Author: Jerome Blackburn Walker
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Category : Higher education and state
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309453607
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 137

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Federal guidance on nutrition and diet is intended to reflect the state of the science and deliver the most reliable recommendations possible according to the best available evidence. This guidance, updated and presented every 5 years in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), serves as the basis for all federal nutrition policies and nutrition assistance programs, as well as nutrition education programs. Despite the use of the guidelines over the past 30 years, recent challenges prompted Congress to question the process by which food and nutrition guidance is developed. This report assesses the process used to develop the guidelines; it does not evaluate the substance or use of the guidelines. As part of an overall, comprehensive review of the process to update the DGA, this first report seeks to discover how the advisory committee selection process can be improved to provide more transparency, eliminate bias, and include committee members with a range of viewpoints for the purpose of informing the 2020 cycle.

Author: Illinois Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities. Independent Service Coordination Work Group
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Category : Developmentally disabled
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: National Governors' Association. Center for Best Practices
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Languages : en
Pages : 13

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Nearly all governors have designated a state early childhood advisory council to advise policymakers in the state on how to best meet the needs of children from birth to school entry. Early childhood advisory councils in the states vary in their structure and scope, but all of them provide recommendations on improving the quality, availability, and coordination of early childhood care and education programs. Because states typically administer early childhood care and education programs across multiple agencies and funding streams, such councils play an important role in shaping a common agenda for early childhood policy. To ensure that their councils will continue to serve as a ready source for early childhood policy recommendations and a hub for efforts to coordinate across agencies, a number of governors are taking steps to do the following: (1) Promote the state's early childhood advisory council's sustainability, whether through legislation, public-private partnerships, or by embedding the council's role in state government structures; and (2) Fully align and connect the state's early childhood advisory council with other state efforts to coordinate services for children and families, including the work of governors' children's cabinets and P-20 (preschool through higher education) councils. More information on state early education advisory councils can be found in the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices' (NGA Center's) detailed state profiles, developed in partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Information in the state profiles is based on a review of state applications for grants provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), as well as updates provided by council leadership in April 2011. This "Issue Brief" summarizes data compiled in these profiles. (Contains 3 figures, 4 footnotes and 9 endnotes.).

Author: Latheef Nazeer Ahmed
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Author: Council of State Governments. Organizational Planning and Coordinating Committee. Subcommittee on Information Policy
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Category : State governments
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 12

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Author: National Science Foundation (U.S.). Office of Special Studies
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Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations
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Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Author: Kathleen Tierney
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804791406
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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“This book about risk and disaster—and how they get amplified—is fascinating and hugely important as we face an ever-more-turbulent world.” —Rebecca Solnit, award-winning author of A Field Guide to Getting Lost The first decade of the twenty-first century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that catastrophic events can have on developing countries, while 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina showed that first world nations remain vulnerable. The Social Roots of Risk argues against the widespread notion that cataclysmic occurrences are singular events, driven by forces beyond our control. Instead, Kathleen Tierney contends that disasters of all types—be they natural, technological, or economic—are rooted in common social and institutional sources. Put another way, risks and disasters are produced by the social order itself—by governing bodies, organizations, and groups that push for economic growth, oppose risk-reducing regulation, and escape responsibility for tremendous losses when they occur. Considering a wide range of historical and looming events—from a potential mega-earthquake in Tokyo that would cause devastation far greater than what we saw in 2011, to BP’s accident history prior to the 2010 blowout—Tierney illustrates trends in our behavior, connecting what seem like one-off events to illuminate historical patterns. Like risk, human resilience also emerges from the social order, and this book makes a powerful case that we already have a significant capacity to reduce the losses that disasters produce. A provocative rethinking of the way that we approach and remedy disasters, The Social Roots of Risk leaves readers with a better understanding of how our own actions make us vulnerable to the next big crisis—and what we can do to prevent it. “Brilliant . . . Drawing on a trove of timely case studies, Tierney analyses how factors such as speculative finance and rampant development allow natural and economic blips to tip more easily into catastrophe.” —Nature