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Global Risk Assessment and Strategic Planning is a customised reference tool for project managers, encompassing risk-based management planning techniques and strategic decision-making processes for the successful management of projects whether large or small. Making extensive use of front end strategic planning and risk assessment to stimulate teamwork, the methodology combines multi-stakeholder perspectives to enhance both the management team's knowledge base and its awareness of a project's situation. It facilitates not only the identification of potential risks to projects, but also provides an effective process for managing such risks.

Advanced Literacy Practices: From the Clinic to the Classroom includes elements of designing literacy clinics, models of reading and writing practices, technology-based instruction, and frameworks for meeting the diverse needs of students. Recommendations are provided in this research-based practical guide for planning and instruction within litera

A special box set collection that includes four volumes from the "Tourism Social Science Series". It is a collection of stories that reveal the diverse personalities, passions, and peculiarities behind the authors' choice of tourism as a specialization. It covers areas such as anthropology, sociology, geography, economics, and applied psychology.

This volume surveys the field of comparative and international education (CIE) from several globally-representative perspectives, providing expert analyses on a range of recent trends and important concerns in the CIE community worldwide.

The volumes in this series illustrate how social organization and private, emotional experience are different phases of the social process. They show the steps by which emotional experience is shaped by social structural, macro-level processes and how these processes are changed by experience.

The volumes in this series illustrate how social organization and private, emotional experience are different phases of the social process. They show the steps by which emotional experience is shaped by social structural, macro-level processes and how these processes are changed by experience.

This handbook deals with the ongoing task of maintaining Britain's network of roads in a safe and satisfactory condition. It provides a commentary on a range of maintenance areas, and analyzes both concrete and bituminous carriageways, highlighting the advantages or problems of each.

Examines how and why autonomy matters in contemporary social science research. This book considers how autonomy impacts upon the individual researcher, the cultures and values of the university, and research motivation and sponsorship.

This volume addresses concerns about the impact of current systems for the management of research ethics in the social sciences. Many procedures in place are seen as inappropriate as they were originally designed for use in biomedical research. The content identifies areas of 'common ground', core ethics principles and areas of particular concern.

This is one of the first books to cover ways to organize creativity, innovation and business model development in a way that provides a seamless transition from an idea generated through team brainstorming to a business solution. It provides systematic ways to design new business models, and how to choose technologies to support them.

Including studies on different topical issues in finance by the participants of the 8th international scientific conference "New Challenges of Economic and Business Development - 2016" this new work contains research from various European countries, specifically Germany, Italy, Latvia, Malta, and Poland.

Of interest to both academics and practitioners who assist in making Shariah-centric strategies, this work is particularly important as Asia holds a major percentage of Islamic assets in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, with new opportunities opening in Central Asia.

This book aims to explore and make visible the intersection of subject matter knowledge and teacher knowledge in the narratives of teachers. This complicated interaction between these two bodies of knowledge is often studied and little understood.

This volume of Theory and Method in Higher Education Research contains contemporary contributions to international debates regarding the application and development of theory and methodology in researching higher education.

This book explores the intersection of grassroots leadership and the arts for social change, examining the many movements and subsequent victories the arts community has won for society. The book illustrates the diverse but influential work of these figures, reflecting on their actions, commitments and their positive impact on the modern world.

This Handbook develops a practical understanding of the new quantum storytelling consulting paradigm, providing case examples, ways to enact practices, and methods to conduct research into its impact and consequences. It will be essential reading for all scholars and practitioners of story and narrative consulting.

This volume examines many aspects impacting the digital divide in Latin America and the politics of digital inclusion including mobile youth identities, technology affordability, school transformation by digital media, the diffusion of e-commerce platforms and digital technology in SMEs.

This volume covers a range of on-going and newly emerging debates in the study of multinational companies (MNCs). A key aim is to consolidate and make available in one place new conceptual, methodological and critical MNC research.

This double volume presents a collection of 23 papers on how institutions matter to socio-economic life. The effort was seeded by the 2015 Alberta Institutions Conference, which brought together 108 participants from 14 countries and 51 different institutions.

Advances in Financial Economics Vol 19 is peer reviewed and focusses on International Corporate Governance.

This book explains in a rigorous, concise and practical manner all the vital components embedded in structural equation modelling. Focusing on R and stata to implement and perform various structural equation models.

Update to reflect the latest piling techniques and procurement methods used in the geotechnical sector, this edition is the UK‿s pre-eminent technical specification for piling and embedded walling works, either on land or near to shore.

Underground Spaces Unveiled is a broad overview of the concept of underground space development investigating the issues that are associated with the sustainable development of urban underground space.

Civil Excavations and Tunnelling is a comprehensive guide to civil excavations at surface and subsurface levels with or without aid of explosives. It features descriptions of the latest methods, techniques, equipment, trends and practices, as well as guidance on safety and the environment. Civil Excavations and Tunnelling, Second edition: serves as a single point of extraction of multiple data for earthworks comprises numerous case studies to illustrate the challenges posed by different types of soil, as well as the pros and cons of different sets of equipment details the recent innovations in tunnel boring machines (TBMs), including crossover, variable density and multi-mode TBMs includes key points and learning questions that allow readers to test their knowledge highlights best practices, sustainability in operations, loss-prevention strategies, and occupational health, safety and environment issues Excavation is a multi-disciplined activity involving civil, construction and mining professionals, earth scientists and geologists. This book will appeal to practitioners, researchers and students in these disciplines. Ratan Tatiya is a consultant with over 40 years' experience in the areas of excavation, construction, mining and allied disciplines. He has held senior positions in the industry and Academia, and has been the recipient of a number of awards. Ratan is the author of over 70 technical journal articles and books.

A guide to producing graphics for urban design projects and planning. It demonstrates how urban regeneration has inspired a growth and mixture of graphic techniques for communicating a projects vision. It also includes methods for producing hand-rendered or computer-generated visuals and details the planning process.

This special issue, featuring contributions from top scholars including former editors of top journals in marketing, will assemble a set of current, comprehensive review articles written by distinguished experts on the state-of-the-art of marketing research and future prospects in the transition towards sustainable society.

The movement of Asian citizens across continents now occurs on an unprecedented scale. What are the interests of Asian tourists and what are the impacts on host communities? This book addresses questions about Asian tourist contact with unfamiliar countries and cultures and the implications for the marketing, planning and policy of tourist markets.

What is our role in creating healthy organizations and a healthy world? This book fosters a unique dialogue on the interconnections between leadership, sustainability, the long-term viability of the planet, and organizational development. Together, these areas of research and action can contribute to creating a healthy society.

Volume 9 of Advances in Global Leadership, includes timely and impactful articles on processes associated with effective global leadership. In these times of accelerating complexity and global inter-connectedness, a deeper understanding of the multiple contextual and organizational variables associated with effective global leadership is critical.

By examining the current status and recent developments in a number of countries in Asia, this book makes recommendations, provides analysis, and suggests new approaches to startup angel financing in the Asia Pacific region.