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Fostering Community Resilience: Homeland Security and Hurricane Katrina

by Tom Lansford & Jack Covarrubias

Using the Mississippi Gulf Coast as a case study, this book focuses on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and develops the concept of resilience and how it applies to Homeland Security. By examining what went...


Global Energy Governance in a Multipolar World

by Dries Lesage & Thijs Van de Graaf

Investigating the relationship between the emergence of a multipolar world order and the enormous challenges of global energy governance that the world is facing in the 21st century, this volume reflects on...


Building Strong Nations: Improving Governability and Public Management

by Eran Vigoda-Gadot

Building Strong Nations enriches the discussion about moving modern nations forward despite major problems such as the clash of ideologies, the overburdening of and expectations from public administration, and...


Integrity and Accountability in Government: Homeland Security and the Inspector General

by Carmen R. Apaza

The job of the Inspector General (IG) is crucial - to expose fraud, waste and abuse in federal agencies. Yet the existing literature on Inspectors General is scarce. This book addresses this lack by making a...


The EU and Federalism: Polities and Policies Compared

by Finn Laursen

Tracing the evolution of federalist theory and the EU, this book brings together a distinguished array of experts from around the world to debate the pros and cons of treating the EU in a comparative context....


The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management

by Tom Christensen & Per Lægreid

This new in paperback edition provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of current research in the field of New Public Management (NPM) reform. Aimed primarily at a student readership with a special...


Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering

by Clive Hamilton

This book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed, and before the end of the century Earth is projected...


Environmental Scanning and Sustainable Development

by Nicolas Lesca

This work is an initial exploration of the relationship between scanning and sustainable development. In ten chapters, the authors examine the application, characteristics and implementation of scanning oriented...


Owls and Eagles: Ending the Foreign Policy Flights of Fancy of Hawks, Doves, and Neo-Cons

by Harlan K. Ullman

Owls and Eagles is a powerful, brilliant, and insightful collection of columns that casts in the harsh light of reality the challenges, dangers, mistakes, and opportunities this nation faces regarding the war...


Tribes, Land, and the Environment

by Sarah Krakoff & Ezra Rosser

This book brings together diverse essays by leading Indian law scholars across the disciplines of indigenous and environmental law. The chapters reveal the difficulties encountered by Native American tribes...


Telling It Straight

by Marina Mahathir

An outspoken commentator on Malaysia's social and political affairs, Marina Mahathir takes on the issues, ideas and institutions of the day in her latest book, Telling it Straight. She highlights unpalatable...


In Liberal Doses

by Marina Mahathir

Marina Mahathir is one of Malaysia's most fascinating voices: compassionate, outspoken, liberated and unabashedly liberal, usually generous, sometimes wicked, never parochial and always proudly Malaysian. Marina's...


Politics of Indignation: Imperialism, Postcolonial Disruptions and Social Change.

by Peter Mayo

Politics of Indignation is a challenging, accessible and exciting book. Not only does it provide a critical analysis

of the neoliberal onslaught on public education in many countries including Cuba, Nicaragua...


Agriculture and EU Environmental Law

by Brian Jack

This book provides a critical analysis of the development and current structure of European Union agri-environmental measures at a substantive level and is a valuable resource for academics researching and practitioners...


Green Oslo: Visions, Planning and Discourse

by Mark Luccarelli & Per Gunnar Røe

As urban regions face the demand to decrease fossil fuel dependency, many cities in the developing world are undertaking initiatives designed to create a greener city by aiming for a more sustainable form of...


EU Climate Policy: Industry, Policy Interaction and External Environment

by Elin Lerum Boasson & Jørgen Wettestad

A valuable and timely contribution to the scholarship of environmental management, this book assesses how the Europeanization and marketization of European industries, prominent European public management traditions,...


Transatlantic Trends in Democracy Promotion: Electoral Assistance in the Palestinian Territories

by Rouba Al-Fattal Eeckelaert

In this systematic, comparative analysis of European, American and Canadian efforts to assist elections and transform governance in conflict zones Rouba Al-Fattal greatly advances the empirical knowledge of...


Global Supply Chain Security

by James Giermanski

James Giermanski describes the advent and development of security operations in the global supply chain, outlining the respective contributions of governmental and nongovernmental stakeholders to this worldwide...


The Land Development Game in China

by Jianbo Ma

The book describes on-the-ground realities of policy making and implementation in China in the field of land development, and illustrates how a rigid central planning system works in practice. Among other things,...


Ethics and Management in the Public Sector

by Alan Lawton, Julie Rayner & Karin Lasthuizen

Grappling with ethical issues is a daily challenge for those working in organizations that deliver public services. Such services are delivered through an often bewildering range of agencies and amidst this...