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Nova Science Publishers Inc Asian Economic & Political Issues: Volume 4
Book SynopsisIn spite of economic bubble, meltdowns, and a variety of current financial hiccups, Asia remains an economic powerhouse. The articles presented here examine the current political and economic situations in nations across Asia, particularly focusing on the south and east of the continent. Noted scholars present and analyse a wide range of issues -- from Chinese business to politics in Bangladesh as well as original research on crucial issues in the trade dynamics of China.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Public Policy Issues: Research Trends
Book SynopsisIn any society, governmental entities enact laws, make policies, and allocate resources. This is true at all levels. Public policy can be generally defined as a system of laws, regulatory measures, courses of action, and funding priorities concerning a given topic promulgated by a governmental entity or its representatives. Individuals and groups often attempt to shape public policy through education, advocacy, or mobilisation of interest groups. Shaping public policy is obviously different in Western-style democracies than in other forms of government. But it is reasonable to assume that the process always involves efforts by competing interest groups to influence policy makers in their favour. A major aspect of public policy is law. In a general sense, the law includes specific legislation and more broadly defined provisions of constitutional or international law. There are many ways that the law can influence how survivors of violence against women are treated and the types of services they receive.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Congress & Program Evaluation: An Overview of
Book SynopsisProgram evaluations can play an important role in public policy debates and in oversight of government programs, potentially affecting decisions about program design, operation, and funding. One technique that has received significant recent attention is the randomised controlled trial (RCT). There are also many other types of evaluation, including the observational and qualitative designs.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc American Community Survey & Select Survey Briefs
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Republican Party's Path to Prosperity
Book SynopsisThis book examines the Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Resolution proposed by Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and the House Committee on the Budget. The Congressional Budget Office provides a long-term analysis of the budget proposal and the Congressional Research Service explores the health care changes offered by this budget.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc U.S. National Drug Control Strategy
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Federal Debt Management: Trends & Policies
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£106.49
Nova Science Publishers Inc Dollar Depreciation: Economic Effects & Policy
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Regional & Urban Developments in
Book SynopsisIn this book, a number of concepts and understandings about development'' intertwine. Scales, times and human activities are projected onto territories, as to interpret realities. The future of population, the territorial (in)balances and complexity of managing spaces are recurring themes. Regional, sustainable, tourism and historical developments are the major headings under which chapters are organized. Under these headings and in the chapters, a number of themes are treated, including those of economic integration; flows of foreign investments; regional integration; border areas; urbanization; infrastructure provision; mobility; transports; urban sprawl; deprivation and health; poverty; environmental degradation; quality of life; housing; second homes; land use management and heritage.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Disaster Assistance & Recovery Programs: Types &
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Why Real Estate Ownership Security Cannot be
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£76.49
Nova Science Publishers Inc Food Labeling: Fda Protections &
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Congressional Limits on Military Operations
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Fiscal Strains on State Governments
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Federal Real Property Disposition
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£106.49
Nova Science Publishers Inc National Export Initiative & Strategy of the
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Job Leave Benefits: Types, Policies & Laws in the
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Nova Science Publishers Inc United States Research Enterprise: Enhancements
Book SynopsisNo country in the history of the world has more readily, or more fruitfully, embraced innovation through science and technology than the United States. The products of our basic and applied scientific research not only provide us with high-quality jobs and support our high-tech and knowledge economies, but they also define us as a nation; as an inventive, entrepreneurial society. The benefits from scientific advances, and the need for such advances to continue, are evident in virtually every aspect of modern life. The United States is in the midst of a profound reorganisation of how research is done, where it is done, who does it, and how its results find their way to the marketplace. This confluence of circumstances threatens the Nation''s world-leading position in innovation and technology and the benefits it brings. This book examines the importance of what is at stake, and what has been the response to date of the U.S. science and technology enterprise, and discusses the kinds of actions that could create positive opportunities for the United States in the future.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc United States Immigration Policy on Permanent &
Book SynopsisFour major principles underlie current U.S. policy on permanent immigration: the reunification of families, the admission of immigrants with needed skills, the protection of refugees, and the diversity of admissions by country of origin. Additionally, U.S. law provides for the temporary admission of various categories of foreign nationals, who are known as non-immigrants. They include a wide range of visitors, including tourists, foreign students, diplomats, and temporary workers. This book explores the immigration policy of the United States with regard to permanent and temporary admissions, with a focus on current law and policy, per-country ceilings, immigration patterns, and non-immigrant categories.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Specialty Crops: Federal Programs & Insurance
Book SynopsisU.S. farmers grow over 350 types of fruit, vegetable, tree nut, flower, nursery, and other horticultural crops in addition to the major bulk commodity crops. Speciality crop producers are ineligible for the federal commodity price and income support programs that benefit commodity crop producers (e.g. grains and cotton); however, they are eligible for other types of USDA support. Unlike federal support for commodity crops, support for speciality crops spans a wide range of existing USDA programs, many of which also provide support to other agricultural commodities. These include marketing and promotion programs, crop insurance and disaster assistance, plant pest and disease protections, trade assistance, and research and extension services. This book examines speciality crop federal programs and insurance with a focus on their background and legislative proposals.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Agricultural Issues & Policies: Volume 3
Book SynopsisAgriculture is one of the defining elements of a nation. This series consists of analyses on a variety of agricultural issues including (but not limited to) the developments, policies, programs, trade, trends and economics of agriculture. Topics will be seen from a U.S. perspective, but not to the exclusion of other countries particularly when the discussion has an international scope. Topics discussed in this issue include agricultural conversation programs; conservation compliance and U.S. farm policy; implications for the growth and financial health of U.S. agriculture; policy reform in the tobacco industry; hemp as an agricultural commodity; and table egg production and hen welfare.
