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For as long as humans have been inhabiting coastal areas and
recording what occurs in their environments, coastal zones have
been defined through dynamic interactions. And this is further
underlined by a more recent development: observed sea level rise.
In a thorough but not overly technical approach, Adapting to Sea
Level Rise in the Coastal Zone: Law and Policy Considerations
provides a legal-policy framework for facing the challenges of sea
level rise. The book includes an analysis of sea level rise
adaptation strategies that examines the legal impacts of coastal
land use decisions based on the current interpretation of private
property rights in relation to public control over those rights.
The author discusses the science behind sea level rise and
highlights policy complexities and options. He then presents an
overview of related legalities, and bringing it all together,
applies the principles offered in the book, concluding with
strategies and solutions and a perspective on the future. If we
accept the premise that sea level rise is occurring and will
continue for the foreseeable future, then we must begin to consider
policy responses to this risk in coastal regions. Part of any
pragmatic policy response must include a review of the options
available to public institutions when developing and implementing
rational adaptation policies. This book offers practical
legal/policy approaches to sea level rise adaptation that promotes
sound planning in the face of climate change and rising seas.
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of volcanic
crisis research, the goal being to establish ways of successfully
applying volcanology in practice and to identify areas that need to
be addressed for future progress. It shows how volcano crises are
managed in practice, and helps to establish best practices.
Consequently the book brings together authors from all over the
globe who work with volcanoes, ranging from observatory
volcanologists, disaster practitioners and government officials to
NGO-based and government practitioners to address three key aspects
of volcanic crises. First, the book explores the unique nature of
volcanic hazards, which makes them a particularly challenging
threat to forecast and manage, due in part to their varying spatial
and temporal characteristics. Second, it presents lessons learned
on how to best manage volcanic events based on a number of crises
that have shaped our understanding of volcanic hazards and crises
management. Third, it discusses the diverse and wide-ranging
aspects of communication involved in crises, which merge old
practices and new technologies to accommodate an increasingly
challenging and globalised world. The information and insights
presented here are essential to tapping established knowledge,
moving towards more robust volcanic crises management, and
understanding how the volcanic world is perceived from a range of
standpoints and contexts around the globe.
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of volcanic
crisis research, the goal being to establish ways of successfully
applying volcanology in practice and to identify areas that need to
be addressed for future progress. It shows how volcano crises are
managed in practice, and helps to establish best practices.
Consequently the book brings together authors from all over the
globe who work with volcanoes, ranging from observatory
volcanologists, disaster practitioners and government officials to
NGO-based and government practitioners to address three key aspects
of volcanic crises. First, the book explores the unique nature of
volcanic hazards, which makes them a particularly challenging
threat to forecast and manage, due in part to their varying spatial
and temporal characteristics. Second, it presents lessons learned
on how to best manage volcanic events based on a number of crises
that have shaped our understanding of volcanic hazards and crises
management. Third, it discusses the diverse and wide-ranging
aspects of communication involved in crises, which merge old
practices and new technologies to accommodate an increasingly
challenging and globalised world. The information and insights
presented here are essential to tapping established knowledge,
moving towards more robust volcanic crises management, and
understanding how the volcanic world is perceived from a range of
standpoints and contexts around the globe.
Most books on environment law focus on the law first, and then look
at how environmental problems are dealt with in relation to the
law. Taking a fresh approach, Environmental Law from the Policy
Perspective: Understanding How Legal Frameworks Influence
Environmental Problem Solving examines environmental problems
first, followed by an examination of legal frameworks and how they
impact environmental issues. This approach provides a clearer
understanding of the relationship between the law and environment
by examining environmental issues from an applied perspective. By
first focusing on environmental problems without constraining the
analysis to a particular legal framework, this book fosters a more
holistic discussion of environmental issues that include
scientific, social, economic, and political contexts. It examines
how laws affect the adaptation of policy, how policy is legitimized
into statutory law, and how the law is impacted in practice. The
text then underscores how interpretation of the law affects its
application to different factual settings. Written by an
environmental law expert who teaches environmental law to those not
trained in legal theory, the book provides insights into the way
environmental issues are "ingested" into a legal process. The
author demystifies environmental law as a concept by applying it
through the lens of environmental problem solving. Once you have a
clear picture of the role legal frameworks have in managing
environmental issues, you will be able to take a deeper
policy-oriented approach to environmental problems.
