Kerry: 1111 books
Valuing Natural Assets
The Economics of Natural Resource Damage Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Assessing natural resource damages often requires the use of nonmarket valuation techniques that were developed for use in benefit-cost analyses. Natural resource damage assessment dramatically changes the context for applying them. Two aspects of this context are especially important. First, damages...
Valuing Ecosystem Services
The Case of Multi-functional Wetlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Ecosystem services can be broadly defined as the aspects of ecosystems that provide benefits to people. This book provides guidance on the valuation of ecosystem services, using the case of multifunctional wetlands to illustrate and make recommendations regarding the methods and techniques that can...
by Kerry London
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
This is the first comprehensive investigation of the industrial sourcing and procurement practices throughout sixty-eight construction industry supply channels across seven major commodity sectors at all levels. London presents real-world case studies to combine theory and practice to describe the...
Charity Law and Social Inclusion
An International Study
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Profiling national and international social inclusion agendas, Charity Law and Social Inclusion examines the fit between the charity law framework and the needs of the socially marginalized in some leading common law nations: the US, England and Wales, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
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by Kerry O'Halloran
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
For the first time since 1601, a number of leading common law nations have almost simultaneously chosen to revise and place on the statute books the law relating to charity. The Politics of Charity examines the reasons for this and for the varying legislative outcomes.
This book examines the...
by Kerry J. Knox
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Aerosols play a critical role in a broad range of scientific disciplines, such as atmospheric chemistry and physics, combustion science, drug delivery and human health. This thesis explores the fundamentals of a new technique for capturing single or multiple particles using light, and for characterising...
by Trevor Kerry, Ann Shelton Mayes
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
As the initial training of teachers becomes increasingly school-based, and as schools and colleges develop formal induction programmes for their newly qualified teachers, the role of the teacher mentor is fast becoming a pivotal one in teacher education. Individual sections look at mentoring as it...
The Large Group Facilitator's Manual
A Collection of Tools for Understanding, Planning and Running Large Group Events
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Most organizations are adept at using small groups - witness the widespread use of teams. Yet, how do you work with 20 to 500 people at a time? How would you involve all stakeholders in a critical issue or the organization's future? How can you generate contributions, consensus and commitment from...
by Michael S. Humphreys, Kerry A. Chalmers
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Thinking About Human Memory provides a novel analytical approach to understanding memory that considers the goals of the memory task, the cues and information available, the opportunity to learn, and interference from irrelevant information (noise). Each of the five chapters describing this approach...
Values Pedagogy and Student Achievement
Contemporary Research Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Under the weight of a combination of forces, many of the older paradigms of learning are being questioned in our time. Among the updated research that elicits such critique is that which deals directly with effective pedagogy, clearly illustrating the enhanced effects on learning when it is dealt...
Girls and Exclusion
Rethinking the Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
The widespread view that girls are succeeding in education and are therefore 'not a problem' is a myth. By drawing directly on girls' own accounts and experiences of school life and those of professionals working with disaffected youth, this book offers startling new perspectives on the issue of exclusion...
by Miron Kumar Bhowmik, Kerry John Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive overview of ‘out of school’ ethnic minority young people in Hong Kong. The focus is on the extent of the phenomena, reasons behind it and a description of ‘out of school’ life. Employing qualitative research methods and adopting a case study approach that...
The Changing Role of Schools in Asian Societies
Schools for the Knowledge Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2007
Walk into a classroom in Tokyo, New York, London or Rotterdam, and the similarities in structure, activity, purpose and style will outweigh differences in language, dress and ethnic characteristics. Learning is regulated and rationed, teaching is a process or one-way transmission of knowledge, students...
The Early-Career Guide for Attorneys
Starting and Building a Successful Career in Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019
Whether you will work in a small rural community, a medium-sized firm, or a big-city/big-law firm (“BigLaw”),the principles and disciplines contained in The Early-Career Guide for Attorneys will set you on a path to success. This book helps avoid the mistakes that partners see being made by new...