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Celebrating the centennial of Saul Leiter’s birth, the official
retrospective of a revolutionary figure in twentieth-century
photography. Saul Leiter photographed and painted nearly every day
for over sixty years, amassing an enormous archive, most of which
remained unseen during his lifetime. Finding inspiration within a
few blocks of his apartment in Lower Manhattan, he was a master at
discovering beauty in the most ordinary places. Celebrated today
for his evocative colour photographs of New York in the 1950s and
1960s, which were unknown in their day, Leiter also found success
as a fashion photographer for Harper’s Bazaar. All the while he
was shooting black-and-white street scenes on his daily walks, and
nudes and intimate portraits back home, while continuing his
painting explorations with abstract watercolours, whimsical
sketchbooks and painted photographs. Created in collaboration with
the Saul Leiter Foundation, this definitive monograph brings
together these diverse yet interconnected bodies of work –
including much that was previously unpublished – to reveal the
complete artist for the first time.
Risk analysis is not a narrowly defined set of applications.
Rather, it is widely used to assess and manage a plethora of
hazards that threaten dire implications. However, too few people
actually understand what risk analysis can help us accomplish and,
even among experts, knowledge is often limited to one or two
applications. Explaining Risk Analysis frames risk analysis as a
holistic planning process aimed at making better risk-informed
decisions and emphasizing the connections between the parts. This
framework requires an understanding of basic terms, including
explanations of why there is no universal agreement about what risk
means, much less risk assessment, risk management and risk
analysis. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, the book
illustrates the ways in which risk analysis can help lead to better
decisions in a variety of scenarios, including the destruction of
chemical weapons, management of nuclear waste and the response to
passenger rail threats. The book demonstrates how the risk analysis
process and the data, models and processes used in risk analysis
will clarify, rather than obfuscate, decision-makers' options. This
book will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk
assessment, risk management, public health, environmental science,
environmental economics and environmental psychology.
This book is about a subject that Michael Greenberg has worked
on and lived with for almost forty years. He was brought up in the
south Bronx at a time when his neighborhood suffered from terrible
air and noise pollution, and domestic waste went untreated into the
Hudson River. For him, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
was a blessing. It included an ethical position about the
environment, and the law required some level of accountability in
the form of an environmental impact statement, or EIS.
After forty years of thinking about and working with NEPA and
the EIS process, Greenberg decided to conduct his own evaluation
from the perspective of a person trained in science who focuses on
environmental and environmental health policies. This book of
carefully chosen real case studies goes beyond the familiar
checklists of what to do, and shows students and practitioners
alike what really happens during the creation and implementation of
an EIS.
Hundreds of studies have investigated public perceptions and
preferences about nuclear power, waste management, and technology.
However there is clear lack of uniformity in the style, aims and
methods applied. Consequently, the body of results is inconsistent
and it is difficult to isolate relevant patterns or
interpretations. Nuclear Waste Management, Nuclear Power and Energy
Choices: Public Preferences, Perceptions and Trust presents a
theoretical base for public reactions then classifies and reviews
the large body of surveys carried out over the past decade.
Particular focus is placed on residents within 50 miles US nuclear
waste facilities due to the disproportionate presence of nuclear
factors in their lives such as the legacy of nuclear waste disposal
and job dependency. The motivations and reasons for their views
such as fear, attraction to the economic benefits, trust of site
managers and federal agencies, cultural views, personal history,
and demographic attributes of the people are also considered to
provide a balanced and detailed overview. Nuclear Waste Management,
Nuclear Power and Energy Choices: Public Preferences, Perceptions
and Trust includes a comprehensive treatment of the theories and
literature, and most important is grounded in surveys in 2005,
2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 which includes questions considering the
impact of Fukushima on US public opinion. By including real life
data alongside the analysis, Nuclear Waste Management, Nuclear
Power, and Energy Choices: Public Preferences, Perceptions and
Trust provides a relevant and concise reference for nuclear
industry professionals. It also acts a resource for students and
researchers studying nuclear-related topics including political,
social and environmental factors. Particular focus is placed on
residents within 50 miles US nuclear waste facilities due to the
disproportionate presence of nuclear factors in their lives such as
the legacy of nuclear waste disposal and job dependency. The
motivations and reasons for their views such as fear, attraction to
the economic benefits, trust of site managers and federal agencies,
cultural views, personal history, and demographic attributes of the
people are also considered to provide a balanced and detailed
overview. Nuclear Waste Management, Nuclear Power and Energy
Choices: Public Preferences, Perceptions and Trust includes a
comprehensive treatment of the theories and literature, and most
important is grounded in surveys in 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, and
2011 which includes questions considering the impact of Fukushima
on US public opinion. By including real life data alongside the
analysis, Nuclear Waste Management, Nuclear Power, and Energy
Choices: Public Preferences, Perceptions and Trust provides a
relevant and concise reference for nuclear industry professionals.
