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Why Cities Need Large Parks Large Parks in Large Cities

Why Cities Need Large Parks Large Parks in Large Cities

The large parks and green infrastructure presented here illustrate the diverse uses and many benefits of large urban parks across 30 major cities. Demand for large urban parks emerged at the height of the First Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s when large urban parks represented new ideas of accessible public spaces often established on land previously owned by aristocracy royalty or the army. They represented new ideas on how city life could be improved and how large green spaces could enhance urban citizens’ physical and psychological well-being (e. g. Birkenhead Park in Liverpool Bois de Boulogne in Paris Tiergarten in Berlin and Central Park in New York City). Today large urban parks are habitats for biodiversity and spaces of climate change adaptation. For people living in cities this biodiversity may represent high cultural recreational and aesthetic values but is also important for other aspects of health and well-being for example by reducing the urban heat island effect air pollution and risks of flooding. At a time when we are seriously reconsidering how we live in cities and our urban quality of life while also grappling with serious challenges of climate change the authors of this book detail the much-needed evidence pathways and vision for a future of more liveable resilient cities where large urban parks are at the core. This book will help park managers NGOs landscape architects and city planners to develop the green city of the future. | Why Cities Need Large Parks Large Parks in Large Cities

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The Large Industrial Enterprise Some Spatial Perspectives

The Large Industrial Enterprise Some Spatial Perspectives

Large industrial enterprises are an important phenomena in advanced Western economies. They control large percentages of total industrial assets employ millions of workers and together with their dependent satellite firms produce their own spatial patterns of employment location of production capacity and flow of material and information and thus dominate the economic base of whole towns. This study first published in 1980 surveys a massive amount of work on large industrial firms and features an in-depth study of the growth of large industrial enterprises in the UK brewing industry from 1951-76. This illustrates many of the themes discussed in the book. | The Large Industrial Enterprise Some Spatial Perspectives

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Large Carnivore Conservation and Management Human Dimensions

Large Carnivore Conservation and Management Human Dimensions

Large carnivores include iconic species such as bears wolves and big cats. Their habitats are increasingly being shared with humans and there is a growing number of examples of human-carnivore coexistence as well as conflict. Next to population dynamics of large carnivores there are considerable attitude shifts towards these species worldwide with multiple implications. This book argues and demonstrates why human dimensions of relationships to large carnivores are crucial for their successful conservation and management. It provides an overview of theoretical and methodological perspectives heterogeneity in stakeholder perceptions and behaviour as well as developments in decision making stakeholder involvement policy and governance informed by human dimensions of large carnivore conservation and management. The scope is international with detailed examples and case studies from Europe North and South America Central and South Asia as well as debates of the challenges faced by urbanization agricultural expansion national parks and protected areas. The main species covered include bears wolves lynx and leopards. The book provides a novel perspective for advanced students researchers and professionals in ecology and conservation wildlife management human-wildlife interactions environmental education and environmental social science. | Large Carnivore Conservation and Management Human Dimensions

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How to Manage Project Stakeholders Effective Strategies for Successful Large Infrastructure Projects

How to Manage Project Stakeholders Effective Strategies for Successful Large Infrastructure Projects

This book outlines how to identify stakeholders analyse theirs stakes and plan and implement an engagement strategy to secure relevant input and dependable buy-in to assure the successful delivery of Large Infrastructure Projects. It also addresses common stakeholder management inadequacies and is supplemented with four extended practical exercises to help readers apply the principles to their own large complex projects and ensure project success. The project management industry particularly the Large Infrastructure Projects domain has only recently awakened to the reality that failed Stakeholder Management probably leads to a failure of the project altogether. Due to the complexities involved most traditional approaches to managing stakeholders have developed serious difficulties in dealing with large and complex projects. This book presents a Systems Thinking approach to managing stakeholders that accommodates these complexities and seeks to crystallise the notion that managing projects means managing stakeholders while also introducing an ethical perspective (i. e. stakeholders have legitimate rights regardless of their power to influence the project). This shifts the paradigm from Management of Stakeholders to Management for Stakeholders. It is essential reading for all those involved with managing large projects including project managers sponsors and executives. It will also be useful for advanced students of project management and systems engineering looking to understand and expand their knowledge of infrastructure projects and Systems Engineering. | How to Manage Project Stakeholders Effective Strategies for Successful Large Infrastructure Projects

