ilość książek w kategorii: 1255
Privatizing Public Lands
ISBN: 9780195089721 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the United States, private ownership of land is not a new idea, yet the federal government retains title to roughly a quarter of the nation's land, including national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges. Managing these properties is expensive and contentious, and few management decisions escape criticism. Some observers, however, argue that such criticism is largely misdirected. The fundamental problem, in their view, is collective ownership and its solution is privatization. A free market, they claim, directs privately owned resources to their most productive uses, and privatizing public...
In the United States, private ownership of land is not a new idea, yet the federal government retains title to roughly a quarter of the nation's land,...
|
|
cena:
549,96 zł |
The Government of Risk: Understanding Risk Regulation Regimes
ISBN: 9780199243631 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why does regulation vary so dramatically from one area to another? Why are vast sums spent on controlling some risks but not on others? Is there any logic to the techniques we use in risk regulation? In this work, Hood explores these crucial questions explored. It looks at a number of risk regulations' regimes, considers the respects in which they differ, and examines how these differences can be justified.
Why does regulation vary so dramatically from one area to another? Why are vast sums spent on controlling some risks but not on others? Is there any l...
|
|
cena:
735,29 zł |
Sustainability Assessment: Applications and opportunities
ISBN: 9781138802742 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Current and expanding human activities are moving us towards ever deeper unsustainability. While there is no single, simple means of reversing the invidious biophysical trends and redirecting the distribution of benefits, one necessary step is to approach every new and renewed undertaking as an opportunity to deliver maximum multiple, mutually reinforcing, fairly distributed and lasting gains. Finding the best options for enhancing such gains by comparing alternatives, addressing all the key requirements for progress towards sustainability and avoiding significant adverse effects, is the... Current and expanding human activities are moving us towards ever deeper unsustainability. While there is no single, simple means of reversing the ... |
|
cena:
939,05 zł |
Rural Development in Eurasia and the Middle East: Land Reform, Demographic Change, and Environmental Constraints
ISBN: 9780295980478 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rural Development in Eurasia and the Middle East: Land Reform, Demographic Change, and Environmental Constraints Rural Development in Eurasia and the Middle East: Land Reform, Demographic Change, and Environmental Constraints |
|
cena:
125,15 zł |
Neighbor Power: Building Community the Seattle Way
ISBN: 9780295984445 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Building on the lessons of early labor leaders, civil rights volunteers, and political activists, Jim Diers has developed his own models and successful strategies for community development. Neighbor Power chronicles his involvement with Seattle's communities. This book not only gives hope that participatory democracy is possible, but it offers practical applications and invaluable lessons for ordinary, caring citizens who want to make a difference. It also provides government officials with inspiring stories and proven programs to help them embrace citizen activists as true... Building on the lessons of early labor leaders, civil rights volunteers, and political activists, Jim Diers has developed his own models and succes... |
|
cena:
83,42 zł |
Planning at the Landscape Scale
ISBN: 9780415351416 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traditionally, landscape planning has involved the designation and protection of exceptional countryside. However, whilst this still remains important, there is a growing recognition of the multi-functionality of rural areas, and the need to encourage sustainable use of the whole countryside rather than just its 'hotspots'. With an inter-disciplinary assessment of the rural environment, this book draws on theories of landscape values, people-place relationships, sustainable development, and plan implementation. It focuses on the competing influences of globalization and... Traditionally, landscape planning has involved the designation and protection of exceptional countryside. However, whilst this still remains import... |
|
cena:
912,96 zł |
Planning at the Landscape Scale
ISBN: 9780415351423 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traditionally, landscape planning has involved the designation and protection of exceptional countryside. However, whilst this still remains important, there is a growing recognition of the multi-functionality of rural areas, and the need to encourage sustainable use of the whole countryside rather than just its 'hotspots'. With an inter-disciplinary assessment of the rural environment, this book draws on theories of landscape values, people-place relationships, sustainable development, and plan implementation. It focuses on the competing influences of globalization and... Traditionally, landscape planning has involved the designation and protection of exceptional countryside. However, whilst this still remains import... |
|
cena:
307,74 zł |
Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age
ISBN: 9780415927680 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. National drug chains squeeze local pharmacies out of business, while corporate downsizing ships jobs overseas. All across America, communities large and small are losing control of their economies to outside interests. Going Local shows how some cities and towns are fighting back. Refusing to be overcome by Wal-Marts and layoffs, they are taking over abandoned factories, switching to local produce and manufactured goods, and pushing banks to loan money to local citizens. Shuman details how dozens of communities are recapturing their own economies with these new strategies, investing...
