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Environmental Policy in an International Context
Prospects for Environmental Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1996
This volume examines the environmental issues currently under debate in the international arena. The text approaches the topic at a conceptual level, and from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. It analyses the roles of key players in environmental policy, the nation state, non-governmental organizations...
Social Re-engineering
Perdana Discourse Series, #2
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
This slim volume features the keynote address of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the fourth and seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia, on the topic of "re-engineering" Malaysian society to minimise inter-ethnic distrust and fear, so that Malaysia would become a truly united Malaysian nation. Tun briefly...
Social Innovation and Sustainable Consumption
Research and Action for Societal Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This book showcases strategic policies for and processes of societal transformation, which are required to address the challenge of sustainability. Based on the latest thinking at the interface of social innovation, sustainable consumption and the transformation of society, the book provides:
in-depth...
by Toshihiro Ihori, Martin C. McGuire, Shintaro Nakagawa
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
In this book the authors demonstrate how the economics of insurance, risk reduction, and damage control or limitation can be combined with concepts of collective choice and collective behavior to improve analysis of the escalating threats faced by alliances throughout the world.
The book develops...
Innovation Contested
The Idea of Innovation Over the Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Innovation is everywhere. In the world of goods (technology), but also in the world of words: innovation is discussed in the scientific and technical literature, but also in the social sciences and humanities. Innovation is also a central idea in the popular imaginary, in the media and in public policy....
by James Constant
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2019
Since 1950 the Earth's population increased from 2.5 to 7.2 billion people, a 4.7 billion or 288% increase over a period of 70 years. The United Nations provides High, Medium and Low estimates for human population growth to 2100.[i] It is time therefore to start thinking seriously about population...
News Media Coverage of Environmental Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean
Mediating Demand, Degradation and Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
This edited collection provides a unique survey of the ways in which news media organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean cover global, regional and local environmental issues and challenges. There is growing recognition within academia, governments, industries, NGOs and civil society about...
The World Heroin Market
Can Supply Be Cut?
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
Heroin is universally considered the world's most harmful illegal drug. This is due not only to the damaging effects of the drug itself, but also to the spread of AIDS tied to its use. Burgeoning illegal mass consumption in the 1960s and 1970s has given rise to a global market for heroin and other...
Regulating Cannabis
A Detailed Scenario for a Nonprofit Cannabis Market
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
With the legalization of recreational cannabis markets in Uruguay, Canada, and several U.S. states, a breakthrough in conventional cannabis policy is emerging.
But legalization is not a binary choice between prohibition and some regulated commercial model (like alcohol). A commercial market...
The Recovery Myth
The Plans and Situated Realities of Post-Disaster Response
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
This book provides an innovative re-examination of the ‘recovery’ phase of a disaster by one of the UK’s most experienced disaster management specialists. Drawing on two decades’ of work, the book develops an ethnography of the residents and responders in one flooded village and applies this...
The Indian Metamorphosis
Essays on Its Enlightenment, Education, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2018
This book examines various ideational, attitudinal and intellectual impasses that are becoming glaringly apparent on several fronts, and which have held back India’s balanced, steady and uniform development and transformation post-independence. It argues that all of these ideational and attitudinal...
by Marco Cobianchi
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Un fiume di soldi alle imprese e l'Italia va a picco. Perché? Questo libro entra nell'incredibile mondo delle aziende mantenute dallo Stato. Per la prima volta racconta, facendo nomi e cognomi, decine di storie di società, banche e multinazionali che hanno incassato miliardi di euro pubblici spesso...
Talking Climate
From Research to Practice in Public Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
This book describes a fresh approach to climate change communication: five core principles for public engagement that can propel climate change discourse out of the margins and into the mainstream. The question of how to communicate about climate change, and build public engagement in high-consuming,...
Memos to the Governor
An Introduction to State Budgeting, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
This revised and updated edition of Memos to the Governor is a concise and highly readable guidebook that explains in clear, understandable prose the technical, economic, and political dynamics of budget making. Updated with many new examples of budget quandaries from recent years, this book helps current...