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  • Effects of Deregulation on Safety

    Implications Drawn from the Aviation, Rail, and United Kingdom Nuclear Power Industries

    by Vicki Bier, James Joosten, David Glyer, Jennifer Tracey, Michael Welsh ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Effects of Deregulation on Safety provides a comprehensive overview of the safety experiences of these three case study industries and their implications for the U.S. nuclear power industry. The treatment of the subject is not highly technical, and hence is accessible to a wide range of readers with interests in the subject matter. The book draws on literature from roughly 250 references, ranging ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Industrial Networks (Routledge Revivals)

    A New View of Reality

    Edited by B Axelsson, G Easton ...
    First published in 1992, this volume brings together contemporary studies and reviews the research which established the study of networks as an area in its own right. By looking at the foundations of industrial networks and analysing network methodology and modelling, this book offers an integrated and coherent approach to the whole area. Covering small group analysis, network change processes ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Rethinking Rational Choice Theory

    A Companion on Rational and Moral Action

    by Jan de Jonge ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The marriage of neuroscience and the science of choice behaviour gave birth to neuroeconomics. Jan de Jong explores this new discipline, investigating the relationship between choice behaviour and brain activity, and the light that this sheds on our systems of reasoning. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Drilling Down

    The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma

    by Joseph A. Tainter, Tadeusz W. Patzek ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth of complexity in the processes and institutions that generate and manage that growth. As societies grow more complex ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government

    A Balanced Scorecard Approach Towards Sustainable Development

    by Nan Chai ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Progressing towards sustainable development raises important challenges to conducting performance evaluations in governments because there are neither generally accepted methods nor specific standards to be met at present. Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government, makes a conceptual contribution to public sustainability performance evaluation and develops a set of framework ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Cross-Cultural Risk Perception

    A Survey of Empirical Studies

    Edited by Ortwin Renn, Bernd Rohrmann ...
    Series Book 13 - Risk, Governance and Society
    Cross-Cultural Risk Perception demonstrates the richness and wealth of theoretical insights and practical information that risk perception studies can offer to policy makers, risk experts, and interested parties. The book begins with an extended introduction summarizing the state of the art in risk perception research and core issues of cross-cultural comparisons. The main body of the book ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Benefits Assessment

    The State of the Art

    Edited by J.D. Bentkover, V.T. Covello, J.L. Mumpower ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In recent years there has been substantial interest in benefits assessment methods, especially as these methods are used to assess health, safety, and environmental issues. At least part of this interest can be traced to Executive Order 12291, issued by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. This Executive Order requires Federal agencies to perform benefits assessments of pro posed major regulations and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Adaptive Water Management

    Concepts, Principles and Applications for Sustainable Development

    by Farideh Delavari Edalat, M. Reza Abdi ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book explores a new framework of Adaptive Water Management (AWM) for evaluating existing approaches in urban water management. It highlights the need to adopt multidisciplinary strategies in water management while providing an in-depth understanding of institutional interactions amongst different water related sectors.The key characteristics of AWM i.e. polycentric governance, organisational ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Decision Science and Social Risk Management

    A Comparative Evaluation of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Decision Analysis, and Other Formal Decision-Aiding Approaches

    by M.W Merkhofer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Economists, decision analysts, management scientists, and others have long argued that government should take a more scientific approach to decision making. Pointing to various theories for prescribing and rational izing choices, they have maintained that social goals could be achieved more effectively and at lower costs if government decisions were routinely subjected to analysis. Now, government ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Uncertainty and Quality in Science for Policy

    by S.O. Funtowicz, J.R. Ravetz ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    60 -I 137.0~29 ERROR BARS • tONE (1" \ \ \ 4\0 \ \ E \ a. a. \ Z30 \ 137.0388 \ 0 137.0377 \ ~ \ ~20 \ \ 0 to 0 '50 Fig.1. Successive recommended values of the fine-structure constand IX-I (B. N. Taylor et 01., 1969,7) reminder that the value is not fully accepted by colleagues, since they will expect it to jump about for a while longer. Our next example is taken from a recent study in the social ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Environment and Democratic Transition:

    Policy and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by A. Vari, Pal Tamas ...
    Series Book 7 - Risk, Governance and Society
    Recent democratization and the accompanied liberalization of the media in Central and Eastern Europe has brought the devastating environmental impacts of the intensive and careless industrialization of the last 40 years to the surface. Less is known, however, about the social, political and institutional background of environmental risk management which led to the present situation, as well as ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Socially Responsible Investment

    A Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach

    Edited by Enrique Ballestero, Blanca Pérez-Gladish, Ana Garcia-Bernabeu ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book integrates socially responsible investment into modern portfolio theory from a multi-criteria perspective. Socially responsible investment is a “new deal” championed by the institutional investment and bank sectors, agents that influence mutual funds and other collective investment schemes and which fear that financial strategies without ethical constraints can harm sustainable growth ... Read more

    $89.09 USD