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This book analyses the regional complexes of climate security in
the Pacific. Pacific Island States and Territories (PICTs) have
long been cast as the frontline of climate change and placed within
the grand architecture of global climate governance. The region
provides compelling new insights into the ways climate change is
constructed, governed, and shaped by (and in turn shapes), regional
and global climate politics. By focusing on climate security as it
is constructed in the Pacific and how this concept mobilises
resources and shapes the implementation of climate finance, the
book provides an up-to-date account of the way regional
organizations in the Pacific have contributed to the search for
solutions to the problem of climate insecurity. In the context of
the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris in
2015, the focus of this book on regional governance offers a
concise and innovative account of climate politics in the
prevailing global context and one with implications for the study
of climate security in other regions, particularly in the
developing world.
The procedures in this manual distill six years of learning about
the most efficient acquisition and construction methods in this
country for high volume production of housing affordable to
low-income people. The people in the Rehab Work Group at The
Enterprise Foundation have gathered this information first-hand and
conveyed it in training workshops on production management
throughout the country. Over 2000 participants in the workshops
have included rehab specialists from city housing departments, con
struction managers of single and multifamily rehab projects,
program managers from both nonprofit housing development
organizations and city rehab depart ments, as well as students in
colleges and universities. They are becoming the backbone of a new
cadre of effective producers of affordable housing. In the 30
cities and several rural areas where we have both learned and
applied these production management techniques, they have resulted
in savings of 5, 10, even 25 percent of the cost of housing
development. The Enterprise Foundation is a national, nonprofit
organization that my wife Patty and I launched in 1982. The
Foundation's mission is to see that all very low-income Americans
have the opportunity for fit and affordable housing within a
generation, and work their way up and out of poverty into the main
stream of American life.
In February 1980 the Royal College of Radiologists, London, held
its Second Symposium on Clinical Oncology. The subject was
Prostatic Cancer and this publication is based on the presen
tations at this meeting by leading authorities in the United
Kingdom. The principal objective of these Symposia is to promote
multi disciplinary collaboration for the benefit of cancer
patients. Awareness and understanding of advances in a broad range
of subjects are essential to ensure the timely and effective appli
cation of new techniques in the prevention and treatment of all
forms of cancer. Communication of this kind may also stimulate the
creation of new ideas that may prove to be of more fundamental
relevance to cancer research. Prostatic cancer has been afforded
too little attention in the past, and its importance in Clinical
Oncology has not been adequately recognised. And yet over the last
10 years consid erable progress has been recorded in our
understanding of this disease and in its assessment and management.
These achieve ments are well documented in this collection of
papers and the outstanding problems are also clearly indicated. It
is acknowl edged that the early diagnosis of prostatic cancer
presents a continuing challenge, associated with the uncertainties
that concern the clinical significance of 'latent' cancer of the
prostate. The accurate assessment of the incidence and preva lence
of the disease is extremely difficult and together these problems
complicate the evaluation of the management of early or localised
prostatic cancer."
The subject of this publication, thyroid cancer, was the topic
chosen for the First Symposium on Clinical Oncology, orga nized by
the Royal College of Radiologists, London, on 26 and 27 January
1979. The papers collected here are based on the presentations made
at that meeting, but have been expanded in most cases to provide a
more complete review. Thyroid cancer is an uncommon tumor, but as a
result of well-directed collabora tive efforts our knowledge of its
pathogenesis, natural history, and management has increased
enormously in the last decade. Consideration of this progress in
our understanding of thyroid cancer well illustrates the main theme
to be promoted in this and future symposia, which is the
encouragement of a multidisciplinary approach to the solution of
the many out standing problems in clinical oncology. The need is
recog nized for close and sustained collaboration between
clinicians of many speciality groups and research workers of many
scientific disciplines, to accelerate further progress in the
prevention, early detection, and management of all forms of
malignant disease. Thyroid cancer provides an excellent example of
the present achievements of such a multidisciplin- VI Preface ary
approach, where British research and experience have made a
contribution that has received world wide recognition."
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This book analyses the regional complexes of climate security in
the Pacific. Pacific Island States and Territories (PICTs) have
long been cast as the frontline of climate change and placed within
the grand architecture of global climate governance. The region
provides compelling new insights into the ways climate change is
constructed, governed, and shaped by (and in turn shapes), regional
and global climate politics. By focusing on climate security as it
is constructed in the Pacific and how this concept mobilises
resources and shapes the implementation of climate finance, the
book provides an up-to-date account of the way regional
organizations in the Pacific have contributed to the search for
solutions to the problem of climate insecurity. In the context of
the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris in
2015, the focus of this book on regional governance offers a
concise and innovative account of climate politics in the
prevailing global context and one with implications for the study
of climate security in other regions, particularly in the
developing world.
The field of curriculum inquiry has grown rapidly over the last
four decades resulting in many new forms of curriculum inquiry to
be used as tools to answer unique curriculum-related research
questions. There are few texts available that include concise
descriptions and elements of curriculum inquiry methodologies and
directed at enabling researchers to wisely choose a form of
curriculum inquiry most appropriate for their study. Conceptual
Analyses of Curriculum Inquiry Methodologies presents chapters that
are each devoted to a particular form of inquiry, with a conceptual
analysis of the methodology, its purpose(s), its utilization,
structure, and organization, all written by scholars with firsthand
experience with the form of inquiry. These experts also take the
liberty of citing examples of published studies that have utilized
the methodology, share the types of relevant data collection
instruments and forms of data produced, and also share research
questions that can be answered via their form of inquiry. Covering
topics such as quantitative methods of inquiry, glocalization, and
educational criticism, this is an essential text for curriculum
designers, doctoral students, doctoral researchers, university
faculty, professors, researchers, and academicians.
The field of curriculum inquiry has grown rapidly over the last
four decades resulting in many new forms of curriculum inquiry to
be used as tools to answer unique curriculum-related research
questions. There are few texts available that include concise
descriptions and elements of curriculum inquiry methodologies and
directed at enabling researchers to wisely choose a form of
curriculum inquiry most appropriate for their study. Conceptual
Analyses of Curriculum Inquiry Methodologies presents chapters that
are each devoted to a particular form of inquiry, with a conceptual
analysis of the methodology, its purpose(s), its utilization,
structure, and organization, all written by scholars with firsthand
experience with the form of inquiry. These experts also take the
liberty of citing examples of published studies that have utilized
the methodology, share the types of relevant data collection
instruments and forms of data produced, and also share research
questions that can be answered via their form of inquiry. Covering
topics such as quantitative methods of inquiry, glocalization, and
educational criticism, this is an essential text for curriculum
designers, doctoral students, doctoral researchers, university
faculty, professors, researchers, and academicians.
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