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Environmental Communication and Travel Journalism
Consumerism, Conflict and Concern
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Travel journalism about natural attractions is environmental communication at the cusp of consumerism and concern. Countries and regions that market forests, rivers and wildlife to international tourists drive place-of-origin brand recognition that benefits exporters in other sectors. Place-branding...
Insufficient Representation
The Disconnect between Congress and Its Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Not Enough Representation: The Disconnect between Congress and Its Citizens examines how representative the United States Congress is among different demographic groups and how representational issues affect Americans’ perception of Congress, potentially threatening its legitimacy. The opening chapter...
by Bernd Rechel, Martin McKee
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This book takes a broad but detailed approach to public health in Europe and offers the most comprehensive analysis of this region currently available.
Global Population Health and Well- Being in the 21st Century
Toward New Paradigms, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Drawing on current research, the expertise of health professionals in 50 countries, and emerging trends in both public and clinical health, this graduate-level textbook delivers an evidence-based examination of global health challenges in population health and wellbeing. It emphasizes innovative and...
Primary Health Care
Public Involvement, Family Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A health policy for the future is the topic of discussion in this book. International scientists discuss central questions corresponding to the targets set by the World Health Organization (WHO). In a unique meeting, social political proposals and recommendations are presented for a regional health...
by Barrie Houlihan, Iain Lindsey
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Since 1990, Britain has seen a period of unprecedented public investment in, and political commitment to, sport. In this book, Iain Lindsey and Barrie Houlihan examine and analyze sport policy since the appointment of John Major as leader of the Conservative Party in 1990.
John Major’s period...
by Michael Mintrom
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2003
Policymaking is of its very nature a people-centered business-a good reason why highly effective policy analysts display not only superb technical expertise but excellent people skills as well. Those "people skills" include the ability to manage professional relationships, to learn from others about...
Europe Managing the Crisis
The politics of fiscal consolidation
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Studies of the recent financial crisis have been largely dominated by economists, but the similarities and differences between European countries' response reflect both economic and political perspectives which have resulted in considerable differences in their decisions.
Drawing on uniquely...
Environmental Mycology in Public Health
Fungi and Mycotoxins Risk Assessment and Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Environmental Mycology in Public Health: Fungi and Mycotoxins Risk Assessment and Management provides the most updated information on fungi, an essential element in the survival of our global ecology that can also pose a significant threat to the health of occupants when they are present in buildings.
As...
by Michael Mr. Papaioannou, Udaibir Mr. Das
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
As the financial crisis abates, governments are faced with the challenge of balancing the withdrawal of fiscal support with reestablishing sound public finances and sustainable growth. This volume presents papers from an IMF-sponsored conference of senior policymakers, academics, and senior representatives...
by Fernando de Holanda Barbosa
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
This book presents a theoretical framework to explain chronic inflation and hyperinflation. The roots of these two phenomenon are a fiscal monetary regime in which money issues finance the public deficit. Chronic inflation is modeled by using both the old and the new Keynesian model, with a different...
Innovations in Culture and Development
The Culturinno Effect in Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
This book focuses on innovations in culture having the potential to drive overall development. It analyses public policies and offers inspiring examples of innovations in culture which solve various societal problems as well as recommendations for public policies. The “culturinno effect” (culture...
by Jelke Bethlehem
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Polls are conducted every day all around the world for almost everything (especially during elections). But not every poll is a good one. A lot depends on the type of questions asked, how they are asked and whether the sample used is truly representative. And these are not the only aspects of a poll...
On Abstract and Historical Hypotheses and on Value Judgments in Economic Sciences
Critical Edition, with an Introduction and Afterword by Paolo Silvestri
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961) was a leading liberal economist, economic historian and political figure. This book provides the English-speaking world with a first critical edition of Einaudi’s – hitherto unpublished – rewriting of one of his most unique and thoughtful essays.
The relevance...