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Water Policy Processes in India
Discourses of Power and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
The privatization of water is a keenly contested issue in an economically-liberalizing India. Since the 1990s, large social groups across India's diverse and disparate peoples have been re-negotiating their cultural relationships with each other as to whether they support or oppose pro-privatization...
by Jane Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Evidence of climate change, resource shortages and biodiversity loss is growing in significance year by year. This second edition of Environmental Policy explains how policy can respond and bring about greater sustainability in individual lifestyles, corporate strategies, national policies and international...
by Kam-wah Chan, Kim-wah Chung, Keqing Han
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Social Policy and Change in East Asia is a collection of essays from a group of indigenous East Asian social policy researchers who met bi-annually to discuss social development issues. The book’s focus is the policy responses of respective East Asian government since the 2008 financial tsunami...
National Climate Policy
A Multi-field Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Failed attempts at producing ambitious global climate commitments and instruments have made it increasingly important for nation states to deliver climate policies. This in turn requires a better understanding of national climate policymaking. In this book, Elin Lerum Boasson develops an innovative...
Macroeconomic Policy after the Crash
Issues in Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This book reviews the key policy debates during the post-crash era, describing the issues that policymakers grappled with, the decisions that they took and the details of the policy instruments that were created. Focusing specifically on issues in monetary and fiscal policy, chapters demonstrate...
by Jeremy Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
This book revisits and re-defines the policy style concept and explores the long-standing debate in British political science concerning how best to characterise the British policy style. The book highlights several trends that suggest that the British policy style has shifted towards the impositional...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Water Policy and Planning in a Variable and Changing Climate addresses the current challenges facing western water planners and policy makers in the United States and considers strategies for managing water resources and related risks in the future. Written by highly-regarded experts in the industry,...
Environmental Politics and Foreign Policy Decision Making in Latin America
Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Although the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement to address global climate change, has been regarded by many as an unsuccessful treaty both politically and environmentally, it stands as one of the world’s few truly global agreements. Why did such a diverse group of countries decide to sign...
International Social Policy
Welfare Regimes in the Developed World 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
The second edition of this textbook provides an accessible and structured look at social policy in a global comparative context. With detailed explanations of the historical, political and social context of policy developments across thirteen nations, the book offers an authoritative picture of social...
by Robert Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Social Policy for Social Work provides a comprehensive, critical and engaging introduction to social policy for students and practitioners of social work.
The text is clearly structured into three parts that cover contexts, policies and issues. The first part explores changing perspectives...
Making policy move
Towards a politics of translation and assemblage
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Responding to increasing interest in the movement of policies between places, sites and settings, this timely book presents a critical alternative to approaches centred on ideas of policy transfer, dissemination or learning. Written by key people in the field, it argues that treating policy’s movement...
Burning Our Money
How Government wastes our cash and what we can do about it
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Britain is in the midst of a fierce battle over government spending. With debts mounting rapidly, the ?700 billion annual bill is no longer sustainable. But cuts face a wall of opposition, with dire warnings that they will ravage our society: hospital waiting lists will grow, schools will close and...
Citizen, Mother, Worker
Debating Public Responsibility for Child Care after the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
During World War II, American women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers, and many of them relied on federally funded child care programs. At the end of the war, working mothers vigorously protested the termination of child care subsidies. In Citizen, Mother, Worker, Emilie Stoltzfus traces...
Reforming Federal Land Management
Cutting the Gordian Knot
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
For over a century, American have created laws, processes, objectives, priorities, and rules for federal land management that often conflict, contradict, and undermine each other. We now find ourselves with inconsistent laws, unclear priorities, procedural mazes, and an antiquated bureaucratic structure....