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Book Synopsis Frayed Safety Nets by : Laura C. Hood
Download or read book Frayed Safety Nets written by Laura C. Hood and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis California Budget Cuts Fray the Long-term Safety Net by :
Download or read book California Budget Cuts Fray the Long-term Safety Net written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jailcare written by Carolyn Sufrin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation’s jails every year. What happens to them as they gestate their pregnancies in a space of punishment? Using her ethnographic fieldwork and clinical work as an Ob/Gyn in a women’s jail, Carolyn Sufrin explores how, in this time when the public safety net is frayed and incarceration has become a central and racialized strategy for managing the poor, jail has, paradoxically, become a place where women can find care. Focusing on the experiences of pregnant, incarcerated women as well as on the practices of the jail guards and health providers who care for them, Jailcare describes the contradictory ways that care and maternal identity emerge within a punitive space presumed to be devoid of care. Sufrin argues that jail is not simply a disciplinary institution that serves to punish. Rather, when understood in the context of the poverty, addiction, violence, and racial oppression that characterize these women’s lives and their reproduction, jail can become a safety net for women on the margins of society.
Download or read book Too Much Stuff written by Kozo Yamamura and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where has capitalism gone wrong? Why are advanced capitalist economies so sick, and why do conventional policy solutions--such as reduced taxes and increased money supply--produce only wider income disparity and inequality? We are now living in a new world in which a majority of people enjoys the highest living standard in history, acquiring more and more goods and services as necessary luxuries. But as Kozo Yamamura shows, despite our apparent lust for gourmet food and designer clothes, for larger homes, the latest gadgets, and exotic vacations, demand for these goods actually grows slowly, so relying on them to reinvigorate our economies will not succeed. With Too Much Stuff, Yamamura upends conventional capitalist wisdom to provide a new approach. He calls for increased tax-funded demand to address a range of societal needs--such as environmental concerns, social safety nets, infrastructure, and better education and housing for all. By addressing these needs, argues Yamamura, we can also take huge steps toward reducing the growing wealth gap that threatens global democracy. Both solutions-oriented and accessibly written, this book draws on fascinating case studies from the United States, Japan, and Germany, as well as convincing evidence from across the Western world, to suggest practical steps forward that we can all understand and support. Too Much Stuff boldly challenges the economic orthodoxy and, in so doing, challenges us to think outside the box for the betterment of all.
Book Synopsis Population Viability Analysis by : Steven R. Beissinger
Download or read book Population Viability Analysis written by Steven R. Beissinger and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-05-04 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the world's leading conservation and population biologists evaluate what has become a key tool in estimating extinction risk and evaluating potential recovery strategies - population viability analysis, or PVA.
Book Synopsis Species at Risk by : Jason F. Shogren
Download or read book Species at Risk written by Jason F. Shogren and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protecting endangered species of animals and plants is a goal that almost everyone supports in principle--but in practice private landowners have often opposed the regulations of the Endangered Species Act, which, they argue, unfairly limits their right to profit from their property. To encourage private landowners to cooperate voluntarily in species conservation and to mitigate the economic burden of doing so, the government and nonprofit land trusts have created a number of incentive programs, including conservation easements, leases, habitat banking, habitat conservation planning, safe harbors, candidate conservation agreements, and the "no surprise" policy. In this book, lawyers, economists, political scientists, historians, and zoologists come together to assess the challenges and opportunities for using economic incentives as compensation for protecting species at risk on private property. They examine current programs to see how well they are working and also offer ideas for how these programs could be more successful. Their ultimate goal is to better understand how economic incentive schemes can be made both more cost-effective and more socially acceptable, while respecting a wide range of views regarding opportunity costs, legal standing, biological effectiveness, moral appropriateness, and social context.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :876 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1999 by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Download or read book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1999 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Endangered Species Act by : Donald C. Baur
Download or read book The Endangered Species Act written by Donald C. Baur and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2002 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text describes ESA legal controversies and emerging case law, proposed agency reforms and the competing perspectives of interest groups.
Book Synopsis Rebuilding the Ark by : Jonathan Adler
Download or read book Rebuilding the Ark written by Jonathan Adler and published by AEI Press. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Endangered Species Act (ESA) may be the most powerful environmental law in the United States. Enacted in 1973, the ESA prohibits any actions that may cause harm to endangered plants and animals or the ecosystems upon which they depend. But although more than 1,200 species are protected under the Act, most remain in peril. The ESA may have saved some species from the brink of extinction, but there is little evidence it is working as intended to recover endangered and threatened species. In some cases, the Act's extensive regulatory requirements may actually discourage conservation efforts. In Rebuilding the Ark: New Perspectives on Endangered Species Act Reform, Jonathan H. Adler leads a group of environmental law experts in evaluating the ESA's successes and failures and exploring multiple avenues for reform. The authors examine methods for incentivizing conservation on private land and water, for revising and standardizing the ESA's regulatory framework, and for increasing transparency, accountability, and public participation in the Fish and Wildlife Service and other conservation agencies. Rebuilding the Ark also considers how the Act should be reformed to address the threat of climate change, and how ESA reform in the United States may affect species conservation overseas. The Endangered Species Act has not been altered for over twenty-five years. Debates over ESA reform are often contentious and hampered by partisan infighting and pressure from interest groups. But reform is crucial if we are to achieve the ESA's ambitious goals and conserve the world's endangered plants and animals. Rebuilding the Ark is a valuable resource for policymakers, conservationists, business owners, and concerned citizens alike.
