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Author : John Duncan Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : WISC:89038155024
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : English imprints
ISBN : IND:30000092332422
Author : Negley Harte,John North,Georgina Brewis
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781787352940
From its foundation in 1826, UCL embraced a progressive and pioneering spirit. It was the first university in England to admit students regardless of religion and made higher education affordable and accessible to a much broader section of society. It was also effectively the first university to welcome women on equal terms with men. From the outset UCL showed a commitment to innovative ideas and new methods of teaching and research. This book charts the history of UCL from 1826 through to the present day, highlighting its many contributions to society in Britain and around the world. It covers the expansion of the university through the growth in student numbers and institutional mergers. It documents shifts in governance throughout the years and the changing social and economic context in which UCL operated, including challenging periods of reconstruction after two World Wars. Today UCL is one of the powerhouses of research and teaching, and a truly global university. It is currently seventh in the QS World University Rankings. This completely revised and updated edition features a new chapter based on interviews with key individuals at UCL. It comes at a time of ambitious development for UCL with the establishment of an entirely new campus in East London, UCL East, and Provost Michael Arthur’s ‘UCL 2034’ strategy which aims to secure the university’s long-term future and commits UCL to delivering global impact.
Author : Paul Harremoes,David Gee,Malcom MacGarvin,Andy Stirling,Jane Keys,Brian Wynne,Sofia Guedes Vaz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134207787
The precautionary principle is widely seen as fundamental to successful policies for sustainability. It has been cited in international courts and trade disputes between the USA and the EU, and invoked in a growing range of political debates. Understanding what it can and cannot achieve is therefore crucial. This volume looks back over the last century to examine the role the principle played or could have played, in a range of major and avoidable public disasters. From detailed investigation of how each disaster unfolded, what the impacts were and what measures were adopted, the authors draw lessons and establish criteria that could help to minimise the health and environmental risks of future technological, economic and policy innovations. This is an informative resource for all those from lawyers and policy-makers, to researchers and students needing to understand or apply the principle.
Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : HARVARD:HX2X27
Author : European Environment Agency
Publisher : Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Antibiotics in animal nutrition
ISBN : UCBK:C076645789
The precautionary principle is widely seen as fundamental to successful policies for sustainability. This title looks back over the last century to examine the role the principle played in a range of major and avoidable public disasters.
Author : Committee on Canadian Labour History
Publisher : [St. John's, Nfld.] : LLAFUR/CCLH
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000017013673
Papers from a conference of Committee on Canadian Labour History and Llafur, the Society for the Study of Welsh Labour History, held in April 1987 near Newtown in Mid-Wales.
Author : Cynthia V. Burek,Colin D. Prosser
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1862392544
This book is the first to describe the history of geoconservation. It draws on experience from the UK, Europe and further afield, to explore topics including: what is geoconservation; where, when and how did it start; who was responsible; and how has it differed across the world? Geological and geomorphological features, processes, sites and specimens, provide a resource of immense scientific and educational importance. They also form the foundation for the varied and spectacular landscapes that help define national and local identity as well as many of the great tourism destinations. Mankind's activities, including contributing to enhanced climate change, pose many threats to this resource: the importance of safeguarding and managing it for future generations is now widely accepted as part of sustainable development. Geoconservation is an established and growing activity across the world, with more participants and a greater profile than ever before. This volume highlights a history of challenges, set-backs, successes and visionary individuals and provides a sound basis for taking geoconservation into the future.
Author : Hazel G. Genn,Hazel Genn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521118941
A trenchant critique of developments in civil justice that questions modern orthodoxy and points to a downgrading of civil justice.
Author : Clayton D. Laurie
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0160882680
CMH 30-15. Army Historical Series. 2nd of three planned volumes on the history of Army domestic support operations. This volume encompasses the period of the rise of industrial America with attendant social dislocation and strife. Major themes are: the evolution of the Army's role in domestic support operations; its strict adherence to law; and the disciplined manner in which it conducted these difficult and often unpopular operations.
