Financial Oversight of Enron

Financial Oversight of Enron
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2002
Genre: Credit ratings
ISBN:

High-performance Government

High-performance Government
Author: Robert E. Klitgaard
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2005
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780833036629

Improving how our government works is urgent business for America. In this book experts from the RAND corporation provide practical ways for government to reorganize and restructure, enhance leadership, and create flexible, performance-driven agencies.

Beyond the Water's Edge

Beyond the Water's Edge
Author: Kathleen H. Hicks
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2018-10-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1442280883

This report assesses domestic political support for internationalist foreign policy by analyzing the motivations of members of Congress on key foreign policy issues. It includes case studies on major foreign policy debates in recent years, including the use of force, foreign aid, trade policy and U.S.-Russia relations. It also develops a new series of archetypes for describing the foreign policy worldviews of members of the 115th Congress to replace the current stale and unsophisticated labels of internationalist, isolationist, hawk and dove. Report findings emphasize areas of bipartisan cooperation on foreign policy issues given member ideologies.

A Failure of Initiative

A Failure of Initiative
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina
Publisher:
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2006
Genre: Disaster relief
ISBN:

Investigation of Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters

Investigation of Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1997
Genre: Governmental investigations
ISBN:

Social Entrepreneurship and Social Business

Social Entrepreneurship and Social Business
Author: Christine K. Volkmann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 383497093X

This compilation offers students a comprehensive overview of the field of social entrepreneurship. Leading European researchers and lecturers such as Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Markus Beckmann, Heather Cameron, Pascal Dey, Andreas Heinecke, Benjamin Huybrechts, Alex Nicholls, Johanna Mair, Susan Müller and Chris Steyaert have contributed to this textbook.

Emergent Public Health Issues in the US-Mexico Border Region

Emergent Public Health Issues in the US-Mexico Border Region
Author: Cecilia Ballesteros Rosales
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2017-02-16
Genre: Emigration and immigration
ISBN: 2889450473

US-Mexico border region area has unique social, demographic and policy forces at work that shape the health of its residents as well as serves as a microcosm of migration health challenges facing an increasingly mobile and globalized world. This region reflects the largest migratory flow between any two nations in the world. Data from the Pew Research Center shows over the last 25 years there has never been lower than 140,000 annual immigrants from Mexico to the United States (with peaks over 700,000). This migratory route is extremely hazardous due to natural (e.g., arid and hot desert regions) and human made barriers as well as border enforcement practices tied to socio-political and geopolitical pressures. Also, reflecting the national interdependency of public health and human services needs, during the most recent five year period surveyed the migratory flow between the US and Mexico has equaled that of the flow of Mexico to the US--both around 1.4 million persons. Of particular public health concern, within the US-Mexico region of both nations there is among the highest disparities in income, education, infrastructure and access to health care--factors within the World Health Organization’s conceptualization of the Social Determinants of Health, and among the highest rates of chronic disease. For instance obesity and diabetes rates in this region are among the highest of those monitored in the world, with adult population estimates of the former over 40% and estimates in some population sub-groups for the latter over 20%. The publications reflected in this Research Topic, all reviewed from experts in the field, addressed many of the public health issues in the US Mexico Border Health Commission’s Healthy Border 2020 objectives. Those objectives-- broad public health goals used to guide a diverse range of government, research and community-based stakeholders--include Non Communicable Diseases (including adult and childhood obesity-related ones; cancer), Infectious Diseases (e.g., tuberculosis; HIV; emerging diseases--particularly mosquito borne illnesses), Maternal and Child Health, Mental Health Disorders, and Motor Vehicle Accidents. Other relevant public health issues affecting this region, for example environmental health, binational health services coordination (e.g., immunization), the impact of migration throughout the Americas and globally in this region, health issues related to the physical climate, access to quality health care, discrimination/mistreatment and well-being, acculturative/immigration stress, violence, substance use/abuse, oral health, respiratory disease, and well-being from a social determinants of health framework, are critical areas addressed in these publications or for future research. Each of these Research Topic publications presented applied solutions (e.g., new programs, technology or infrastructure) and/or public health policy recommendations relevant to each public health challenge addressed.

Climate and Glacial History of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian Arctic

Climate and Glacial History of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian Arctic
Author: JaapJan Zeeberg
Publisher: JaapJan Zeeberg
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9051705638

This is the first book on the climate and Quaternary geology of Novaya Zemlya since 1924. This volume also presents the results of a search for sixteenth century navigator Willem Barents along Novaya Zemlya's northern shores, and a synopsis of the exploration of the region after the "Little Ice Age." Appendices and tables summarize the occurrence of bird species and reindeer, as well as the spread of radioisotope contaminants following nuclear weapons tests since 1954. This title is a Rozenberg Publishers title.