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Multinational Rapid Response Mechanisms From Institutional Proliferation to Institutional Exploitation

Multinational Rapid Response Mechanisms From Institutional Proliferation to Institutional Exploitation

The track record of military rapid response mechanisms troops on standby ready to be deployed to a crisis within a short time frame by intergovernmental organizations remains disappointing. Yet many of the obstacles to multinational actors launching a rapid and effective military response in times of crisis are largely similar. This book is the first comprehensive and comparative contribution to explore and identify the key factors that hamper and enable the development and deployment of multinational rapid response mechanisms. Examining lessons from deployments by the AU the EU NATO and the UN in the Central African Republic Mali Somalia and counter-piracy in the Horn of Africa the contributors focus upon the following questions: Was there a rapid response to the crises? By whom? If not what were the major obstacles to rapid response? Did inter-organizational competition hinder responsiveness? Or did cooperation facilitate responsiveness? Bringing together leading scholars working in this area offers a unique opportunity to analyze and develop lessons for policy-makers and for theorists of inter-organizational relations. This work will be of interest to scholars and students of peacebuilding peacekeeping legitimacy and international relations. | Multinational Rapid Response Mechanisms From Institutional Proliferation to Institutional Exploitation

GBP 38.99
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U.s. Military Power And Rapid Deployment Requirements In The 1980s

U.s. Military Power And Rapid Deployment Requirements In The 1980s

This book assesses U. S. military needs in the coming decade focusing on the role of rapid deployment forces in protecting U. S. interests abroad. Dr. Cordier begins by discussing two general developments crucial to future military requirements: first increasing U. S. dependence on the global sea-lanes as links to key markets; and second improved S | U. s. Military Power And Rapid Deployment Requirements In The 1980s

GBP 39.99
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Rapid Ethnographic Assessments A Practical Approach and Toolkit For Collaborative Community Research

Rapid Ethnographic Assessments A Practical Approach and Toolkit For Collaborative Community Research

Please see the website of author Thurka Sangaramoorthy for extra resources and material related to this book at thurkasangaramoorthy. com. Click on the book’s cover and be sure to check back for updated content This book provides provides a practical guide to understanding and conducting rapid ethnographic assessments (REAs) with an emphasis on their use in public health contexts. This team-based multi-method relatively low-cost approach results in rich understandings of social economic and policy factors that contribute to the root causes of an emerging situation and provides rapid practical feedback to policy makers and programs. Using real-world examples and case studies of completed REAs Sangaramoorthy and Kroeger provide readers with a logical easy-to-follow introduction into key concepts principles and methods of REAs including interview and observation techniques triangulation field notes and debriefing theoretical saturation and qualitative analysis. They also provide a practical guide for planning and implementing REAs and suggestions for transforming findings into written reports and actionable recommendations. Materials and detailed tools regarding the conduct of REAs are designed to help readers apply this method to their own research regardless of topic or discipline. REA is an applied approach that can facilitate collaborative work with communities and become a catalyst for action. Rapid Ethnographic Assessment will appeal to professionals and researchers interested in using REAs for research efficiency and productivity as well as action-oriented and translational research in a variety of fields and contexts. | Rapid Ethnographic Assessments A Practical Approach and Toolkit For Collaborative Community Research

GBP 38.99
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Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Years 4-6: Jack and the Crystal Fang

Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Years 4-6: Jack and the Crystal Fang

The only cure for a deadly plague sweeping the country is the crystal fang of a dragon that has terrorised the surrounding countryside for many years. Until now the location of its den on Dragon Ridge Mountain has remained a mystery. In a race against time Jack battles through a storm to reach the top of Dragon Ridge Mountain. With Merlin to guide him Jack enters the dragon’s den and comes face to face with the monstrous beast. This is a story of courage magic and one boy’s brave quest to fulfil a destiny foretold by the legends of long ago. Join Jack on his journey as he writes the story with the assistance of the magician Merlin and Punctua the Fairy Godmother of Writing to punctuate properly and become a bestselling author. Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Years 4–6: Jack and the Crystal Fang is part of a short series of age-specific beautifully illustrated stories that can be read for pleasure and/or used as a contextualised resource containing a step-by-step guide to teaching punctuation. The characters from each story are used to demonstrate a range of punctuation rules in a fun and engaging way appropriate to the book’s age group. Areas covered include: formulating punctuation rules. the use of misconceptions to highlight common errors. teaching tips to provide a punctuation model. The book explores the impact of punctuation on reading understanding meaning and effect and can be used as a basis for pupils’ own punctuation or included in their ‘Writer’s Toolkit. ’ These new Descriptosaurus stories are an indispensable teaching aid for making punctuation fun for all primary teachers and literacy coordinators. | Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Years 4-6: Jack and the Crystal Fang