Author : Alan Paterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139505062
For the 2010 Hamlyn Lectures, Alan Paterson explores different facets of three key institutions in a democracy: lawyers, access to justice and the judiciary. In the case of lawyers he asks whether professionalism is now in terminal decline. To examine access to justice, he discusses past and present crises in legal aid and potential endgames and in relation to judges he examines possible mechanisms for enhancing judicial accountability. In demonstrating that the benign paternalism of lawyers in determining the public good with respect to such issues is no longer unchallenged, he argues that the future roles of lawyers, access to justice and the judiciary will only emerge from dialogues with other stakeholders claiming to speak for the public interest.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:878721444
Author : Holly R. Barcus,Keith Halfacree
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135146009
An Introduction to Population Geographies provides a foundation to the incredibly diverse, topical and interesting field of twenty-first-century population geography. It establishes the substantive concerns of the subdiscipline, acknowledges the sheer diversity of its approaches, key concepts and theories and engages with the resulting major areas of academic debate that stem from this richness. Written in an accessible style and assuming little prior knowledge of topics covered, yet drawing on a wide range of diverse academic literature, the book’s particular originality comes from its extended definition of population geography that locates it firmly within the multiple geographies of the life course. Consequently, issues such as childhood and adulthood, family dynamics, ageing, everyday mobilities, morbidity and differential ability assume a prominent place alongside the classic population geography triumvirate of births, migrations and deaths. This broader framing of the field allows the book to address more holistically aspects of lives across space often provided little attention in current textbooks. Particular note is given to how these lives are shaped though hybrid social, biological and individual arenas of differential life course experience. By engaging with traditional quantitative perspectives and newer qualitative insights, the authors engage students from the quantitative macro scale of population to the micro individual scale. Aimed at higher-level undergraduate and graduate students, this introductory text provides a well-developed pedagogy, including case studies that illustrate theory, concepts and issues.
Author : Frank Yiannas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780387728674
Food safety awareness is at an all time high, new and emerging threats to the food supply are being recognized, and consumers are eating more and more meals prepared outside of the home. Accordingly, retail and foodservice establishments, as well as food producers at all levels of the food production chain, have a growing responsibility to ensure that proper food safety and sanitation practices are followed, thereby, safeguarding the health of their guests and customers. Achieving food safety success in this changing environment requires going beyond traditional training, testing, and inspectional approaches to managing risks. It requires a better understanding of organizational culture and the human dimensions of food safety. To improve the food safety performance of a retail or foodservice establishment, an organization with thousands of employees, or a local community, you must change the way people do things. You must change their behavior. In fact, simply put, food safety equals behavior. When viewed from these lenses, one of the most common contributing causes of food borne disease is unsafe behavior (such as improper hand washing, cross-contamination, or undercooking food). Thus, to improve food safety, we need to better integrate food science with behavioral science and use a systems-based approach to managing food safety risk. The importance of organizational culture, human behavior, and systems thinking is well documented in the occupational safety and health fields. However, significant contributions to the scientific literature on these topics are noticeably absent in the field of food safety.
Author : Ulrich Teichler,Akira Arimoto,William K. Cummings
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400761551
This book provides an overview on the major findings of a questionnaire survey of academic profession in international perspective. More than 25,000 professors and junior staff at universities and other institutions of higher education at almost 20 countries from all over the world provide information on their working situation, their views and activities. The study “The Changing Academic Profession” is the second major study of its kind, and changes of views and activities are presented through a comparison of the findings with those of the earlier study undertaken in the early 1990s. Major themes are the academics’ perception of their societal and institutional environments, the views on the major tasks of teaching, research and services, their professional preferences and actual activities, their career, their perceived influence and their overall job satisfaction. Emphasis is placed on the influence of recent changes in higher education: the internationalisation and globalisation, the increasing expectation to provide evidence of the relevance of academic work, and finally the growing power of management at higher education institutions. Overall, the academics surveyed show that worldwide discourses and trends in higher education put their mark on the academic profession, but differences by country continue to be noteworthy. Academics consider themselves to be more strongly exposed to mechanism of regulations, incentives and sanctions as well as various assessments than in the past; yet their own freedom, and responsibilities and influence shape their identity more strongly and are reflected in widespread professional satisfaction.