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Mascot Books, Inc The New Technology State: How Our Digital Dreams
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Greenleaf Book Group LLC Containing Big Tech: How to Protect Our Civil
Book SynopsisThe path forward to rein in online surveillance, AI, and tech monopolies. Technology is a gift and a curse. The five Big Tech companies—Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google—have built innovative products that improve many aspects of our lives. But their intrusiveness and our dependence on them have created pressing threats to our civil rights, economy, and democracy. Coming from an extensive background building Silicon Valley–based tech startups, Tom Kemp eloquently and precisely weaves together the threats posed by Big Tech: • the overcollection and weaponization of our most sensitive data • the problematic ways Big Tech uses AI to process and act upon our data • the stifling of competition and entrepreneurship due to Big Tech’s dominant market position This richly detailed book exposes the consequences of Big Tech’s digital surveillance, exploitative use of AI, and monopolistic and anticompetitive practices. It offers actionable solutions to these problems and a clear path forward for individuals and policymakers to advocate for change. By containing the excesses of Big Tech, we will ensure our civil rights are respected and preserved, our economy is competitive, and our democracy is protected.
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Mountain Ambler Publishing Freeing Energy: How Innovators Are Using
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Sydney University Press Captured
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Cormorant Books The Compassionate Imagination: How the Arts Are
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University of Alberta Press Care, Cooperation and Activism in Canada's
Book SynopsisPeople across Canada’s North have created vibrant community institutions to serve a wide range of social and economic needs. Neither state-driven nor profit-oriented, these organizations form a relatively under-studied third sector of the economy. Researchers from the Social Economy Research Network of Northern Canada explore this sector through fifteen case studies, encompassing artistic, recreational, cultural, political, business, and economic development organizations that are crucial to the health and vitality of their communities. Care, Cooperation and Activism in Canada’s Northern Social Economy shows the innovative diversity and utter necessity of home-grown institutions in communities across Labrador, Nunatsiavut, Nunavik, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Yukon. Readers, researchers, and students interested in social economy, Aboriginal studies, and northern communities will find much to enjoy and value in this book. Contributors: Frances Abele, Jennifer Alsop, Matthew A. Beaudoin, Jean-Sébastien Boutet, Julia Christensen, Cédric Drouin, Moses Hernandez, Noor Johnson, Sheena Kennedy Dalseg, Frédéric Moisan, Joseph Moise, Rajiv Rawat, Jerald Sabin, Chris Southcott, Kiri Staples, Lucille Villaseñor-Caron, Valoree WalkerTrade Review"...the book’s chapters are accessibly written and attentive to the nuances of real communities... Together, they hold real value for those who work inside the social economy, those who care about the resilience of communities, and those who make policy.... This book, in short, is a valuable intervention – one that invites North-to-North learning. It also raises a further set of practical and policy questions.... [A] book that deserves a wide reading." [Full post at http://bit.ly/2graCI9] -- Roger Epp * Northern Public Affairs *"Examining a continuum of northern organizations from a social purpose business to an entirely volunteer organization, this collection makes an important contribution to our understanding of the nature and scope of the social economy within Canada’s North. In doing so, it identifies a range of activities and diversity of approaches used by northern organizations.... The contribution of this collection is strengthened by the diversity of its 15 case studies.... [T]he power of the collection derives from the reader being able to draw conclusions that extend across organizational type, community type, region, and primary focus. Abele and Southcott’s concluding chapter draws out many of these linkages." -- Laura Way * Arctic *"The book contains 15 case studies, each devoted to a particular social economy organization. The cases are drawn from organizations based in Canada's northern territories, as well as Arctic Quebec and Labrador. Each chapter includes a history of the organization, an overview of its programming, and an examination