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Ecology, Economy and Society
Essays in Honour of Kanchan Chopra
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
This book deals with not just complex linkages, interactions and exchanges that form the relationship between the economic activities, human society and the ecosystems, but also the influences and impacts that each causes on the other. In recent times, this ecology–economy–society interface has...
The Climate Bonus
Co-benefits of Climate Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
We urgently need to transform to a low carbon society, yet our progress is painfully slow, in part because there is widespread public concern that this will require sacrifice and high costs. But this need not be the case. Many carbon reduction policies provide a range of additional benefits, from...
Media Divides
Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
This book is mandatory reading for students and scholars of communications policy and law, as well as for policy-makers and citizens who want to understand or influence the course of public policy in the area of media and communication.
Faith-Based Policy
A Litmus Test for Understanding Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
In 2001, George W. Bush created the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. The driving force behind the policy was to create a “level playing field” where faith-based organizations could compete on an equal footing with secular organizations for government funding of social...
Think Tanks and Global Politics
Key Spaces in the Structure of Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This text provides a cutting edge analysis of the increasingly central role think tanks play in societies worldwide. Examining their control of global resources both in economic and political policy fields and their inroads into structures of power, it addresses key questions. How have think thanks...
The Nature of Spectacle
On Images, Money, and Conserving Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Today crisis appears to be the normal order of things. We seem to be turning in widening gyres of economic failure, species extinction, resource scarcity, war, and climate change. These crises are interconnected ecologically, economically, and politically. Just as importantly, they are connected—and...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This volume examines the role of neoliberalism and its impact on education in South Asia. It contends that education is in a state of crisis across the world. This is reflected not only in the way the state has withdrawn to pave way for private capital but also in the manner in which knowledge and...
Environment Scotland
Prospects for Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Published in 1999, this volume provides the first thorough analysis of the elements of sustainable public policy in a devolved Scotland. Following the vote for a Scottish Parliament in the 1997 referendum, it explores the immediate and longer-term challenges likely to confront Scotland. The book brings...
by Robert O. Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
The United States is waging a political war against science, and the stakes are increasing. When it comes to areas in which science and politics must interact, such as genetics, climate, and energy, there are always political interests pushing to spin the relevant science, but this becomes problematic...
Civil Protection Cooperation in the European Union
How Trust and Administrative Culture Matter for Crisis Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
“This fine team of academics moves beyond mere descriptions of capacities, structures and processes to explain the effectiveness of Civil Protection in the EU. With their exploration of trust as a key factor, they deliver the best book so far on this critical topic.”
—Arjen Boin, Leiden...
Radio's Digital Dilemma
Broadcasting in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Radio's Digital Dilemma is the first comprehensive analysis of the United States’ digital radio transition, chronicling the technological and policy development of the HD Radio broadcast standard. A story laced with anxiety, ignorance, and hubris, the evolution of HD Radio pitted the nation’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2007
Canada has been an engaged participant in global climate change negotiations since the late 1980s. Until recently, Canadian policy seemed to be driven in large part by a desire to join in multilateral efforts to address climate change. By contrast, current policy is seeking a "made in Canada"...
Fast Policy
Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
We inhabit a perpetually accelerating and increasingly interconnected world, with new ideas, fads, and fashions moving at social-media speed. New policy ideas, especially “ideas that work,” are now able to find not only a worldwide audience but also transnational salience in remarkably short order....