Book Synopsis Precious Heritage by : Bruce A. Stein
Download or read book Precious Heritage written by Bruce A. Stein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-16 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the lush forests of Appalachia to the frozen tundra of Alaska, and from the tallgrass prairies of the Midwest to the subtropical rainforests of Hawaii, the United States harbors a remarkable array of ecosystems. These ecosystems in turn sustain an exceptional variety of plant and animal life. For species such as salamanders and freshwater turtles, the United States ranks as the global center of diversity. Among the nation's other unique biological features are California's coast redwoods, the world's tallest trees, and Nevada's Devils Hole pupfish, which survives in a single ten-by-seventy-foot desert pool, the smallest range of any vertebrate animal.Precious Heritage draws together for the first time a quarter century of information on U.S. biodiversity developed by natural heritage programs from across the country. This richly illustrated volume not only documents those aspects of U.S. biodiversity that are particularly noteworthy, but also considers how our species and ecosystems are faring, what is threatening them, and what is needed to protect the nation's remaining natural inheritance. Above all, Precious Heritage is a celebration of the extraordinary biological diversity of the United States.
Book Synopsis The American Way of Poverty by : Sasha Abramsky
Download or read book The American Way of Poverty written by Sasha Abramsky and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abramsky shows how poverty - a massive political scandal - is dramatically changing in the wake of the Great Recession.
Book Synopsis Caring and Coping by : Anthony Douglas
Download or read book Caring and Coping written by Anthony Douglas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caring and Coping provides a clear and accessible explanation of the history, politics, management, funding and day-to-day work of the social services in Britain. Social Care now encompasses a wide range of increasingly specialised professions. Caring and Coping aims to improve the practitioner's (and the general public's) understanding not only of what these various professions do, but also what the legal, political, ethical and financial constraints are upon them. It succinctly addresses issues such as: the terms and effects of the Children Act and the Community Care Act the role of charities in the modern welfare state the role of management relationships with other agencies and the place of social work within the community Social services are so often portrayed in the media in a sensationalist way and this book counterbalances the hype by providing solid research and a more down-to-earth picture. It is an ideal introductory text for those training to be social workers.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Drinking Water Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :472 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (51 download)
Book Synopsis Habitat Conservation Plans by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Drinking Water
Download or read book Habitat Conservation Plans written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Drinking Water and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Forest Policy for Private Forestry by : Lawrence Dale Teeter
Download or read book Forest Policy for Private Forestry written by Lawrence Dale Teeter and published by CABI. This book was released on 2002-12-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. There is currently great concern about the sustainability of forestry and the contribution of private forestry towards this aim. The need to better understand the impact of different policy choices on private forestry has never been more important. This book includes a selection of peer-reviewed papers from a conference held in Atlanta in March 2001.
Book Synopsis Consumer-Driven Health Care by : Regina E. Herzlinger
Download or read book Consumer-Driven Health Care written by Regina E. Herzlinger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-03-22 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Herzlinger documents how the consumer-driven health caremovement is being implemented and its impact on insurers,providers, new intermediaries, and governments. With additionalcontributions by health care's leading strategists,innovators, regulators and scholars, Consumer-Driven HealthCare presents a compelling vision of a health care system builtto satisfy the people it serves. This comprehensive resource includes the most important thinkingon the topic and compelling case studies of consumer-driven healthcare (CDHC) in action, here and abroad, including newconsumer-driven intermediaries for information and support; typesof insurance plans; focused factories for delivering health care;personalized drugs and devices; and government roles.
Download or read book Crunch written by Jared Bernstein and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to author Bernstein, economic experts all too often manipulate and distort the science at the heart of important issues. In "Crunch," he offers entertaining, informative, and direct answers to a set of compelling economic questions posed by ordinary people.
Book Synopsis Toward a New Common School Movement by : Noah De Lissovoy
Download or read book Toward a New Common School Movement written by Noah De Lissovoy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward a New Common School Movement is a bold and urgent call to action.The authors argue that corporate school reform in the United States represents a failed project subverted by profiteering, corruption, and educational inequalities.Toward a New Common School Movement suggests that educational privatization and austerity are not simply bad policies but represent a broader redistribution of control over social life-that is, the enclosure of the global commons. This condition requires far more than a liberal defense of public schooling. It requires recovering elements of the radical progressive educational tradition while generating a new language of the common suitable to the unique challenges of the global era. Toward a New Common School Movement traces the history of struggles over public schooling in the United States and provides a set of ethical principles for enacting the commons in educational policy, finance, labor, curriculum, and pedagogy. Ultimately, it argues for global educational struggles in common for a just and sustainable future beyond the crises of neoliberalism and predatory capitalism.