of its contributions to northern society. Most include some discussion of the challenges these organizations have faced through changing political, economic, and social climates.... This book will prove valuable to a variety of audiences, both within and outside of academia." -- Warren Bernauer * The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 37 No. 1 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Frances Abele and Chris Southcott 1 | Them Days // Matthew Beaudoin 2 | Labrador Friendship Centre // Matthew Beaudoin 3 | Torngat Fish Producers Co-operative A Social Fishery Venturing off the Coast of Northern Labrador // Jean-Sébastien Boutet 4 | Nunavik Creations // Cédric Drouin and Frédéric Moisan 5 | Unaaq Men’s Association of Inukjuak // Lucille Villaseñor-Caron 6 | The Naujat Co-operative History and Impact upon the Community of Repulse Bay, Nunavut // Jennifer Alsop 7 | Ilisaqsivik Society of Clyde River, Nunavut // Noor Johnson 8 | Keeping the Future in Focus A Case Study of Illiniariuqsarvik Igloolik Head Start // Sheena Kennedy Dalseg 9 | Folk on the Rocks The Beat That Sustains // Julia Christensen 10 | Alternatives North A History // Jerald Sabin 11 | From Hockey Sticks to Carrot Sticks at the Top of the World The Inuvik Community Greenhouse Project // Julia Christensen 12 | The YWCA of Yellowknife A Turning Point for the Northern Social Economy // Moses Hernandez and Rajiv Rawat 13 | Yukon Artists @ Work Co-operative // Kiri Staples 14 | Raven Recycling // Valoree Walker, Joseph Moise and Kiri Staples 15 | Volunteer Bénévoles Yukon The Case for Volunteer Centres // Kiri Staples and Valoree Walker 16 | Conclusion // Frances Abele and Chris Southcott Contributors Index
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Goose Lane Editions On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking meditation on pain, painkillers, and dependence from a prescription opioid user.Her writing has been described as "measured," "sensuous," and "compelling." In 2016, Carlyn Zwarenstein’s short narrative on pain made the Globe and Mail’s Top 100 Books. Now, she returns with a seductive dive into opioids and the nature of dependence.North Americans are the world’s most prolific users of opioid painkillers. In On Opium, Zwarenstein describes her own use of opioid-inspired medicines to cope with a painful disease. Evoking both Thomas De Quincey and Frida Kahlo, she travels from the decadence of recreational drug use in past eras to the misery and privation of the overdose crisis today.Speaking with users of prescribed morphine, illicit fentanyl, and smoked opium, Zwarenstein investigates uncomfortable questions about why people use substances and when substance use becomes addiction. And she exposes causes of drug-related harms: the debilitating effects of poverty, isolation, and trauma; the role of race, class, and gender in addressing pain; and a system of prohibition that has converted age-old medicines into taboo substances.Through all of this, Zwarenstein finds hope. Drawing on solidarity between illicit drug users and people in pain; in a wise understanding of what humans need to be well; and in radical drug policies like legalization and safe supply, she lays out a vision of a world where suffering is no longer lauded, and opioids are no longer demonized.Trade Review“Carlyn Zwarenstein provides a voice previously missing from the overdose crisis. With empathy and urgency, she takes us inside the world of people who use opioids at a time when they are dying in record numbers. On Opium captures people’s pain, hope, and resilience, and in sharing their stories, provides a blueprint to end the crisis.” -- Travis Lupick, author of Fighting for Space“Captivating, rage-inducing, and most important of all, helpful. In On Opium, Zwarenstein challenges us to imagine a world in which we toss out our antiquated, actively harmful ideas about substance use, stop thinking of addicts versus 'legitimate' users, and embrace harm reduction in a meaningful way.” -- Alison Manley * Miramichi Reader *“We need to legalize and regulate non-medical use of drugs. ... On Opium shows us that, after too much suffering, too much delay, that change will come.” -- W.A. Bogart * Healthy Debate *
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Verso Books Behind Enemy Lies: War, News and Chaos in the
