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Disasters and Social Resilience
A bioecological approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
The interconnectedness of communities, organisations, governing bodies, policy and individuals in the field of disaster studies has never been accurately examined or comprehensively modelled. This kind of study is vital for planning policy and emergency responses and assessing individual and community...
Sand in the Gears
How Public Policy Has Crippled American Manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
American manufacturing has been on the decline for at least two generations. That fact is plain to any observer who travels through the Rust Belt of the Midwest, where the closing of steel plants and automobile factories has created ghost towns that dot the landscape. It is also clear from the dormant...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
During the last few decades, China has accomplished unprecedented economic growth and has emerged as the second largest economy in the world. This ‘economic miracle’ has led hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, but has also come at a high cost. Environmental degradation and the impact...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book discusses economic development in general and selected public policy issues with a focus on philosophy, Gandhian thoughts and sectoral issues in the Indian context. It presents scholarly contributions on growth and development in India, with particular emphasis on human development in connection...
Crisis Management and Public Policy
Singapore's Approach to Economic Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
This book is an annual effort by the economists from the Nanyang Technological University to provide analysis, interpretations and insights on contemporary economic issues affecting Singapore.
In 2010, Singapore's economy was just recovering from the sharp economic downturn in 2008/09 caused...
Financial Sustainability of Public Sector Entities
The Relevance of Accounting Frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
This book analyses the role of public sector accounting, and the relevance of accounting frameworks, in assisting financially sustainable policy making. Focussing on the European context, the book examines financial reporting, management accounting, budgeting and other reporting requirements, for...
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Global Governance Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
This book draws on the expertise of faculty and colleagues at the Balsillie School of International Affairs to both locate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a contribution to the development of global government and to examine the political-institutional and financial challenges posed by...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
The last twenty years have seen a rapid increase in scholarly activity and publications dedicated to environmental migration and displacement, and the field has now reached a point in terms of profile, complexity, and sheer volume of reporting that a general review and assessment of existing knowledge...
Ecological Migration, Development and Transformation
A Study of Migration and Poverty Reduction in Ningxia
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
After over 30 years of reform and opening up, China’s aggregate economic volume is now the second largest in the world. Over the past decade many provinces in the western region of China have implemented ecological migration projects of different scales, which have attracted considerable attention...
Cook Islands 2008 Social and Economic Report
Equity in Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Cook Islands has transformed its economy since the public debt crisis of the mid-1990s. The economy is private sector-led, the Government is now on a sound financial footing and well placed to address key development issues, and the economy has proved its resilience in the face of five cyclones in...
by Claudio O. Delang
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
China’s air pollution is infamous. The haze can make it impossible to see buildings across the street, and the pollution forces schools to close and creates health and morbidity problems, in addition to tremendous environmental degradation. However, China also faces another important environmental...
Organizational Learning at NASA
The Challenger and Columbia Accidents
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Just after 9:00 a.m. on February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart and was lost over Texas. This tragic event led, as the Challenger accident had 17 years earlier, to an intensive government investigation of the technological and organizational causes of the accident. The investigation...
Vanuatu Economic Report 2009
Accelerating Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Over the last several years, Vanuatu has become one of the fastest growing economies in the Pacific region driven primarily by tourism, construction, and aid inflows. The achievement of strong economic growth has also occurred on the back of improved economic policy, effective fiscal management, and...
