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Land Use Law for Sustainable Development (IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Research Studies)
By Nathalie J. Chalifour, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Lin Heng Lye, John R. Nolon
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Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages:652
Publication Date:2006-11-20
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521862167
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521862165
Binding:Hardcover
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Product Description:
This book surveys the global experience to date in implementing land-use policies that move us further along the sustainable development continuum. The international community has long recognized the need to ensure ongoing and future development is conducted sustainably. While high level commitments towards sustainable development such as those included in the Rio and Johannesburg Declarations are politically important, they are irrelevant if they are not translated into reality on the ground. This book includes chapters that discuss the challenges of implementing sustainable land-use policies in different regions of the world, revealing problems that are common to all jurisdictions and highlighting others that are unique to particular regions. It also includes chapters documenting new approaches to sustainable land use, such as reforms to property rights regimes and environmental laws. Other chapters offer comparisons of approaches in different jurisdictions that can present insights which might not be apparent from a single-jurisdiction analysis.
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City Politics
by Edward C. Banfield, James Q. Wilson
TOC:
Part I. The Nature of City Politics
Part II. The Structure of City Politics
Part III. Political Forms and Styles
Part IV. Some Political Roles
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The Unheavenly City Revisited
by Edward C. Banfield
Publisher's Note:
Ever since its publication in 1970, Edward C. Banfield's The Unheavenly City has provoked intense discussion among students, scholars, and general readers alike. And today, some twenty-two printings later, it remains one of the most widely read and widely debated of all books on contemporary American urban problems.
The Unheavenly City Revisited constitutes a thorough revision and substantial expansion of the original text of The Unheavenly City. Although the author's main theses and the order and structure of the chapters in both volumes remain the same, The Unheavenly City Revisited unquestionably supplants the earlier volume and will, we trust, bring Mr. Banfield's work to the attnetion of many new readers.
TOC:
1. Introduction
2. The Logic of Metropolitan Growth
3. The Imperatives of Class
4. Race: Thinking May Make It So
5. The Problem of Unemployment
6. Several Kinds of Poverty
7. Schooling Versus Education
8. Several Kinds of Crime
9. Rioting Mainly for Fun and Profit
10. The Future of the Lower Class
11. What Can Be Done?
12. The Prospect
Appendix A: Note on the Size of the Social Classes
Appendix B: Select List of Writings about The Unheavenly City
Notes
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Boston: The Job Ahead
by Edward C. Banfield, Martin Meyerson
A publication for the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the MIT and Harvard.
121 pages.
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American Foreign Aid Doctrines
by Edward C. Banfield
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Political Influence: A New Theory of Urban Politics
by Edward C. Banfield
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Urban Government: A Reader in Administration and Politics
by Edward C. Banfield (ed.)
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The Moral Basis of a Backward Society
by Edward C. Banfield
TOC:
Introduction
1. Impressions and Questions
2. Some Usual Explanations
3. The Economy
4. Class Relations
5. A Predictive Hypothesis
6. Ethos in Practice
7. Ethos in Principle
8. Origins of the Ethos
9. The Future
Appendix
Index
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Government and Housing in Metropolitan Areas
by Edward C. Banfield, Morton Grodzins
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Politics, Planning and the Public Interest
by Edward C. Banfield, Martin Meyerson
Here's the TOC:
Preface
1. Background to the Case Study
2. The Organization and Its Tasks
3. The Politicians
4. The Climate of Neighborhood Opinion
5. The Development of Policy
6. The Struggle Begins
7. Climax
8. Settlement
9. Politics
10. Planning
11. The Public Interest
Supplement: Note on the Conceptual Scheme
Map Appendix
Index
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Government Project
by Edward C. Banfield
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Handbook of Transportation Policy and Administration (Public Administration and Public Policy)
By Jeremy Plant
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Publisher:CRC
Number Of Pages:656
Publication Date:2007-02-22
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1574445650
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781574445657
Binding:Hardcover
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Product Description:
In the past few decades, the field of transportation has changed dramatically. Deregulation and greater reliance on markets and the private sector has helped to reconfigure the transport industries, while the rise of intermodal goods and global commerce has produced efficiencies of operation and a greater interdependence among transport modes. In addition, security issues have moved to the forefront as officials struggle with the challenge of protecting the vast transportation system while maintaining its operational efficiencies and effectiveness.
Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the Handbook of Transportation Policy and Administration addresses the changes facing the field of transportation. Organized into five sections, it describes and analyzes major modes of transportation and components of the contemporary transportation system. Later chapters consider policy and administration and focus on managing transportation systems and assets. The final section covers security and protection of transportation systems. The handbook explores continuing development in the US and other nations, with an emphasis on the challenges created by technological change, globalization of the world economy, and the threat of terrorism. It examines the current state of major modes of transportation (air, rail, highways, waterways, ports, urban mass transit) and presents public policies and management approaches to make transportation systems efficient, innovative, and responsive.
Drawing from scholars in a wide range of disciplines, including public policy, public administration, geography, economics, business logistics, engineering, and management, the Handbook of Transportation Policy and Administration serves as a comprehensive, single-volume reference for scholars, students, public officials, business and civic leaders, and transportation practitioners.
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The Great American Crime Decline (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
By Franklin E. Zimring
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Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages:272
Publication Date:2006-11-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0195181158
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780195181159
Binding:Hardcover
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Product Description:
Many theories--from the routine to the bizarre--have been offered up to explain the crime decline of the 1990s. Was it record levels of imprisonment? An abatement of the crack cocaine epidemic? More police using better tactics? Or even the effects of legalized abortion? And what can we expect
from crime rates in the future? Franklin E. Zimring here takes on the experts, and counters with the first in-depth portrait of the decline and its true significance. The major lesson from the 1990s is that relatively superficial changes in the character of urban life can be associated with up to
75% drops in the crime rate. Crime can drop even if there is no major change in the population, the economy or the schools.
Offering the most reliable data available, Zimring documents the decline as the longest and largest since World War II. It ranged across both violent and non-violent offenses, all regions, and every demographic. All Americans, whether they live in cities or suburbs, whether rich or poor, are safer
today. Casting a critical and unerring eye on current explanations, this book demonstrates that both long-standing theories of crime prevention and recently generated theories fall far short of explaining the 1990s drop. A careful study of Canadian crime trends reveals that imprisonment and economic
factors may not have played the role in the U.S. crime drop that many have suggested.
There was no magic bullet but instead a combination of factors working in concert rather than a single cause that produced the decline. Further--and happily for future progress, it is clear that declines in the crime rate do not require fundamental social or structural changes. Smaller shifts in
policy can make large differences.
The significant reductions in crime rates, especially in New York, where crime dropped twice the national average, suggests that there is room for other cities to repeat this astounding success. In this definitive look at the great American crime decline, Franklin E. Zimring finds no pat answers but
evidence that even lower crime rates might be in store.
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Talking About Identity Theft: A How-To Guide
by Federal Trade Commission
alking About Identity Theft: A How-To Guide contains step-by-step instructions for any organization—large or small, business, community or social—to help its members, employees or audience learn more about identity theft. This guide was developed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation’s consumer protection agency, as part of its ongoing work to educate consumers about identity theft.
While there are no guarantees about avoiding identity theft, it’s important for you to know how to:
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Awareness is among the most powerful tools in the fight against identity theft. And that’s where you play an important role.
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Formulation of Appropriate Laws: A New Integrated Multidisciplinary Approach and an Application to Electronic Funds Transfer Regulation
By Paul White, Sardar M. N. Islam
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Publisher:Springer
Number Of Pages:178
Publication Date:2008-07
ISBN-10 / ASIN:3540720464
ISBN-13 / EAN:9783540720461
Binding:Hardcover
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Product Description:
The formulation of efficient laws (i.e., legal rule formulation) is a central issue in the study, practice and implementation of laws since efficient laws have profound positive social, economic political and welfare effects. This book has developed a new approach to the formulation of efficient laws with an illustrative application to electronic fund transfer regulation in Australia. Fragmented approaches to the formulation of laws such as ‘comparative law analysis’ and ‘welfare economic analysis of laws’ exist in the existing literature which are affected by laws is necessary in formulating efficient (socially desirable) laws. In this book, an integrated approach that embeds these 2 approaches as well as other considerations of other dimensions of human welfare is developed. This approach can be applied to formulate efficient laws, irrespective of social, political and economic organisations of the country under study, which maximise social welfare of the country.