Book SynopsisIn this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East.Here he charts the period from the recapture of Mosul in 2017 to Turkey's attack on Kurdish territory in November 2019, and recounts the new phase in the wars of disintegration that have plagued the region, leading to the assassination of Iranian General Sulemani.Cockburn offers panoramic on-the-ground analysis as well as a lifetime's study of the region. As author of The Rise of Islamic State, and the Age of Jihad, he has proved to be leading, critical commentator of US intervention and the chaos it has wrecked/ And here he shows how, since Trump entered the White House promising an end to the Forever War, peace appears a distant possibility with the continuation of conflict in Syria, Saudi Arabia's violent intervention in the Yemen, the fall of the Kurds, riots in Baghdad, and the continued aggression towards Iran. While ISIS has been defeated, it is not clear whether it has disappeared from the region. Trump's policies has appeared to pour petrol on the flames, emboldening the other superpowers involved in the proxy wars. Following the collapse of the deal with Iran, and the threat of war crimes, is a new balance of power possible?Trade ReviewQuite simply, the best Western journalist at work in Iraq today. -- Seymour HershAn invaluable history of IS along with a powerful critique of Western policy in Iraq and Syria and an unsparing analysis of Shia politics in Baghdad. -- Hugh Roberts * London Review of Books [for The Rise of Islamic State] *A fine and courageous journalist, who has displayed a sustained commitment to laying bare the tribulations of the Middle East . This book confirms Cockburn's reputation as a reporter and analyst. -- Max Hastings * Sunday Times [for The Age of Jihad] *This book is required reading for anyone who wants to try to understand the disaster. It should be compulsory reading for politicians, diplomats, defence chiefs and the academic think-tanks whose members make confident predictions, usually confounded by what follows. -- Allan Massie * Scotland on Sunday [for The Age of Jihad] *It is a brilliant tour d'horizon of the new wars, a chronicle compiled from despatches, notes and diaries. No one could be better placed for this task and no one else could have produced such a lucid and comprehensive account. -- Robert Fox * Evening Standard [For The Age of Jihad] *The greatest living foreign correspondent in English, a writer of understated integrity and compassion, with the necessary balance of indignation and detachment -- Richard Lloyd Parry * New York Times [for The Age of Jihad] *Must-read * TomDispatch.com *Cockburn makes a powerful denunciation of double standards in western media * Irish Times *Eminently readable...One of the region's most distinguished western observers...Soaked in blood, sectarian strife and fanaticism, mired in Great Power hypocrisy and betrayal, this may not be everyone's idea of feelgood lockdown literature but for anyone interested in the Middle East it is essential reading. -- Justin Marozzi * Sunday Times *
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Monash Asia Institute British Muslims and the Call to Global Jihad
Book SynopsisBetween the mid-1990s and 2004, Omar Bakri Muhammad and his organisation al-Muhajiroun generated a very public profile as the voice of ''Islamism'' in the United Kingdom. This book explores the lifespan of al-Muhajiroun and charts the organisation''s perspectives on the ''war on terror'', Muslims in the West and the role of the United States.
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Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Ukrainians in Canada: The Interwar Years: Book 1,
Book SynopsisBetween 1925 and 1939 a second wave of Ukrainian immigration brought within its ranks many civically active and politicized newcomers to Canada. Their impact on the major Ukrainian religious institutions and secular mass organizations were particularly strong. Many of them followed political developments and religious controversies in their dismembered homeland and hosted emissaries of overseas political movements and regimes. One of the most active groupsthe Ukrainian war veterans, who had participated in the struggle for Ukrainian independence (191721)promoted an assertive brand of nationalism and expressed admiration for authoritarian regimes in Europe. The author considers the impact of the second wave of Ukrainian immigrants on the churches, on the emergence of new secular mass organizations, and on the response of pre-war immigrants to the challenge presented by the newcomers.
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University of Alberta Press Toward a Sustainable Whaling Regime
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NeWest Press The Bottom Line: The Truth Behind Private Health
Book SynopsisThe Alberta government has been looking to the private sectorand in particular to private health insuranceto solve health care problems. In this highly readable and well-researched book, Diana Gibson and Colleen Fuller get to the real story behind private health insurance and offer viable solutions for strengthening Canadas public health care system from within.
