Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Public Policy - Economic Policy

Current images of sustainability are often designed to instil fear and force change, not because we believe in it, but because we fear the consequences of inaction.

Moving away from negative portrayals of sustainability, this book identifies the factors that motivate people to aspire towards sustainable living. It introduces the notion of sustainability as an "object of desire" that will allow people not to be scared of the future but rather to dream about it and look forward to a better quality of life. Tracing the history of major changes in our society that have dramatically...

This book contains selected peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability (INSTR) Conference held at the University of Minnesota July 22-23, 2010. International scholars, from a variety of disciplines--engineering, economics, geography, planning and transportation-offer varying perspectives on modeling and analysis of the reliability of transportation networks in order to illustrate both vulnerability to day-to-day and unpredictability variability and risk in travel, and demonstrates strategies for addressing those...

Celebrities, businessmen, governors, mayors, and unions are asked to lend their voices condemning unfair outsourcing of American jobs to third world countries that support "slave labor wages."

"WE COME FIRST " discusses why American workers need a new honest news organization to fact check the racist and biased news organizations that dominate the TV, radio, and newspaper outlets. "WE COME FIRST " challenges the so called expert's opinions on how to escape from poverty and living in high crime areas. The expert's opinions have been tried the past seventy to eighty years. There is only...

Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. While one might expect that these concerns would motivate people to become more politically engaged on the issues, this often doesn't happen, and the resulting inaction carries consequences for political debates and public policy. Moving beyond previously studied barriers to political organization, American Insecurity sheds light on the public's inaction over economic insecurities by showing that the rhetoric surrounding...