Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and OversightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Interim Report of the Activities of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and OversightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
INTERIM REPORT OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM... ONE HUNDRED SEVENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION 2001... HOUSE OF.
Author: Local Government Reform
Author: Brian DolleryPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781782543862
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
'Written by an impressive array of experts, this book surveys local government reforms in six advanced democracies, federal and unitary, which share a municipal legacy: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. . . The book has an excellent bibliography and will help open up a field heretofore noted for its insularity. Recommended.' - A.J. Ward, Choice
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans
Author: Karen McLeodPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1610911318
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Conventional management approaches cannot meet the challenges faced by ocean and coastal ecosystems today. Consequently, national and international bodies have called for a shift toward more comprehensive ecosystem-based marine management. Synthesizing a vast amount of current knowledge, Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans is a comprehensive guide to utilizing this promising new approach. At its core, ecosystem-based management (EBM) is about acknowledging connections. Instead of focusing on the impacts of single activities on the delivery of individual ecosystem services, EBM focuses on the array of services that we receive from marine systems, the interactive and cumulative effects of multiple human activities on these coupled ecological and social systems, and the importance of working towards common goals across sectors. Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans provides a conceptual framework for students and professionals who want to understand and utilize this powerful approach. And it employs case studies that draw on the experiences of EBM practitioners to demonstrate how EBM principles can be applied to real-world problems. The book emphasizes the importance of understanding the factors that contribute to social and ecological resilience —the extent to which a system can maintain its structure, function, and identity in the face of disturbance. Utilizing the resilience framework, professionals can better predict how systems will respond to a variety of disturbances, as well as to a range of management alternatives. Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans presents the latest science of resilience, while it provides tools for the design and implementation of responsive EBM solutions.
The Pig Book
Author: Citizens Against Government WastePublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312343576
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A compendium of the most ridiculous examples of Congress's pork-barrel spending.
Privatizing the Polity
Author: Holona LeAnne OchsPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438457596
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Presents evidence that the expansion of welfare privatization makes it harder for people to move out of poverty in large numbers. Research on poverty and research on governance currently exist as largely disparate literatures without a framework for building knowledge regarding how policies and practices compare as poverty alleviation strategies. In Privatizing the Polity, Holona LeAnne Ochs examines the evolution of the governance of welfare programs across the United States. Throughout the political spectrum the trend in recent decades has been towards welfare privatization, shifting the boundaries of poverty governance from public to private actorswhether they are foundations or social entrepreneurswhose interests in poverty governance are more obscure. The analysis of more than eighteen years of data suggests that strategies of devolution and privatization make it more difficult for people to move out of poverty. At the same time the framework for understanding the governance structures, enactment practices, and social wealth leverage presented in Privatizing the Polity offers numerous opportunities for acquiring a deeper understanding of assumptions formerly taken for granted and redirecting the system to enhance poverty alleviation.
Government Employee Relations Report
Author: Indexes for Abstracts of Reports and Testimony
Author: Alternatives to Institutionalization
Author: Marjorie KravitzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corrections
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description