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MIT Press Ltd A Future for Public Service Television
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Monash University Publishing Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern
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Monash University Publishing Fortune's Fool: Australia's Choices
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Monash University Publishing Advancing Human Rights
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Monash University Publishing Disconnect: Why We Get Pushed to Extremes Online
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Monash University Publishing Making Modern Australia: The Whitlam Government's
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Rocky Mountain Books,Canada Cold Matters: The State and Fate of Canada's
Book SynopsisCold Matters is a vital and approachable work that distills the scientific complexities of snow, ice, water and climate and presents the global implications of research put forth and funded by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. This timely book gives the concerned reader an opportunity to take part in the conversation about our global environment in a way that transcends traditional scientific journals, textbooks, public talks or newspaper articles that are so often ignored or forgotten. In the end, Cold Matters will change the way you think about ice and snow. The impassioned narrative and sophisticated illustrations found within the pages of Robert Sandford''s latest work offer ecologically and globally minded citizens an understanding of the behaviour of our ever-changing climate system and its effect on cold environments in western Canada over the past 400 years. Using revolutionary prediction scenarios to model glaciers and glacier meltwater in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Yukon, NWT and throughout the world, Cold Matters presents a clear snapshot of how altered ecosystems will impact future climates, urban centres and agricultural landscapes.
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Rocky Mountain Books,Canada Digging the City: An Urban Agriculture Manifesto
Book SynopsisAt the last census in 2006, just over 80 percent of Canada''s population lived in urban centres. How we feed that population and protect its food sources is an enduring subject of debate in food security circles these days. As consumers and citizens, we all need to take a hard look at the deficiencies in Canada''s ability to feed the urban poor; our dependence on imported foods and centralized food processing; our detachment from our food sources; the often problematic solutions to food security devised by governments, municipalities and non-profit groups; and where we are headed if we change nothing in these times when change is urgently needed. Many efforts are being made to introduce urban agriculture initiatives all across the country, to address the problems we''ve created and to protect our cities from real and potential crises in the food supply. With passion and lyricism, Digging the City addresses the problems facing urban omnivores in the 21st century and looks at various policy, grassroots and utopian solutions being developed and implemented, while considering the pros and cons of plans such as vertical farms, urban fish farms, transition-town initiatives, seed banks, permaculture and water conservation projects.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Media Graduates at Work: Irish Narratives on
Book SynopsisThis book systematically examines various factors that shape graduates’ entry into media work, which include the state and its policies, industrial and organizational practices and cultures, and media education. However, the book does not take a typical political economic or even media industries approach to this exploration. Rather, it innovatively traces how these forces are operationalized to shape media work from the perspective of the graduates, their educators and their employers. These varying perspectives are analyzed to see how graduates experience the outcomes of policy, education and industry cultures. The book examines the impact that policy, education and industry have in redefining what media work means for parts of industry that are responsible for cultivating new entrants into the creative industries.Table of ContentsChapter 1 - Introduction.- Chapter 2 -The Irish (Small Nation) Context.- Chapter 3 - What does media education do to media graduates?.- Chapter 4 - New Entrants and Pathways into Media Work.- Chapter 5 - State Policy and the Impact on Media Graduates.- Chapter 6 - Industry on Education: What's the Point?.- Chapter 7 - Conclusion.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Unsustainable: The History and Politics of Green
Book SynopsisThis book examines the history, politics, and economics of alternative energy. Since the energy crisis of the 1970s, governments around the world have subsidized and otherwise incentivized alternative forms of energy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. This search has taken on added urgency in the twenty-first century, as the specter of climate change has engendered ambitious state-level renewable portfolio standards, enhanced federal incentives, and inspired “100% renewable” electrical generation targets in such states as Vermont and Hawaii. To save the planet from destruction, wind, solar, and other renewable energy alternatives must replace fossil fuels. But how did we get here and what is the cost? After an in-depth study of the Carter administration's synthetic fuels program, the focus shifts to the two most prominent, perhaps most promising, and certainly most promoted—and government subsidized—“green” and “renewable” energies today: wind and solar. Because wind has made the most headway and drawn the most controversy, it receives the most attention. Although the primary focus is on the American experience with renewable energy, the policies and politics of renewables in Scotland, Wales, Denmark, Spain, and other European nations are also discussed. Issues considered in the book include the nature and efficacy of renewable subsidies; the employment of federal and state tax codes to encourage renewables; the lobbies and interest groups that campaign for government support of renewables; and the fierce battles over the siting of renewable facilities. Unlike other works on this subject, the book probes in depth the nature of the opposition to wind and solar, both in the matter of siting and in their worthiness as recipients of substantial government assistance.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction and Overview.- Synthetic Fail.- Everyone Knows It's Windy.- Winds Subside or Wind Subsidies?.- What Could Possibly Go Wrong?.- Whose Backyard? Siting and Fighting over Wind.- Here Comes the Sun.- Epilogue.
