alan Ogborne (consultant), Robin Room (Stockholm), and Gina Stoduto (CAMH).
Library Scholarly Communication Programs
Legal and Ethical Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Libraries must negotiate a range of legal issues, policies and ethical guidelines when developing scholarly communication initiatives. Library Scholarly Communication Programs is a practical primer, covering these issues for institutional repository managers, library administrators, and other staff...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
How have immigration and diversity shaped urban life and local governance?
The Routledge Handbook to the Governance of Migration and Diversity in Cities focuses on the ways migration and diversity have transformed cities, and how cities have responded to the challenges and opportunities offered....
Prison Vocational Education and Policy in the United States
A Critical Perspective on Evidence-Based Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book explores California’s prison system in the context of vocational education reform. For prisons in the early twenty-first century, ideologies of evidence-based management meant that reform efforts to change the purpose of prisons from punishment to rehabilitation through vocational education...
Rhetoric, Social Value and the Arts
But How Does it Work?
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The book reveals how the ‘social value of art’ may have one meaning for a policy maker, another for a museum and still yet another for an artist – and it is therefore in the interaction between these agents that we learn the most about the importance of rhetoric and interpretation. As a trajectory...
Digital Democracy and the Impact of Technology on Governance and Politics
New Globalized Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
The evolution of modern technology has allowed digital democracy and e-governance to transform traditional ideas on political dialogue and accountability. Digital Democracy and the Impact of Technology on Governance and Politics: New Globalized Practices brings together a detailed examination of the...
The Laws of Nature
Reflections on the Evolution of Ecosystem Management Law & Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
This timely collection written by an interdisciplinary array of law professors, who specialize in legal and policy issues surrounding ecosystem management, and scholars and practitioners in areas such as environmental policy and planning, conservation, economics, and biology explore why ecosystems...
The Politics of Capitalist Transformation
Brazilian Informatics Policy, Regime Change, and State Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The Politics of Capitalist Transformation is the only book-length study of the highly protectionist Brazilian informatics policy from its origins in the early 1970s to the collapse of the market reserve in the early 1990s and its impact in subsequent decades.
Jeff Seward provides a sophisticated...
Energy Fables
Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector takes a fresh look at key terms and concepts around which energy research and policy are organised.
Drawing on recent research in energy and transport studies, and combining this with concepts from sociology, economics, social theory and...
Who Rules the Earth?
How Social Rules Shape Our Planet and Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Worldwide, half a million people die from air pollution each year-more than perish in all wars combined. One in every five mammal species on the planet is threatened with extinction. Our climate is warming, our forests are in decline, and every day we hear news of the latest ecological crisis. What...
Arts and Community Change
Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas addresses the growing number of communities adopting arts and culture-based development methods to influence social change. Providing community workers and planners with strategies to develop arts policy...
Applied Psychology
Proceedings of the 2015 Asian Congress of Applied Psychology (ACAP 2015)
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
This is the conference proceedings for the 2015 Asian Congress of Applied Psychology (ACAP 2015), hosted by Aventis School of Management, Singapore. It includes papers by a group of international academics and researchers. It covers the most recent research findings in the fields of Psychology, especially...