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From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups Historical Theoretical and Practical Considerations

From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups Historical Theoretical and Practical Considerations

From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups offers transdisciplinary research on the history of the study of social formations ranging from nineteenth-century crowd psychology in France and twentieth-century Freudian mass psychology including the developments in critical theory to the study of the psychodynamics of contemporary large groups. Carla Penna presents a unique combination of sociology psychoanalysis and group analysis in the study of social formations. This book revisits the epistemological basis of group analysis by introducing and discussing its historical path especially in connection with the study of large groups and investigations of the social unconscious in persons groups and societies. It also explores early work on group relations and contemporary research on the basic-assumption group in England particularly Hopper’s theory of Incohesion as a fourth basic assumption. From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups enables the reader to map out the field of the unconscious life of crowds illuminating the darkness of twenty-first century collective movements. The reflections in this book present new perspectives for psychologists psychoanalysts group analysts sociologists and historians to investigate the psychodynamics of contemporary crowds masses and social systems. | From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups Historical Theoretical and Practical Considerations

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Concise Textbook of Large Animal Handling A Practical Handbook

Concise Textbook of Large Animal Handling A Practical Handbook

This concise instructional guide condenses the most important aspects of large animal handling. It provides a portable durable beside-the-animal means of learning as well as a convenient way to refresh on how to strive for safety and efficacy in animal handling techniques. It is ideal for use during veterinary placements in all settings from farm to laboratory to riding school. The text covers: Handler safety Animal safety Sanitation Approach and capture Routine handling and release procedures Handling for medical procedures Use and supply sources of restraint equipment A Companion Website provides additional self-assessment questions and answers to aid learning. Important reading for undergraduate veterinary students on EMS rotations as well as practicing veterinarians technicians and assistants the book covers species encountered in farm equine and laboratory settings. | Concise Textbook of Large Animal Handling A Practical Handbook

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Managing Critical Incidents and Large-Scale Event Security

Managing Critical Incidents and Large-Scale Event Security

2017 Award Winner of the ASIS Security Book of the YearNuñez and Vendrell aim to provide the most current and effective resources for managing special events and critical incidents. Their book relies heavily on case studies and after action reports that examine the lessons learned from a multitude of previous events and incidents. In addition the text identifies and examines best practices and recommended approaches providing the reader with a variety of checklists and planning tools. | Managing Critical Incidents and Large-Scale Event Security

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Lean Startup in Large Organizations Overcoming Resistance to Innovation

Lean Startup in Large Organizations Overcoming Resistance to Innovation

Large corporations must become far more agile in implementing new products and new business models. The pace of technology change the blurring of industry boundaries and the agility and resources of startups in almost every industry segment demand it. Many companies have begun to adopt the principles of Lean Startup in order to increase the pace and agility of their innovation initiatives but most have had limited success in doing so. Although the principles seem intuitive and straightforward there are challenges to using them inside an existing company especially in a manufacturing environment. The biggest requirements beyond those espoused for startups are: Developing a business model for the new venture that not only works in the marketplace but also works within the constraints of the corporation Managing the conflicts that inevitably arise with the current operating business; every business that has operated over decades has well-established ways of doing things that may not fit the required pace and flexibility required of a new venture Conducting business experiments with physical goods as well as with software offerings Managing the risk of investing in a new domain for executives that are used to investing where the risks are more clearly understood This book describes a systematic approach for implementing Lean Startup in large organizations. It builds on the principles of Lean Startup and adds additional practices required to manage the realities of the corporate context. The book describes how it is done with examples from practice in companies that have successfully used the methods. It complements Lean Startup methods with elements of corporate innovation practices developed by leading academics and practitioners. It brings these practices together for the first time in a practical and integrated way. | Lean Startup in Large Organizations Overcoming Resistance to Innovation

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Distance Rating Systems and Enterprise Finance Ethnographic Insights from a Comparison of Regional and Large Banks in Germany