It also acts a resource for students and researchers studying
nuclear-related topics including political, social and
environmental factors. Particular focus is placed on residents
within 50 miles US nuclear waste facilities due to the
disproportionate presence of nuclear factors in their lives such as
the legacy of nuclear waste disposal and job dependency. The
motivations and reasons for their views such as fear, attraction to
the economic benefits, trust of site managers and federal agencies,
cultural views, personal history, and demographic attributes of the
people are also considered to provide a balanced and detailed
overview. Nuclear Waste Management, Nuclear Power and Energy
Choices: Public Preferences, Perceptions and Trust includes a
comprehensive treatment of the theories and literature, and most
important is grounded in surveys in 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, and
2011 which includes questions considering the impact of Fukushima
on US public opinion. By including real life data alongside the
analysis, Nuclear Waste Management, Nuclear Power, and Energy
Choices: Public Preferences, Perceptions and Trust provides a
relevant and concise reference for nuclear industry professionals.
It also acts a resource for students and researchers studying
nuclear-related topics including political, social and
environmental factors. By including real life data alongside the
analysis, Nuclear Waste Management, Nuclear Power, and Energy
Choices: Public Preferences, Perceptions and Trust provides a
relevant and concise reference for nuclear industry professionals.
It also acts a resource for students and researchers studying
nuclear-related topics including political, social and
environmental factors. By including real life data alongside the
analysis, Nuclear Waste Management, Nuclear Power, and Energy
Choices: Public Preferences, Perceptions and Trust provides a
relevant and concise reference for nuclear industry professionals.
It also acts a resource for students and researchers studying
nuclear-related topics including political, social and
environmental factors.
This book examines environmental and social justice challenges near
America's most popular heritage attractions. These include over 100
places that host national parks (e.g., Glacier, Yellowstone), zoos
(e.g., Bronx, Henry Doorly), urban parks (e.g., Central Park,
Fairmount), grand concourses (e.g., 5th Avenue, Massachusetts
Avenue), and multiple museums and galleries (e.g., National
Gallery, Getty). The book includes measurements of demographics,
air quality/distance from hazards, health outcomes, and urban
assets in the areas immediately surrounding these heritage sites
and compares them with adjacent areas and their host cities or
states. It considers the history of justice-related-issues near the
sites and evaluates what owners, managers and communities are doing
to address gentrification, displacement, the legacy of redlining
and other challenges, such as the animal rights movement, climate
change/sustainability, and tight budgets. The book examines what
some host cities are doing about affordable housing and what some
heritage sites have done in establishing constructive relationships
with surrounding communities. The book should have two primary
audiences. One is the strong and growing social and environmental
justice community that has increasingly been scrutinizing parks and
other icons for evidence of injustice. This book will interest
them, even though all the results do not necessarily support their
positions. The second audience is businesses, not-for-profits, and
government agencies who manage parks, zoos, museums, and other
attractions and need to understand what is happening near their
sites and what they can do to be better neighbours.
Risk analysis is not a narrowly defined set of applications.