National drug chains squeeze local pharmacies out of business, while corporate downsizing ships jobs overseas. All across America, communities large a...
|
|
cena:
229,49 zł |
Rural Change and Planning: England and Wales in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780419180005 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the mid-1970s there has been an increase in interest and concern for the countryside. At a public level, this is evident in the growth in the membership of countryside organizations and rurally-focused hobbies. At the academic level, it can be seen in the burgeoning of courses with rural, conservation and environmental themes. At the level of public policy, it can be seen in the development of policies regarding conservation, farm diversification, public access and housing.
Since the mid-1970s there has been an increase in interest and concern for the countryside. At a public level, this is evident in the growth in the me...
|
|
cena:
808,63 zł |
Seeds of Disaster Roots of Response
ISBN: 9780521685726 / Angielski / Miękka / 554 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, executives and policymakers are motivated than ever to reduce the vulnerability of social and economic systems to disasters. Most prior work on "critical infrastructure protection" has focused on the responsibilities and actions of government rather than on those of the private sector firms that provide most vital services. Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response is the first systematic attempt to understand how private decisions and operations affect public vulnerability. It describes effective and sustainable approaches - both business strategies and...
In the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, executives and policymakers are motivated than ever to reduce the vulnerability of social and economic syst...
|
|
cena:
325,85 zł |
Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability
ISBN: 9780521857963 / Angielski / Twarda / 554 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, executives and policymakers are motivated than ever to reduce the vulnerability of social and economic systems to disasters. Most prior work on critical infrastructure protection has focused on the responsibilities and actions of government rather than on those of the private sector firms that provide most vital services. Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response is the first systematic attempt to understand how private decisions and operations affect public vulnerability. It describes effective and sustainable approaches both business strategies and...
In the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, executives and policymakers are motivated than ever to reduce the vulnerability of social and economic syst...
|
|
cena:
624,10 zł |
The Political Economy of Regionalism
ISBN: 9780714641874 / Angielski / Miękka / 491 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the effects of economic and political restructuring on regions in Europe and North America. The main theses are: international economic restructuring and its impact on regions; political realignments at the regional level; questions of territorial identity and their connection with class, gender and neighbourhood identity; policy choices and policy conflicts in regional development.
This book examines the effects of economic and political restructuring on regions in Europe and North America. The main theses are: international econ...
|
|
cena:
286,88 zł |
A Rediscovered Frontier: Land Use and Resource Issues in the New West
ISBN: 9780742526174 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Rediscovered Frontier describes the changing land use issues taking place in the rapidly growing western United States, paying special attention to the previously unexplored area of private lands planning and local growth management. The book begins by exploring the term 'New West, 'and then describes prototypical land use patterns found throughout the West. It examines the spatial circumstances of rural and small town growth patterns, and provides examples of the kinds of development that could occur elsewhere in areas having similar geographic situations. The book takes a close look at...
A Rediscovered Frontier describes the changing land use issues taking place in the rapidly growing western United States, paying special attention to ...
|
|
cena:
230,64 zł |
Housing in Rural America: Building Affordable and Inclusive Communities
ISBN: 9780761913818 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about decent and affordable shelter in rural America, a little known and often overlooked issue in housing policy. The rural poor and their housing conditions are not widely discussed or examined within the professional literature. It explores decent and affordable shelter in rural areas, an often overlooked issue in housing policy.