Criminal behaviour continues to be a matter of major public concern. How should society respond? What should be done with those who offend repeatedly? Offender Rehabilitation and Treatment links theory, research and practice in a coherent way by providing a systematic, evidence-based approach for the effective reduction of criminal behaviour. James McGuire has brought together internationally renowned experts from a variety of specialisms to present the cutting edge of the most recent and exciting developments in this field. The coverage of the book includes: - three new meta-analytic reviews published for the first time
- update surveys on "what works" from Europe and North America
- methods of longer-term developmental crime prevention
- implementation issues for new programmes and services
- the links between violence and alcohol, domestic violence/spouse abuse, treatment of sexual offenders and approaches to predatory offenders.
This book will be invaluable to academics, professionals and trainees working with offenders, directly or indirectly, in criminal justice, social service and mental health professions. Practitioners and their managers, students and teachers in psychology, probation, prison and forensic services, family work and allied professions will find something of value to add to their knowledge and inform their practice directly.
Because of the complexity involved in understanding the
environment, the choices made about environmental issues are often
incomplete. In a perfect world, those who make environmental
decisions would be armed with a foundation about the broad range of
issues at stake when making such decisions. Offering a simple but
comprehensive understanding of the critical roles science,
economics, and values play in making informed environmental
decisions, Environmental Decision-Making in Context: A Toolbox
provides that foundation. The author highlights a primary set of
intellectual tools from different disciplines and places them into
an environmental context through the use of case study examples.
The case studies are designed to stimulate the analytical reasoning
required to employ environmental decision-making and ultimately,
help in establishing a framework for pursuing and solving
environmental questions, issues, and problems. They create a
framework individuals from various backgrounds can use to both
identify and analyze environmental issues in the context of
everyday environmental problems. The book strikes a balance between
being a tightly bound academic text and a loosely defined set of
principles. It takes you beyond the traditional pillars of academic
discipline to supply an understanding of the fundamental aspects of
what is actually involved in making environmental decisions and
building a set of skills for making those decisions.
This second in a monumental two-volume set on the 1777 campaign of
the American Revolution follows the saga from Cornwallis' triumphal
march of his British and Hessian troops into Philadelphia in late
September to Washington's movement of the weary Continental forces
to camp at Valley Forge in December. Based on soldiers' and
civilians' vivid accounts - many uncovered for the first time from
private collections - the story of the compelling fight for
independence reaches its most desperate moments. Defeated at
Brandywine and out-manoeuvred near Valley Forge, the Continental
forces were worn out and ill equipped. Yet on October 4, Washington
would embark on his first major offensive of the war - a surprise
attack at dawn on Howe's main camp at Germantown. Again defeated,
though narrowly this time, the Continentals gained valuable
experience and new confidence in the possibility of victory. The
seige of the Delaware River forts - one of the bloodiest and
prolonged battles of the war - ended with British success in
mid-November, but still Howe failed to end the war. In his last
American offensive before his resignation took effect, Howe tried
unsuccessfully to draw Washington from the fortified hills of
Whitemarsh. Now, as the Continental forces moved to Valley Forge
for the winter, they would have to face their greatest challenge -
survival.