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Springer International Publishing AG Levelling Up the UK Economy: The Need for
Book SynopsisThis book contributes to emerging debates about Levelling Up the UK Economy, considering these alongside the nature of, and trends in, both the political economy and spatial disparities. Drawing on a complex systems framing, the book pulls together a range of evidence to provide insights about the agenda from macro, meso and micro levels of analyses, including utilising qualitative data from a small scoping study with Directors of Regeneration across several ‘left behind’ places and 25 residents of ‘left behind’ Redcar & Cleveland in Teesside. The book outlines phases in capitalism’s development, particularly the shift from post-war capitalism to a post-industrial and neoliberal society and the implications for spatial inequalities. The 2022 Levelling Up White Paper is analysed alongside a focus on the role of local government relative to the agenda. The book offers an empirical case study of ‘left behind’ Redcar & Cleveland, exposing deindustrialisation, insecure employment, crime, anti-social behaviour and sentiments on a North South divide and Levelling Up. We suggest that only a transformative change in the political economy, including significant and sustained investment at different spatial levels, is likely to achieve the ambition to Level Up.Table of Contents1. Introduction.2. Capitalism’s Trajectories and Local Spatial Dynamics.3. The Levelling Up Agenda.4. Local Government, Governance and Levelling Up.5. Sentiments from a ‘Left Behind’ Place.6. Conclusion: Scanning the Future.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Handbuch Sozialpolitik
Book SynopsisDieses Handbuch gibt einen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der Sozialpolitikforschung. Es beleuchtet aus vergleichender Perspektive die historische Entwicklung der Sozialpolitik, ebenso wie aktuelle Herausforderungen, Reformtrends und ihre Auswirkungen. Schließlich informiert das Handbuch über die Theorien des Sozialstaates und die Methoden der Sozialpolitikforschung.Der Inhalt· Geschichte der Sozialpolitik· Theorien der Sozialpolitik· Varianten und Typologien des Sozialstaats· Methoden der Sozialpolitikforschung· Herausforderungen der Sozialpolitik· Politikfelder· Resultate und Wirkungen der Sozialpolitik Die HerausgeberDr. Herbert Obinger ist Universitätsprofessor für vergleichende Staatstätigkeitsforschung an der Universität Bremen.Dr. Manfred G. Schmidt ist Universitätsprofessor für Politische Wissenschaft an der Universität Heidelberg.Table of ContentsGeschichte der Sozialpolitik.- Theorien der Sozialpolitik.- Varianten und Typologien des Sozialstaats.- Methoden der Sozialpolitikforschung.- Herausforderungen der Sozialpolitik.- Politikfelder.- Resultate und Wirkungen der Sozialpolitik
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Transcript Verlag Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge –
Book SynopsisSoutheast Asia is a laboratory showing current worldwide ecological issues. Environmental change, natural resource exploitation as well as global climate change increasingly threaten people's livelihoods. Environmentally-based uncertainties foster a high level of knowledge uncertainty. This poses a constantly growing threat to agricultural production. Vulnerable communities with a low degree of resilience are most severely affected. But local communities have abilities to innovate and develop locally embedded coping strategies. The contributors of this volume are most interested in environmental change that fosters knowledge uncertainties. Regions discussed include the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, Moluccas, Central Kalimantan, West Sumatra and South Sulawesi in Indonesia and Tangail Region in Bangladesh.
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Transcript Verlag Placing America: American Culture and Its Spaces
Book SynopsisIn "Call Me Ishmael", Charles Olson exclaims "SPACE to be the central fact to man born in America". Indeed, from the start, history and identity in America have been intricately tied to issues of space: from the idea of the "city upon a hill" to the transnational (soft) power of the United States, space has always served as an important parameter of power gained or lost and of the struggles to maintain or resist it. With contributions that range from the construction of America in (European) academic discourses to children's fiction, this collection provides an extensive and insightful study of how space influences our understanding of America.Trade Review"The ongoing discussion of spaces and spatiality as well as of the opposition of space and place are certainly enriched by this volume, which offers new insight into a complex topic and features innovative, substantial, and inspiring essays." Katharina Christ, Amerikastudien, 60 (2016)
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