Distance Rating Systems and Enterprise Finance Ethnographic Insights from a Comparison of Regional and Large Banks in Germany

In response to the credit crunch during the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 many have called for the re-establishment of regional banks in the UK and elsewhere. In this context Germany’s regional banking system with its more than 1 400 small and regional savings banks and cooperative banks is viewed as a role model in the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However in line with the ‘death of distance’ debate the universal application of ICT-based scoring and rating systems potentially obviates the necessity for proximity to reduce information asymmetries between banks and SMEs calling into question the key advantage of regional banks. Utilising novel ethnographic findings from full-time participant observation and interviews this book presents intimate insights into regional savings banks and compares their SME lending practices with large nationwide-operating commercial banks in Germany. The ethnographic insights are contextualised by concise description of the three-pillar German banking system covering bank regulation structural and geographical developments and enterprise finance. Furthermore the book advances an original theoretical approach that combines classical banking theories with insights from social studies of finance on the (ontological) foundation of new realism. Ethnographic findings reveal varying distances of credit granting depending on the rating results i. e. large banks allocate considerable credit-granting authority to local staff and therefore challenge the proximity advantages of regional banks. Nevertheless by presenting case studies of lending to SMEs the book demonstrates the ability of regional banks to capitalise on proximity when screening and monitoring financially distressed SMEs and explains why the suggestion that ICT can substitute for proximity in SME lending has to be rejected. | Distance Rating Systems and Enterprise Finance Ethnographic Insights from a Comparison of Regional and Large Banks in Germany

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Mapping European Corporations Strategy Structure Ownership and Performance

Mapping European Corporations Strategy Structure Ownership and Performance

This book addresses the evolution of the strategies structures ownership patterns and performances of large European corporations since the early 1960s. The authors study large and small countries in order to understand how the process of economic integration has affected the patterns of growth and the structural characteristics of the largest firms. Drawing both on extensive databases and on case studies the contributions in this volume address the peculiar specificities of large firms in different national contexts adopting a longitudinal long term perspective. This volume delivers the first results of an international collective research effort undertaken by several national teams. The 'Mapping Corporate Europe' project aims to provide a detailed account of the structural traits of the European Corporation in a framework which includes (i) a chronological analysis over 50 years starting with the Rome treaty in 1957; (ii) geographical extension beyond previous analyses for France Germany and the UK by including smaller countries; (iii) firms from other industries in addition to manufacturing companies; and (iv) attention to internationalisation of European firms. These analyses form the basis of a rich description of the developments of large European corporations over the past five decades using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. This book was originally published as a special issue of Business History. | Mapping European Corporations Strategy Structure Ownership and Performance

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Talent Management in Small and Medium Enterprises Context Practices and Outcomes

Talent Management in Small and Medium Enterprises Context Practices and Outcomes

Talent Management in Small and Medium Enterprises contributes to the body of knowledge concerning talent management in small and medium enterprises. Despite the growing number of publications on talent management in recent years research has focused mainly on large companies. As a consequence of this research bias towards large companies the presented theoretical concepts and practices have limited applicability for talent management in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Because SMEs constitute a significant part of the national economy in a large number of countries many authors report the necessity to investigate talent management in such enterprises. This book will be a source of useful data for managers of SMEs and owners and provide them with information about the practices and methods concerning the acquisition development and retention of talented employees who may contribute to the success of SMEs and the execution of business strategies. The book offers academic researchers postgraduate students and reflective practitioners a state-of-the-art overview of Talent Management in Small and Medium Enterprises. | Talent Management in Small and Medium Enterprises Context Practices and Outcomes

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Stakeholder Engagement and Sustainability Reporting

