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This insightful Handbook presents readers with a comprehensive
range of original research within the field of Collaborative Public
Management (CPM). As a central area of study and practice in public
administration, the Handbook explores the most important questions
facing collaboration and provides future research directions and
new areas of study. Featuring expert contributions from a diverse
range of scholars, this Handbook showcases the emergence of
collaborative governance research and charts connections among the
multiple arenas of CPM; including public/private partnerships,
emergency management and climate change management. Chapters cover
the fundamental practices and limitations of CPM as well as future
possibilities. Reflecting on leading theories and research, the
Handbook argues that CPM is both an evolving field, as well as a
varied and maturing one that is worthy of continued exploration.
The Handbook will be a valuable resource to scholars and graduate
students in subjects such as public administration and public
policy, who are interested in examining current research and
approaches within the field. The examination of collaborative
initiatives will also be beneficial to administrative leaders in
public services who want to understand how to lead and manage more
dynamic arrangements.
. . .Ganley has marshaled an extrodinary range and volume of
information and presents the story with bolth clarity and drama.
Unglued Empire offers a gold mine of case-study data for scholars
analyzing the interplay of politics and modern communication
technology. . . - DEGREESITechnology and Culture There is no doubt
that the growing availability of television and its technology,
which made it possible to report scenes instantly, did have an
impact on the collapse of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev
decided that his country needed a dose of openness or Glasnost to
modernize society and make the people more supportive of his
efforts. In the end, more information about the outside world as
well as the inside world helped to bring down the communist party
and the Soviet government. This book documents this process,
showing how the media's ready availability became such a divisive
force in the Soviet Union. Instead of creating a more structured,
rigid regime, it did just the opposite. The Soviet Union may well
have collapsed of its own weight sooner or later, but there is no
doubt that the media, technology and communications accelerated the
process, a form of uskoreniie that Gorbachev never intended. Many
of the events described in this study have application to other
researchers and government officials. The study makes it possible
to understand some of the new challenges that regimes wary of
criticism will have to face in the future.
This account of the extraordinary growth of the Greek
ship-operating industry following the Second World War is a major
breakthrough. The body of data presented and analysed makes it
possible to form an informed historical view of Greek pre-eminence
in sea transport.
As Laura Linder asserts, increased concentration of media
ownership has resulted in the homogenization of public discourse.
Packaged, commercialized messages have replaced the personalized
and localized opinions necessary for the uninhibited marketplace of
ideas envisioned in the First Amendment. Narrowcast outlets such as
talk radio give vent to individual voices, but only to a limited,
predefined audience. The media have led a social shift toward
splintering and compartmentalization, away from pluralism and
consensus.
Public access television provides an alternative to this trend,
requiring active public participation in the process of developing
community-based programming through the dominant medium of
television. Today, more than 2,000 public access television centers
exist in the United States, producing more than 10,000 hours of
original, local programming every week. But public access
television remains underutilized, even as deregulation and growing
interest in other telecommunications delivery systems pose a
potential threat to the long-term viability of public access
television. In this comprehensive review of the background and
development of public access television, Linder offers all the
information needed to understand the theoretical and philosophical
underpinnings as well as the nuts and bolts of public access
television in the United States. Must reading for students and
scholars involved with mass media in the United States and
professionals in the television field.
"Warning. Smoking Kills!" It also corrupts law enforcement officials and eviscerates state institutions. It devours politicians, professionals, business people and ordinary workers in the chase for big bucks and the battle for a slice of an ever-shrinking cigarette market.
Join one of South Africa's former tax sleuths, Johann van Loggerenberg, in a wild ride through the double-dealing world of tobacco's colourful characters and ruthless corporates. Meet the femme fatales, mavericks, mercenaries and grandmasters, and learn how the crime-busting unit led by van Loggerenberg at SARS and its "Project Honey Badger" became a victim of war between industry players and a high-stakes political game driven by state capture.
This is the tale of a few good men and women who dared to try to hold to account a billion-dollar international industry rife with private spy networks, tax evasion, collusion and corruption - ultimately at great cost to themselves and South Africa.
