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  • Community Quality-of-Life Indicators

    Best Cases IX

    Edited by Frank Ridzi, Chantal Stevens, Lyle Wray ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume continues the tradition now established since 2006, of compiling excellent research into the practice and application of community indicators in a single source volume. It focuses on the theme of the Community Indicators Consortium 2020 Summit, as a significant venue for the advancement of the practice and theory of community indicators work. It covers the conference's theme of ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Confronting Urban Legacy

    Rediscovering Hartford and New England's Forgotten Cities

    by James R. Gomes, Ezra Moser, Michael Sacks, Jack Dougherty, Lyle Wray, Louise Simmons, Tom Condon, John Shemo, Andrew Walsh, Janet Bauer, Clyde McKee, Llana Barber, Jason Rojas ...
    Confronting Urban Legacy fills a critical lacuna in urban scholarship. As almost all of the literature focuses on global cities and megacities, smaller, secondary cities, which actually hold the majority of the world’s population, are either critically misunderstood or unexamined in their entirety. This neglect not only biases scholars’ understanding of social and spatial dynamics toward very ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    The Change Imperative for Whole System Reform

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    $31.49 USD

  • Co-Creation for Sustainability

    The UN SDGs and the Power of Local Partnerships

    by Christopher Ansell, Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing ...
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set an ambitious agenda for global problem-solving and create a framework to achieve it through the power of partnerships. Goal 17 points to the central importance of partnerships, networks, and multi-stakeholder collaborations for bringing together a broad range of ... Read more

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  • Collaborating for Our Future

    Multistakeholder Partnerships for Solving Complex Problems

    by Barbara Gray, Jill Purdy ...
    Organizations turn to multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) to meet challenges that they cannot handle alone. By tapping the resources of diverse stakeholders, MSPs develop the capability to address complex issues and problems, such as health care delivery, poverty, human rights, watershed management, education, sustainability, and innovation. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Understanding and Managing Public Organizations

    by Hal G. Rainey, Sergio Fernandez, Deanna Malatesta ...
    Series series Essential Texts for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and Management
    Discover the latest insights in organization theory from a comprehensive and masterful volumeUnderstanding and Managing Public Organizations, 6th Edition provides readers with an authoritative reference for scholars, masters, and doctoral students in public management and public affairs programs in the United States and other nations.The 6th Edition of Understanding and Managing Public ... Read more

    $56.00 USD

  • Women Who Opt Out

    The Debate over Working Mothers and Work-Family Balance

    Edited by Bernie D. Jones ...
    In a much-publicized and much-maligned 2003 New York Times article, “The Opt-Out Revolution,” the journalist Lisa Belkin made the controversial argument that highly educated women who enter the workplace tend to leave upon marrying and having children. Women Who Opt Out is a collection of original essays by the leading scholars in the field of work and family research, which takes a multi ... Read more

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  • Leading Public Health

    A Competency Framework

    by Jan Malcolm, James Begun, PhD ...
    "James Begun and Jan Malcolm combine the wisdom of an academic and a practitioner to provide a comprehensive, accessible guide to impactful public health leadership. It is timely because now more than ever the stakes and oppotunities are high. A must-read for any aspiring Public Health leader."Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MDPresident and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation"Leaders of population/public ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations

    Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation

    Edited by Karen Golden-Biddle, Jane E. Dutton ...
    Series series Organization and Management Series
    How can application of a positive lens to understanding social change and organizations enrich and elaborate theory and practice? This is the core question that inspired this book. It is a question that brought together a diverse and talented group of researchers interested in change and organizations in different problem domains (sustainability, healthcare, and poverty alleviation). The ... Read more

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  • Feminine Capital

    Unlocking the Power of Women Entrepreneurs

    by Barbara Orser, Catherine Elliott ...
    Today, there are over 200,000,000 women business owners around the world. Many of these entrepreneurs are not doing business as usual, nor are they simply leaning in. Rather, they are tapping into feminine capital—the unique skills and sensibilities that they have cultivated as women—to create enviable successes.Drawing on four decades of award-winning research, Feminine Capital reveals how women ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Beyond D&I

    Leading Diversity with Purpose and Inclusiveness

    by Kay Formanek ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    D&I is no longer a passing fad. It’s not about legal compliance or HR box-ticking, in fact diversity and inclusion is a critical factor for success. #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter and the ballooning disparate consequences of Covid-19 on minorities brings renewed emphasis on D&I agendas, and the economic reality that diverse talent is good for business and good for sustainability.In Beyond D&I, Kay ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption

    Edited by Sungsup Ra, Shanti Jagannathan, Rupert Maclean ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book presents contemporary perspectives on the role of a learning society from the lens of leading practitioners, experts from universities, governments, and industry leaders. The think pieces argue for a learning society as a major driver of change with far-reaching influence on learning to serve the needs of economies and societies.The book is a testimonial to the importance of ... Read more

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