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  • The Handbook of Disaster and Emergency Policies and Institutions

    by John Handmer, Stephen Dovers ...
    Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of the problems they confront, and the lack of institutional capacity to implement planning and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Environmental Management and Governance

    Intergovernmental Approaches to Hazards and Sustainability

    Edited by Raymond Burby, Jennifer Dixon, Neil Ericksen, John Handmer, Peter May, Sarah Michaels, D. Ingle Smith ...
    Problems for environmental management are taking on a new urgency. This book addresses aspects of environmental management that raise fundamental questions about governmental roles and the relationship of humans to the environment. It examines the interaction of local and national governments and the strengths and weaknesses of co-operative vs. coercive environmental management, through a focus on ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Ecology, Uncertainty and Policy

    Managing Ecosystems for Sustainability

    by John Handmer ...
    A broad and comprehensive exploration of the role of the ecological sciences in sustainability for undergraduates.The urgent quest for more sustainable patterns of development has placed new and difficult demands on both scientists and policy makers as they seek to establish more informed and effective policy processes and management regimes in the the face of pervasive uncertainty. Written by an ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Hazard Management and Emergency Planning

    Perspectives in Britain

    by Dennis Parker, John Handmer ...
    This book assesses critically the British approach to hazard management and emergency planning. It identifies the principal legal, organizational and cultural impediments to more effective hazard management and emergency planning, postulates explanations for the shortcomings in the British approach and examines a number of promising avenues for improving current practice.It comprises 18 chapters ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Risks and Opportunities

    Managing Environmental Conflict and Change

    by Valerie Brown, David Ingle Smith, Rob Wiseman, John Handmer ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Environmental Policy
    First published in 1995. Managing today’s rapidly changing environment inevitably involves managing conflicts between the demands of development and conservation; the needs of the present and of the future; and between different community interests, professional positions and political priorities.Risks and Opportunities provides both a guide to managing environmental change, and a training manual ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Handbook of Disaster Policies and Institutions

    Improving Emergency Management and Climate Change Adaptation

    by John Handmer, Stephen Dovers ...
    Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of the problems they confront, and the lack of institutional capacity to implement planning and ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Coping With Flash Floods

    Edited by Eve Gruntfest, John Handmer ...
    Series Book 77 - NATO Science Partnership Subseries
    This volume is the proceedings of a NATO-sponsored Advanced Study Institute (ASI) entitled "Coping with Flash Floods" held in Ravello, Italy on 8-17 November 1999. Thirty-five participants from nine countries attended the ASI, representing both developed (United States, England, Italy, and Mexico) and developing (Poland, Uganda, Greece, Ukraine, and Slovenia) countries. Participants from a variety ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Community Bushfire Safety

    Edited by John Handmer, Katharine Haynes ...
    Community Bushfire Safety brings together in one accessible and comprehensive volume the results of the most important community safety research being undertaken within the Australian Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (CRC). Using perspectives deriving from social science, economics and law, it complements the extensive literature already existing on bushfires, which ranges from ecology and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Representing Workers

    Trade Union Recognition and Membership in Britain

    Edited by Howard Gospel, Stephen Wood ...
    Series series The Future of Trade Unions in Britain
    Employment relations are at a crossroad. Historically, trade union channels in advanced economies have dominated worker representation, but with the decline in union membership other forms of representation are becoming increasingly significant.This timely book is the result of significant research addressing key issues underlying these developments. A group of internationally-renowned employment ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Making Policy in Turbulent Times

    Challenges and Prospects for Higher Education

    by Paul Axelrod, Theresa Shanahan, Richard Wellen, Roopa Trilokekar ...
    Series Book 180 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    How is policy made in higher education, particularly in the wake of recent economic turbulence? Has policy development converged internationally, and if so, what impact has this had on academic life and institutions? What role does policy-oriented research play in shaping the direction of higher education? Are universities grappling in common ways with issues of access and equity?Making Policy in ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Corporate Social Responsibility

    A Research Handbook

    Edited by Kathryn Haynes, Alan Murray, Jesse Dillard ...
    Concepts of corporate social responsibility (CSR) are widely used by businesses, professional bodies and academics, but are also widely contested. CSR is usually described as comprising three elements: environmental, economic and social, though there is no serious consensus on how to go about translating ideas into practice. This research handbook addresses some key areas of contention, theory and ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Hard Choices

    Challenging the Singapore Consensus

    Edited by Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh, Donald Low ...
    Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that underpin Singaporean exceptionalism are no longer accepted as easily and readily as before. Among these are the ideas that the country is uniquely vulnerable, that this vulnerability limits its policy and political options, that good governance demands a ... Read more

    $12.39 USD