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Includes papers that illustrate the power of a scientific approach to ecological economics. This volume deals with the complex scientific underpinning of sustainable watershed analysis and management and reveals basic ecological economic knowledge and methodological approaches in this field of research.

Intended to address three major areas of national and international security research from an information systems-centric perspective: legal and policy frameworks; intelligence and security informatics; and emergency preparedness and infrastructure protection.

Structured in 4 parts: Macroeconomic Environmental Development, Credit Risk Measures and Management, Interest Rate Analysis and Market Integration sections; this book looks at the Japanese Fixed Income Market. It focuses on macroeconomic environmental developments, credit risk measures and management, interest rate analysis and market integration.

Concerned with the methods by which the dynamics of endogenous economic growth systems may be analysed and numerically computed, and with the validation of such numerical computations through qualitative economic reasoning, this book provides an examination of the transitional dynamics of the influential endogenous growth model.

Written in accordance with the rules set by the International Accounting Standards Board, this work deals with the application of fair-value principles to accounting for pensions. It is of interest to pension professionals, pension fund trustees, and regulators.

Explains numerous informetric regularities based on a decreasing power law as size-frequency function, i.e. Lotka's law. It revives the historical formulation of Alfred Lotka of 1926 and shows the power of this power law, both in classical aspects of informetrics (libraries, bibliographies) and in 'new' applications such as social networks.

Presents a conceptual framework for school evaluation, and evaluation methods that can be used within the framework of the school. This work is based on concepts and ideas originally developed in the area of program evaluation and combining internal and external evaluation, that provides a common ground for school evaluation.

Wildfires are a fact of life in arid and semi-arid regions, such as the American West. With growing population, human communities begin to reside in so-called urban-wildland interface zones, where severe fire driven ecosystems co-exist with humans and their property. This work offers potential solutions from an interdisciplinary perceptive.

Gives the results of the 2nd IEA Science Study. This book contains comparisons which are made between countries in terms of the conditions under which science is taught, the organization of science teaching, the emphasis on different science areas and on the process of science, the focus of decision-making with respect to the science curriculum.

Aims to bridge the gap between technical literature of administrative theory and philosophical discourse. This work includes as its central theme organization and administrative theory, decisions and policy making, hierarchy, leadership, power, values, and interests. It also looks at pathologies, ideologies, and the problems of praxis.

Examines the efforts to reform contemporary food provision. This book addresses concepts and debates, public policy, and alternative production. It includes case studies from around the world.

The Risk Ranking Technique in Decision Making

Presents the general principles underlying the design of bibliographic databases. This book covers topics such as the impact of technology on catalogs and catalog codes, design objectives for online catalogs, standardization and integration in bibliographic control, and access to bibliographic information in the online age.

Presents theoretical developments in the areas of race, identity, politics and authenticity. It honors the work of Ron Pelias and Patricia Ticineto Clough and features a performance essay that discusses representations of gender and ethnicity in HBO's "Sex and the City".

Humans live in social communities that are embedded ecologically within overlapping biophysical environments. This book looks into a dialogue between community sociologists and environmental sociologists about how humans interact with each other in social communities and with biophysical environments in an ecological community.

Explores a variety of issues in health care system. This volume looks at health care from a sociological perspective that is focused on access, quality and satisfaction than cost. It is intended for health services researchers, policy analysts and public health researchers.

Seeks to increase understanding and description of human behavior, conscious and unconscious meaning, and implicit/explicit decision processes applied to living and making major and everyday choices from where to live, how culture affects thinking and actions; marriage, children; work choices and behavior; leisure pursuits; and, travel behavior.

A collection of papers which explore the dynamic, systemic, cognitive, and holistic aspects of internal processes. It presents both theoretical developments and empirical research based on a variety of case studies and other research in diverse industrial and geographical contexts.

Presents eight sets of lecture notes taken in 1933-4 by F Taylor Ostrander at the University of Chicago. These notes are from courses given by Frank H Knight, Henry C Simons, and Melchior Palyi. They provide insight into the first generation of the Chicago School.

Presents a collection of 21 original papers on Latin American finance by prominent researchers in and out of the region. This book attempts to bring them together so that the commonality Latin finance can be more easily discerned. While topics are diverse, the papers range from country-specific to comparative and international in perspectives.

Contains a series of empirical and survey papers that investigate theoretical and contemporary issues facing participatory organizations. This work explores the growing area of participatory and labor-managed firms' survival. It offers approaches and insights into the performance effects of participatory firms.

The world of accounting is subject to the vagaries of human nature just like any other profession. These papers represent research into the behavioural aspects and leadership challenges facing those working in the profession in 21st century.

This book provides significant insight into the factors that affect the careers of these scientists and gives voice to the many men and women who overcame discrimination, prejudice and racism to build successful scientific careers. It gives the opportunity for a full range of voices, from a number of perspectives, to be heard.

Examines B2B decision making processes for software application development. This book provides DSA Models, event chronology maps, and cognitive maps for a more comprehensive analysis. It includes individual case study and cross-case findings for theory development.

Presents a range of critical perspectives on the contemporary agri-food sector. This book tells how geography matters in agri-food and plays a diverse range of roles in shaping production-consumption relations. It shows the importance of various areas and their associated institutions to the development of the international food system.

Explores how educational research from a comparative perspective has been instrumental in broadening and testing hypotheses from institutional theory. This book contains theoretical discussions of the impact that comparative research has had on institutional theory and comparative scholarship that tests basic institutional assumptions and trends.

Adapts theory to practice in areas of interest to those who manage libraries. This volume offers articles covering a demographic study of Canadian librarianship, the implementation of ISO9000 in Thailand, pieces on information literacy programs in the United States, and a discussion of organizational culture within libraries from South Africa.

This volume presents articles by interdisciplinary and international scholars spanning the social sciences, humanities, and law. It offers perspectives on political relationships, politics, legal reform, law and the family, race relations and gender issues.

Considers topics of relevance to secondary schools. Included in the volume are reviews of research on the efficacy of self-management techniques; the utility and efficacy of homework assignments; treatments for secondary students with autism; interventions on content-area learning, including English, science, math, and social studies; and more.

Part of a series of studies on research in marketing.