Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
Finding Balance 2014
Benchmarking the Performance of State-Owned Enterprises in Island Countries
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) continue to constrain Pacific economies. They absorb scarce capital, suffer low productivity, and often provide high cost and low quality services. SOE reform is vital to create private investment opportunities, reduce the costs of doing business, and improve service...
Third ASEAN Chief Justices' Roundtable on Environment
ASEAN's Environmental Challenges and Legal Responses—The Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
From 15-18 November 2013, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) chief justices and their designees convened in Bangkok, Thailand for their third roundtable on environment with the theme "ASEAN's Environmental Challenges and Legal Responses." Distinguished speakers and the judicial...
by Irum Ahsan, Saima Amin Khawaja
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The Government of Pakistan has adopted laws to combat adverse environmental impacts of unsustainable development, but there are several issues that make effective implementation of these laws and adjudication of environmental disputes difficult. This report examines the state of environmental law,...
20th by 2020
Bhutan’s Drive for Improved Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Bhutan has made impressive gains in social, economic, and political development over the years. Its unique approach in this regard---encapsulated in the philosophy of Gross National Happiness---serves as an anchor for sustained efforts at holistic development. The drive for good governance in the...
The Course of Human History: Civilization and Social Process
Civilization and Social Process
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
This text explores four major features of human society in their ecological and historical context: the origins of priests and organised religion; the rise of military men in an agrarian society; economic expansion and growth; and civilising and decivilising trends over time.
Law and the Management of Disasters
The Challenge of Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Disasters raise serious challenges for contemporary legal orders: they demand significant management, but usually amidst massive disruption to the normal functioning of state authority and society. When dealing with disasters, law has traditionally focused on contingency planning and recovery. More...
Poisoned Prosperity: Development, Modernization and the Environment in South Korea
Development, Modernization and the Environment in South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
A study of environmental degradation, this work presents the environmental problems of South Korea. The effects of rapid industrialisation and modernisation are documented along with the choices and actions which are available to the country.
The Indigenous Dynamic in Taiwan's Postwar Development: Religious and Historical Roots of Entrepreneurship
Religious and Historical Roots of Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Using Taiwan's third largest export industry - shoe manufacturing - as a case study, this work contends that economic development can be tied to Taiwan's own cultural history as well as to the influx of foreign capital or the initiatives of the state government.
by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Spin
The Art of Managing the Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
So you want to raise your media profile? Or you have to deal with journalists during a crisis? Written by two experienced political communicators, this short, punchy and irreverent book reveals spin-doctor secrets for managing the media in an ethical way. Many people will have to encounter the media...
Nonprofit Management
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
Michael J. Worth’s student-friendly best-seller, Nonprofit Management: Principles and Practice, Fifth Edition, provides a broad, insightful overview of key topics affecting governance and management of nonprofit organizations. Worth covers the scope and structure of the nonprofit sector, leadership...
Thinking About the Environment: Readings on Politics, Property and the Physical World
Readings on Politics, Property and the Physical World
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Underlying current controversies about environmental regulation are shared concerns, divided interests and different ways of thinking about the earth and our proper relationship to it. This book brings together writings on nature and environment that illuminate thought and action in this realm.
How South Africa Works
And Must Do Better
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
The fundamental claim of How South Africa Works is that the overwhelming challenge that South Africa faces, and has to date failed to address, is unemployment. The current unemployment statistics are appalling and fall especially on young African youths who were promised a better future in 1994. If...
Parties, Governments and Voters in Finland
Politics Under Fundamental Societal Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This book is the story of what happens to parties, governments and voters when the fundamental features that conditioned party formation and voter alignments undergo rapid change. It is this that makes the Finnish case interesting and, as far as possible, this book examines Finland in a comparative...