Catastrophe And Systemic Change Learning From The Grenfell Tower Fire And Other Disasters

Author : Gill Kernick
Publisher : Do Sustainability
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781913019303

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Catastrophe and Systemic Change: Learning from the Grenfell Tower Fire and Other Disasters by Gill Kernick Pdf

The Grenfell Tower tragedy was the worst residential fire in London since World War II. It killed seventy-two people in the richest borough of one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Like other catastrophic events before it and since, it has the power to bring about lasting change. But will it? The historical evidence is weighed against ‘lessons being learned’ in a meaningful or enduring way. In an attempt to understand why, despite enormous efforts, we persistently fail to learn from catastrophic events, this book uses the details of the Grenfell fire as a case study to consider why we don’t learn and what it would take to enable real systemic change. The book explores the myths, the key challenges and the conditions that inhibit learning, and it identifies opportunities to positively disrupt the status quo. It offers an accessible model for systemic change, not as a definitive solution but rather as a framework to evoke reflection, enquiry and proper debate. Catastrophe and Systemic Change is a must-read book for a wide range of readers including those interested in change management, leadership, policy-making, law, housing, construction and public safety.

Author : Helen Holmes
Publisher : Do Sustainability
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781913019235

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Why You Dread Work: What’s Going Wrong in Your Workplace and How to Fix It by Helen Holmes Pdf

Ever felt that lurking sense of Sunday night dread? It’s not just you. In this warm and empathetic guide to the modern workplace, find out exactly what’s going wrong in your workplace – and how you can improve your working week. Drawing upon expert research and employee interviews, Helen Holmes looks at questions such as: Why are some colleagues so headache-inducing? How can you focus when you’re being bombarded by emails and meetings? Are you being fairly paid relative to your colleagues? Fear, lack of focus and unfairness can do major damage to workplace culture, but they can be overcome with goodwill, purpose and trust. Holmes offers empathy and pragmatism for anyone who’s ever contemplated quitting their job and running for the hills – and provides inspiring case studies and practical tips for crafting a better working week, one step at a time.

Author : Anne Eyre,Pam Dix
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781387559

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Collective Conviction by Anne Eyre,Pam Dix Pdf

The story of Disaster Action, a charity founded by survivors and bereaved people from major disasters.

Author : Patrick Dunleavy, Alice Park, Ros Taylor
Publisher : LSE Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781909890466

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The UK's Changing Democracy by Patrick Dunleavy, Alice Park, Ros Taylor Pdf

The UK’s Changing Democracy presents a uniquely democratic perspective on all aspects of UK politics, at the centre in Westminster and Whitehall, and in all the devolved nations. The 2016 referendum vote to leave the EU marked a turning point in the UK’s political system. In the previous two decades, the country had undergone a series of democratic reforms, during which it seemed to evolve into a more typical European liberal democracy. The establishment of a Supreme Court, adoption of the Human Rights Act, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolution, proportional electoral systems, executive mayors and the growth in multi-party competition all marked profound changes to the British political tradition. Brexit may now bring some of these developments to a juddering halt. The UK’s previous ‘exceptionalism’ from European patterns looks certain to continue indefinitely. ‘Taking back control’ of regulations, trade, immigration and much more is the biggest change in UK governance for half a century. It has already produced enduring crises for the party system, Parliament and the core executive, with uniquely contested governance over critical issues, and a rapidly changing political landscape. Other recent trends are no less fast-moving, such as the revival of two-party dominance in England, the re-creation of some mass membership parties and the disruptive challenges of social media. In this context, an in-depth assessment of the quality of the UK’s democracy is essential. Each of the 2018 Democratic Audit’s 37 short chapters starts with clear criteria for what democracy requires in that part of the nation’s political life and outlines key recent developments before a SWOT analysis (of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) crystallises the current situation. A small number of core issues are then explored in more depth. Set against the global rise of debased semi-democracies, the book’s approach returns our focus firmly to the big issues around the quality and sustainability of the UK’s liberal democracy.

Author : David E. Alexander
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781780465296

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Principles of Emergency Planning and Management by David E. Alexander Pdf

David Alexander provides a concise yet comprehensive and systematic primer on how to prepare for a disaster. The book introduces the methods, procedures, protocols and strategies of emergency planning.

Author : Charles O'Neil
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119440253

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Global Construction Success by Charles O'Neil Pdf

A guide to effective corporate and project management in the construction industry with a focus on the role that people play in the process Global Construction Success explores the importance that human dynamics play in risk management of construction projects. Every time a project is structured, designed and built, personal behaviours and inputs can either lead to success or be the cause of failure. With contributions from noted experts on the topic, the book offers insight into stakeholders’ reactions in a variety of situations, provides expert analyses of risk management and proposes potential solutions and recommendations in order to ensure effective construction management. The book explores common causes of project failure, outlines the key factors of successful projects, shows how to implement Public Private Partnerships, explores the different stages of structuring projects and reveals what it takes to manage difficult client/contractor relationships. International case studies of major projects clearly illustrate how communications and relationships can lead to helpful solutions to commonly encountered challenges to achieve positive results. Offers a comprehensive review of the impact human dynamics play in the success or failure of construction projects Stresses the importance of the leadership of senior management Offers a chapter on managing and resolving conflicts Shows why the industry needs better risk management Includes new information for managing communications and relationships Explores new areas of technology that are being embraced by the construction industry Written for construction industry senior management in both the corporate and government sectors, project management professionals, consultants and supply chain participants, Global Construction Success includes material for minimizing risk and improving management quality and profitability when working with international construction projects.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004505612

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Encyclopaedia of Marxism and Education by Anonim Pdf

This Encyclopaedia of Marxism and Education showcases the explanatory power of Marxist educational theory and practice.

