Author: Community Council of Oklahoma City and CountyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Guideposts for Community Planning
Author: Community Council of Oklahoma City and CountyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
STEM Lesson Guideposts
Author: Jo Anne VasquezPublisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN: 9780325087764
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"STEM Lesson Guideposts presents a clear and actionable approach for teachers and leaders to follow in developing meaningful STEM lessons and units. This companion to the best-selling STEM Lesson Essentials is a practical guide for helping you on your journey of creating integrated, interdisciplinary STEM units."--
Pricing Lives
Author: W. Kip ViscusiPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069120859X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
How society’s undervaluing of life puts all of us at risk—and the groundbreaking economic measure that can fix it Like it or not, sometimes we need to put a monetary value on people's lives. In the past, government agencies used the financial "cost of death" to monetize the mortality risks of regulatory policies, but this method vastly undervalued life. Pricing Lives tells the story of how the government came to adopt an altogether different approach--the value of a statistical life, or VSL—and persuasively shows how its more widespread use could create a safer and more equitable society for everyone. In the 1980s, W. Kip Viscusi used the method to demonstrate that the benefits of requiring businesses to label hazardous chemicals immensely outweighed the costs. VSL is the risk-reward trade-off that people make about their health when considering risky job choices. With it, Viscusi calculated how much more money workers would demand to take on hazardous jobs, boosting calculated benefits by an order of magnitude. His current estimate of the value of a statistical life is $10 million. In this book, Viscusi provides a comprehensive look at all aspects of economic and policy efforts to price lives, including controversial topics such as whether older people's lives are worth less and richer people's lives are worth more. He explains why corporations need to abandon the misguided cost-of-death approach, how the courts can profit from increased application of VSL in assessing liability and setting damages, and how other countries consistently undervalue risks to life. Pricing Lives proposes sensible economic guideposts to foster more protective policies and greater levels of safety in the United States and throughout the world.
The Handbook of Community Practice
Author: Marie WeilPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412987857
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Encompassing community development, organizing, planning, & social change, as well as globalisation, this book is grounded in participatory & empowerment practice. The 36 chapters assess practice, theory & research methods.
Smart Decarceration
Author: Matthew EppersonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190653094
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Smart Decarceration is a forward-thinking, practical volume that provides concrete strategies for an era of decarceration. This timely work consists of chapters written from multiple perspectives and disciplines including scholars, practitioners, and persons with incarceration histories. The text grapples with tough questions and builds a foundation for the decarceration field.
Guide posts to commu
Author: Hearings on Job Creation Proposals
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Employment OpportunitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Guide Posts in Education on the Highways and Byways; Or, Education for Citizenship and Character
Author: Congressional Review of Price-wage Guide-posts
Author: United States. Congress. House. Government OperationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Master Plan of Land Use Community Facilities and Trafficways
Author: Richmond (Va.). City Planning CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description