Stakeholder Engagement and Sustainability Reporting

In a context of growing social and environmental concerns the role of large enterprises and corporations in encouraging sustainability has drawn increasing attention in recent years. Both academic debates and public-opinion research have called into question the extended responsibilities of firms in our increasingly inter-connected world. By studying issues associated with the greatest challenges mankind is currently facing — from climate change to social exclusion — the scientific community is aware of the need to account for the actions and agendas of companies especially large ones. They are becoming important global political actors with great power but also unprecedented responsibilities. With this in mind the authors believe that it is more important than ever that large enterprises on the one hand take into account the opinion of their stakeholder while defining their strategies and on the other hand disclose material and relevant information on their ability to contribute to sustainability while delivering value for all of their stakeholders. A consensus is being reached on the responsibility of large enterprises to report in a triple bottom perspective — not only on their financial performances but also on their social and environmental outcomes. Consequently it is important to understand what elements organizations need to report on in order to provide stakeholders with relevant and comprehensive sustainability reports. Against this background this book presents a significant and original contribution both empirically and theoretically to the social and environmental accounting literature by studying the various features of stakeholder engagement in sustainability reporting. | Stakeholder Engagement and Sustainability Reporting

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Organization Performance And System Choice East European Agricultural Development

Organization Performance And System Choice East European Agricultural Development

The economic success of the fledgling democracies of Eastern Europe so crucial to their political viability will depend to a great extent upon their agricultural sectors. And the success of East European agriculture will hinge on how East Europeans manage both their economies at large and more particularly the organization of agricultural produ | Organization Performance And System Choice East European Agricultural Development

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Peasants Entrepreneurs And Social Change Frontier Development In Lowland Bolivia

Peasants Entrepreneurs And Social Change Frontier Development In Lowland Bolivia

Following the 1952 revolution in Bolivia both state and international aid agencies channelled capital and technology to regional elites for the development of large-scale cash-crop agriculture in the lowland frontier. In this book the author examines the contradictory path taken by capitalist development in the region over the last thirty years | Peasants Entrepreneurs And Social Change Frontier Development In Lowland Bolivia

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Behind the Fog How the U.S. Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent Americans

Behind the Fog How the U.S. Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent Americans

Behind the Fog is the first in-depth comprehensive examination of the United States’ Cold War radiological weapons program. The book examines controversial military-sponsored studies and field trials using radioactive simulants that exposed American civilians to radiation and other hazardous substances without their knowledge or consent during the Cold War. Although Western biological and chemical weapons programs have been analyzed by a number of scholars Behind the Fog is a strong departure from the rest in that the United States radiological weapons program has been generally unknown to the public. Martino-Taylor documents the coordinated efforts of a small group of military scientists who advanced a four-pronged secret program of human-subject radiation studies that targeted unsuspecting Americans for Cold War military purposes. Officials enabled such projects to advance through the layering of secrecy by embedding classified studies in other studies and through outright deception. Agency and academic partnerships advanced supported and concealed the studies from the public at large who ultimately served as unwitting test subjects. Martino-Taylor’s comprehensive research illuminates a dark chapter of government secrecy the military-industrial-academic complex and large-scale organizational deviance in American history. In its critical approach Behind the Fog effectively examines the mechanisms that allow large-scale elite deviance to take place in modern society. | Behind the Fog How the U. S. Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent Americans

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Thyroid Surgery Principles and Practice

Thyroid Surgery Principles and Practice

Thyroid Surgery: Principles and Practice will bridge a gap between the huge platform of literature available about thyroid surgery and the practical working reality. The pearls in techniques and surgical procedures are exhaustively detailed with authors' individual experience enriched with quality photographs. This book covers management of large/massive multinodular goiters which are the hallmark of Indian thyroids. However the emphasis will be more on applying this knowledge to a given patient and would largely revolve around this theme. It aims to provide a take-home message in controversial areas and is a ready reference to all interested in learning the science and craftsmanship of thyroid surgery. Key Features:Covers all topics comprehensively with a practical approachInclusion of guidelines adds value to the contentDiscusses all investigatory modalitiesConsists of useful surgical tips with exhaustive surgical photographyFeatures large anatomical illustrations with cadaveric dissections | Thyroid Surgery Principles and Practice

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Nature of the City Green Infrastructure from the Ground Up

Nature of the City Green Infrastructure from the Ground Up

This is a practical guide to delivering green infrastructure from the ground up and bringing nature in to the built environment. Exploring the process of delivery through an array of design approaches and case studies it demystifies the concept and provides the tools for practical implementation - highlighting the challenges and opportunities on both small and large projects. | Nature of the City Green Infrastructure from the Ground Up

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