GBP 11.99
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Rapid Story Development How to Use the Enneagram-Story Connection to Become a Master Storyteller

Rapid Story Development How to Use the Enneagram-Story Connection to Become a Master Storyteller

This book offers a unique approach to storytelling connecting the Enneagram system with classic story principles of character development plot and story structure to provide a seven-step methodology to achieve rapid story development. Using the nine core personality styles underlying all human thought feeling and action it provides the tools needed to understand and leverage the Enneagram-Story Connection for writing success. Author Jeff Lyons starts with the basics of the Enneagram system and builds with how to discover and design the critical story structure components of any story featuring supporting examples of the Enneagram-Story Connection in practice across film literature and TV. Readers will learn the fundamentals of the Enneagram system and how to utilize it to create multidimensional characters master premise line development maintain narrative drive and create antagonists that are perfectly designed to challenge your protagonist in a way that goes beyond surface action to reveal the dramatic core of any story. Lyons explores the use of the Enneagram as a tool not only for character development but for story development itself. This is the ideal text for intermediate and advanced level screenwriting and creative writing students as well as professional screenwriters and novelists looking to get more from their writing process and story structure. | Rapid Story Development How to Use the Enneagram-Story Connection to Become a Master Storyteller

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Re-Envisioning the Public Research University Navigating Competing Demands in an Era of Rapid Change

Re-Envisioning the Public Research University Navigating Competing Demands in an Era of Rapid Change

This volume explores the numerous and competing demands that face America’s public research universities and considers how institutions and their leaders can best navigate this challenge to ensure longevity relevance and success on the local national and global stage. Today’s public research universities have the unique challenge of responding to new societal pressures and policies while remaining true to their core educational missions and values. Highlighting the multiple roles that universities must now fulfil – as institutions of higher learning as research bodies as institutions with global reputations and as organizations that serve the public – the volume asks how they can best evolve in the rapidly changing education landscape. Tackling subjects such as faculty culture the role of technology financial sustainability institutional identity diversity and organizational development chapters identify innovative and transformative mechanisms for acclimatizing the public research university to current educational academic and societal needs. This text will benefit researchers academics and educators with an interest in higher education educational reform and policy and the sociology of education more broadly. | Re-Envisioning the Public Research University Navigating Competing Demands in an Era of Rapid Change

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State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

The collection examines state–society relations during the COVID-19 pandemic from governance at the outset of the pandemic to vaccine rollouts via a series of case studies from around the world. With a focus on the Global South the book includes chapters on the experiences of – Angola Zimbabwe South Africa Bolivia Argentina Brazil Jamaica and Indonesia as well as contributions from the Global North – on Sweden Canada Czech Republic and New Zealand. The collection demonstrates that the effects of the pandemic can only be properly revealed by looking at the regional and local contexts in which states and societies experienced it. Contributors examine themes such as the nature of contemporary democracy state capacity the legitimacy of state institutions and trust in government questions of social solidarity and forms and impacts of inequality. Focusing on national (or sub-national) cases each chapter analyses the underlying forces and structures revealed when the authority of the state is brought to bear on the agency of citizens under emergency conditions. In doing so contributors embed analysis of pandemic governance in the historical context of each country or region highlighting how political choices histories of the state’s treatment of citizens and the orientations of a region’s elites shaped the actions taken by the state. The book will be of interest to those looking to understand how the pandemic was interpreted accepted or contested at the local (national or sub-national) level and to those interested in state–society relations more generally. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in questions of pandemic government from a social scientific point of view and especially to those interested in perspectives from the Global South. | State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

GBP 35.99
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Population and Development in the Third World

Population and Development in the Third World

Allan and Anne Findlay argue that a nation's human population is a vital resource in the development process. Changes in its composition - increased life expectancy combined with a falling birth rate for example - can have profound effects upon a society. Warfare and mass migration of male workers also have long-reaching effects on those left behind. The rapid growth of Third World populations has often incorrectly been identified as the major force preventing more rapid economic development. Population pressure has been known to generate technological breakthroughs. Their final chapter examines family planning programmes and concludes by asking who benefits most from population policies and questioning the right of developed countries to advocate family planning programmes for Third World nations. | Population and Development in the Third World

GBP 175.00
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Colour Television Techniques Business Impact

