Public Affairs & Policy
epub |eng | | Author:Juval Portugali, Han Meyer, Egbert Stolk & Ekim Tan

An example of a transition is a society’s shift from the use of fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources. As a result of global warming, geopolitics, and the depletion of ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development July 6,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bechara Choucair [Choucair, Bechara]

Learning In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (renamed the National Academy of Medicine in 2015) began to develop an idea called the Learning Healthcare System. The first report from the ...
( Category: Social Policy July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-25 | Author:Katha Pollitt

CAN THIS MARRIAGE BE SAVED? In 1960, when about 16 percent of marriages ended in court, we had strict laws regulating divorce and the highest divorce rate in the West. ...
( Category: Social Policy July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Howard Steven Friedman

METRICS AND THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF REGULATORS Regulatory agencies are tasked with considering impacts to society and not simply looking at the bottom-line considerations that are the focus of for-profit companies’ ...
( Category: Social Policy July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-15 | Author:Brecher, Jeremy

Chapter 9 Turning Climate Worriers into Climate Warriors WELL OVER ONE HUNDRED MILLION AMERICANS ARE WILLING to act to protect the climate. More than half of Americans say they are ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 5,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Margaret O'Brien & Karin Wall

8.3 Theoretical Background In all Nordic countries, but especially in Sweden, fathers’ right to parental leave has been regarded as a prerequisite for gender equality in society. Accordingly, fathers have ...
( Category: Social Policy July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-14 | Author:Daniel C. Esty;

NOTES 1. Robert D. Kaplan, The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us about Coming Conflicts and the Battle against Fate (New York: Random House, 2012). 2. Anton A. ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-11 | Author:Ralph Nader [Nader, Ralph]

The strategic planning by global corporations to escape the laws and standards of the nation state has been accelerating over the decades. In the 1940s and 1950s, authors wrote about ...
( Category: Economic Policy July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:Kori Schake & Jim Mattis [Schake, Kori & Mattis, Jim]

CHAPTER 7 Testing the “Flournoy Hypothesis” Civil-Military Relations in the Post-9/11 Era Thomas Donnelly “It’s an Eliot Cohen world.” Thus spake Michele Flournoy, former undersecretary of defense for policy, possibly ...
( Category: Military Policy July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-14 | Author:David Kessler

WITHIN a few days we struck a deal with Waxman’s office and agreed to sift through the documents to help them identify those of special importance. In exchange, we were ...
( Category: Social Policy July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:Robert McLeman,François Gemenne

Notes 1 The primary sector (i.e., agriculture and mining) and the secondary sector (i.e., manufacturing and construction) respectively accounted for 12.3% and 19.4% in year 2011 (statssa.gov.za). 2 Purchasing Power ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-13 | Author:william j. norris

( Category: Asian July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-15 | Author:Antony Davies

7 TAXES The American tax code is so complicated that no one can possibly understand every aspect of it. Not the taxpayers, who are obliged to follow it; nor legislators, ...
( Category: Economic Policy July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-29 | Author:Carol Anderson [Anderson]

2 Christopher Seton-Watson, “Italy’s Imperial Hangover,” Journal of Contemporary History, 15, no. 1, (January 1980), 169. 3 Scott L. Bills, The Libyan Arena: The United States, Britain, and the Council ...
( Category: Non-Governmental Organizations July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Pollalis, Spiro N.;

E3. ENERGY GENERATION • E3.1. Secure the reliability and flexibility of Energy Generation services • E3.2. Place and distribute Energy Generation facilities for optimized Energy system performance • E3.3. Integrate ...
( Category: Architecture July 5,2020 )