The last few years have seen a marked change in attitudes to the rehabilitation and management of offenders. It is now impossible to ignore evidence which demonstrates the possibilities for reducing reoffending. This book assembles and consolidates that evidence, and indicates the implications for both practice and research. Professionals in probation, parole and law, as well as in forensic psychology, psychiatry, nursing, and prison management and policy, will find this book of direct relevance to their work and thinking. It will be of interest and value to practitioners, academics and researchers across the whole field of adult and juvenile criminal justice. A key emphasis of the book is the relationship between research and practice: the evidence presented here constitutes a significant advancement in knowledge in the social sciences generally, and the findings are of considerable practical importance, in providing guidelines of relevance to practitioners and policy-makers throughout the criminal justice system.
The application of psychological principles to research and
practice in crime prevention, detection, legal processes and
offender treatment is a feature of the growing number of advanced
undergraduate courses and graduate courses, and professional
training programmes. This book reflects the need to provide an
overview of psychological knowledge and its forensic applications
and implications, to psychology students and its forensic
applications and implications, to psychology students and to
related professional disciplines such as psychiatry, nursing,
policing, law, prison work and probation.
The Editors are very well known academics and clinicians. The
chapters are written by contributors who are recognised leaders in
their own fields, and they have provided accessible accounts of the
applications and implications of behavioural sciences for their
peers, and for professionals and students in other disciplines.
Multi-professional case work and innovative approaches to crime and
offenders are being supported by research, by poicy and by
legislation. There is a growing need to provide a wide range of
professionals with a common framework and knowledge base to aid
their shared understanding of crime and offenders, and of related
interventions.
""Behaviour, Crime and Legal Processes" will be of great interest
to psychologists, psychiatrists, lawyers and others concerned with
understanding and treating offenders. The book is readable,
scholarly and wide-ranging, covering legal issues, psychology and
the police, witness evidence, decision-making in court,
criminological theories, risk assessment and the treatment of
mentally disordered and sex offenders." - Professor
DavidFarrington, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge,
UK
Drs. Stoffel and McGuire have developed an issue that supplies
urologists with state-of-the-art reviews devoted to the adult
neurogenic bladder.? Among the stand-out articles are Bladder
Rehabilitation: Goals and Practice; Pharmacologic Therapy for the
Neurogenic Bladder; Multiple Sclerosis and the Neurogenic Bladder;
Spinal Cord/Brain Injury and the Neurogenic Bladder; Botulinum
Toxin Injections; Neuromodulation in the Neurogenic Bladder;
Augmentation Cystoplasty for Improving Bladder Storage/Compliance;
Myelodysplasia and the Adult Neurogenic Bladder; Tissue
Engineering/Regeneration; Urologic Complications of the Neurogenic
Bladder; and Urodynamics in Neurogenic Bladder.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the
classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer
them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so
that everyone can enjoy them.
As featured on the PBS series "How We Got to Now" Perhaps no other
advancement of public health has been as significant. Yet, few know
the intriguing story of a simple idea-disinfecting public water
systems with chlorine-that in just 100 years has saved more lives
than any other single health development in human history. At the
turn of the 20th century, most scientists and doctors called the
addition of chloride of lime, a poisonous chemical, to public water
supplies not only a preposterous idea but also an illegal act -
until a courageous physician, Dr. John L. Leal, working with George
W. Fuller, the era's greatest sanitary engineer, proved it could be
done safely and effectively on a large scale. This is the first
book to tell the incredible true story of the first use of chlorine
to disinfect a city water supply, in Jersey City, New Jersey, in
1908. This important book also corrects misinformation long-held in
the historical record about who was responsible for this momentous
event, giving overdue recognition to the true hero of the story-an
unflagging champion of public health, Dr. John L. Leal. Download
excerpt
This is the first book to tell the incredible true story of the
first use of chlorine to disinfect a city water supply, in Jersey
City, New Jersey, in 1908. This important book also corrects
misinformation long-held in the historical record about who was
responsible for this momentous event, giving overdue recognition to
the true hero of the story-an unflagging champion of public health,
Dr. John L. Leal.