Colour Television Techniques Business Impact

Colour Television (1968) examines the rapid growth of colour television in the 1960s as technological advances enabled programmes to be effectively transmitted in colour for the first time. It looks at the technologies involved the differences in programme-making that colour required the audience response and the changes in advertising and network systems that colour broadcasting brought about. | Colour Television Techniques Business Impact

GBP 90.00
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Cooperation Technology And Japanese Development Indigenous Knowledge The Power Of Networks And The State

Cooperation Technology And Japanese Development Indigenous Knowledge The Power Of Networks And The State

Japan is an example of what is known as a ?latecomer? in industrial development. Drawing on case studies of computer and telecommunications and related firms Donna Doane investigates how intra- and inter-industry cooperation between public and private enterprises pushed rapid technological advancement in Japan. The book places such interlinkage in | Cooperation Technology And Japanese Development Indigenous Knowledge The Power Of Networks And The State

GBP 130.00
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The Caribbean Basin To The Year 2000 Demographic Economic And Resource Use Trends In Seventeen Countries: A Compendium Of Statistics And

The Caribbean Basin To The Year 2000 Demographic Economic And Resource Use Trends In Seventeen Countries: A Compendium Of Statistics And

This book analyzes long-term demographic economic and resource-use trends in seventeen Caribbean basin countries. It points to the potentially destabilizing role of rapid population growth incorporating forecasting techniques to examine the impact of the factors for each country to the year 2000. | The Caribbean Basin To The Year 2000 Demographic Economic And Resource Use Trends In Seventeen Countries: A Compendium Of Statistics And

GBP 39.99
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Private Rented Housing in the United States and Europe

Private Rented Housing in the United States and Europe

Originally published in 1985 this book analyses the development of private rented housing in Britain France the former West Germany the Netherlands and the USA. The book shows that the changing fortunes of the private rented sector are seen in some measure to be connected with the social economic and political conditions which surrounded the rapid industrialisation and urbanisation of the 19th Century. | Private Rented Housing in the United States and Europe

GBP 29.99
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Agricultural Growth Productivity and Regional Change in India Challenges of globalisation liberalisation and food insecurity

Agricultural Growth Productivity and Regional Change in India Challenges of globalisation liberalisation and food insecurity

Agriculture productivity growth and regional change in post-colonial India from a spatial perspective are yet to be rigorously examined. In particular the impacts of economic liberalisation globalisation and deregulation are not being empirically investigated at a small-area level using advanced statistical and spatial techniques. Understanding the process of regional formation and the rapid transitioning of agricultural landscapes in the Post-Liberalisation phase is pivotal to developing and devising regional economic development strategies. This book employs advanced methods to empirically examine the key characteristics and patterns of regional change in agricultural growth and productivity. It offers insights on changes in agricultural production and practices since the colonial period through to the Post-Liberalisation phase in India. It also incorporates the key public policy debates on the progress of India’s agricultural development with the aim of formulating spatially integrated strategies to reduce rapid rise in the regional convergence and to promote equitable distribution of strategic government investment. | Agricultural Growth Productivity and Regional Change in India Challenges of globalisation liberalisation and food insecurity

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Routledge Handbook of Urban Planning in Africa

Routledge Handbook of Urban Planning in Africa

This handbook contributes with new evidence and new insights to the on-going debate on the de-colonization of knowledge on urban planning in Africa. African cities grew rapidly since the mid-20th century in part due to rising rural migration and rapid internal demographic growth that followed the independence in most African countries. This rapid urbanization is commonly seen as a primary cause of the current urban management challenges with which African cities are confronted. This importance given to rapid urbanization prevented the due consideration of other dimensions of the current urban problems challenges and changes in African cities. The contributions to this handbook explore these other dimensions looking in particular to the nature and capacity of local self-government and to the role of urban governance and urban planning in the poor urban conditions found in most African cities. It deals with current and contemporary urban challenges and urban policy responses but also offers an historical overview of local governance and urban policies during the colonial period in the late 19th and 20th centuries offering ample evidence of common features and divergent features as well on a number of facets from intra-urban racial segregation solutions to the relationships between the colonial power and the natives to the assimilation policy as practiced by the French and Portuguese and the Indirect Rule put in place by Britain in some or in part of its colonies. Using innovative approaches to the challenges confronting the governance of African cities this handbook is an essential read for students and scholars of Urban Africa urban planning in Africa and African Development. | Routledge Handbook of Urban Planning in Africa

GBP 42.99
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