Public Affairs & Policy
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Foley

CHAPTER 8 It Takes a Village: Leisure, Community, and Resilience Anthropologists are in accord that traditional agriculturalists, pastoral peoples, and hunter-gatherer societies had time on their hands. These so-called primitives, ...
( Category: Agriculture & Food Policy March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jay D. Gatrell, Gregory D. Bierly & Ryan R. Jensen

Phillips L, Jørgensen MW (2002) Discourse analysis as theory and method. Sage, London Rangan K (1996) From Chipko to Uttaranchal: development, environment, and social protest in the Garhwal Himalayas, India. ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Roger A. Sedjo

CAP AND TRADE A variation of forest carbon credits is gaining headway in the electrical power sector in parts of New England. A program called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-05 | Author:Douglas Farr

Moving Forward at the Speed of Trust “MOHANDAS GANDHI was once asked: ‘What do you think of Western civilization?’ ‘I think it would be a good idea,’ he replied.” —Attributed ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Laxmi Ramasubramanian & Jochen Albrecht

Organization URL Free API Comments US Census Bureau census.​gov Y Y Federal agency consortium webferret.​com Y N University of Minnesota nhgis.​org Y N NSF-funded long-term project Investigative Reporters census.​ire.​org Y ...
( Category: Social Policy March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-03 | Author:Weiss, Thomas G.;

Gender Imbalance One might have expected the UN to play a vanguard role in integrating women into its workforce compared with other institutions, and at least vis-à-vis its member states. ...
( Category: Intergovernmental Organizations March 4,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2017-05-29 | Author:Paul Lever [Lever, Paul]

SIX The Ever-Closer Union The EU, and the euro, have brought Germany huge economic advantages. The political structures and priorities of the EU reflect those of Germany itself. The EU ...
( Category: History & Theory March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-28 | Author:Fred Magdoff & Chris Williams [Magdoff, Fred & Williams, Chris]

WOMEN AND BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM The same can be said for the systemic inequalities experienced by women. Since its publication in 1992, John Gray’s best-selling book Men Are from Mars, Women ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-14 | Author:Jeremy Harding [Harding, Jeremy]

Chapter 4 America is irresistible. Nothing to do with choosing. Richard Rodriguez, Days of Obligation Migration is said to be good for host cultures. Geographers, demographers and business people believe ...
( Category: Cultural Policy March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-04 | Author:David Stasavage [Stasavage, David]

THE CAROLINGIAN PARTITION HYPOTHESIS While Rokkan’s and Tilly’s analyses are very plausible, in focusing on initial economic conditions, both ignore the possibility that prior patterns of state development and collapse ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-12 | Author:Sunstein, Cass R.;

“Does Not Contain” Labels vs. “Contains” Labels There are important differences between a system in which a product without some characteristic has a label stating it “does not contain x” ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Administration March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Budd, Lucy, Goetz, Andrew R.

The Future Availability of Aviation Fuel ‘Peak oil’, the date at which the maximum rate of oil extraction is reached, has been projected for many years (Hubbert 1956), although there ...
( Category: Regional Planning March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-01 | Author:Harold L. Wilensky

CHAPTER 6 Economic, Political, and Cultural Contexts The remaining corner of the picture is the most impressionistic. Although my analysis has been cast in general terms applicable to complex organizations ...
( Category: Intergovernmental Organizations March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-26 | Author:John F. Cogan [Cogan, John F.]

Figure 2. Federal Spending on Entitlements and Other Programs: 1947–1975. Source: U.S. Budget, Fiscal Year 2017, Historical Tables, Tables 1.2, 3.1 and 13.1, U.S. Budget, Fiscal Years 1942–2017. 16 First ...
( Category: Social Policy March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-03 | Author:Thomas J. Gradel [Gradel, Thomas J.]

Buccaneers in Blue For nearly a century, Chicago’s political machines provided police protection for gambling and prostitution under vice lords like Michael McDonald and “Big Jim” Colisimo. In the 1920s, ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 4,2020 )