This book is about decent and affordable shelter in rural America, a little known and often overlooked issue in housing policy. The rural poor and the...
|
|
cena:
422,57 zł |
Rural Development: Principles and Practice
ISBN: 9780761947660 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Malcolm Moseley makes an impressive job of "cutting through the cackle" and has produced a definitive catch-all volume to inform students, practitioners, community activists and local decision makers alike.... The book is transparently and logically laid out.... From a personal perspective as community activist and local authority member, I found the book invaluable. Here were satisfying definitions of terms I have grappled with for years - "rural," "community," "sustainable," "social capital," "capacity building," "the leaky bucket." Here also were some outstanding examples of good...
Malcolm Moseley makes an impressive job of "cutting through the cackle" and has produced a definitive catch-all volume to inform students, practitione...
|
|
cena:
839,93 zł |
Rural Development: Principles and Practice
ISBN: 9780761947677 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Malcolm Moseley makes an impressive job of "cutting through the cackle" and has produced a definitive catch-all volume to inform students, practitioners, community activists and local decision makers alike.... The book is transparently and logically laid out.... From a personal perspective as community activist and local authority member, I found the book invaluable. Here were satisfying definitions of terms I have grappled with for years - "rural," "community," "sustainable," "social capital," "capacity building," "the leaky bucket." Here also were some outstanding examples of good...
Malcolm Moseley makes an impressive job of "cutting through the cackle" and has produced a definitive catch-all volume to inform students, practitione...
|
|
cena:
313,02 zł |
Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California
ISBN: 9780804751391 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As urban growth outstrips water supplies, how can the global challenge of providing "liquid gold" be met? Mixing history and policy analysis, Steven Erie tells the compelling story of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD)--one of the world's largest and most important public water agencies--and its role in building the world's 8th largest economy in a semi-desert. No tawdry tale of secret backroom conspiracies--as depicted in the famed film noir Chinatown--this fresh telling concerns an unheralded regional institution, its entrepreneurial public leadership, and...
As urban growth outstrips water supplies, how can the global challenge of providing "liquid gold" be met? Mixing history and policy analysis, Steven E...
|
|
cena:
516,47 zł |
Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California
ISBN: 9780804751407 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As urban growth outstrips water supplies, how can the global challenge of providing "liquid gold" be met? Mixing history and policy analysis, Steven Erie tells the compelling story of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD)--one of the world's largest and most important public water agencies--and its role in building the world's 8th largest economy in a semi-desert. No tawdry tale of secret backroom conspiracies--as depicted in the famed film noir Chinatown--this fresh telling concerns an unheralded regional institution, its entrepreneurial public leadership, and...
As urban growth outstrips water supplies, how can the global challenge of providing "liquid gold" be met? Mixing history and policy analysis, Steven E...
|
|
cena:
125,15 zł |
The Regional Governing of Metropolitan America
ISBN: 9780813398075 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book explores the regional governing of metropolitan America in a comprehensive and systematic fashion. It reviews the financial system of state and local government at the broadest possible levelthe national leveland explores the relationships between the federal government, the 50 state governments, and the 86,000 local governments that constitute the United States system. It assesses and identifies the fundamentally different purposes, organizational designs, and powers of the several forms and types of local governmentcounties, municipalities (both cities and towns), and special...
The book explores the regional governing of metropolitan America in a comprehensive and systematic fashion. It reviews the financial system of state a...
|
|
cena:
229,49 zł |
Living on the Edge of the Gulf: The West Florida and Alabama Coast
ISBN: 9780822325338 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Gulf coast of Florida and Alabama is a fragile combination of barrier islands, low-lying marshes, and highly erodable mainland shores. In addition to sea-level rise, winter storms, and altered sediment supplies, hurricanes frequently damage or destroy the human developments and infrastructures that line this coast. Indeed, a single storm can cause billions of dollars in losses. Memories of such hurricanes as Camille, Frederic, Opal, and Andrew cause great concern for residents and property owners alike; events of equal magnitude are always just beyond the horizon and the uninformed have...
The Gulf coast of Florida and Alabama is a fragile combination of barrier islands, low-lying marshes, and highly erodable mainland shores. In addition...
|
|
cena:
464,31 zł |