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Heritage politics in Adelaide
In the 1970s the Australian Commonwealth Government and three States, Victoria (1974), New South Wales (1977) and South Australia (1978), passed legislation to protect the built heritage within their jurisdictions. The legislation was primarily a response to two factors: a large number of public protests against the demolition of historic buildings in all Australian states by the 1970s and the …
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- 9780987073037
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- 307.12 MOS h
Partnership at work
The partnership arrangements established between the Irish Airports’Authority, Aer Rianta, and its trade unions in the mid 1990s were amongstthe most far-reaching of their kind in promoting union and staff involve-ment in all aspects of company decision-making from work groups anddepartments to the making of corporate strategy. Radical organizational…
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- 9780415304344
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- x, 271 p.; 22 cm.
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- 658.3152 ROC p
Safety cultures, safety models : taking stock and moving forward
The objective of this book is to help at-risk organizations to decipher the “safety cloud”, and to position themselves in terms of operational decisions and improvement strategies in safety, considering the path already travelled, their context, objectives and constraints. What link can be established between safety culture and safety models in order to increase safety within companies carr…
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- 9783319951294
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- viii, 166p. : ill.
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- 363.11 SAF s
Time predictions : understanding and avoiding unrealism in project planning a…
Predicting the time needed to complete a project, task or daily activity can be difficult and people frequently underestimate how long an activity will take. This book sheds light on why and when this happens, what we should do to avoid it and how to give more realistic time predictions. It describes methods for predicting time usage in situations with high uncertainty, explains why two plus tw…
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- 9783319749532
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- xii, 110p. : ill.
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- 658.404 HAL t
Anomie and violence : non-truth and reconciliation in Indonesian peacebuilding
Indonesia suffered an explosion of religious violence, ethnic violence, separatist violence, terrorism, and violence by criminal gangs, the security forces and militias in the late 1990s and early 2000s. By 2002 Indonesia had the worst terrorism problem of any nation. All these forms of violence have now fallen dramatically. How was this accomplished? What drove the rise and the fall of violenc…
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- 9781921666230
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- XV, 501 p.
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- 320.9598 ANO a
Community-Oriented Policing and Technological Innovations
This Brief presents new approaches and innovative challenges to address bringing technology into community-oriented policing efforts. “Community-oriented policing” is an approach that encourages police to develop and maintain personal relationships with citizens and community organizations. By developing these partnerships, the goal is to enhance trust and legitimacy of police by the commun…
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- 9783319892948
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- xiii, 131p. : ill.
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- 363.23 COM c
Nordic mediation research
This open access book presents twelve unique studies on mediation from researchers in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, respectively. Each study highlights important aspects of mediation, including the role of children in family mediation, the evolution and ambivalent application of restorative justice in the Nordic countries, the confusion of roles in court-connected mediation, and the chal…
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- 9783319730196
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- x, 269p. : ill.
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- 347.09 NOR n
Disasters : core concepts and ethical theories
This Open Access Book is the first to examine disasters from a multidisciplinary perspective. Justification of actions in the face of disasters requires recourse both to conceptual analysis and ethical traditions. Part 1 of the book contains chapters on how disasters are conceptualized in different academic disciplines relevant to disasters. Part 2 has chapters on how ethical issues that arise …
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- 9783319927220
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- ix, 244p. : ill.
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- 170 DIS d
Drones and the creative industry: innovative strategies for European SMEs
This open access, interdisciplinary book presents innovative strategies in the use of civil drones in the cultural and creative industry. Specially aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the book offers valuable insights from the fields of marketing, engineering, arts and management. With contributions from experts representing varied interests throughout the creative industry, inc…
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- 9783319952611
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- 246p.: ill.
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- 658.514 DRO d
Peer review, peer education, and modeling in the practice of clinical ethics …
This open access book about the Zadeh Project demonstrates and explores a core question in clinical ethics: how can ethics consultants be accountable in the face of a robust plurality of ethical standpoints, especially those that underwrite practices and methods for doing ethics consultation as well as those viewpoints and values encountered in daily clinical ethics practice? Underscoring this …
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- 9783319909554
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- viii, 228p.
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- 174.2
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