New Texas: its citizens figure that name about says it all. The
Solar League ambassador to the Lone Star Planet has the unenviable
task of convincing New Texans that a s'Srauff attack is imminent,
and dangerous. Unfortunately it's common knowledge that the
s'Srauff are evolved from canine ancestors -- and not a Texan alive
is about to be scared of a talking dog! But unless he can get them
to act, and fast, there won't be a Texan alive, scared or
otherwise!
Now in paperback, this first full length treatment of the
Revolutionary War battle recounts British general Charles Grey's
brutal attack on Anthony Wayne's division of 1,500 Continentals in
September 1777.
At last, Raymond Calvel's Le Gout du Pain is available in English,
translated by Ronald Wirtz. Mr. Calvel is known throughout the
world for his research on the production of quality French and
European hearth breads. The Taste of Bread is a thorough guide to
the elements and principles behind the production of good-tasting
bread, including a broad variety of bread products as flavored
breads, breadsticks, croissants, brioches, and other regional baked
goods. Each important aspect of the process is covered: wheat and
milling characteristics of breadmaking flour dough composition
oxidation in the mixing process leavening and fermentation effects
of dough division and formation baking and equipment storage The
English edition provides notes and information specifically on the
use of North American flours and includes recipes in both metric
and US units. Enhanced with new black-and-white and color
photography, The Taste of Bread will be a key resource for bakers
and other culinary professionals and students who must understand
the complex elements that yield quality breads.
The application of psychological principles to research and practice in crime prevention, detection, legal processes and offender treatment is a feature of the growing number of advanced undergraduate courses and graduate courses, and professional training programmes. This book reflects the need to provide an overview of psychological knowledge and its forensic applications and implications, to psychology students and its forensic applications and implications, to psychology students and to related professional disciplines such as psychiatry, nursing, policing, law, prison work and probation. The Editors are very well known academics and clinicians. The chapters are written by contributors who are recognised leaders in their own fields, and they have provided accessible accounts of the applications and implications of behavioural sciences for their peers, and for professionals and students in other disciplines. Multi-professional case work and innovative approaches to crime and offenders are being supported by research, by poicy and by legislation. There is a growing need to provide a wide range of professionals with a common framework and knowledge base to aid their shared understanding of crime and offenders, and of related interventions. "Behaviour, Crime and Legal Processes will be of great interest to psychologists, psychiatrists, lawyers and others concerned with understanding and treating offenders. The book is readable, scholarly and wide-ranging, covering legal issues, psychology and the police, witness evidence, decision-making in court, criminological theories, risk assessment and the treatment of mentally disordered and sex offenders." - Professor David Farrington, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK
In criminal justice literature, "community justice" usually refers
to a variety of alternative adjudicative strategies and practices.
In this book, we suggest an additional conceptual formulation of
community justice that emphasises the role of the criminal justice
system in providing justice to communities. Since the late
twentieth century, the primary promise of the American criminal
justice system has been to protect the public from dangerous
offenders. This book evaluates contemporary incarceration policy
and practice in the United States in light of that premise.
Criminal behaviour continues to be a matter of major public concern. How should society respond? What should be done with those who offend repeatedly? Offender Rehabilitation and Treatment links theory, research and practice in a coherent way by providing a systematic, evidence-based approach for the effective reduction of criminal behaviour. James McGuire has brought together internationally renowned experts from a variety of specialisms to present the cutting edge of the most recent and exciting developments in this field. The coverage of the book includes: - three new meta-analytic reviews published for the first time
- update surveys on "what works" from Europe and North America
- methods of longer-term developmental crime prevention
- implementation issues for new programmes and services
- the links between violence and alcohol, domestic violence/spouse abuse, treatment of sexual offenders and approaches to predatory offenders.
This book will be invaluable to academics, professionals and trainees working with offenders, directly or indirectly, in criminal justice, social service and mental health professions. Practitioners and their managers, students and teachers in psychology, probation, prison and forensic services, family work and allied professions will find something of value to add to their knowledge and inform their practice directly.
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