Rather, it is widely used to assess and manage a plethora of
hazards that threaten dire implications. However, too few people
actually understand what risk analysis can help us accomplish and,
even among experts, knowledge is often limited to one or two
applications. Explaining Risk Analysis frames risk analysis as a
holistic planning process aimed at making better risk-informed
decisions and emphasizing the connections between the parts. This
framework requires an understanding of basic terms, including
explanations of why there is no universal agreement about what risk
means, much less risk assessment, risk management and risk
analysis. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, the book
illustrates the ways in which risk analysis can help lead to better
decisions in a variety of scenarios, including the destruction of
chemical weapons, management of nuclear waste and the response to
passenger rail threats. The book demonstrates how the risk analysis
process and the data, models and processes used in risk analysis
will clarify, rather than obfuscate, decision-makers' options. This
book will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk
assessment, risk management, public health, environmental science,
environmental economics and environmental psychology.
This book examines environmental and social justice challenges near
America's most popular heritage attractions. These include over 100
places that host national parks (e.g., Glacier, Yellowstone), zoos
(e.g., Bronx, Henry Doorly), urban parks (e.g., Central Park,
Fairmount), grand concourses (e.g., 5th Avenue, Massachusetts
Avenue), and multiple museums and galleries (e.g., National
Gallery, Getty). The book includes measurements of demographics,
air quality/distance from hazards, health outcomes, and urban
assets in the areas immediately surrounding these heritage sites
and compares them with adjacent areas and their host cities or
states. It considers the history of justice-related-issues near the
sites and evaluates what owners, managers and communities are doing
to address gentrification, displacement, the legacy of redlining
and other challenges, such as the animal rights movement, climate
change/sustainability, and tight budgets. The book examines what
some host cities are doing about affordable housing and what some
heritage sites have done in establishing constructive relationships
with surrounding communities. The book should have two primary
audiences. One is the strong and growing social and environmental
justice community that has increasingly been scrutinizing parks and
other icons for evidence of injustice. This book will interest
them, even though all the results do not necessarily support their
positions. The second audience is businesses, not-for-profits, and
government agencies who manage parks, zoos, museums, and other
attractions and need to understand what is happening near their
sites and what they can do to be better neighbours.
This book is about a subject that Michael Greenberg has worked
on and lived with for almost forty years. He was brought up in the
south Bronx at a time when his neighborhood suffered from terrible
air and noise pollution, and domestic waste went untreated into the
Hudson River. For him, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
was a blessing. It included an ethical position about the
environment, and the law required some level of accountability in
the form of an environmental impact statement, or EIS.
After forty years of thinking about and working with NEPA and
the EIS process, Greenberg decided to conduct his own evaluation
from the perspective of a person trained in science who focuses on
environmental and environmental health policies. This book of
carefully chosen real case studies goes beyond the familiar
checklists of what to do, and shows students and practitioners
alike what really happens during the creation and implementation of
an EIS.
Hundreds of studies have investigated public perceptions and
preferences about nuclear power, waste management, and technology.
However there is clear lack of uniformity in the style, aims and
methods applied. Consequently, the body of results is inconsistent
and it is difficult to isolate relevant patterns or
interpretations. Nuclear Waste Management, Nuclear Power and Energy
Choices: Public Preferences, Perceptions and Trust presents a
theoretical base for public reactions then classifies and reviews
the large body of surveys carried out over the past decade.