Author : Andrew Hopkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Gas industry
ISBN : 1922042250

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Failure to Learn The BP Texas City Refinery disaster by Andrew Hopkins Pdf

Author : Mort, Maggie,Rodriguez-Giralt, Israel
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447354390

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Children and Young People’s Participation in Disaster by Mort, Maggie,Rodriguez-Giralt, Israel Pdf

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Disasters are an increasingly common and complex combination of environmental, social and cultural factors. Yet existing response frameworks and emergency plans tend to homogenise affected populations as ‘victims’, overlooking the distinctive experience, capacities and skills of children and young people. Drawing on participatory research with more than 550 children internationally, this book argues for a radical transformation in children’s roles and voices in disasters. It shows practitioners, policy-makers and researchers how more child-centred disaster management, that recognises children’s capacity to enhance disaster resilience, actually benefits at-risk communities as a whole.

Author : Human Rights Watch
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781644210062

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World Report 2020 by Human Rights Watch Pdf

The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.

Author : Annie Delaney,Rosaria Burchielli,Shelley Marshall,Jane Tate
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429772023

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Homeworking Women by Annie Delaney,Rosaria Burchielli,Shelley Marshall,Jane Tate Pdf

Homework; work that is categorised as informal employment, performed in the home, mainly for subcontractors and mostly undertaken by women. The inequities and injustices inherent in homework conditions maintain women’s weak bargaining position, preventing them from making any improvements to their lives via their work. The best way to tackle these issues is not to abolish, but to bring equality and justice to homework. This book contributes a gender justice framework to analyse and confront the issues and problems of homework. The authors propose four justice dimensions – recognition, representation, rights and redistribution – to examine and analyse homework. This framework also takes into account the structures and processes of capitalism and the patriarchy, and the relations of domination that are widely held to be the major factors that determine homework injustice. The authors discuss strategies and approaches that have worked for homeworkers, highlighting why they worked and the features that were beneficial for them. Homeworking Women will be of interest to individuals and organisations working with or for the collective benefit of homeworkers, academics and students interested in feminism, labour regulation, informal work, supply chains and social and political justice.

Author : Charles Umney
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 0745337082

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Class Matters by Charles Umney Pdf

Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty-first century. It is woven into the very fabric of social and political discourse, undiminished by the end of mass industry; unaugmented despite the ascendancy of 'ordinary working people' and other substitute phrases. Absent from this landscape, however, is any compelling Marxist expression or analysis of class.In Class Matters, Charles Umney brings Marxist analysis out of the 19th century textiles mill, and into the call centres, office blocks and fast food chains of modern Britain. He shows how core Marxist concepts are vital to understanding increasing pay inequality, decreasing job security, increasing routinisation and managerial control of the labour process.Providing a critical analysis of competing perspectives, Umney argues that class must be understood as a dynamic and exploitative process integral to capitalism - rather than a descriptive categorisation - in order for us to better understand the gains capital has made at the expense of labour over the last four decades.

Author : Mike Davis
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781859843826

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Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis Pdf

This global environmental and political history “will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project” (Observer). “ . . . sets the triumph of the late 19th-century Western imperialism in the context of catastrophic El Niño weather patterns at that time . . . groundbreaking, mind-stretching.” —The Independent Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites. Davis argues that the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World were sown in this era of High Imperialism, as the price for capitalist modernization was paid in the currency of millions of peasants’ lives.

Author : Dennis C. Grube
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529083361

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Why Governments Get It Wrong by Dennis C. Grube Pdf

'This humane, accessible and lucid work will enlighten any voter, and remind any would-be – or currently serving – politician of the pitfalls to avoid' – TLS As the list of U-turns grows ever longer, the cost of living crisis intensifies and mortgage rates rise, we really need those in charge to get it right. In Why Governments Get It Wrong, Cambridge's Professor Dennis C. Grube gives a timely and incisive examination of the pitfalls, failures and successes of those in power around the world. We live in an era when we really need governments to be effective – the economy, our health and the future of the planet are at stake – but so often they can seem clueless, and their decisions leave us confused. With insight and wit, Grube explains how governments can improve their decision-making and, by examining fascinating case studies, he highlights the key factors that make for effective government. With the stakes higher than ever before, this original and important book is an essential read for any concerned citizen who wants to understand why governments make the wrong decisions and, crucially, what can be done about it. 'Convincing' – David Lammy MP 'A must-read' – Sebastian Payne, author of The Fall of Boris Johnson ‘Highly original and very entertaining' – Gavin Esler, author of How Britain Ends 'There is a real gap for this book' – Isabel Hardman, author of Why We Get the Wrong Politicians

Author : Shildrick, Tracy
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447324003

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Poverty propaganda by Shildrick, Tracy Pdf

Does ‘real’ poverty still exist in Britain? How do people differentiate between the supposed ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor? Is there a culture of worklessness passed down from generation to generation? Bringing together historical and contemporary material, Poverty Propaganda: Exploring the myths sheds new light on how poverty is understood in contemporary Britain. The book debunks many popular myths and misconceptions about poverty and its prevalence, causes and consequences. In particular, it highlights the role of ‘poverty propaganda’ in sustaining class divides in perpetuating poverty and disadvantage in contemporary Britain.