This innovative book explores the legal character of petroleum
licences, a key vehicle governing the relationship between oil
companies and their host states. Examining the issue through the
lens of legal culture, it illustrates why some jurisdictions exert
strong state control and others only minimal.Critically
investigating the nature of a petroleum licence, the book analyses
whether it is a mere administrative right, a contract or something
more akin to property rights. Chapters examine recent developments,
such as the UK's strategy of maximizing economic recovery and the
opposition to drilling for oil in Norway and Australia. Outside of
Western petroleum jurisdictions, the book also explores several
long-established jurisdictions including Russia and Mexico, as well
as emerging jurisdictions, such as China and Uganda. Taking a
contextual and system-oriented approach, it reveals the
preconditions of the petroleum licence regime and offers a critical
insight into the reasons behind alterations to the terms of the
licences. Encompassing a wide variety of legal cultures and
experiences, this thought-provoking book will prove to be a
valuable resource for academics and students of energy law,
particularly those with an interest in state regulation. It will
also provide useful insights for industry-based practitioners.
Renewable energy technologies produce many measurable benefits,
such as a clear reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. However, it
is also apparent that these methods of energy production come with
costs. Discussing renewable energy developments within an economic
context, this pertinent Handbook provides a comprehensive view of
the present and future dimensions of renewable energy use. Divided
into six authoritative parts, the Handbook employs economic
evaluation to provide an analysis of the benefits and costs of
renewable energy, allowing authors to extrapolate potential policy
changes. Chapters address the conceptual, methodological and
empirical dimensions of renewable energy, providing a broad
coverage of key topics while maintaining a clear policy-oriented
philosophy. With a structured application of energy economics to
renewable energy issues, this enlightening Handbook will be
beneficial for environmental and energy policy makers. It will also
be an interesting read for academics within such fields as policy
regulation, energy economics and environmental economics.
Nu Metal: Resurgence documents the groundbreaking movement from its
original inception, right up to the present day. Featuring fully
detailed band biographies that includes major players such as Korn,
Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Papa Roach, Rammstein and Slipknot, a
guide to 'The Nu Breed' of bands coming up like Cane Hill, DED,
Frontstreet and Lethal Injektion, and exclusive interviews with
members of classic Nu Metal bands that includes Alien Ant Farm,
Coal Chamber, Kittie, Nonpoint, Orgy, Spineshank and Taproot; as
well as record producer extraordinaire Ross Robinson- Nu Metal:
Resurgence confirms once and for all that Nu Metal is indeed here
to stay.
The Perthshire I met in June 1962 was devoid of Motorways; steam
trains still worked the branch lines and MOT tests for cars were
far in the future. This story of my time with the Forestry
Commission is really the sequence to my National Service in Germany
that I wrote of in "Two Years" with the Pied Piper of Hameln.
Forestry was changing; coal mining was scaling down and the
labourintensive pit prop market was being replaced by the need for
the more easily mechanised pulp wood to feed the new pulp mill
outside Fort William. Timber Lorries were becoming both longer and
heavier and the forest roads and bridges had to be strengthened to
cope. The natural forests had been depleted by the demands of two
world wars and the new forests planted on heather moors torn by
tractors and giant ploughs. This was the world I worked in for
eight years, and this is the story of the men and machines that
made it possible.
Environmental Fate and Safety Management of Agrochemicals discusses
residue analysis, environmental fate and safety management,
environmental risk assessment, metabolism, resistance and
management, and advances in formulation and application technology
from the academic, government, and industry perspective.
Meaningful ecological and environmental risk assessment of pest
control agents is possible only when accurate and credible
metabolic and environmental fate data is available. The advent of
affordable and sensitive liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry
(LC/MS) has greatly increased our ability to detect environmentally
relevant metabolites and degradation products following the
application of these materials. Furthermore, ecological risk
assessment and monitoring of pesticide resistance in field
populations has become more feasible and cost effective by
employing hig-hroughout molecular diagnostic techniques on the
genetic leve3l and LC/MS techniques on the proteomic and meabolomic
levels.
Efficient formulations and application technologies have greatly
reduced the amount of materials that are required to achieve
effective pest control and hence reduce their ecological and
environmental impacts. Controlled release, stabilization and
dispersion technologies have provided the pest manager with new
tools that allow them to use necessary pest control options in
"best management strategies."
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