Particular focus is placed on residents within 50 miles US nuclear
waste facilities due to the disproportionate presence of nuclear
factors in their lives such as the legacy of nuclear waste disposal
and job dependency. The motivations and reasons for their views
such as fear, attraction to the economic benefits, trust of site
managers and federal agencies, cultural views, personal history,
and demographic attributes of the people are also considered to
provide a balanced and detailed overview. Nuclear Waste Management,
Nuclear Power and Energy Choices: Public Preferences, Perceptions
and Trust includes a comprehensive treatment of the theories and
literature, and most important is grounded in surveys in 2005,
2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 which includes questions considering the
impact of Fukushima on US public opinion. By including real life
data alongside the analysis, Nuclear Waste Management, Nuclear
Power, and Energy Choices: Public Preferences, Perceptions and
Trust provides a relevant and concise reference for nuclear
industry professionals. It also acts a resource for students and
researchers studying nuclear-related topics including political,
social and environmental factors. Particular focus is placed on
residents within 50 miles US nuclear waste facilities due to the
disproportionate presence of nuclear factors in their lives such as
the legacy of nuclear waste disposal and job dependency. The
motivations and reasons for their views such as fear, attraction to
the economic benefits, trust of site managers and federal agencies,
cultural views, personal history, and demographic attributes of the
people are also considered to provide a balanced and detailed
overview. Nuclear Waste Management, Nuclear Power and Energy
Choices: Public Preferences, Perceptions and Trust includes a
comprehensive treatment of the theories and literature, and most
important is grounded in surveys in 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, and
2011 which includes questions considering the impact of Fukushima
on US public opinion. By including real life data alongside the
analysis, Nuclear Waste Management, Nuclear Power, and Energy
Choices: Public Preferences, Perceptions and Trust provides a
relevant and concise reference for nuclear industry professionals.
It also acts a resource for students and researchers studying
nuclear-related topics including political, social and
environmental factors. Particular focus is placed on residents
within 50 miles US nuclear waste facilities due to the
disproportionate presence of nuclear factors in their lives such as
the legacy of nuclear waste disposal and job dependency. The
motivations and reasons for their views such as fear, attraction to
the economic benefits, trust of site managers and federal agencies,
cultural views, personal history, and demographic attributes of the
people are also considered to provide a balanced and detailed
overview. Nuclear Waste Management, Nuclear Power and Energy
Choices: Public Preferences, Perceptions and Trust includes a
comprehensive treatment of the theories and literature, and most
important is grounded in surveys in 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, and
2011 which includes questions considering the impact of Fukushima
on US public opinion. By including real life data alongside the
analysis, Nuclear Waste Management, Nuclear Power, and Energy
Choices: Public Preferences, Perceptions and Trust provides a
relevant and concise reference for nuclear industry professionals.
It also acts a resource for students and researchers studying
nuclear-related topics including political, social and
environmental factors. By including real life data alongside the
analysis, Nuclear Waste Management, Nuclear Power, and Energy
Choices: Public Preferences, Perceptions and Trust provides a
relevant and concise reference for nuclear industry professionals.
It also acts a resource for students and researchers studying
nuclear-related topics including political, social and
environmental factors. By including real life data alongside the
analysis, Nuclear Waste Management, Nuclear Power, and Energy
Choices: Public Preferences, Perceptions and Trust provides a
relevant and concise reference for nuclear industry professionals.
It also acts a resource for students and researchers studying
nuclear-related topics including political, social and
environmental factors.
An account of the activities of British merchants in China in the
crucial years before the Treaty of Nanking (1842), which
transformed the relations between the Celestial Empire and the
Western 'barbarians' and placed them upon a footing that was to
last for 100 years. Mr Greenberg shows how this change was brought
about by the pressures of the expanding British economy of the
early nineteenth century. Much of the material is based on the
papers of Jardine Matheson and Co., the only firm of pre-treaty
days to survive, and the largest of the British firms then
established in Canton.
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In September 2002, RAND contracted with the U.S. Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality to serve as the evaluation center
for its national patient safety initiative. This report assesses
the context and goals that were the foundation for the initiative,
documents the baseline status of the activities being undertaken,
and identifies priorities the researchers believe will have the
strongest positive impact on the future of AHRQ's patient safety
initiative.
Assesses the value of 24-hour care--an insurance plan that
consolidates employers' health care benefits for work-related and
non-work-related claims--as a mechanism for reducing workers'
compensation costs. 450-character abstract: Proponents of a type of
insurance program called 24-hour care--which would consolidate
employers' health care benefits, and possibly disability benefits,
for both work-related and non-work-related claims--believe that it
could yield substantial workers' compensation savings for
California. In this monograph, the authors present their assessment
of the value of 24-hour care as a mechanism for reducing workers'
compensation costs and discuss possible options for 24-hour-care
model programs.
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