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Pharmacovigilance
By Ronald D. Mann, Elizabeth B. Andrews
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Publisher:Wiley
Number Of Pages:702
Publication Date:2007-03-23
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0470018038
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780470018033
Binding:Hardcover
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Product Description:
Written by an international team of outstanding editors and contributors, Pharmacovigilance, 2nd Edition is the definitive text on this important subject. The new edition has been completely revised and updated to include the latest theoretical and practical aspects of pharmacovigilance including legal issues, drug regulatory requirements, methods of signal generation, reporting schemes and pharmacovigilance in selected system-organ classes. .
The editors and contributors are of excellent standing within the pharmacovigilance community
The text provides exemplary coverage of all the relevant issues
The definitive book on the subject
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Economics, Accounting, and Property Theory
By David P. Ellerman
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Publisher:Lexington Books
Number Of Pages:203
Publication Date:1982-11
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0669055522
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780669055528
Binding:Hardcover
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The Forensic Anthropology Laboratory
By Michael W. Warren, Heather A. Walsh-Haney, Laurel Freas
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Publisher:CRC
Number Of Pages:240
Publication Date:2008-05-12
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0849323207
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780849323201
Binding:Hardcover
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Product Description:
While other books cover general topics and various subsets of forensic anthropology, this one-of-a-kind reference compiles the best practices of policies, procedures, and protocols of different laboratories across the world. This book brings together experts in every aspect of forensic anthropology to consider physical plant demands, equipment needs, staffing, ethical issues, and the process of certification with the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors. With examples of implementation, The Forensic Anthropology Laboratory also provides discussion of proven methods in skeletal preparation, laboratory flow, and specimen curation including processing logs and sample forms.
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LSE Essays on Cost (Institute for Humane Studies Series in)
By James M. Buchanan, G. F. Thirlby
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Publisher:New York University Press
Number Of Pages:290
Publication Date:1981-05-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0814710352
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780814710357
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PUBLIC FINANCE/DEMOCRATIC PROCESS (Collected Works of James M Buchanan)
By JAMES M BUCHANAN
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Publisher:Liberty Fund Inc.
Number Of Pages:326
Publication Date:1999-11-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0865972192
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780865972193
Binding:Hardcover
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Summary: Application of public choice to topics of public finance
Rating: 4
James Buchanan's Public Finance in Democratic Process, first published in 1967, applies some of the insights of the then newly emerging discipline of public choice to different areas of public finance, such as the provision of public goods, taxation, and public debt finance. Economics analyzes how individuals make decisions in a market setting--call it individual or private choice. Public choice theory uses the same economic tools and concepts and applies them to the analysis of decision making in a collective or public setting, i.e. the political arena.
Economic decisions by individuals when conducting market transactions are more efficient than decisions made through groups in a political setting, for several reasons. Public services are by definition supplied in equal quantity to all citizen-taxpayers. But since different citizen-taxpayers have different preferences, "it will be unlikely that preferences will be fully reflected in the group decision outcome" (p. 14).
In private markets there is a direct link between a product's cost and benefit to the individual consumer. Individual consumers can decide how much they want of different goods and services based on the respective prices of these goods within the context of their overall budget. But no such link exists in the case of publicly provided goods and services. Individual citizens-taxpayers cannot make the same price-quantity adjustments in their consumption of public goods and services as they can with private goods.
Furthermore, how a person is taxed affects his or her demand for public goods, or how much government people want. Under nongeneral (specifically, progressive) taxation, most individual citizen-taxpayers do not bear the full or "true" cost of public services, which creates what is therefore known as a "fiscalxxx". This fiscalxxx leads to a distorted ("too high") demand for public services.
The book reflects its times somewhat, in that it is on the abstract side. A similar book written today would contain more real-life examples, in part to improve legibility, in part to support its argument. But Buchanan's analysis and conclusions are certainly quite persuasive and remain highly applicable to this day.