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  • Reliability and Risk

    The Challenge of Managing Interconnected Infrastructures

    by Paul Schulman, Emery Roe ...
    Series series High Reliability and Crisis Management
    The safe and continued functioning of critical infrastructures—such as electricity, natural gas, transportation, and water—is a social imperative. Yet the complex connections between these systems render them increasingly precarious. Furthermore, though we depend so heavily on interconnected infrastructures, we do not fully understand the risks involved in their failure.Emery Roe and Paul R. ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Taking Complexity Seriously

    Policy Analysis, Triangulation and Sustainable Development

    by Emery Roe ...
    Taking Complexity Seriously applies the advanced policy analysis technique of triangulation to what is now the world's most complex public policy challenge: sustainable development.One central problem of public policy analysis has been to find new ways of analyzing issues of increasing complexity and uncertainty. Triangulation is perhaps the best example of these novel techniques, as it uses ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Making the Most of Mess

    Reliability and Policy in Today's Management Challenges

    by Emery Roe ...
    In Making the Most of Mess, Emery Roe emphasizes that policy messes cannot be avoided or cleaned up; they need to be managed. He shows how policymakers and other professionals can learn these necessary skills from control operators who manage large critical infrastructures such as water supplies, telecommunications systems, and electricity grids. The ways in which they prevent major accidents and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Except-Africa

    Remaking Development, Rethinking Power

    Edited by Emery Roe ...
    It is a commonplace that the problems of African rural development are becoming increasingly complex--that is, they have grown more numerous, interrelated, and varied. This complexity has generated a multitude of development scenarios. Such scenarios encourage decision making along rigid and narrow patterns that ignore the diversity of local situations and national cultures. Among these is the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Narrative Policy Analysis

    Theory and Practice

    by Emery Roe ...
    Narrative Policy Analysis presents a powerful and original application of contemporary literary theory and policy analysis to many of today’s most urgent public policy issues. Emery Roe demonstrates across a wide array of case studies that structuralist and poststructuralist theories of narrative are exceptionally useful in evaluating difficult policy problems, understanding their implications, ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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    Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture

    by Jamshid Gharajedaghi ...
    In a global market economy, a viable business cannot be locked into a single form or function anymore. Rather, success is contingent upon a self-renewing capacity to spontaneously create structures, functions, and processes responsive to a fluctuating business landscape. Now in its third edition, Systems Thinking synthesizes systems theory and interactive design, providing an operational ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Mismeasuring Our Lives

    Why GDP Doesn't Add Up

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Jean-Paul Fitoussi ...
    In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of leading economists to study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP)—the most widely used measure of economic activity—is a reliable ... Read more

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  • Ethics, Technology, and Engineering

    An Introduction

    by Ibo van de Poel, Lamber Royakkers ...
    Featuring a wide range of international case studies, Ethics, Technology, and Engineering presents a unique and systematic approach for engineering students to deal with the ethical issues that are increasingly inherent in engineering practice.Utilizes a systematic approach to ethical case analysis -- the ethical cycle -- which features a wide range of real-life international case studies ... Read more

    $119.00 USD

  • Development Projects Observed

    by Albert O. Hirschman, Michele Alacevich ...
    Series series A Brookings Classic
    Originally published in 1967, the modest and plainly descriptive title of Development Projects Observed is deceptive. Today, it is recognized as the ultimate volume of Hirschman's groundbreaking trilogy on development, and as the bridge to the broader social science themes of his subsequent writings. Though among his lesser-known works, this unassuming tome is one of his most influential.It is in ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Cloudonomics

    The Business Value of Cloud Computing

    by Joe Weinman ...
    The ultimate guide to assessing and exploiting the customer value and revenue potential of the CloudA new business model is sweeping the world—the Cloud. And, as with any new technology, there is a great deal of fear, uncertainty, and doubt surrounding cloud computing. Cloudonomics radically upends the conventional wisdom, clearly explains the underlying principles and illustrates through ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • A Dictionary of Human Geography

    by Alisdair Rogers, Noel Castree, Rob Kitchin ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    A Dictionary of Human Geography is a brand new addition to Oxford's Paperback Reference Series, offering over 2,000 clear and concise entries on human geography terms. From basic terms and concepts to biographical entries, acronyms, organisations, and major periods and schools in the history of human geography, it provides up-to-date, accurate, and accessible information. It also includes entry ... Read more

    $4.08 USD

  • Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis

    by Dvora Yanow ...
    Series series Qualitative Research Methods
    This book in the QRM series is designed for a wide variety of research methods courses taught in various departments. It will be of most interest to those in Public Policy, Political Science, and Public Administration departments, but will also be of interest to researchers in Sociology, Anthropology, Communication and Education departments, among others. The book fills a gap in the traditional ... Read more

    $36.89 USD